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Appeals Court Rejects Disability Act as Means to Obtain Medical Pot
Wed May 23, 2012
Call it a showdown between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) – and in the end the feds came out on top once again.
On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied four disabled medical marijuana patients from Orange County from utilizing the ADA as a means to legally access their medicinal pot. By a 2-1 vote, the federal appellate court ruled that U.S. law does not recognize medical cannabis because pot is a Schedule I drug per the CSA.
Circuit Judge Raymond Fisher wrote: “We recognize that the plaintiffs are gravely ill," but "Congress has made clear...that federal law does not authorize plaintiffs' medical marijuana use.”
The quartet of patients had originally tried to sue the O.C. cities of Costa Mesa and Lake Forest following raids of …READ MORE
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Pro Medical Pot Candidate Wins Primary For Oregon AG
Thu May 17, 2012
Chalk one up for the good guys. On Tuesday, Ellen F. Rosenblum, a retired appellate court judge and the candidate backed by medical marijuana patients and activists, trounced her opponent, ex-federal prosecutor Dwight Holton, in the Oregon Democratic primary for state attorney general.
According to katu.com, Rosenblum had 184,410 votes – 64 percent – with only 103,784 ballots cast for Holton, a meager 36 percent.
Rosenblum, 61, a former Oregon Court of Appeals judge from 2005-2011, easily won the support of medical pot users and advocates by pledging to make enforcement of marijuana laws a low priority should she achieve office. She was a decidedly more appealing choice to pro-pot voters than Holton, 46, who openly criticized Oregon’s medical marijuana law and was U.S. Attorney in Oregon in September 2011 when the READ MORE
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US House Votes Against Stopping Feds’ Medical Pot Raids
Tue May 15, 2012
For the sixth time in a decade, the U.S. House of Representatives last week defeated an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have prohibited the federal Dept of Justice from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in those states with legal medicinal cannabis laws.
The bipartisan amendment was co-sponsored, as it has been each of the six times it’s been introduced, by Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and this year they were joined by Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Sam Farr (D-CA).
The final tally was 262-163 against the amendment, with the ‘Aye’ votes falling just short of the 2007 high of 165 votes in favor of stopping the feds’ opposition to medical pot. And while the relative percentages for Reps from both parties voting ‘Aye’ was higher in 2012, the reality is that the vote total hasn’t really changed in five …READ MORE
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Colorado Legalize Pot Campaign Runs Mother’s Day Ad
Sun May 13, 2012
In times past, most people didn’t associate marijuana with the wholesome all-American holiday of Mother’s Day, annually celebrated on the second Sunday in May. But the advocates of Yes on 64, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, are challenging that notion by running a subtle yet effective TV ad today entitled “Dear Mom.”
In the 30-second spot, a woman in her mid- to late-twenties is seen in a park typing on her laptop, composing a letter to her mother. Using both voiceover and printed graphics, we hear and read the “letter” the woman writes to her mom. In it, the young woman confesses while in college she used to drink a lot – “it was kind of crazy” she admits. But now that she is older, she prefers to use marijuana.
The 20-something woman then lists the benefits of using pot over …READ MORE
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Drive to Add PTSD, Other Conditions to AZ’s Medical Marijuana Law
Fri May 11, 2012
Later this month, the Arizona Dept of Health Services will hold a hearing as part of the effort to permit patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), migraines, depression, and general anxiety disorder to also legally use medical marijuana.
Prop 203, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, legalized the drug after voters approved it in November 2010, but the number of maladies the law allows to be treated with medicinal cannabis is limited. Nonetheless, medical marijuana has been demonstrated in numerous studies, and by physician recommendations in other medical pot states, to be efficacious for many conditions, including PTSD.
The Arizona Daily Sun reports that state Health Director Will Humble has received petitions from interested groups seeking to augment the list of afflictions for which medical pot can be used. However, Humble has already expressed concerns that the …READ MORE
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Pot DUI Bill Dies in Colorado Assembly
Thu May 10, 2012
A restrictive Colorado DUI bill that would have made it easier to convict drivers who used marijuana (but were not necessarily stoned when arrested) died in the state House of Representatives in Denver on Tuesday evening with an indirect assist from a legislative impasse over the controversial gay marriage issue.
