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By. Kat LeeVote Online for Legalization of Marijuana in Canada
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:38am
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decided to ask the Internet what issue is most pressing to Canadians.
We have a chance to push marijuana legalization to the top of that list (It's currently #2 and #3). You don't have to be Canadian to participate, so please, wherever you're from, help us legalize marijuana in Canada.
Please, click here to vote for marijuana legalization! Let's make marijuana the #1 and #2 questions to Stephen Harper!
This is our chance to force this issue front and centre before the Prime Minister, so please, vote today.
NDP, Liberal, Conservative politicians petition to stop Marc Emery's extradition to the US
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:32am
By Carlito Pablo, Georgia StraightMembers of Parliament from three parties—Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat—are poised to present petitions with thousands of signatures seeking to stop the extradition to the U.S. of Canada’s Prince of Pot, Marc Emery.
The politicians are Conservative MP Scott Reid of Ontario, Vancouver South Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, and Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies, the Georgia Straight has learned.
“That’s correct,” Reid’s aide Mike Firth confirmed by phone from Ottawa. “We haven’t arranged a day yet. We’re still trying to get a day when the three of them will be available at the same time.”
Last summer, Emery entered into a plea bargain with American authorities that will likely see him thrown in a U.S. jail for at least five years for distributing marijuana seeds.
The petitions ask Conservative justice minister and attorney general Rob Nicholson not to sign the extradition papers of the Vancouver-based cannabis activist.
California Medical Marijuana Patients Regularly Arrested for Hash
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:22am
By Skip Jone, NewsReview.com
American puffers have always had to deal with the fact that law-enforcement officials traditionally make a distinction between marijuana in plant form and concentrated derivatives such as hash and kief. Now that California has legalized marijuana for medicinal use, that distinction continues to send innocent patients to jail for possession of hash and other concentrates, despite the fact that they are clearly authorized by Proposition 215, according to former state Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
“Concentrated cannabis or hashish is included within the meaning of ‘marijuana’ as that term is used in the Compassionate Use Act of 1996,” Lockyer determined in a 2003 ruling.
Are You Cannabis Deficient?
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:18am
by The Medicine HunterIn August 1990, researchers reported in the journal Nature the discovery of receptors in the brain that specifically accommodate the cannabinoids in pot. Cannabinoids bind to particular neurological sites in the brain, as though the brain was specifically designed to utilize this plant. Did nature toss cannabinoid receptors into the brain by random chance? Are cannabinoid receptors part of an intelligent design for deriving maximum benefit from cannabis? Is cannabis a divine elixir of sacred communion for which we are ideally suited? Actually, a more sober answer seems likely. When there are receptors in the brain for a particular type of compound, that compound is made in the brain. This is true of many important agents that work to transmit brain messages of all types. So a hunt began to find such a compound.
Economic Benefits of Medical Marijuana Reform in Oregon
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 10:58am
By. Ersun Warnke Salem-News.com Business/Economy Reporter
Comprehensive Marijuana reforms would increase revenues, create jobs, decrease law enforcement and incarceration expenditures, increase tourism, and create new educational opportunities in Oregon’s universities.
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(EUGENE, Ore.) - The existing medical marijuana program in Oregon has been highly successful, but is in many ways less than optimal. I am not personally a medical marijuana user, nor do I have any association with the organizers of the medical marijuana regulation campaign in Oregon. My opinions on these issues are my own, and should not be confused with the proposals of any of the other groups who advocate on these issues.
Fury over Rahim Jaffer justice
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 10:53am
EDMONTON - Justice has not been served for former MP Rahim Jaffer, a QMI Agency poll suggests.
And Jaffer's old Edmonton-Strathcona constituents are among those lashing out against the disgraced politician.
Getting what some called "a slap on the wrist," Jaffer pleaded guilty in Ontario court Tuesday to careless driving.
Cocaine possession and drunk-driving charges were withdrawn.
"It's a joke," said Bob Shank, while waiting for a bus Wednesday in Jaffer's old riding.
"He should've been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I would never vote for him in a lifetime."
More than 1,000 people responded to a QMI Agency poll that asked whether justice had been done in the case.
Eighty percent of people responding said no, while another 15% said they would never know.
Former Bush Appointee, Prohibitionist Author Now Supports Marijuana Policy Reform
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:54pm
By. Mike Meno
Talk about seeing the error of his ways.
John J. Dilulio, Jr., the man who once co-authored a book with two former drug czars that described America’s drug war as “the most successful attack on a serious social problem in the last quarter-century,” has now reversed course, writing in the journal Democracy that it is “insane” to “expend scare federal, state, and local law enforcement resources waging ‘war’ against [marijuana] users.”
Specifically, Dilulio, who served for eight months in 2001 as director of President George W. Bush’s White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, listed making medical marijuana legal as one of “six steps to zero prison growth,” along with removing all federal mandatory-minimum drug sentencing policies. He also said the United States should “seriously consider decriminalizing [marijuana] altogether” because marijuana arrests have “close to zero” effect on crime rates and there is “almost no scientific evidence” showing marijuana to be more harmful than alcohol or legal narcotics.
Another top athlete tests positive for marijuana
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:49pm(Reuters) - American world indoor sprint favorite Ivory Williams has withdrawn from this weekend's IAAF championships because of a positive test for marijuana, his manager said on Wednesday.
"He had a marijuana positive," Ray Flynn told Reuters in a telephone call from the United States.
"To the best of my knowledge it was at the U.S. championships," Flynn added.
With the positive, Williams was disqualified from his 60 meters victory at the American championships and became ineligible for the world championships, which start in Doha on Friday.
Editorial: Feds should back off medical marijuana charges
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:43pm
BY THE AURORA SENTINEL
State Senators Chris Romer, a Denver Democrat, and Nancy Spence, an Aurora Republican, wrote to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to demand that officials there not conduct any further raids while the state sorts out regulating this blossoming and troublesome industry.
N.H. House Overwhelmingly Passes Marijuana Decriminalization
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:31pm
By Steve Elliott, Toke of the Town
Free Marc Emery
