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HT News Hit - Pot on A Muthaf@cking Plane!

Tue, Oct 20, 2009 5:39 pm


• Thanks to attorney Robert Raich, medical marijuana patients caught with pot at Oakland International Airport aren’t arrested. In fact, they’re allowed to take their medicine onboard. The policy, which was quietly enacted last year, states: “if deputies determine someone is a qualified patient or primary caregiver as defined by California law and has eight ounces or less of the drug, he or she can keep it and board the plane.”

 

If caught, pot-carrying passengers are warned that they could be committing a felony when they arrive at a destination that doesn’t recognize medical marijuana. However, deputies “don't call ahead to alert authorities on the other end.”

 

This policy is possible because of the federal Transportation Security Administration’s screening procedure. When the TSA discovers contraband on a passenger, the sheriff’s deputies are alerted – and those deputies are beholden to Oakland’s policy concerning passengers and pot.

 

Raich deserves a lot of credit here. Fed up with seeing patients harassed for carrying their medicine along with them, he appealed to the County to force the Sheriff’s office to comply with California law and adopt the airport policy. …mercurynews.com

 

• CBS’s Political Hot Sheet wonders, “Will health coverage pay for medical marijuana?” Hmm. Well, you probably already know the answer but if you’d prefer a drawn out article that attempts to tap into the medical marijuana Web traffic kicked up by the Obama Administration’s MMJ guidelines memo, feel free to skip right to the link.

 
If you want the condensed version, here ya go:
 

“Lack of FDA approval means no coverage either by private insurers or through any public plan to be drafted in Congress … The fact that marijuana remains a controlled substance presents one hurdle to approval; another, perhaps more significant one is that it isn't a synthesized drug – that is, its component parts are not crafted by drug companies.” …cbsnews.com



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Kings of Leon are fags

Oct 28 2009, 3:03 pm

Kings of Leon are the biggest bunch of fags ive ever heard in my life. their music is an abomination. they are deplorable human beings. they make tennessee look dumber than it already looks.


"when i was a kid calling someone a fag didn't mean you thought they were gay. it was because they were, you know, being a fag" - louis ck

anonymous

Oct 27 2009, 3:48 am

the italians americans like the Gotti's and small time like the bloodz and cripx, u hear, the streets hate Rap, Rap supports the white man, not the poor, in Toronto their is no ghetto's, everyone white. Listen to this all the canadian rappers who grew up ghetto went to their ghetto's and collected all the guns for the police and got paid 10 000 per gun to plot genocide with radiations and all the guns they put back into the streets all go away. Democracy is about defending yourself and the gun is democratic but the executive dictatorship wants them off the streets for fear of retaliation. Retaliation is allowed if your being bullied by anyone including the government.

BOKO

Oct 27 2009, 1:00 am

Sad we're still calling this stuff 'contraband.' Good story, good story.

Huge

Oct 26 2009, 7:31 pm

Willmonts kids a loser just like the track

FreeYourMinds

Oct 26 2009, 11:27 am

TO EVERYBODY WHO READS THIS POST

the words written' within this forum real world example why the system has control.

mankind are billions divided, rather than 1 united.

dreamer1562003

Oct 26 2009, 10:24 am

We all should know, bringing praise and thanks unto Yahweh, is the greatest of anything we human's can do. I have done "drugs", although smoking or eating marijuana is my life-line and surely will die if it is cut! Praise Yahweh!!!

Matthew Stidams

Oct 25 2009, 7:49 pm

For all of you people that are to stupid to read up what the gov. is doing about our pot laws,g get this months addition of PEOPLE mag. the head of the dept. of justice has informed all federal prosecutors to stop going after people that are legally possesing or growing pot. So quit bitching about what you can't do, and start fighting for your state to rethink their laws! I live in MI and the PEOPLE not the gov. just voted for us to be able to grow. I'll gladly pay $200 a year for that. So go vote and shut the fuck up and grow up!

itsjustjake

Oct 25 2009, 3:07 am

Nevermind. I read some of the posts below and yours is about par for the course.

itsjustjake

Oct 25 2009, 3:03 am

Seriously? Zionism? That's what you've spent your time writing about on a High Times forum? Was that some kind of tongue-in-cheek irony type thing or are you really doing this here. Piss off Borat.