Senate Bill 117 would have made it a misdemeanor with a possible jail sentence of up to six months and a fine of up to $500 for anyone caught with five or more nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood, an unreasonably low amount that would have assured the unjust conviction of completely sober drivers.
SB 117 had passed the State Senate and appeared to be headed for victory in the House when, in what the Denver Post described as a “dramatic game of …READ MORE
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Connecticut to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Mon May 7, 2012
The Connecticut Senate effectively legalized medical marijuana in the state by passing House Bill 5389 in the early morning hours Saturday following a 10-hour overtime session described as “passionate” by the Hartford Courant. The Connecticut House of Representatives passed the bill in late April.
Governor Dannel Malloy (D) praised the bill’s passage and has stated that he fully intends to sign it, which would make Connecticut the 17th state in the U.S. to have legalized medical marijuana. Including the District of Columbia, that’s 18 out of 51 states/districts in the nation, meaning more than a third of the country now has legal medicinal cannabis.
HB 5389 passed by a 21-13 vote at 2:35 a.m. local time. The extended session was primarily due to the filibustering of State Senator Toni Boucher (R-Wilton), who reportedly lectured on the dangers of medical marijuana (she views it as both highly addictive and …READ MORE
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Beastie Boys' Adam "MCA" Yauch: 1964-2012
Sat May 5, 2012
One of the legends of rap passed away on Friday. Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch died at the all-too-young age of 47. He died in Brooklyn (where he was born in 1964) after a three-year battle with parotid salivary gland cancer since 2009. Yauch is survived by his wife Dechen and his daughter Tenzin Losel Yauch, as well as his parents Frances and Noel Yauch. Though Beastie Boys began in the early 1980s as a hardcore punk band, it was the final lineup of Yauch, Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “King Adrock” Horovitz and their conversion to the then new genre of rap that broke the trio through to fame, fortune and most importantly, artistic achievement of the highest order.
Beastie Boys totaled over 40 million records sold including four number one albums and a reputation for a better than average live show for a rap act. In fact the band even began playing live instruments in the early '90s …READ MOREtags: 57 « add a comment
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New Poll: Majority In US, Canada, and Britain Favor Alternative Sentencing for Pot Possession
Sat May 5, 2012
A newly released international Angus Reid public opinion poll reports that a vast majority of Americans, Canadians and Britons support marijuana possession offenders being fined, serving community service or sentenced to probation rather than being incarcerated.
In the U.S., over 1,000 adults were surveyed, with nearly three-fourths of the nation - 74 percent - in favor of alternative penalties being administered to those busted for possession. The figures for Canada were even more impressive, at 78 percent favoring fines and probation. For England, with a less prominent, though increasingly expanding cannabis culture (an average of 20 pot gardens are busted daily in the UK according to the latest reports), a convincing 70 percent advocate keeping low-level pot offenders out of prison.Though the U.S. leads the three nations surveyed in the number of respondents who favor alternative sentencing for …READ MOREtags: 95 « add a comment
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Tourist Pot Ban Protested in Southern Netherlands
Wed May 2, 2012
May Day is a celebration rooted in both the ancient pagan (honoring Spring) and the post-modern political (International Workers Day), so it seemed fitting that both tourists and coffeeshop owners in the Netherlands banded together on Tuesday to voice their collective opposition to the law that went into effect that day prohibiting all sales of cannabis to foreigners and only permitting a restricted number of registered local citizens to purchase pot.
In the southern Dutch city of Maastricht demonstrators proudly displayed signs that read “Dealers Wanted” and ‘Stop Discrimination For Belgium” (even though Belgium neighbors the Netherlands, Belgians will likewise be banned from crossing the border to catch a buzz).
