Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
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- Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
- Barney Frank and Ron Paul team up on hemp
- Carlos Santana wants bama to legalize marijuana
- Pot advocate moving on after Nevada prison term
- 3 sentenced in north Ga. in marijuana sales ring
Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
The Associated Press
court tosses suit by medical marijuana userBy LEN IWANSKI – 13 hours ago HELENA Mont. (AP) — Medical marijuana advocates complained Friday that Montana’s Supreme Court misread the law in ruling that the state’s Medical Marijuana Act does not protect an employee from being fired for using marijuana. The state’s high court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a Kalispell man fired by Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. because of his state-sanctioned use of medical marijuana. Under the Montana law doctors can prescribe marijuana for those suffering from a chronic or debilitating disease. Mike Johnson who initiated the lawsuit tested positive for marijuana in 2006 in a random drug test.
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Barney Frank and Ron Paul team up on hemp
San Francisco Chronicle
“It is unfortunate that the federal government has stood in the way of American farmers including many who are struggling to make ends meet from competing in the global industrial hemp market” said Paul adding that some of the Founding Fathers who grew hemp themselves “would surely find that federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited restrained federal government. Eric Steenstra president of the group “Vote Hemp” added that with all the recent discussion about Mexican drug wars “it is surprising that the tragedy of American hemp farming hasn’t come up as a no-brainer for reform” calling the plant “a versatile environmentally-friendly crop that has not been grown here for over 50 years because of a politicized interpretation of the nation’s drug laws by the Drug Enforcement Administration. President bama should direct the DEA to stop confusing industrial hemp with its genetically distinct cousin marijuana. ” He said jobs “would be created overnight as there are numerous U. companies that now have no choice but to import hemp raw materials worth many millions of dollars per year. According to Vote Hemp U.
Carlos Santana wants bama to legalize marijuana
Los Angeles Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger while he was at it. “I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize marijuana we can actually afford a really good governor who won’t keep taking money away from education and from teachers and send him back to Hollywood where he can do ‘D’ movies and we can get an ‘A’ governor” the multi-platinum Grammy winning guitarist said. Santana said he has a serious invitation for the new president: “Bring the brothers home and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America. ” ver 3 million people voted on questions to be asked to President bama for the online town hall that took place last week.
Pot advocate moving on after Nevada prison term
San Jose Mercury News
But smoking pot fixed everything he said. He began operating a business in Las Vegas that helped patients connect with doctors. He talked of opening a cannabis club like they have in California. He grew his own pot. He also decided that he would grow pot for other patients even though that’s illegal. “My medicine was the best in the world” he said. According to Nevada’s Department of Health the law for people registered in the medical marijuana program allows the possession of one ounce of marijuana; the possession of four mature marijuana plants; and the possession of three immature marijuana plants.
3 sentenced in north Ga. in marijuana sales ring
The Associated Press
Among them was 83-year-old Paul Faulkner who got a 20-year sentence. Prosecutors say Jose Hernandez 40 originally from Mexico was sentenced to 20 years and Vance Rogers 50 got nearly four years. Authorities say an investigation found that Faulkner his son and grandson sold marijuana for nearly two decades and accumulated assets including nearly 40 properties. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.