Medical marijuana would be unhealthy and troublesome
The News Review:
- Medical marijuana would be unhealthy and troublesome
- National Post Editorial Board: Ottawa loses again on medical marijuana
- Local Measure Seeks to Lessen Restrictions on Medical Marijuana
- Farmer in court for possessing marijuana
- 71-year-old Oakland man charged with marijuana cultivation, possession
Medical marijuana would be unhealthy and troublesome
Detroit Free Press, United States
4, Michigan residents will decide whether or not to join 12 other states in legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. Proposal 1′s intent is to benefit people suffering from debilitating illnesses. If passed, it would allow registered patients with a chronic medical condition such as cancer, glaucoma or Hepatitis C to use marijuana.
National Post Editorial Board: Ottawa loses again on medical marijuana
National Post, Canada
?I have some misgivings,? he had said, ?about the Court prescribing therapeutic substances which are neither drugs approved under the elaborate and scientific processes of the Food and Drug Act, and on which there is far from a scientific consensus as to their benefits. But matters have moved well beyond that issue. ? Lawyers for the government, he suggested, needed to stop trying to argue the established Charter right of access to medical marijuana out of existence, as they continue to do every time before they go before a court to quarrel over some procedural nicety and delay the creation of a sensible system of buyers and growers. ?We must apply the Constitution,? he said memorably, ?as the Supreme Court of Canada has found it to be. ?
Apparently, the message has not sunk in, because the government?s arguments do not appear to have improved noticeably between January and now; they offered merely the same old bogus pretexts for restricting the licenced supply and for maintaining Health Canada and Prairie Plant Systems? quasi-monopoly on cannabis production. The key justification was that limiting growers to one customer allowed the government and the police to more easily ?maintain control over distribution of an unapproved drug product. ? Strayer bounced that argument, asking how a myriad of small-scale household growers could possibly be easier for police to regulate than a few medium-scale ones; the appeal court, too, was flummoxed by this idea.
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Local Measure Seeks to Lessen Restrictions on Medical Marijuana
Daily Californian, CA
“It’s really up to the doctor and the patient. ”
Worthington said the measure has a high likelihood of passing and that there are no campaigns opposing it. Charley Pappas, a 61-year-old paraplegic Berkeley resident who uses and produces medical marijuana, said the measure would make patients’ access to cannabis more secure. “I think it reminds elected officials that the citizens of Berkeley and California in general really support medical cannabis and want it to be available to qualified patients in a responsible, orderly manner,” he said.
Farmer in court for possessing marijuana
Joy Online, Ghana
His plea was not taken and he will re-appear on November 4. The Prosecution told the court presided over by Mr Kofi Akrowiah that the Asamankese Police on May 28 had information that a taxi cab with registration number ER 3381 X travelling from Suhum to Asamankese was transporting dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. The Police subsequently spotted the taxi cab and signalled it to stop but the driver ignored it and sped on. It was however chased by the police and when the driver realized that they were closing in on him, he abandoned the car and fled with some of the passengers on board.
71-year-old Oakland man charged with marijuana cultivation, possession
Tri Valley Herald, CA
Watson offered no resistance when officers raided the building after obtaining a search warrant. The marijuana, money and guns were found in different rooms of the building, and some of the marijuana was in grocery bags or in garbage cans, police said. Police also found Watson’s expired Oakland Cannabis Buyers Growing Certificate and a medical marijuana physician’s statement in the building. Watson said he had been using marijuana “to ease the pain of old age and advanced diabetes,” authorities said. Officers said Advertisement.