ALEX JONES

Oct 24 2009, 4:32 pm

SHUT UP!

anonymous

Oct 24 2009, 1:21 pm

The zionist the greatest threat to our future

anonymous

Oct 24 2009, 10:39 am

smelly rats stomp on them where ever they are

smelly rats

Oct 24 2009, 2:31 am

The Jews are coming, the Jews are coming. Grab a gun and kill.

A POSSUM

Oct 23 2009, 9:45 pm

BITCHES FROM PORN, TAKE IT IN THE CORN, AT 6 IN THE MORN, SINCE THEY WERE BORN

D.Hunter

Oct 23 2009, 3:43 pm

oh Daniel.... you gotta remember that there are always smart potheads and stupid ones. some people are like lets get fucked up and sit on the couch for 3 hours, and then there's people who get high and create masterpieces of art. ever heard someone say i used to be a pothead ? those are people who didn't get it then and wont get it ever. don't down HT for all the stupid people.

gstlab3

Oct 23 2009, 1:33 pm

IN HERE LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PRIVATE LIVES AND THE FREEDOM OF TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WE WHO SURRENDER OUR PRIVACEY IN ORDER TO GAIN A SIMPLE FREEDOM SUCH AS GROWING AND USING MARIJUANA IS A RECIPE FOR OUR UNDOING AT THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT TAX AND CONTROLL MACHINERY THAT IS TARGETTING ALL FORMS OF DISSENT AND NONCONFORMITY.,YOUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION IS NOT ANY DIFFERANT FROM CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY.
BEWARE MY FELLOW TRAVELERS AND DAY TRIPPERS YOUR FREEDOMS ARE BEING STRIPED AWAY FASTER THAN YOU REALIZE.
PEACE!! GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!

Daniel Johnson

Oct 23 2009, 4:29 am

"HT was at one time a very good mag but now it just seems to a haven for morons. "
The morons, or, as I've come to believe, moron or maybe 2, is an anti-marijuana activist who is here to dominate the comments boxes in order to give the casual reader a false idea of High Times readership. I know that for other issues, there are people who are paid to do things like that, for others it's something they do because they believe in their side. Of course, it might be "pro-pot" people from a competing mag, I hope not. At any rate, some mod should be hired to clean these things and take out retarded comments, pro or con.

Weed Daddy

Oct 22 2009, 9:34 am

Anonymous... Grow up... No body cares about you... You kkep spilling your hate and stupidity... Get a life moron...

anonymous

Oct 22 2009, 5:00 am

do all you retarded leaders think all those females are their to meet his pretty face?

No, he says your all here to watch him get tortured with depleted uranium all day and night. (humiliated)

Your all the lowest form of human life

you all have numbers

radiations is the most atrosious act on earth

what happens after radiation/genocide?

your all dead people

this is the real deal

CHAMPION

Oct 22 2009, 2:04 am

your all failing to understand

that my worth is over 400 trillion dollars in equity

I CAN GO AND DO ANYTHING I WANT TOO

NO ONE CAN STOP ME BUT MONEY

but i am being held down by rap and porn because of my champion breeding

FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD, THE BATTLE WILL BE WON IN TIME....

Anthony Taurus

Oct 21 2009, 8:54 pm

Now, the real question is, will law enforcement at other airports around the nation scrutinize flights coming in from California, Oakland specifically?

We have to keep in mind the effect of the Byrne grant program or profit motive, forfeiture laws, as well as law enforcement's need to be bad ass heroes in the face of NO danger as cause for alarm. I would not be surprised if they purposely target flights from California with dogs and searches.

Also, what's to say that authorities can't send a heads up to destination airports about specific passengers. It seems like it's their dirty little secret. I can also see some people being purposely targeted.

dd

Oct 21 2009, 3:52 pm

Hell yeah, hahaha, where i live and work, looks like i'll be goin through there instead of SFO. even before Raich did this... oakland security is so slack, I love Oakland!!!

deddog

SmOakland

Oct 21 2009, 12:22 pm

I been in oakland all my life its all i know

You'll prbly see me at the sideshow
blowing hydro
lookin out for 5-0

Herb

Oct 21 2009, 11:52 am

SO can you get a card in cal and your home state and fly home with it?

www.hydroponicsbrew.com

CRACK

Oct 21 2009, 11:47 am

That Toronto idiot really needs help and a grammar lesson from his tutor. It is idiots like him that make pot smokers look bad. He must have been born with a dick in his brain.

carleedo

Oct 21 2009, 10:48 am

try saying that in public,so we can measure how much balls u really have,better yet try using a marker and scribble that in the bathroom somewhere so you can find better confort in your cowardly ways

matt teh farmer

Oct 21 2009, 10:39 am

the hate messages on here are most likely from bots or people who dont know enough english and good sense to argue any sensibility. EVERYONE all they are doing is trying to UNDERMINE hightimes credibility. just think... anyone with influence might take a look at some hightimes articles and see these hate messages. what kind of message do u think that sends? their aim is to make us look like assholes to other people.

i wish some hightimes administrators would look into either placing some anti bot counter measures for posting comments, or have moderators who delete such crap.

