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Half of UK police
officers have tried cannabis - The research now being
studied by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary,
was carried out among Metropolitan and South
Yorkshire police and shows that many support a
more liberal approach.
Total war on pony tails - Did you know that at
one time Norway had hippie soldiers-men in combat
gear with ponytails and beard nets? Washington
soon insisted the Norwegian units de-hippify if
they wanted to participate in NATO drills.
Cannabisnews: Britain's Liberal
Democrats Vote for Marijuana - "This isn't a
rush of blood to the head, we have taken two
years to look at the evidence," said the
party's domestic issues spokesman, Simon Hughes.
Mary
Jane for Medicine: Scool
not high on teen-agers pot project - School officials are
considering whether to snuff out a 13-year-old
girls' science project that examines medical uses
of marijuana.
Students fight
drug-war dragnet - Souder spokesman Seth
Becker says Souder is motivated by the fact that
"he sees people dying every day" from
drugs. Few of these, of course, are
students caught in their dorm with some pot on a
Friday night. Asked whether marijuana
smokers need rehab ( one way to restore financial
aid ), Becker at first says he doesn't
know. But then he terms pot a gateway drug
and "dangerous stuff."
Raid a house,
kick a dog, plug a suspect - A family in
Pueblo, Colorado, is suing the DEA and the
Colorado Bureau of Investigations after a
no-knock raid resulted in their two sons being
arrested and jailed despite the fact no drugs
were found on the premises.
Medical marijuana helps - The Compassionate Use
of Medical Cannabis bill (Senate Bill 8)
currently being considered by the Legislature
would provide relief from suffering for certain
people with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis (MS)
and spinal cord injury by allowing them to use
marijuana as a medicine.
Physical suffering is a horrible thing to
experience. It is unpleasant also to watch
someone you love suffer for months or years with
intractable nausea, unremitting pain or
uncontrollable violent muscle spasms that result
from debilitating or terminal illnesses. - By Dr.
Steven A. Jenison.
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| The War on
Terror's Newest Target: America's Kids - In one
particularly odious ad, a series of
fresh-faced young people are shown
copping to a host of terrorist
atrocities: "I helped kids learn how
to kill;" "I helped murder
families in Colombia;" "I
helped blow up buildings." |
Links
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| DEA Invades Bay
Area, At Least 9 Raids Executed Today - The Drug
Enforcement Agency has raided at least 9
sites related to cannabis clubs in the SF
Bay Area today. The major raid was at the
6th Street Harm Reduction Center. Also,
Ed Rosenthal was arrested and his home
was raided. Eight other sites were also
raided. SFPD has indicated that they had
no forewarning that the DEA was going to
execute local raids today. |
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| Cannabis
News: Four Arrested
in Connection with Pot Cultivation - Drug Enforcement
Administration agents seized more than
600 pot plants from the Harm Reduction
Center and arrested the group's executive
director, Richard Watts, according to the
U.S. Attorney's Office. |
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| DEA
implements US police state - According to
early reports coming from California
today, armed DEA agents swooped down on
the Oakland home and offices of cannabis
cultivation expert Ed Rosenthal, who has
been writing and publishing books and
magazine articles about marijuana for
three decades.
- NORML
- California |
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U.S.
Seeks Decline in Drug Usage - Bush announced
his administration's drug-fighting
strategy, which also seeks a 10 percent
drop in illegal drug use in two years.
``We've got a problem in this country:
Too many people use drugs,'' he said. |
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ROSENTHAL RAIDED AND ARRESTED BY DEA - Cannabis
authority Ed Rosenthal was raided at 6 AM
this Tuesday morning by DEA agents. -
"It sends a creepy message to the
entire cannabis community," said
Steve Kubby |
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Oakland cannabis
clubs raided - San Francisco
District Attorney's Office spokesman Fred
Gardner said he could supply only a few
details, but confirmed that agents from
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
apparently moved in on a Sixth Street
club located between Market and Mission
streets early this morning. |
Security clampdown foiled
as Medical Marijuana Barbie Streaks Oxford Street - On day three of her
quest to deliver a Cannabis Valentine to Prince
Charles and free Colin Davies, Medical Marijuana
Barbie took part in the honourable British
tradition of streaking and bared it all for a
crowd of thousands on Oxford Street.
Hemp
Food Stays in Stores - DEA Backs Down in Face of
Imminent Court Action - In a letter sent
yesterday to the Court of Appeals, Daniel
Dormont, Senior Attorney for the DEA, wrote, "It
is my understanding that the Court of Appeals
wishes to know whether the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) was planning to commence
enforcement action while the petitioners' motion
for a stay is pending, given that the grace
period published in the interim rule ended
yesterday (February 6). In the view of the
Court's inquiry, DEA will extend the grace period
for an additional 40 days, through March 18,
2002. As we discussed, this should allow the
Court to rule on the motion prior to the
expiration of the grace period."