In Maastricht’s main square, several hundred protesting potheads gathered for an old-school sit-in and smoked joint after joint, accompanied by a six-foot long faux doobie. …READ MORE
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Jimmy Kimmel Calls Out Obama For Pot Raids
Sun Apr 29, 2012
Appearing at the same table as President Barack Obama, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel drew attention over the weekend following his pro-pot remarks while speaking at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. After fifteen minutes of skewering Obama and many others in attendance with his typical laid-back smarmy style, Kimmel turned to the president and asked more pointedly: "I do have one real question for you, Mr. President. What’s with the [medical] marijuana crackdown? I mean, seriously, what is the concern - we will deplete the nation's Funyun supply?"
Kimmel followed that up with a remark both pointed and funny: "Pot smokers vote too. Sometimes a week after the election, but they vote." Obama smiled during these jokes, but wasn’t laughing as hard as he had been earlier during Kimmel’s monologue, when other subjects were mocked.The host of …READ MOREtags: 73 « add a comment
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Obama “Clarifies” Medical Pot Position
Thu Apr 26, 2012
President Barack Obama has publicly replied to his administration’s stepped-up controversial crackdown on medical marijuana after having previously pledged to support states’ rights on the matter.
In a cover-page interview in the May 10 issue of Rolling Stone conducted by magazine founder Jann S. Wenner and titled “Ready for the Fight,” Obama now claims that the potential for the federal government to raid medicinal cannabis dispensaries (which of course they’ve done to excess) was always implied in his 2008 promise not to utilize his Department of Justice to interfere with states that legalized medical marijuana.
“What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana,” Obama told Rolling Stone. “I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche …READ MORE
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Michigan Appeals Court Rules Against Pot Patient Motorists
Thu Apr 26, 2012
The hot-button issue of driving under the influence of marijuana – especially medical marijuana – came to the forefront in Michigan last week after the state’s Court of Appeals ruled that legal pot patients are subject to conviction for driving under the influence of any amount of medicinal cannabis.
The court’s ruling was based on the case of legal medical marijuana patient Rodney Lee Koon, convicted for driving under the influence of pot – even though he had last medicated some five or six hours prior to being pulled over by the police.
The appellate court decided Section 625 of the Michigan Vehicle Code, which forbids driving by any person with “any amount” of a controlled substance as defined by the state’s public health code (including pot) in …READ MORE
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VA Medical Pot User Acquitted of Distribution Charge
Fri Apr 20, 2012
Frank Downing, a Virginia medical marijuana user (as opposed to legal patient) was acquitted of the charge of possession of pot with intent to distribute in a (nonjury) bench trial held at the Accomack (County) Circuit Court. The significance of Downing avoiding the distribution charge is that he testified in court that he was cultivating the cannabis for medicinal purposes in a state in which medical marijuana has yet to be legalized.
Previously, the Eastern Shore Drug Task Force raided Downing’s Keller, Virginia home and seized 25 plants of “high quality marijuana” along with a potentially incriminating digital scale and vacuum sealer. Downing argued the scale was utilized to measure out his medicinal intake to one gram a day; he uses pot for both appetite stimulation and pain management.The vacuum sealer was used for the less politically correct function of freezing …READ MOREtags: 20 « add a comment
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Suspicious Death of Pot Suspect in Sri Lanka
Thu Apr 19, 2012
A key witness in a fundamental rights case filed by a hotel owner against the Wadduwa Police in the Western Province of Sri Lanka was discovered dead in his cell under suspicious circumstances on April 15 after earlier being jailed on a possession charge of two “marijuana cigars." The eldest son of 42-year-old Chandrasiri Dahanayake allegedly spotted his father sprawled in his cell with his face covered in blood.
Even the arrest of Dahanayake is a head-scratcher; Wadduwa police busted the deceased father of three while he bicycled on scenic Galle Road adjacent to the Indian Ocean. But unless the pot cigars were dangling from Dahanayake’s mouth, his arrest for merely cycling seems curious. Dahanayake was a witness in an upcoming rights case that may compromise the Wadduwa P.D., considering that it's the Officer-in-Charge (the head of an entire police station) as well as constables that are the defendants in the still-pending …READ MOREtags: 9 « add a comment
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