Karen Tandy

Oct 21 2009, 5:34 am

sarkozys a bitch, Gotti's are with the people who incarcerated john sr.

Duh

Oct 21 2009, 2:17 am

Please explain how we have a "medical" marijuana policy on a drug that has no medicinal applications.All the terms used to describe m/m patients,clinics,and treatments are in medical terms and treating health problems,just like medicine. And the federal government has recognized that marijuana is a medicine for treatment of nausea and glaucoma. And doctors in the states where they are allowed are using it as treatments for numerous health problems,too numerous too list here. But that is what the 30 million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry given too our elected legislators want,delay,delay,delay.
That is the 30 million they paid in the 2008 election funds,split equally between dems and reps,and I'd be willing to bet that the 2010 "donations' will top the charts
because you know it cost them a ton of money to delay the Justice Dept for 8 months too write a 3 page memo. Congress has been writing a health reform bill for the whole nation,and have done it in half the time.
The clock is ticking,now lets see how long it takes them to even discuss rescheduling marijuana.
They may have gag rules in court,and I still don't understand how that came about,as far as I know if a person takes the stand in his own defense he has a right to any defense he deems important enough to use,and freedom of speech is just as much your right in court as it is anywhere
else in the US,and should be more so when you are arguing for your freedom. They would damn sure have too gag me.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=H04

Above is link to election fund donations. While there,check your legislators and see if yours recieved donations from big pharm and you will know for sure if you need too replace them. Barney Frank and Ron Paul recieve $0 from them,while the two senators from my state receive hundred of thousands from big pharm,and both state they will not support medical marijuana or rescheduling it. We are working on replacing them both.

I wonder.......

Oct 21 2009, 1:52 am

ok.........so while in air is legal...........then LIGHT UP PEOPLE AND GET YOUR SMOKE ON!!!! and dont forget to get the pilot high beats him being drunk although paranoia and being in mid air might not be the greatest idea ..........lmao just another contradiction being added to this mess.

YOUR ALL RATS !

Oct 21 2009, 1:46 am

you all think your gansters
your all ex officials corrupted by the jewish and their terrorist money
gangsters don't call the cops
only the Italians and Jewish governemnt call the cops
they kill and sell illegal drugs seized at the border, who sells a kilo of cocaine for 10 000 but the CIA/Jewish, it cost more than double that
your all cowardly governments, not royals, prositutues
IT'S THE CIA AND THEIR URANIUM ENRICHMENT BUT WITH DIFFENT NAMES.

YOUR RATS!!!!

poopa b

Oct 21 2009, 12:27 am

bout freakin time my goodness now i can fly and don't gotta worry !! YEA RIGHT ? wanna bet?

anonymous

Oct 20 2009, 10:21 pm

let's rid Rap,Porn and Cocaine off the planet for the man...
Columbia and the rest of south america will have nothing because of tabas...i would do it again, cocaine and radiations

Piax

Oct 20 2009, 9:59 pm

Wow it is unfortunate that everone is entitled to their opinion. I can't spell lol.
Hightimes has done a great deal to to bring awareness to those that were blinded by ignorance and stero-typical people, and keeping the believers motivated to spread the truth.
A refrence to the moron at the bottem. Hilter once said "if you tell a Lie convincingly enough and often enough people will see it as the truth".
Something along those lines.

Hmmmm. So its legal to have it in the air until you land in a state with laws against it. Interesting lol. What if i leave a state thats not legal with it on me and go into flight is it legal then? Jp lol

GanjaDave

Oct 20 2009, 7:12 pm

Why does HT have all of these stupid ppl on here. I mean whats with all the anti-jew and nazi bull shit.......HT was at one time a very good mag but now it just seems to a haven for morons.

Hitler Jr.

Oct 20 2009, 7:03 pm

Jerusalem, France, Italy, you think your in control?

have your queer fun now...

You three are worthless genetics

i will never care who you fuck

your loosers!

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