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VaporStore visits the Know Your Rights Expo
Aug 27, 2010EventsLeave a comment
Know Your Rights Expo 2010 is the first event of its kind. Enjoy insights from many of the leading figures pushing marijuana legalization to the forefront that will be attending the show. Everyone is looking forward to hearing from all the key speakers on upcoming changes with marijuana laws. These speakers include qualified professionals such as doctors, lawyers and all around experts in the field of medical cannabis. Live entertainment will also be featured to keep the party going! A variety of vendor’s booths will be setup to allow all attendees the option to shop for both cool, new products and services needed tending to their specific marijuana needs.
Mexico’s poorest addicts turn to cheap inhalants
Aug 24, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
MEXICO CITY — Leonardo Aguilar lives under a bridge in Mexico City. To make money for food, he scatters shards of broken glass in subway cars and lies on them in exchange for a few pesos from shocked commuters.When Aguilar, 20, needs to forget the pain, the 
hunger and the blood running down his arms, he sucks on the fumes from a mona, a scrap of cloth soaked with industrial solvents.
“This will last me 10 or 15 minutes,” he says, wetting the rag from a soda bottle filled with clear liquid and holding it to his mouth. “I like marijuana better … but it’s more expensive.”
Despite the tons of narcotics moving through Mexico, inhalants remain the drug of choice for many Mexicans, offering a stark lesson in the economics of addiction even as the country wages a bloody battle against drug cartels.
Marijuana and crack cocaine are simply too expensive for many poor people here, even after recent efforts by drug cartels to cultivate a market in border cities. Powdered cocaine and heroin are seen as drugs for rich Americans.
Marijuana-legalization supporters launching new campaign
Aug 24, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
Sensible Washington, the group that sponsored a marijuana-legalization bill that didn’t make it to the ballot this election season, plans to launch its 2011 legalization campaign at Seattle Hempfest this weekend.
The group will be among the variety of musicians, artists, vendors and activists at the annual August festival and political rally at Myrtle Edwards Park.
Sensible Washington chairman and Seattle medical-marijuana attorney Douglas Hiatt said I-1068, the proposed bill, didn’t get enough signatures to qualify for this year’s election, but he hopes things will improve for the group next year.
The past year has been a tough one for marijuana-legalization proponents. In the last legislative session, the state House of Representatives killed a legalization bill. Then, a bill that would have reclassified marijuana as a civil infraction rather than a misdemeanor never made it to a vote.
Wild ‘dopey’ bears used to guard marijuana crop in Canada
Aug 24, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
A pair of marijuana growers used a team of wild animals including black bears, raccoons and pigs to guard their illegal drugs operation near the US-Canadian border, police said.
Detectives raiding the two large cannabis fields in Western Canada were surprised to discover at least 14 tame, and seemingly docile, black bears wandering around the crops.
During the raid earlier this month, police also found a “friendly pot belly pig and a little raccoon sleeping on the bed”, which tried to climb up an officer’s leg.
The drug crops, containing about 2,300 plants, were found near Christina Lake, a remote area east of Vancouver, just a few miles from the American border.
Surprise police find 30 marijuana plants growing inside home
Aug 24, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
Police responding to a domestic violence call in Surprise late Saturday discovered as many as 30 marijuana plants in various stages of cultivation growing in the home, police said.
About 10:40 p.m. Saturday, police were summoned to a home on the 15600 block of West Port Au Prince Lane by a woman reporting a domestic violence crime, police said.
When police arrived, the woman had already left. She telephoned to say she had fled the premises to get away from the suspect, police said. She reported the suspect had smashed her windshield.
As police combed the home, they found the marijuana plants. They questioned two people who were there at the time and then released them.
A man who lives in the home, who police said is about 33 years old, was taken in to custody for the suspicion and investigation for possession/cultivation of marijuana.
The Surprise Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit is investigating.
Source : azcentral.com
City firefighter grew over 100 marijuana plants, endangered kids living over drug den: prosecutor
Aug 24, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
A city firefighter was caught “red-handed” tending more than 100 marijuana plants – each worth $5,000 – in the basement of a Queens house, a prosecutor said Monday.
Patrick Murray was not only running an illegal drug operation, but he was also endangering three young kids living above the drug den, exposing them to harmful fumes from powerful chemical fertilizers and carbon dioxide gas, said Assistant Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Soumya Dayananda.
“While most firefighters enter a house to save lives, the defendant entered this house to take care of business,” Dayananda said in her opening statement to the jury.
Murray, a seven-year veteran of the FDNY, is also a reputed member of a notorious gang called “The Master Race” which is heavily involved in marijuana growing and trafficking, according to court papers.
Federal Judge John Gleeson has precluded any references to the firefighter’s alleged gang affiliation.
Medical marijuana crackdown in front of lawmakers
Aug 23, 2010Online IssueLeave a comment
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Lawmakers are meeting to make final recommendations on a slate of proposals aimed at cracking down on medical marijuana.
An interim legislative committee meeting Monday will be sending the draft laws to the full Legislature for consideration in early 2011.
Through the end of July, about 23,500 Montanans had medical marijuana cards. The big increase has prompted concern in many communities around the state.
The proposals would make it more difficult to get a medical marijuana card, clarify the list of eligible diseases, and in some cases require approval from at least two doctors.
The long list of new rules also includes a ban on driving under the influence of medical marijuana and puts the licensing of growers and sellers under the Department of Revenue.
