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Herger Urges Feds to Devise a Strategy
Saying federal agencies aren’t doing enough to stop Mexican drug cartels from growing marijuana illegally on public lands, U.S. Rep. Wally Herger has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a long-term solution to permanently dismantle the traffickers’ operations.
“It’s important that Congress becomes aware how serious [...]
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Christie: Rutgers Leadership on Pot ‘Disjointed’
Trenton — Gov. Chris Christie said today he was surprised that Rutgers University turned down an opportunity to be the lone grower of the state’s medical marijuana crop because it was the school’s idea.
“They absolutely came to us. I wouldn’t have even thought about it,” Christie said, adding that [...]
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Colo. Pot Shops Face Closure Under Tough New Rules
Colorado — Nearly a fifth of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say.
The Drug Enforcement Administration reviewed requirements under a new state law to see how [...]
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Will California Legalize Pot?
California — Today, at least a third of Americans say they’ve tried smoking weed. Is it possible that after half a century of increasingly mainstreamed pot use the public is ready for marijuana to be legal? We may soon find out.
California has long been on the [...]
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City Sets Hearing On Med Marijuana
Public Session Set For Next Tuesday
Fort Morgan residents will have a chance to express their views on the issue of medicinal marijuana operations in the city at a public hearing before the Fort Morgan City Council next week.
After a relatively brief discussion at a special meeting Tuesday, the council voted to hold the public hearing [...]
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Pontiac Cops Leery of Silverdome Pot Convention
Event promoters are high on the recently reopened Pontiac Silverdome again — maybe a little too much so, the city’s top cop says.
A three-day “pot party” planned at the Silverdome over Halloween has caught the police chief and others by surprise.
A postcard-sized announcement for “The First International Cannabis Convention” — featuring a [...]
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Black Church Group Criticizes California NAACP On Marijuana Support
Some Black church leaders are calling for the head of the California NAACP to step down over her group’s support for the legalization of marijuana in her state as well as over alleged ties to the marijuana lobby.
Rev. Anthony Evans, president of National Black Church Initiative, and Bishop Ron Allen, president and chief executive [...]
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Federal-State Law Inconsistency Shouldn’t Stop CA
California — The law is the law. If we unquestioningly accepted that maxim, imagine where we would be today. Jim Crow would be alive and well, rivers and skies would be polluted, and women wouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Yet such is the mindset of many of those who criticize Proposition 19, [...]
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S.C. City Council Asked To Lift Ban for WAMMFest
Santa Cruz — After the last several WAMMFests encountered challenges, organizers of Santa Cruz’s annual medical marijuana awareness event appear to be in for an easier time getting the city’s nod of approval.
Today, the City Council will consider lifting a smoking ban at San Lorenzo Park for five hours Sept. [...]
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End the Prohibition of Marijuana
After a deadly shootout by sheriff’s deputies in a marijuana raid last week, Howard Miller, co-owner of the Junction Bar and Grill, talked about the many pot farms in the rugged hills of northeast Santa Clara County.
“The marijuana doesn’t bother me,” said the 69-year-old Miller, whose bar advertises itself as being [...]
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I have spider mites in my indoor garden, what can I do?
Spider mites are little red arachnids which exist throughout the United States. They are very small – smaller than a poppy seed – andare many times confused with clover mites or chiggers. Plants that have spider mite damage will have the mites themselves, web like material on the bottom sides of plant leaves, bronzing [...]
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Medical Marijuana Now Legal
Washington, D.C. — Medical marijuana is now legal in the District after the Democrat-controlled Congress declined to overrule a D.C Council bill that allows the city to set up as many as eight dispensaries where chronically ill patients can purchase the drug.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said in a statement the [...]
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Examine idea of marijuana legalization
Forget the collapse of the housing market in the United States — and recent statistics show it remains in the tank — which means B.C.’s moribund forest industry will remain on life support, voters in California this fall could spell the death knell for a thriving B.C. industry.
It looks as though some Californians have taken [...]
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Dopey Logic on Medical Marijuana
Maine — It’s easy to grasp the economics of the situation. It’s the logic behind it that sets the mind spinning. The stories about the cost of medicinal marijuana, which soon can be sold to people with prescriptions at eight dispensaries across the state, contain more turns than a lighthouse staircase.
It’s [...]
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Another Dance Around Marijuana
Let the charades begin: Another “medical marijuana” measure is coming to the fall ballot.
Of course, the advocates insist that the sprawling legalized network of marijuana dispensaries envisioned by Initiative 28 is all about providing compassionate and convenient “medicine” to Oregonians who suffer from such things as glaucoma, nausea from cancer treatment and the wasting associated [...]
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Legalize Pot, Former San Jose Police Chief Says
California voters have a chance on this November’s ballot to bring common sense to law enforcement by legalizing marijuana for adults. As San Jose’s retired chief of police and a cop with 35 years experience on the front lines in the war on marijuana, I’m voting yes.
I’ve seen the [...]
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Colorado Official Works to Regulate, Legitimize Medical Marijuana Industry
When Matt Cook was coaxed out of early retirement to become Colorado’s chief revenue enforcer three years ago, he assumed his time would be spent overseeing the casinos, liquor stores and car dealerships he had been keeping an eye on for much of his career.
If he had hoped for a quiet few [...]
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Don’t Let the Marijuana Myth Live On
Letter writer Paul Armentano ( “Pot vs. alcohol: What the experts say,” June 26 ) is still spreading his misguided and dangerous myth that marijuana is a safe drug, and he cites two stand-up comedians to prove his point, both experts: President Nixon and Art Linkletter.
Sir, when I challenged you in person, [...]
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Medical Marijuana Users Urge Calm Amid Fiery Debate
Steve VanDerschelden lives in public housing. He’s a Republican and a fan of Fox News.
Linda Decker is a legal assistant at a Great Falls law firm. She lives south of the city along the Missouri River.
VanDerschelden and Decker have something in common — they both use medical marijuana.
Businesses that sell marijuana are prohibited from operating [...]
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Federal Exemptee Fights Weed-Smoke Eviction
An Esquimalt woman says a local social housing organization is trying to evict her from her home of two-and-a-half years for using cannabis to treat her chronic conditions.
Christina Goluch, who suffers from debilitating arthritis and lupus and has Health Canada permission to possess and use medical cannabis, says she is the target of a campaign [...]
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