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DEA Investigates Pro-Medical Pot State Rep
Sat Feb 4, 2012
An ominous story out of Montana surfaced earlier this week when it was reported that thrice-elected state House Representative Diane Sands (D-Missoula) was the subject of Drug Enforcement Administration questioning of a potential witness in a federal investigation of legal medicinal cannabis dispensaries. Specifically, DEA agents from the Billings, Montana office asked the possible witness if Sands was part of a broader conspiracy engaging in medical marijuana sales.
The witness’s attorney then tipped Rep Sands off to the line of questioning that involved her. Both the DEA and the U.S. Attorney’s office have declined to state exactly why Sands’ name came up in their investigation of dispensaries.
The feds’ interest appears politically motivated, as Rep Sands’ only known association with medical marijuana has been in her tireless support of upholding the state’s medi-pot laws in …READ MORE
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Mexican Pot Production Diminished By Drought
Fri Feb 3, 2012
Killing crops, killing cattle, and also killing cannabis. That’s the effect of northern Mexico’s worst drought in the country’s recorded meteorological history. Take the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, which hugs the coastline of the Gulf of California, and is regarded as a major pot-producing region. An army general stationed in Sinaloa told the AP that the planting of cannabis had “declined considerably” because of the drought, a report confirmed by airborne army reconnaissance.
General Pedro Gurrola told the AP: “We can see a lot less than in …READ MORE
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President Obama Avoids Pot During Online Chat
Thu Feb 2, 2012
President Obama opted to completely ignore all questions regarding pot legalization and the war on drugs during a national online chat Monday, disappointing cannabis activists across the country.YouTube aired the online event, which was moderated by Google. The exclusion of the marijuana issue from the chat is particularly egregious as 18 of the top 20 most popular questions submitted by those voting on YouTube concerned medical marijuana, cannabis legalization in general, and other drug war-related issues. YouTube is a subsidiary of Google after being purchased by the search engine behemoth in 2006.
NORML spokesman Erik Altieri responded via email: “For the ninth time, the White House has solicited the American people for direct input on the issues they cared about and then, when the resulting answers called overwhelmingly for marijuana law reform, President Obama ignores …READ MORE
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Marijuana Education Day in Nashville
Tue Jan 31, 2012
In a high-profile effort intended to increase awareness regarding medicinal cannabis and pot issues in general, Tennessee NORML sponsored “Marijuana Education Day” in Nashville on January 28 at the Sunset Grill, in what was described as a luncheon seminar.
For a fee of $30 attendees were brought up to speed on the latest developments in the realm of medical, legislative and recreational cannabis concerns. NORML founder Keith Stroup was on hand, and as reported by WSMV-TV, Stroup spoke and at one point confessed the cannabis conundrum: “Our problem is how do we translate the public support into public policy (when) most of our elected officials are timid.”
The Nashville-based Green Hills News gave front-page coverage to the event as the paper’s Social Editor Brenda Batey also was a speaker on a medical marijuana patient panel, in which she disclosed that …READ MORE
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Connecticut State Marshal Popped for Pot
Fri Jan 27, 2012
State marshal Alan Freedman of Norwalk, Connecticut was charged with felony marijuana possession with intent to distribute on Tuesday after being busted with over a quarter-pound of pot.
Like so many before him, the 58-year-old Freedman was done in by a simple traffic violation after Norwalk PD Sgt. David O’Connor pulled him over for running a red light.
Apparently, being a state marshal in Connecticut doesn’t carry too much cache, as Sgt. O’Connor called in a drug dog despite Freedman flashing his marshal’s badge after the traffic stop.
The pot-sniffing pooch alerted the officers that cannabis was in Freedman’s vehicle and a search turned up 4.8 ounces of weed and even more incriminating evidence – a digital scale, empty plastic baggies, and a sack of cannabis seeds. The Norwalk PD also confiscated nine pot pipes containing smoked …READ MORE
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Pot Patient Sues Over Marijuana Stolen in Home Invasion
Thu Jan 26, 2012
In what is being reported as the first case of its kind in the state of California, a Sonoma County medical marijuana patient will be allowed to seek financial restitution from four convicted robbers who stole six pounds of medi-pot from him in 2009. (Sonoma County is the northernmost and the largest of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties).
