Ease the pain, Mary Jane
Sep 3, 2010 Online Issue
Stick to the pipe, medical marijuana users: that’s the message from Canadian researchers who found that smoking even relatively low doses of cannabis can help reduce chronic pain, ease sleep and reduce anxiety.
The findings were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Sosurce : Los Angeles Times
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Sheriff Baca says state’s medical marijuana program has been hijacked by criminals, citing triple slaying
Sep 3, 2010 Online Issue
Sheriff Lee Baca said Wednesday that the recent triple murder in West Hollywood during an illegal sale of medical marijuana is another example of how the industry has been taken over in part by enterprising criminals.
“The medicinal marijuana program that voters authorized years ago has been hijacked by underground drug dealing criminals who are resorting to violence in order to control their piece of the action,” Baca said.
He said the criminal element has flooded the business because of the outrageous profits to be made. “There are predators armed and seeking easy dollars in sales of marijuana,” Baca said.
Baca said his detectives have found marijuana collectives buying from cartel sources and selling to people in large amounts. In the triple slaying case, two of the dead men did business with at least four dispensaries.
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Marijuana-legalization supporters launching new campaign
Aug 24, 2010 Online Issue
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.
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Surprise police find 30 marijuana plants growing inside home
Aug 24, 2010 Online Issue
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
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City firefighter grew over 100 marijuana plants, endangered kids living over drug den: prosecutor
Aug 24, 2010 Online Issue
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.
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Men Try To Hide Marijuana Stash While On Phone With 911
Aug 9, 2010 Online Issue
The title really says it all. Two men were driving in a car in Georgia when they were hit from behind. Something that happens everyday, a minor fender-bender. What makes the story special is that while on the phone with a 911 operator to report the accident, the men are
also discussing where to hide their wide so the cops don’t find it.
“Gotta find the weed bro,” the second person in the car is heard saying on the 911 call.
“DeKalb Emergency 911,” the dispatcher responded. “What is the address of your emergency?”
“Call the police, call the police,” the second person in the car said.
“I just got into a wreck, sir,” the caller said to the dispatcher. “They just hit us from the back, ma’am, very hard and they are still here.”
Besides calling 911 and yelling the word “weed,” another clue that these guys are stoned it that the caller addresses the dispatcher as “sir” and “ma’am,” within seconds of each other.
Later they are heard discussing getting “the stuff out.” When the police arrived, they found the men standing in front of some bushes; bushes where bags of marijuana and some scales were found. All in all, probably one of the worst episodes in cannabis history. One thing is for sure though: it will make a great scene in a movie.
Source : Joe Klare, The 420 Times
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Bret Michaels Cited for Marijuana on Tour Bus
Jul 26, 2010 Online Issue
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Bret Michaels ran into trouble with the law Wednesday night in DeKalb County, Ind., when police found marijuana and other drugs on the rocker’s two tour buses.According to the Fort-Wayne News-Sentinel, the Poison frontman and his crew
were pulled over for a “lighting violation” by a DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy on Interstate 69. Police dogs searched the tour buses and turned up marijuana as well as an unidentified controlled substance. Citations were handed out before the buses were allowed to proceed to their destination.
Michaels’ representative said in a statement to Billboard.com, “Officers on the scene claimed there were no trailer tag lights. No arrests were made. Mr. Michaels allowed an open search of the buses and everything was handled in a professional manner.”
The 47-year-old musician won the reality contest “Celebrity Apprentice” earlier this year after facing a number of health challenges, including a brain hemorrhage.
Source : abc News
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