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Marc Emery Prosecutor Now Says Legalize Marijuana
In a Seattle Times op-ed Saturday, former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington John McKay defected to the other side. As the federal prosecutor in Seattle, McKay oversaw the indictment and prosecution of Canadian marijuana seed seller and pot advocate Marc Emery, who now sits in an American federal detention facility awaiting the [...]

Marijuana?s Potency & Why The Law Should Change
I don’t smoke pot. And I pretty much think people who do are idiots. This certainly includes Marc Emery, the self-styled “Prince of Pot” from Canada whom I indicted in 2005 for peddling marijuana seeds to every man, woman and child with an envelope and a stamp. Emery recently pleaded [...]

Police Visit to Home of Medical Marijuana Patient
Jim Lewis, a 76-year-old grandfather and former missionary worker, got a surprise visit from the police last month. It was around dinnertime, when he heard a knock on the door of his Flint Township home.  He answered the door and found police officers from the Flint Area Narcotics Group. Someone had given a tip [...]

Norml Promotes Legalization Of Marijuana To Apprehensive
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, was presented to SGA by the local chapter’s founders and it became official an official student organization on April 13th of this year. Chris Cahill, a senior from Memphis, Tenn., and president of the UTC chapter of NORML, said he felt inspired to start a local [...]

The Cannabis Conundrum
Butte County Stalls in the March Toward Regulation, Choosing Prohibition Instead The day started off like any other.  Rick Tognoli was tending to his indoor garden.  Robert Galia was at home with his fiancee.  And Hilary Tellesen was doing laundry.  Then unexpected visits turned their lives upside down. Tognoli saw the Butte County Sheriff’s Office vehicle heading [...]

LA Sheriff Says Almost All Pot Clinics Criminal
California — The Los Angeles County sheriff has escalated his war of words against California medical marijuana dispensaries, saying as many as 97 percent operate as criminal enterprises. Some of the pot shops get marijuana from Mexican drug cartels, and most dole out pot to people with no medical need for [...]

Pot Smokers Differ On Prop 19 Merits
There is something very weird about asking directions to the marijuana expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. You feel like a young rebel.  You wonder if the security guards think you’re high.  And you fear someone’s going to get busted. Paranoid? Hardly.  Marijuana’s illegal and the smell of pot is in the air.  I’m [...]

Marijuana May Not Be The Gateway Drug Some Think
Marijuana is thought by some to be a gateway drug among young people who eventually go on to try stronger substances. But that may be the exception rather than the rule, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at data from a random group of 1,286 children, [...]

Cannabis Catch-22
Colorado — New legislation regulating Colorado’s budding medical marijuana industry is leaving local dispensary owners and county officials in a grey area, as dispensaries try to meet a new requirement that they cultivate at least 70 percent of their cannabis on site or at an optional premises cultivation operation. A number [...]

Follow The Doctor?s Orders
With the passing of Initiative 59 this spring, medical marijuana became legal in the District. Finally, the D.C. Council realized the lunacy of keeping the substance illegal for medical purposes. But GW administrators clearly still fear the reefer, because they have banned the use or possession of medical marijuana on campus. While [...]

Pot Busts ? Reading Between The Lines
I’ll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today. Guys like Al Capone would see to that.  Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, during a period when our government brain trust [...]

Colo. Pot Sellers Face New Growing Requirement
Central City, Colo. — Don Boring owns a grocery store, a liquor store and now, a medical marijuana dispensary. The main difference among them is that he has to produce his own pot inventory. Colorado set a Sept. 1 deadline for dispensaries to show they grow at least 70 percent [...]

Proposed Pot Farm Angers Colo. Residents
The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry. But Scott Mullner, a city councilman from Laramie, Wyo., infuriated his Colorado neighbors with his plan to place [...]

New Mexico Proposes Fees To Fund Cannabis Program
Albuquerque, N.M. — New Mexico is proposing an increase in fees on medical marijuana producers to help fund administration of the state’s program. The New Mexico Department of Health, which operates the program, wants to increase the application fee on would-be producers from the current $100 to $1,000 [...]

It?s Not A Cannabis Car But?
Calgary company with help from local firms develops electric vehicle with body parts made from hemp Don’t call it the cannabis car, but a Calgary transportation company and its partners including some Toronto firms have developed an electric vehicle with hemp body parts. Calgary-based Motive Industries says it will unveil the design of the [...]