RI Senate passes medical marijuana bill
The News Review:
- RI Senate passes medical marijuana bill
- Dallas County constables seize huge stash of marijuana
- SB County to institute ID card program for medical marijuana patients
- How cannabis case led to claims of theft and violence by police
- Cancer patient pushes for medical marijuana
- LETTERS: Belmont casino marijuana’s dangers more
RI Senate passes medical marijuana bill
The Associated Press
(AP) — Rhode Island would be the third state in the nation and the first on the East Coast to allow nonprofit stores to sell marijuana to medical patients under legislation approved Tuesday by state lawmakers. The state Senate voted 30-2 to adopt a measure permitting three stores to sell marijuana to more than 680 patients registered with the state Department of Health. It now heads to Gov. Don Carcieri who has previously vetoed bills legalizing marijuana for medical use. Since 2006 Rhode Island patients suffering from conditions including chronic pain severe nausea seizures multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer’s disease have been able to possess up to 12 marijuana plants and 2.
Dallas County constables seize huge stash of marijuana
Dallas Morning News
They found 823 pounds of marijuana (shown here) in a North Dallas warehouse with a street value of about half a million dollars. It’s believed to be a record seizure in Dallas County. “That’s a pretty good pop. It’s a lot of dope off the street” said Constable Ben Adamcik. Adamcik said his deputies acted on a tip around 7 p.
SB County to institute ID card program for medical marijuana patients
Contra Costa Times
The Board of Supervisors gave the directive during its closed session meeting Tuesday that preceded its regularly scheduled public meeting. fficials from the state Department of Health Services will be in San Bernardino next week to begin training county staff in the administrative process Wert said. At the county level patients will fill out applications and provide public health department personnel with the necessary documentation showing they are legitimate medical marijuana patients. That information will get bumped up to the state which reviews the applications and issues the cards accordingly said Dr.
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How cannabis case led to claims of theft and violence by police
Times nline
ne claimant made an allegation of having been subjected to waterboarding. The chain of events began last November when officers from Enfield carried out a series of raids. Addresses in Enfield and Tottenham were searched after a tip-off that people living there were involved in cannabis dealing. Four men and a woman were arrested and charged with importation of a Class C drug. n December 4 the defendants appeared before Enfield Magistrates’ Court and the case was committed for a Crown Court trial. The drug case appears to have been the catalyst for an inquiry into activities at Edmonton station by the Scotland Yard Directorate of Professional Standards the Met’s anti-corruption unit. This team is known in police slang as the Rubber Heelers — so named “because you can’t hear them coming”.
Cancer patient pushes for medical marijuana
South Bergenite
Last year the cancer had spread to her esophagus. As a cancer sufferer Florio is prescribed morphine. But her doctors tell her that if and when medical marijuana becomes legal in New Jersey she would be one of the first people prescribed it. Florio has traveled to places such as regon where medical marijuana is legal and has taken the drug and claims it does wonders for her condition. "It takes away all the negativity that the cancer is putting upon you" she said. "The only con is it’s illegal and if you’re buying it off the street it’s a dangerous thing to do. " But that could soon change.
LETTERS: Belmont casino marijuana’s dangers more
Newsday
Alcohol is the most widely chosen drug in our culture but marijuana use remains a real threat on our roadways. Unfortunately we hear so many students say that they will not place themselves in a car with a drunk driver yet we rarely hear them say that they will not enter a car with one who has smoked marijuana. Marijuana will impair reflexes. Why is this not addressed to the extent that drunk driving is? Parents educators and the programs offered in schools should focus more on this issue.