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CBS Rejects Marijuana Legalization Ad from NORML
February 7th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
This Ad, which was to be screened on the largest billboard in New York, The CBS ‘Super Screen’ at 42nd St, has been rejected, claiming that the advertisement is too political.
There was a second ad that was also rejected, that makes an example of President Obama.
Sources: NORML.org, HighTimes.com
CBS News: “Pot Measure One Step Closer To California Ballot”
January 30th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
As a general rule, NORML tends not to publicize or comment on ballot initiative drives — including campaigns we are involved in — until they have officially qualified for the ballot. But in this case, we (and the mainstream media) just couldn’t resist.
Pot Measure One Step Closer to California Ballot
via CBS.comAn initiative to make marijuana legal, and open to local taxation and regulation, is one step closer to getting on the California ballot this November.
2 bills would legalize medical marijuana
January 29th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
Laws would be more stringent than other states’, Morhaim says
Sen. David Brinkley, center, and Del. Dan Morhaim, right, co-sponsors of medical marijuana legislation to be introduced this session, held a press conference with patients, including Debby Miran, left, and other legislators to explain the details of the bill, which will be more restrictive than the ones enacted in other states. Miran, of Lutherville, used medical marijuana for four months while undergoing treatment for leukemia and a bone marrow transplant. (Baltimore Sun photo by Amy Davis / January 26, 2010)
CA Supreme Court Strikes Down Medical Marijuana Limits
January 22nd, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
ohhburn.com: Unanimously the California Supreme Court struck down a law that looked to impose limits on the amount of weed a medical patient can legally possess! As a result of the voter-approved Proposition 215, passed in 1996, patients with a doctor’s recommendation were allowed to possess an unspecified amount of marijuana.
In 2003, there was this Legislation created to give law enforcement a guideline on when to make marijuana possession busts. The Legislature decided that patients could have up to 8 ounces of dried marijuana and grow as many as six mature or 12 immature plants. The law did allow, however, a patient to have more if a doctor stated that amount was insufficient and individual cities had the power to allow patients to grow and possess more marijuana, but not less.
‘Live Like It’s Legal’: Landmark Cannabis Hearing In New Zealand
January 20th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
Dakta Green, founder of New Zealand’s most visible cannabis club, will argue in court Wednesday that marijuana laws are a fundamental breach of his rights, in what is being called a “landmark” hearing.
Green will argue before Judge Keirnan in Auckland District Court that cannabis laws discriminate against users of the herb, and that the severity of marijuana penalties under the Misuse of Drugs Act violates New Zealand’s Bill of Rights Act.
“Alcohol and tobacco are dangerous drugs but are legally available,” Green said. “Cannabis causes less harm to our community.”
Washington State: “We’re not going to prosecute marijuana possession cases anymore”
January 18th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
In his first few days as City Attorney, Pete Holmes has sent a major message to the Citizens and Legislature of Washington State.
Several marijuana possession cases have been dropped already and 50 more are being reviewed. Barring “out of the ordinary circumstances” the City of Seattle will be the safest place for a toker in the state.
So! What about the rest of us? Read the rest of this entry »
New Jersey: Medical Marijuana Bill signed into law
January 16th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
SERIOUSLY ILL patients in New Jersey, those who suffer from debilitating ailments like multiple sclerosis or cancer, won a victory in the State House this week.
Lawmakers approved a controversial bill that allows doctors to prescribe marijuana for medicinal purposes. Governor Corzine signed the law on Tuesday, making New Jersey the 14th state to allow medical marijuana. It was the most significant legislation to come out of the lame-duck session.
It is a godsend for patients like Mike Oliveri, who grew up in Oradell and moved to California in 2008 to take advantage of that state’s medical marijuana law. Oliveri, who has muscular dystrophy, says marijuana is the most effective medicine to ease pain in his legs and back and to calm his stomach. Read the rest of this entry »
Planting the Seed for Legal Pot
January 13th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
The first step to legalize marijuana in California is on a roll.
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved Assembly Bill 390 — legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on bill at a hearing in Sacramento. The bill will now be passed to the full Assembly on Friday for consideration.
The bill, authored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, would essentially treat pot the same way alcohol is treated under the law and would allow adults over 21 to possess, smoke and grow marijuana. Read the rest of this entry »
Medical Marijuana Bill Passes In New Jersey
January 12th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
TRENTON, N.J. (Associated Press) — The New Jersey Assembly has approved a bill allowing chronically ill patients access to medical marijuana.
The compromise bill now heads to the Senate, which had approved a less restrictive version.
Gov. Jon Corzine supports the legislation and could sign it before leaving office next week.
New Jersey would become he 14th state to allow medicinal marijuana use.
The bill would allow patients with ailments like cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis to buy up to 2 ounces of marijuana a month at state-monitored dispensaries.
Home growing would remain illegal, as would driving while high.
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, a bill co-sponsor, says New Jersey’s Compassionate Use Marijuana Act would be the nation’s strictest such law.
Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/11/medical-marijuana-bill-pa_n_419131.html
Cops & Judges Support Calif. Assembly Marijuana Legalization Votes on Tuesday — Law Enforcers Say Ending Prohibition Will Improve Public Safety
January 12th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
On Tuesday, California state legislators will take historic votes on legalizing, regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana. A group of cops and judges who previously sent people to jail for marijuana offenses is supporting the legalization bill.
Sacramento, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 11, 2010 — A group of police officers, judges and prosecutors who fought in the failed “war on drugs” is cheering this Tuesday’s upcoming marijuana legalization votes in the California Assembly’s Public Safety and Health committees as a sign of increasing public frustration with the harms caused by prohibition and the widespread desire for a new approach.
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Judge Jim Gray, who retired last year from the California Superior Court in Orange County and is a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) said, “The mere fact that there will be votes in the Assembly to regulate and control the sale and distribution of marijuana would have been unthinkable even one year ago. And if the bill doesn’t pass this year, it will soon. Or, the bill will be irrelevant because the voters will have passed the measure to regulate and tax marijuana that will be on the ballot this November.” Read the rest of this entry »