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Marijuana clinic owner is arrested
The owner of six Los Angeles-area medical-marijuana dispensaries was arrested by federal agents Tuesday after an investigation sparked by a traffic accident in which a motorist allegedly high on the dispensaries’ products plowed into a parked sport-utility vehicle, killing the driver and paralyzing a California Highway Patrol officer.After the Dec. 19, 2007, accident, investigators found “a large amount of marijuana and marijuana edibles” in the pickup driven by the suspect, Jeremy White, 20, according to federal authorities.
Investigators traced the marijuana to the Holistic Caregivers facility in Compton, one of six dispensaries owned and operated by Virgil Grant, 41.
Bill Would Legalize Marijuana for Medical Use in Ohio
COLUMBUS — Ohioans who use marijuana for medical reasons would not face arrest or prosecution, under legislation to be introduced by one state lawmaker this week.
Sen. Tom Roberts, a Democrat from Dayton, announced his intentions to offer the Ohio Medical Compassion Act, creating a regulated system for the medicinal use of cannabis.
A dozen other states already have adopted comparable protections for their citizens, Roberts told reporters during a press conference Wednesday.
“It is time for Ohio to join these states on the forefront of emerging medical breakthroughs and scientific advances,” he said.
The legislation would establish a card-holder system, through which eligible residents could register, then legally grow and use medicinal marijuana for specified medical issues, including treating pain, nausea and other symptoms of different diseases.
Don’t call it reefer madness
Because libertarians never achieve political power, they have the luxury of advancing passionately held, logically consistent theories that will never be tested in real life.
Conservatives, who do accede to political power from time to time, must temper theories — especially those that make physical appetites their touchstone — with a view to their consequences for society. From hard experience, conservatives understand there is many a slip between the cup of theoretical individual liberties and the lip of desirable social outcomes.
Like most liberals and many other conservatives, I don’t believe possession or use of marijuana should be criminalized. But unlike most liberals and all libertarians, I don’t think it should be legalized.
Cannabis Entrepreneur’s Money Returned
Just another example of how Switzerland respects liberty much more than ‘the land of the free.’ I particularly like how not only did the government have to return the man’s funds (they stole) because no crime was committed in Switzerland, but the Supreme Court also ordered the government to compensate the man! I love it. No wonder so many Swiss like Ron Paul!”
£100,000 of cannabis seized
POLICE say they found cannabis plants with a street value of around £100,000 when they raided an address at Jackson’s Corner in Wistaston on Friday.
As part of a continuing operation which saw a raid on a suspected “cannabis farm” at Wettenhall last week, officers swooped on the property but found no-one there.
Sergeant Christian Watkins said: “This is part of an operation led by Nantwich Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU) and we got some information about a particular address and a large amount of cannabis was found.”
Senator Barack Obama on Medical Marijuana–Aug. 21, 2007
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Agents Seize $3 Million Worth Of Marijuana
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monday announced the seizure of more than a half-ton of marijuana during two separate smuggling attempts. On Thursday morning, agents said they discovered nearly 100 pounds of marijuana packed inside a Honda Accord being driven across the U.S.-Mexico border by a Mexican national. Agents said several of the pot bundles were concealed inside the Accord’s door panels.
Earlier that same morning, agents stopped a Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle heading westbound on Interstate 8 near Pine Valley. Inside the SUV agents found 96 bundles of marijuana weighing nearly 1,000 pounds.The street value for all of the drugs was estimated at $3 million, according to agents.
Bulls forward Joakim Noah arrested for possession of marijuana
Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah, son of former French Open champion Yannick Noah, has been charged with with possession of marijuana and having an open container of alcohol.Gainesville police spokesman Sgt. Rick Roberts says Noah was arrested around 1:50 a.m. Sunday after an officer spotted him on a sidewalk holding a plastic cup containing an amber drink, a violation of city law. During a search at the station, officers found marijuana in his pocket.
Noah, a graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville, was released after signing a notice to appear before a judge — standard procedure for such offenses. He could face up to 6 months in jail and a $500 (€318) fine for the marijuana charge.
Noah led the University of Florida to consecutive U.S. college championships before being picked ninth by the Bulls in in last year’s National Basketball Association draft.
New Mexico’s Medical Marijuana Law Is Working, But Still Has Some Kinks
After an exhausting seven-year struggle, New Mexico joined the ranks of the medical marijuana states last year. As of July 1, the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program will be a year old, but while parts of the program are well underway — patients are registering and obtaining ID cards — the state law’s innovative system of state-licensed production and distribution of medical marijuana is stalled in the regulatory process, with no end in sight anytime soon.
Under the New Mexico law, the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, patients suffering from a narrowly circumscribed set of illnesses — cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, spinal cord damage with intractable plasticity, and HIV/AIDS — can, with a doctor’s recommendation and upon registration with the program, legally possess and use up to six ounces of marijuana, four mature plants, and three seedlings. The law also calls for a medical advisory board to determine whether other conditions should be added to the list.
