If marijuana is legalized, one proponent of the drug says San Joaquin County could soon see a new type of tourist who doesn’t swirl, sniff and sip from a wine glass, but instead rolls, lights and tokes a joint.
The debate on legalizing marijuana has taken on new life ...
Archive for May, 2009
Written by greenmachine on May 31st, 2009
Written by greenmachine on May 31st, 2009
There is silence now where once loud huzzahs erupted from medical marijuana advocates in California after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signaled this spring that federal authorities will no longer raid or interfere with medipot dispensaries in states where it is legal, so long as users ...
Written by greenmachine on May 31st, 2009
Supreme Court Overturns an Appeal Court Ruling That a North Vancouver Home Be Forfeited Because It Was Used As a Marijuana-Growing Operation
The Supreme Court of Canada spared a North Vancouver woman Friday from losing her home in a ruling that found the B.C. Court of Appeal was wrong to order ...
Written by greenmachine on May 31st, 2009
Illinois — As the legalization of medical marijuana in Illinois comes closer to reality, law enforcement agencies continue to maintain their opposition.
Senate Bill 1381, which passed the Illinois Senate on Wednesday by a vote of 30-28, also passed the House Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday and is ...
Written by greenmachine on May 30th, 2009
A North Vancouver woman who was booted from her home for running a lucrative grow-op is to learn her fate this morning in a ruling from the highest court in Canada.
Judy Ann Craig, a 58-year-old former realtor, appealed in November 2008 to the Supreme Court of Canada to halt the ...
Written by greenmachine on May 30th, 2009
Marijuana and cocaine for personal use should be decriminalised because the “war on drugs” has been a disaster, according to some of Latin America’s most powerful politicians and writers.
The current international policy on drugs encourages corruption and violence that is threatening democracy throughout the continent, according ...
Written by greenmachine on May 30th, 2009
Washington, D.C. — A newly released report about marijuana potency undermines previous claims by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that the drug’s potency has hit record highs.
In May, the media ran wild with stories of highly potent pot sweeping the nation, as the ONDCP announced that their ...
Written by greenmachine on May 30th, 2009
The “War on Drugs” originated in the Nixon administration and continues today with billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of prisoners caught annually. Yet to be won, the “war” refers to the government’s prohibition of illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines. 2009 ...
Written by greenmachine on May 30th, 2009
With Support From The Unlikeliest Circles, This Could Be Marijuana’s Moment
The Obama administration, already overtaxed with two foreign campaigns, made headlines this past week when it waved a white flag in a fight much closer to home. Gil Kerlikowske, the White House’s newly minted director of the ...
Written by greenmachine on May 29th, 2009
Tax Revenues, Site Security Set Stage For Second Dispensary
Robert Jacob has quietly seen a second medicinal cannabis clinic approved in Sebastopol, but that’s just the way he wants it.
We’re trying to expand a positive dispensary model, and in one and one half years, we’ve had no complaints,” he ...
