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Opposition To DEA Pot Raids Spreads Across Political Spectrum
Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
by By Steve Elliott on tokeofthetown.com
Two ideologically diverse advocates on Wednesday echoed an earlier call by a coalition of drug-policy reform groups by condemning a series of recent raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical marijuana collectives operating legally under state law.
The Tenth Amendment Center, a group that advocates for states’ rights, and Jane Hamsher, the publisher of Firedoglake.com, called on the DEA to respect duly adopted state medical marijuana laws and immediately end those raids.
“The federal government is only authorized to exercise those powers that ‘We The People’ delegated to it in the Constitution,” said Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. “It is especially egregious when these laws are used to justify raids in states where the use and distribution of cannabis is expressly allowed by law.”
“How many hundreds of thousands of people are going to be arrested before We The People say ‘enough is enough’?” Boldin asked. “The time to end this unconstitutional, immoral, and costly federal war on people is now.”
Under the “leadership” of acting administrator Michele Leonhart, the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in apparent disregard of Attorney General Eric Holder’s directive to respect state medical marijuana laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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Medical Marijuana Saves Child’s Life
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Medical, News. No Comments »
Knocking on deaths door, 10 year old Joey Perez was slowly dying. The potpourri of prescription medications he’d consumed since the age of 5 were damaging his body beyond repair. The side effects were literally killing him. Doctors had no answers, or any safe alternatives. Their only suggestion was the combination of a few more meds, and to experiment with what happened next. Mieko, Joeys mother, knew his body was weak and shutting down. She knew his fragile body could not handle the addition of any more toxic medicines. Luckily for Joey, her experience as a legal researcher gave her the tools she needed to start her and Joey on this journey. A healing journey with an effective treatment – Medical Marijuana.
Read the rest of this article at compassionassociates.org
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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Blog, Information, Medical. No Comments »
For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.
Speaking privately with Richard Nixon in 1971, the late Art Linkletter offered this view on the use of marijuana versus alcohol. “When people smoke marijuana, they smoke it to get high. In every case, when most people drink, they drink to be sociable.”
“That’s right, that’s right,” Nixon agreed. “A person does not drink to get drunk A person drinks to have fun.”
The following year Linkletter announced that he had reversed his position on pot, concluding instead that the drug’s social harms were not significant enough to warrant its criminal prohibition. Nixon however stayed the course — launching the so-called “war” on drugs, a social policy that now results in the arrest of more than 800,000 Americans each year for violating marijuana laws.
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Washington State Democratic Party Endorses Marijuana Legalization
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Blog, Information, Legalization, Medical. 1 Comment »
At yesterday’s Washington State Democratic Convention, party delegates overwhelmingly voted to endorse I-1068, a potential ballot measure to legalize cannabis in the state. From Publicola.net:
Bucking the recommendation of their executive board, delegates to the Washington State Democratic Convention endorsed I-1068 (the marijuana legalization initiative) with 62 percent “yes” vote (314 to 185). The executive board had given no recommendation on the initiative because “the committee was even more split than the delegates,” according to State Vice Chair Sharon Smith.
The endorsement of the State Democratic Party may be too late to ensure marijuana legalization is on the ballot this November. A petition with signatures from at least 241,153 registered voters must be submitted by July 2nd, just five days from now in order to put I-1068 on the ballot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oregon Board of Pharmacy vote a marijuana milestone
Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
reposted from www.katu.com
SALEM, Ore. – The State of Oregon has re-classified how it views marijuana.
The State Board of Pharmacy voted Wednesday to recognize pot as a drug that has medical use.
The move came because of a law passed last year that ordered marijuana to be removed from a list of drugs that have “high abuse potential and no acceptable medical use.”
Marijuana will now be what is known as a “Schedule II controlled substance.” That’s a drug that has medical use but still has “high abuse potential.”
Oregon becomes the first state in the nation to make marijuana anything less serious than a Schedule I drug.
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Oregon and Detroit Both to have Marijuana on the Ballot in Fall
Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Legalization, Medical. No Comments »
A campaign for a system of medical marijuana supply systems in Oregon turned in enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot – if the signatures are valid. According to an early turn-in, the initiative for a medical marijuana supply system has gathered 115,404 signatures. It needs 82,769 verified names of registered voters to make the ballot.
The preliminary total only reflects the signatures gathered by paid petitioners through May. The campaign will continue to gather signatures up to the July 2 deadline to give them a cushion for names that have to be thrown out.
Also, a Detroit City Council committee passed today on amending a city ordinance to allow adults in the city to legally possess a small amount of marijuana. Instead voters will get to decide in November. Read the rest of this entry »
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Marijuana: No More Possession Prosecutions in Seattle, New City Attorney Says
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
Seattle’s new city attorney has better things to do than prosecute pot smokers, he said January 14. City Attorney Pete Holmes announced he was dismissing all marijuana possession cases, starting with those filed by his predecessor, Tom Carr, whom Holmes defeated in November. He said he dismissed two cases his first day on the job, and several others are about to be dismissed.
“We’re not going to prosecute marijuana possession cases anymore,” said Holmes. “I meant it when I said it” during the campaign.
Holmes’ criminal division chief, Craig Sims, added that he is reviewing an additional 50 cases. Barring “out of the ordinary” circumstances, Sims said, the prosecutor’s office does not intend to file charges for marijuana possession.
Read the rest of the article at stopthedrugwar.org
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Why I Give My 9-Year-Old Pot
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Blog, Information, Medical. 4 Comments »
We hit a snag and made a big discovery about how medical marijuana works for him.
This is the third DoubleX essay from Marie Myung-Ok Lee about treating her autistic son with marijuana. Read her first essay here
and her second essay here.Last summer, we reached the six-month mark in our cannabis experiment. We’d been using medical marijuana to help quell our autistic son’s gut pain and anxiety, and we were seeing some huge changes in his behavior and, presumably, his happiness. J was smiling, interacting (one of home-based therapists said she’d never encountered such an affectionate autistic child), even putting his dirty dishes in the dishwasher—rinsing and everything!—not only without being told, but without ever having been asked to do such a thing.
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Public Meeting with Dakta Green and the NZ Law Commission
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Events, Featured, Information, Legalization, Medical, News, The Daktory. 4 Comments »
NORML NZ (National Organisation for Reform of Marijuana Laws New Zealand Inc.) is hosting the only AUCKLAND PUBLIC MEETING to discuss the current review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 by the New Zealand Law Commission.
Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: Western Springs Garden Hall
Street: 956 Great North Road, Western Springs
Town/City: Auckland, New ZealandHosted by Dakta Green, Auckland Norml Rep, this meeting will provide the Public with the only opportunity in Auckland to meet personally with Dr Warren Young Deputy President NZ Law Commission on this issue before written submissions to the Law Commission close later this month. Read the rest of this entry »
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San Francisco pot-farm case goes up in smoke
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
San Francisco’s effort to snuff out the budding indoor pot-growing trade took a bit of a hit, shall we say, when a father-and-son team of marijuana growers beat the rap.
It seemed like a pretty good haul for police and a good case for prosecutors: About 70 marijuana plants in various stages of development inside a 32nd Avenue home near Pacheco Street in the Sunset, two guns, scales, baggies and an illegal power-sapping hookup — all the characteristics of the pot farms sprouting up in the avenues.
The three-room pot farm’s father-and-son proprietors were charged with marijuana cultivation for sale. They could have been sentenced to as much as three years in state prison apiece if convicted.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?entry_id=59261#ixzz0kHKQR3sz
Image: San Francisco police