Trenton — As New Jersey continues its movement toward enactment of the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, the no-federal-prosecution policy shift announced by the Obama administration should be given close scrutiny. This scrutiny is required because of the unraveling of the medical-marijuana situation in Los Angeles and other cities in ...
Archive for October, 2009
Written by greenmachine on October 31st, 2009
Written by greenmachine on October 31st, 2009
California — Just in from Stockton, Mary parks her car and enters the downtown Oakland coffeehouse — but she hasn’t come all this way for a cup of joe.
Instead, she peruses a menu of dozens of strains and preparations of marijuana, all grown in California, all taxed, all legal. Producing ...
Written by greenmachine on October 31st, 2009
Colorado - If there was any doubt that Colorado’s medical marijuana law needs greater clarity and definition, a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling issued this week blew that equivocation away.
The court said a medical marijuana “caregiver” must be more than a grower, and also points out that under the current ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
Maybe, But Not Yet, Say Owners Of Medical Marijuana Businesses
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - No one seems to know how many medical marijuana dispensaries have opened in Colorado in recent years, although a frequently expressed estimate is that “a lot” of the centers are operating.
And along with that rather ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
LAKE FOREST - Michael Hawkins, a jolly looking man in loafers and a button down shirt, walks into King’s Smoke Shop and asks for the cheapest pipe they’ve got.
Hawkins just came from one of five medical marijuana dispensaries that surround King’s on the second-floor of a strip ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
Hey we need your help to JAM the Prime Minister’s phone lines!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Justice Minister Rob Nicholson want to throw people in jail for growing even 1 marijuana plant.
They also think Marc Emery should be sent to the United States for 5 years.
We think they’re ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
THE FOUNDER of Burton Addiction Centre ( BAC ) has hit out at the “mixed signals” from a professor on a drugs advisory group who claimed cannabis did not cause major health issues.
Professor David Nutt, of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ( ACMD ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
Crop Protection; Booby Traps, Armed Guards Getting Common
Marijuana growers in Ontario are resorting to an increasing array of brutal tactics to protect their outdoor crops, including bear traps, spike boards and armed guards, warn provincial police.
The alarming security measures were a common discovery during the OPP’s annual marijuana eradication program ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
By all appearances, the people lined up at the handsome oak counter with frosted-glass dividers could be in a quiet suburban post office.
Clerks with scales are answering customers’ questions; credit cards are being swiped.
But look closer at the merchandise and the brand names emblazoned on the glass ...
Written by greenmachine on October 30th, 2009
Rhode Island — On Oct. 19, the Justice Department circulated a memorandum to federal prosecutors in Rhode Island and the other 13 medical marijuana states instructing them not to prosecute individuals using medical marijuana or those involved in dispensary operations that are “in clear and unambiguous compliance” with state laws. ...
