When the San Jose City Council takes up a thorny proposal Tuesday to regulate the city’s burgeoning crop of cannabis clubs, the mind-altering effect that drug has on politics will likely be evident even to the most sober local legislators. And with a statewide ...
Archive for March, 2010
Written by greenmachine on March 31st, 2010
Written by greenmachine on March 31st, 2010
The Radio Spot Features an Ex-L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Who Says That the Fight Against the Drug Has Led to Cartels
The campaign to legalize marijuana in California kicked off this week, just days after the initiative made the ballot, with a radio ad saying many law enforcement ...
Written by greenmachine on March 31st, 2010
Albuquerque, N.M. — When Paul Culkin came home to New Mexico after serving with an Army bomb squad in Iraq, he tried counseling and medications offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cope with his post traumatic stress disorder. Nothing worked very well. Then ...
Written by greenmachine on March 31st, 2010
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This is part of an ongoing series featuring women who are leading the movement for the elimination of marijuana prohibition and the reform of laws governing its use in the United States. They are making history in ...
Written by greenmachine on March 31st, 2010
What do you know about delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol?
If you are the parent of a child who is 12 years old or older you might want to get familiar with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; TCH for short. TCH is the main active chemical in marijuana. As a parent reading this you are probably ...
Written by greenmachine on March 30th, 2010
A Stephen Harper fan and supporter, I applaud his foray into new media on YouTube last week answering a selection chosen by Google/YouTube producers from 1.800-odd questions pre-submitted by the online video service’s users.
However, I disagree with the prime minister’s take on the dominant topic addressed ...
Written by greenmachine on March 30th, 2010
On a wall inside Frank Quattrone’s office hangs a framed white sheet of paper.
It’s nothing fancy, just a few printed words and numbers, with a faint official seal in the background.
What it represents, though, is more remarkable. Quattrone’s business, Pure Medical Dispensary, is one of the first stores ...
Written by greenmachine on March 30th, 2010
California — Its name might be its strongest asset: The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act, a marijuana legalization effort that goes out of its way not to say the word “marijuana.”
I suspect its organizers learned something from the failure of predecessors — like ...
Written by greenmachine on March 30th, 2010
Hannah isn’t just the girl next door. She’s a teacher who cultivates cannabis on the side. Meet the middle-class growers with a taste for easy money and uneasy morals
Meet Alex. He is 26, handsome, privately educated, and, for most of his week, a freelance director of documentaries. ...
Written by greenmachine on March 30th, 2010
Washington State — Eligh used to take more prescription pain medication than you can imagine. Like hundreds per month – Percocet, Oxycodone, Morphine – you name it. Eligh looks old and young at the same time. He walks gingerly and staggers a bit into the room. ...
