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- Rhode Island Legislature verrides Governor’s Veto of Medical …
- Jesse James Hollywood denies ordering teen’s death
- NH Budget Medical Marijuana Votes Today
- Valley to spark medical marijuana
- Santa Cruz considers medical marijuana dispensary moratorium
- Tehama County Medical Marijuana Proposal
Rhode Island Legislature verrides Governor’s Veto of Medical …
ABC News
Reason?s invaluable Jacob Sullum is impressed by the vote total: ?An eye-opening 68 to 0 in the House and a slightly less lopsided 35 to 3 in the Senate. ? f course as I?ve reported before it?s not clear how the federal government will respond. Earlier this month Charlie Lynch was sentenced to one year in federal prison for running a medical marijuana dispensary in California. Lynch?s dispensary was raided during the.
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Jesse James Hollywood denies ordering teen’s death
Los Angeles Times
Jurors also hear details of Hollywood’s five-year flight from justice. By Steve Chawkins10:54 PM PDT June 23 2009Reporting from Santa Barbara — In a dramatic second day on the witness stand Jesse James Hollywood denied ordering the execution of a 15-year-old West Hills boy to avenge a $1200 drug debt owed by the boy’s older half-brother. At least a dozen times the 29-year-old former marijuana dealer told a Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury how much he regretted the events that led to the 2000 death of Nicholas Markowitz who was shot nine times and buried in the Santa Barbara foothills. But prosecutor Joshua Lynn was sharply skeptical questioning Hollywood’s assertion that he had no plans for the boy after snatching him off a San Fernando Valley street and driving him to Santa Barbara. “Why didn’t you just let him out of the van?” Lynn asked suggesting that he could have given the boy some money to help him make his way back home. “We were already driving to Santa Barbara” Hollywood responded. “I didn’t think anything about it.
NH Budget Medical Marijuana Votes Today
WCAX
Today's vote on the $11. 6 billion budget for the next two years is expected to be close. Lawmakers will also vote on a measure that provides small amounts of marijuana to patients with debilitating illnesses.
Valley to spark medical marijuana
Aspen Times
”That can be in a form that is smoked or in a variety of edible forms Jones said. “There are alternative ways to medicate that avoid the dangers associated with smoking” he said. That includes a THC butter that can be used for baking as well as capsules and drops containing THC the active ingredient in the marijuana plant. “We are excited to provide the valley with quality medicine without the hassle of driving all the way to Denver” Jones said. “We will also be offering a discreet delivery service from Aspen to Vail and up to Grand Junction effective immediately. ”Jones 24 a patient himself was diagnosed a year-and-a-half ago with a degenerative disc in his back. Doctors initially prescribed pain pills but Jones sought out the alternative of using marijuana after learning that it is legal for medical use in Colorado.
Santa Cruz considers medical marijuana dispensary moratorium
Examiner.com
5 million maniacs waiting to explode. This same report states that 7 of the previous 12 school shooters were either on or withdrawing from an SSRI. According to the survey of California doctors by Fred Gardner 60% of cannabis patients in California use it for pain. They use it for pain because it works better than the opiates and to get off the opiates. If the city council is really serious about public health they would encourage medical cannabis use and particularly for drug abuse treatment and mental health. Instead they institute policies that force the poor and disabled to take methadone or oxycontin for pain in order to have a roof over their head.
Tehama County Medical Marijuana Proposal
KHSL
Under the new ordinance no more than 25 plants can be grown in any one spot. The proposal also says a garden can’t be within a thousand feet of a school church park or child care facility. "The concern within the community is that if we have large marijuana gardens located in a place where children are present that it could potentially have a child harmed" says Williams. In addition growers would have to secure their gardens register them with county health services and they would have to notify property owners if they rent. For now the proposal has been tabled until July 14th.