Super Bowl Ad
Out of Bounds - "Where do terrorists
get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it may
come from you."
New York fires up the
decaf marijuana - 'One of his recent
customers, he said, was like, 'I don't smoke too
much - the last stuff I bought got me paranoid
about whether my kid is making car-insurance
payments or not'.
Link: 4:20 - - A
Celebration of Personal Freedom - The 2002 NORML
Conference, entitled "4/20 - A Celebration
of Personal Freedom," will be held in San
Francisco, CA at the Crowne Plaza Union Square
Hotel on April 18-20, 2002. Featured speakers for
the conference include San Francisco District
Attorney Terence Hallinan; California State
Senator John Vasconcellos; legendary criminal
defense attorney Tony Serra; NORML Foundation
Chair John P. Morgan, M.D.; Cato Institute
Executive Vice-President David Boaz; and
Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation Director
Ethan Nadelmann.
Susan
Greenfield: Sensational
minds - "I do think that we can
use this model in the future to design
experiments and help us understand depression and
emotions, why people take drugs, and perhaps most
mystifyingly, why people go bungee-jumping".
Hemp
Madness
- You'd have to eat 450 bags
of hemp chips within about an hour for THC, the
active ingredient in pot, to even begin
registering in your blood. But try telling
that to the Americans.
Woody Harrelson on 911
implications, commentary - Our government always
uses the key, emotionally charged words,
"freedom", "democracy" and
'peace" as reasons for engaging our
considerable military might. But beneath the
superficial agenda we have the real agenda,
"money" and every direction our foreign
policy takes us we have serious corporate
interests. If saving lives or protecting innocent
people were really our government's concern, why
would we not have moved more quickly to stop the
Serbs in Bosnia or to stop the genocide in
Rwanda?
Pot doesn't
cause lung cancer - Pot doesn't
cause lung cancer, researcher says Also doesn't
seem to cause emphysema or birth defects, Senate
hearing told.
Norway: Commission set to
call for decriminalization - The
commission has been working on revision of
Norwegian laws for more than seven years.
Commission members include the head of Norway's
white-collar crime unit, a Supreme Court justice,
a state attorney, a professor at the University
of Oslo and a well-known defense attorney.
UK: Union's anti-stress
policy goes to pot - Cannabis is
being promoted as a calorie-free alternative to a
glass of wine or a bar of chocolate by women in
Britain's biggest trade union.
Scotland: Police chief calls for
debate on cannabis - Mr Tomkins made his
comments a few weeks after plans to open an
Amsterdam-style cafe in Edinburgh were announced
by Kevin Williamson, a well-known publisher in
the city.
In
Idaho, you can drive high as long as you can
drive straight.
Edinburgh
bids to be Amsterdam-North - If you want to take the
"high" road to Scotland, head for
Edinburgh, where there is growing pressure for
the city to approve cannabis cafes in an
attempt to create an "Amsterdam of the
north".
Not really
Prince Potless but for sure In Orbit: He's Royal
Highness: Prince
Harry "Potter"
The Other War - At Home - With the current war on
terrorism, the politics surrounding drug
enforcement have become more complicated. Many
U.S. officials are arguing to step up the war on
both fronts. "Drugs and terrorism go hand in
hand," a former Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) official said recently.
"Anyone who uses drugs is absolutely funding
terrorists, enabling them to carry out horrific
crimes against innocent and defenseless human
beings." The National Family Partnership
held its annual antidrug event in October with
the theme "Saying NO to drugs is saying NO
to terrorism."
The
murderings at Rainbow Farm
| - Grover
Crosslin and Rolland Rohm were
murdered. They were murdered by
cops just following orders, by
lawmakers who put evil statutes
on the books, and by a mealy
mouthed prosecutor named Scott
Teeter who tried to excuse the
bloody mess. |
| Are
Crosslin and Rohm just the latest
victims of drug warriors who
drive normally peaceful people to
fight back?
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[Rainbow
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2001: A YEAR IN THE
LIFE OF MARIJUANA PROHIBITION
In Oklahoma,
Will Foster, 42, a medical marijuana patient who
in 1995 was sentenced to 93 years in prison for
growing 39 marijuana plants in his basement, is
released on parole. Foster used the marijuana to
relieve chronic pain caused by acute rheumatoid
arthritis. "My medical use of marijuana
never interfered with my work, I ran a successful
business," said Foster. "I was minding
my own business taking care of my health and my
family. What was I doing to anybody that got me
93 years?"
