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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Dakta Green | Filed under Armistice Tour, Events, Information, News, The Daktory. No Comments »
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Armistice Tour 2010
Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Dakta Green | Filed under Armistice Tour, Legalization, News, Press Releases. 6 Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 February 2010
TO: News Media
FROM: NORML NZ and The DaktoryRE: Dakta Green warmly welcomed on Waitangi Walkabout
Cannabis activist Dakta Green received a rapturous Waitangi Day welcome yesterday with chants of “Free the Weed” from the mainly Maori crowd during a Waitangi walkabout.
Dakta Green was greeted like a celebrity while official Waitangi celebrations went on behind them, an enthusiastic crowd gathered around the Treaty flagpole to hear Dakta Green and NORML NZ President Phil Saxby launch the “Armistice Tour”.
“The Armistice Tour is about ending the drug war between the government and people of Aotearoa-New Zealand,” says Dakta Green. “We want to bring an end to decades of prejudice and hurt.”
NORML’s Cannabus (Maryjane) will tour New Zealand during the next three months, ending with a rally at parliament. “An Armistice means that neither side has to admit defeat. We start the tour with three proposed conditions for a just settlement of the drug wars:
• Adult use only- NZ has the highest rate of teenage cannabis use in the world
• Amnesty – stop arresting the people for cannabis (NZ has the highest arrest rate in the world for cannabis use)
• A regulated market – replace the uncontrolled criminal market with a regulated, taxable, cannabis trade. -
CBS Rejects Marijuana Legalization Ad from NORML
Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Misc, News. No Comments »
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
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CBS News: “Pot Measure One Step Closer To California Ballot”
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Legalization, News. No Comments »
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.
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2 bills would legalize medical marijuana
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Legalization, Medical, News. 1 Comment »
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)
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CA Supreme Court Strikes Down Medical Marijuana Limits
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Medical, News. 1 Comment »
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.
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‘Live Like It’s Legal’: Landmark Cannabis Hearing In New Zealand
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Featured, Legalization, News, The Daktory. 20 Comments »
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.”
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Washington State: “We’re not going to prosecute marijuana possession cases anymore”
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Legalization, News. 3 Comments »
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 »
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New Jersey: Medical Marijuana Bill signed into law
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
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 »
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Planting the Seed for Legal Pot
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon (Cam Wright) | Filed under Legalization, News. 6 Comments »
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 »