Dressed as police officers, the four thugs broke into the Healdsburg home of Michael Steffens in October 2009 and subsequently beat him and tied him up with a phone cord. The thieves then loaded Steffens’s possessions and six pounds of medical marijuana they found drying in his barn into a U-Haul. Fortunately the quartet of crooks were apprehended, tried and convicted, with three of them still serving time.
On January 20, Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gary A. Medvigy told Steffens that he‘d consider awarding restitution for the stolen medicine as long as …READ MORE
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Sativex in Advanced FDA Trials
Wed Jan 25, 2012
UK pharmaceutical company GW Pharma is seeking FDA approval of their Sativex medication in the U.S. by the end of 2013. Sativex, the brand name for Nabiximols, is a cannabinoid-based mouth spray that orally delivers a fixed dose of 2.7 mg of delta 9-THC and 2.5 mg of cannabidiol, the latter being the cannabis chemical compound activating cannabinoid receptors in the human body that aid in pain management.Sativex is presently in Phase III (advanced) FDA clinical trials for the ultimate purpose of being marketed in the U.S. for treatment of cancer pain. Sativex is currently being used in Canada, New Zealand, the UK and seven other European nations to relieve symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The FDA has not approved any cannabis-related drug since Marinol and the lesser-known Cesamet in 1985. Both were originally created specifically to …READ MORE
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Montana Medical Marijuana Setback
Tue Jan 24, 2012
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on January 20 that had been filed by 14 individuals and businesses that provided medical marijuana and were raided by DEA agents in Montana during 2011. The ruling confirms that Montana’s medical marijuana law, passed in 2004, does not protect medi-pot providers from federal prosecution.
U.S District Judge Donald Molloy cited a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which stated that the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause applies in medical marijuana cases. This means that medical pot providers can be prosecuted under federal law, even though they are legally complying with state law.
“Whether the plaintiffs' conduct was legal under Montana law is of little significance here, since the alleged conduct clearly violates federal law … We are all bound by federal law, like it or not.”
Judge Molloy also shot down the “Ogden …READ MORE
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Two Dispensaries Raided in Costa Mesa
Fri Jan 20, 2012
Even the local cops and DEA agents seemed to question (at least jokingly) why they were raiding Otherside Farms, an upscale medical marijuana dispensary in Costa Mesa, California on Tuesday. (Costa Mesa, located in uber-conservative Orange County, is regarded as an “edge city” – a formerly rural/residential suburb that’s now a concentration of business/shopping/entertainment).
On the audio track of surveillance video shot during the Otherside Farms raid, one law enforcement officer can be heard declaring, “This place is [expletive] awesome!” A second cracked, “I would definitely buy my weed here.”
In all, authorities seized 200 plants, an undisclosed amount of cash and Otherside’s bank records. And while the joint local and federal operation raided another dispensary called American Collective, they also ignored roughly a dozen others still doing …READ MORE
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Wed Jan 18, 2012
That didn’t take long – or maybe we should be surprised it took as long as it did. Within a week of the New York City birth of Blue Ivy Carter – daughter of mega-star couple Beyonce and Jay-Z – TMZ broke the news that several Los Angeles-area dispensaries were selling a “new” strain of medical marijuana named OG Blue Ivy.661 Medical, a medi-pot dispensary in Southern California’s Antelope Valley, opted to switch the child’s first and middle name in announcing via Twitter that their “Ivy Blue OG Kush” was available for a pricey $20 per gram or a more reasonable $55 an eighth. When cultivated correctly, Kush strains tend to be extremely tasty as well as being indica-dominant, meaning that they produce more of a body-high favored by pot patients looking for …READ MORE
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Michigan Medical Pot Dispensary
Fri Jan 13, 2012
The beleaguered medical marijuana state of Michigan received some long overdue good news on Wednesday after an Oakland County judge dismissed drug conspiracy charges against seven defendants who operated a Ferndale medical marijuana dispensary. (Ferndale is a small, predominantly residential town, part of the greater Detroit metropolitan area).