Teter Clears Officials Of
Blame In Rainbow Farm Standoff - The late Grover
"Tom" Crosslin and Rolland Rohm have no
one to blame but themselves, Cass County
Prosecutor Scott Teter said.
'Granny' ( 72)
Busted For Pot Sales
War on drugs
disseapears in a cloud - They may not have much of
a memory for dates, but Britain's
"dopeheads" will surely be able to
recall 2001 as the year when they could skin up
without the danger of being nicked.
Your endogenous
cannabinoids want to party - "We start by
studying a psychoactive plant-derived drug and
discover a whole regulatory system in the brain
that we didn't know existed."
THIS JUST IN: (Thanx to
"Roy", Jamaica) Eldemire quits Munro
Trust
- Says decision on ganja-smoking schoolboys is a
slap in he's face. - Will anybody miss him badly
? "Roy" at Munro-High says nnnah... ---
"I have personal confidence in the board and
I personally agree with the action they took with
the boys," Eldemire told the Sunday
Observer. "For the education minister
(Burchell Whiteman) to have overturned their
decision is a slap in the face for the
board." --- [ View
all responses ]
Jamaica:
Ganja-smokers
returns to Munro High-Scool - THE education minister,
Burchell Whiteman, yesterday confirmed that he
overturned the expulsion of five boys from Munro
College for smoking ganja, saying that the
school's board had exceeded its powers by
punishing the students twice for the same
offence.
Legal pot
available in Canada from January 1:st 2002 - The government will be
contacting the more than 680 Canadians authorized
to possess marijuana for medical purposes to
determine whether they are interested in
purchasing the weed.
The American War
on Youths: Ban Flavored Pot Paper ! - "I don't know
anyone who's ever bought one of these who only
had tobacco in there. . . . When people want to
smoke a cigar, they buy a cigar," said
Carothers.
Gift-wrapped
marijuana - Todd Anthony Molyneaux,
30, and Vivian Irene Latham, 63, were charged
Friday with felony criminal possession of
dangerous drugs with intent to distribute. Both
are being held on bail - Molyneaux's set at
$50,000; Latham's at $25,000.
Drug-sniffing
dogs find nothing - Any student found to have
violated the district's drug regulations faces an
automatic expulsion hearing before the board.
Pot plays
starring role on TV - Sniff. Sniff.
Smell that? It's the pungent odor of marijuana
wafting in the air as the music, television, and
film industries inhale a lungful of pot culture.
Manilla:
Cops duped into
taking dope test - Once all the
agents were in the hall, the doors were shut and
Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory under
Director Marlowe Pedrogosa made preparations for
the test.
Going to high
school is a gateway to drug abuse
British Euro-MP
Arrested In Cannabis Protest - "I am glad to have
added myself to the dozens of people who have
already been arrested in protests aimed to
demonstrate their support for Colin Davies,"
the MEP said in a statement.
Member of
European Parliament To Protest Closure of UK
Cannabis Café - Euro MP and former Dutch
Experience patron Christopher Davies
(Liberal-Democrat Party) plans to walk into a
Stockport police station Saturday and demand cops
arrest him for possessing cannabis, the
Manchester Evening News reported.
Petition drive
under way to put hemp issue on 2002 ballot - At first glance,
chances are that nobody would expect longtime
Mitchell resident Gladys Baldwin to be a hemp
supporter. But Baldwin - a retired realtor,
the daughter of a farmer, an active community
member and a senior citizen - is among those who
say it may be a good idea to legalize the growth
and production of industrial hemp in South
Dakota.
Student at
Poly-High shot himself after marijuana-arrest - A 17-year old Poly High
School senior who played bass in the school
orchestra tookhis life after being booked on
marijuana possession charges, police said
Thursday.
EU Countries
soften cannabis policy - Official policies may
differ among EU member states, but in practice
these countries often act in the same way.
West
Hollywood takes symbolic stand on pot
"One
DEA employee who was innocently enjoying her hemp
bar, while learning about the myriad
food uses of the hemp plant, was chastised
by a fellow
employee screaming from her car: Don't eat
that food!"
Congressmen Urge Legalization: "We do
not believe that there is widespread support in
the Congress for the use of federal law
enforcement officials to override state law in
this regard," Reps. say
Norway,
Superhuman 1: Trippin' on Apes Water: Jesus
attacks police - "I entered a
fantasy world where I was Jesus and the police
officer was Judas," was the man's
explanation.
