Marijuana taking root in California’s ‘Emerald Triangle’
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- Marijuana taking root in California’s ‘Emerald Triangle’
- Legalize marijuana? Not so fast.
- 3 myths about marijuana
- Supervisors to discuss next step in medical marijuana law…
- Cannabis cultivation raided in Thanamalwila
Marijuana taking root in California’s ‘Emerald Triangle’
eTaiwan News
Hidden among the rising slopes are groves of cannabis plants a pillar of the local economy in this area known as the Emerald Triangle. Marijuana has become an accepted part of the culture in the rural sparsely populated region that spans the three counties of Mendocino Humboldt and Trinity. “The parks and the forest lands they’re just inundated with it” said Lieutenant Rusty Noe of the Mendocino County sheriff’s office. Local officials say pot accounts for as much as half of the regional economy in an area still reeling from the decades-long decline in the timber industry. In addition to marijuana sales pot growing supports everything from garden supply stores to makers of plastic pipe.
Legalize marijuana? Not so fast.
Christian Science Monitor
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3 myths about marijuana
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Compared with alcohol marijuana is less addictive much less toxic and overwhelmingly less likely to provoke violence. In the words of Dr. Leslie Iversen xford University pharmacology professor and member of the British government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs "verall by comparison with other drugs used mainly for ‘recreational’ purposes cannabis could be rated to be a relatively safe drug. 2: Legal marijuana would mean an explosion in marijuana use bringing all the same social and health problems we now see with liquor and tobacco. In fact research suggests that laws banning marijuana have little effect on use rates. A World Health rganization survey published last year found that in the Netherlands — where adults are allowed to possess small amounts of marijuana and purchase it from regulated businesses — the rate of marijuana use is only half of ours.
Supervisors to discuss next step in medical marijuana law…
San Bernardino Sun
Supreme Court declined to hear a joint lawsuit filed in 2006 by San Bernardino and San Diego counties that argued they didn’t have to comply with the state law passed in 2004 because the federal ban on marijuana pre-empted the state law. With all legal avenues exhausted the county is now in a position to open the door to medical marijuana dispensaries and issue identification cards to legitimate medical marijuana patients. “You can’t hide behind the skirts of the federal government and say `We don’t have to do this anymore”‘ said Palm Springs resident Lanny Swerdlow addressing the Board of Supervisors at their Tuesday meeting. Swerdlow is the director of the Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project an Inland Empire-based medical marijuana patient support group and law reform organization. “You all along said you were filing this lawsuit not because you were so opposed to medical marijuana but because you wanted guidance. Well you’ve now got the guidance” Swerdlow told the board Tuesday.
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Cannabis cultivation raided in Thanamalwila
Ceylon Daily News
36 million ready for plucking. A Department spokesman said a 30 member team had made a two day arduous journey into the dense jungles to raid the cannabis cultivation after a member of the public alerted the Excise Commissioner General D.