The seven defendants had been busted in August 2010 when Ferndale P.D raided their dispensary, Clinical Relief, as part of a coordinated effort with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept drug squad in which undercover agents made purchases of legal medicine using what later proved to be forged documents.
Circuit Court Judge Daniel O’Brien agreed with the defense’s argument that the operators of Clinical Relief believed they were acting in full compliance with the 2008 law that legalized medical cannabis in Michigan, and that there was no criminal intent on the part of …READ MORE
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Grandma Smurf Acquitted of Pot Growing Charges
Wed Jan 11, 2012
67-year-old grandmother Alberta Kelley of Connellsville, Pennsylvania – charged with growing cannabis from seeds she said she was given by a man dressed as a “Smurf” – was found not guilty last week by a jury who believed Kelley’s claim that she had no idea the plants were pot. Rather, Kelley said the Smurf-Man told her that the gifted seeds would yield the “prettiest flowers she has ever seen.”
The stranger allegedly donned a white “Smurf hat” favored by the blue-skinned characters from the 1980’s hit animated NBC series that combined mild humor with sword and sorcery adventure. After Kelley planted the “pretty flower seeds,” she told Channel 4 Action News that she was waiting for the flowers to bloom, but didn’t recognize that it was marijuana buds that were actually growing; she claims she just thought they were weeds. …READ MORE
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Supreme Court To Decide Constitutionality of Drug Sniffing Dogs
Mon Jan 9, 2012
In what could be a significant ruling for marijuana cultivators, the Supreme Court announced on January 6 that it would decide later this year if drug-sniffing dogs used at the front door of a private residence constitutes an unconstitutional search. The high court will base their decision on a 2006 Miami, Florida case in which a chocolate Labrador police hound named “Franky” was utilized in front of the home of pot cultivating suspect Joelis Jardines based on an anonymous “Crime Stoppers” tip. Franky quickly caught a whiff of Jardines’ weed growing inside – no surprise, considering dogs have olfaction capabilities that run anywhere from one hundred thousand to one million times more acute than a human’s sense of smell.
After he was convicted, Jardines appealed and the Florida Supreme Court ruled that using a dope-sniffing dog based on only an anonymous tip was a violation of …READ MORE
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New Study: Marijuana Most Popular Drug on Earth
Fri Jan 6, 2012
Recently released data from an Australian study published in the medical journal The Lancet today confirms what many have long suspected – that cannabis is the most popular drug on Planet Earth. According to the three-part research series, somewhere between 121 and 191 million people between the ages of 15-64 use marijuana yearly across the globe, a staggeringly high percentage of the estimated 200 million users of all illicit drugs (which includes amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, etc).
Though North America is generally most associated with pot use and culture, it is the two dominant countries of Oceania – Australia and New Zealand – that lead in per capita pot usage with an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the 15 to 64-year-old population using cannabis annually. Apparently they really like to party in the lands down under …READ MORE
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Thu Jan 5, 2012
Even for cannabis-friendly Colorado, this was impressive. On Wednesday, the Denver-based chronic coalition known as Campaign To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol submitted 160,000 collected signatures supporting The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 to the Secretary of State’s Office, also located in the Mile High City. The pro-pot organization’s efforts almost doubled the required number of signatures (86,000) to place the initiative on the November 2012 ballot that would legalize recreational marijuana use for Rocky Mountain residents age 21 or older.
Beyond legalizing personal use and possession (of up to an ounce) of pot, the initiative would also permit private cultivation of up to six plants (allowing only three “mature” plants max), just as …READ MORE
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