SuperHuman II:Addicted to lizards,
feels superhuman - Gaunt and unfocussed
like a typical drug addict, yet doctors are
loathe to treat Amresh Singh as just another
case. His bio-data is a series of usual lows and
more.. juvenile delinquent, school dropout,
drunkard, small-time criminal , multiple drug
addict and finally a deathly addiction to
poisons. He is addicted to lizards, the variety
that is found lolling about on house walls.
Micro-criminalized - What the heck
is micro-criminalized? It means that pot is not
legal. But it also means pot is not very illegal,
unlike the Class A drugs
that include Ecstasy,
LSD, heroin and cocaine.
Hundreds Flock
to First-Ever British Cannabis Café
Switzerland
takes the next step - The upper house of the
Swiss parliament) voted 6:4 in favour of
legalising use, possession and personal
cultivation of cannabis for adults.
U.K. - Cannabis to be
sold from pubs
It Is Time To
End Marijuana Prohibition - "Prohibition
inappropriately invites
government into areas of
citizens' private lives, and
needlessly damages the lives and
careers of hundreds of
thousands of otherwise
law-abiding citizens each year". - By Keith Stroup
And Paul Armentano
Cognitive
Performance Unaffected After Marijuana Smoking - The study's findings
follow those of a Harvard study published last
month in the Archives of General Psychiatry
determining that long-term marijuana smokers who
abstain from the drug for one week or more
perform identically on cognition tests as
nonusers. A previous study on marijuana and
cognition by researchers at John Hopkins
University in Baltimore found "no
significant differences in cognitive decline
between heavy users, light users, and nonusers of
cannabis" over a 15-year period in a cohort
of 1,318 subjects.
Cannabis a Medical
Miracle
- Taking
the drug - which it is still illegal for doctors
to prescribe - has allowed a man previously so
crippled with pain that he was impotent to become
a father; a woman paralysed by multiple sclerosis
to ride a horse for the first time in years; and
a man who couldn't sit up in a chair on his own
to live without a carer.
GW-PHARMA Defends
Cannabis Territory
Blunkett wants
marijuana downgraded - - -"Fri
hasj" i England?
NORML - USA: Over 4.75 million
Americans arrested for marijuana offenses under
President Clinton
Amsterdam:
Marijuana
prescription law okayed - Cannabis on
prescription
The Six Cannabis
Deaths in Norway
Bedridden MS Patient
forced to hand over medical marijuana
Supersnitch
Scandal: Mistakes Were Made, Says DEA Chief Asa
Hutchinson
If I had to
choose, I would prefer to live next door to a
convicted drug user rather than a killer. (Drug Laws Too
Harsh)
Cannabis Café
set to open in London
The
police-terror at T Vandalia
Cannabis reduces
cronic pain - "Several patients
had a dramatic effect. They reported that their
pain went from a 10 level to zero".
Cannabis
March & Rally - LONDON SATURDAY 29:th SEPT
2001
Norway:
'Former' pot-head marries
Crown Prince - Crown
Prince Haakon's bride-to-be, Mette-Marit,
received assurances from a former boyfriend
Friday that he would not embarrass her or publish
damaging photgraphs.
Record Percentage of
Americans now Backs Marijuana Legalization
1:st
UK Cofee-shop: Activists brings pot to
Manchester - "We're
going to have a grand opening ceremony attended
by Wernard Bruining, who created the first Dutch
coffee shop, Mellow Yellow".
U.S. Says spraying in
Colombia is safe - The Bush
administration plans to push forward aggressively
with the program.
Hooked on SWAT
Sheriff Protected Pot
Fields in Florida
They have been looked at
from every angle, and researchers conclude that
their marijuana use hasn't hurt them a bit.
- Now, that
marijuana is legal for pain relief...
Woody Harrelson
Surprise Speaker at Seattle Hempfest
The Brittons are
getting closer to thecriminalize marijuana
Confessions of a
middle aged xtc-eater
"Let People
Buy Cannabis At Off-Licences", Says Lilley
Bake a'
Cake I!: UK: July 8: Police end
cannabis seizures
- Soft drug turns to
hard sell
- Where
heroin outsells hash -
July 7: Dealers in Brixton have little time for a
drug that doesn't draw addicts.
Bake a
Cake! II: Medical Pot is
now Legal in Canada - Canadian Government First
to Regulate Marijuana for the Sick
Bake a
Cake! III: Marijuana is now
Decriminalized in Portugal
European
Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction
UK:
Mowlam_Says_Legalisation_of_Cannabis_Could_Help
UK Flooded by
Cut-Price Cannabis
Hashish Grows Again
in the Fields of Lebanon
Hey! We're Your
Good Neighbors. And We Smoke Pot!
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