Cannabis Farmer

Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb 2012 - Thorough Closure of Pot Dispensaries Leaves Legitimate Patients to Suffer Forget years of conflicting rules, hazy regulations, hard lines and soft bans. An LAPD narcotics squad has made an end-run around the city's fumbling efforts to regulate medical marijuana, shutting down every dispensary in its San Fernando Valley division in a three-year campaign whose success just might signal the end of legal pot sales in Los Angeles.

The Times, 03 Feb 2012 - State Sen. Karen Tallian wants to make most marijuana possession cases misdemeanors. What a change that would be from a toke-free Indiana. Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, did not request a committee vote on Senate Bill 347 but took nearly an hour to explain how reducing criminal penalties for marijuana possession could benefit Indiana.

Daily News-Tribune, 03 Feb 2012 - Keyser, W.Va. -- If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck... then it is a duck. Same goes for synthetic marijuana too. That's right if it looks like pot, feels like pot, and is packaged and marketed like pot... it's to be treated by law enforcement as if it is pot... and this is not just my opinion it's the law in West Virginia.

Cavalier Daily, 03 Feb 2012 - The University Should Embrace Del. Englin's Proposal to Consider The Evidence for Marijuana Legalization Before Making Policy Decisions Del. David Englin, D-Alexandria, recently proposed legislation which would call for a study to evaluate the revenue impact of regulating and selling marijuana through Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control stores. Seeing as 14 states have decriminalized medicinal marijuana, this is a fairly modest proposal. Englin said his bill merely "asks the question of if we sold marijuana through ABC stores, how much money would we get?" It is easy to imagine the budgetary boon that would come from the state's profit off the ever-persistent demand for marijuana, but it is also worth thinking about how decriminalizing the drug may benefit the University community, as well.

The Dickinson Press, 03 Feb 2012 - A Jury Acquitted Arturas Teras, WHO Was Accused of Possessing Nearly 50 Pounds of Marijuana, After Less Than an Hour of Deliberation Thursday Afternoon at the Stark County Courthouse. Donatas Jasiulionis was supposed to stand trial with Teras, but he skipped back to their native country, officials said.

Cavalier Daily, 03 Feb 2012 - A bill proposed by Del. David Englin, D-Alexandria, requesting Gov. Bob McDonnell to petition the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to allow the use of marijuana for legitimate medical reasons failed in the House Rules Committee Tuesday evening. "Legalizing marijuana is probably not supported by 99 percent of the people here," said Del. Dave Albo, R-Springfield, who did not vote on the resolution. "Del. Englin is a self-described ultra-liberal, and that's the kind of stuff he believes in."

The Calgary Sun, 02 Feb 2012 - There's nothing wrong with a little prescribed weed for your pain, says Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, but not at the risk of the pain of others. Colley-Urquhart will ask her city council colleagues Monday to demand Health Canada disclose the locations of medical marijuana grow operations in Calgary, calling it a mere stop-gap measure to her greater goal.

Sacramento News & Review, 02 Feb 2012 - Federal Crackdown Forces the City of Sacramento to Scale Back Its Medical-Marijuana Tax-Revenue Projections The forecast is getting pretty cloudy for tax revenues from the city of Sacramento's Measure C medical-marijuana sales tax.

Spokesman-Review, 02 Feb 2012 - This Year of the Dragon is starting out on a real high. Monday night, for example, our new so-called "conservative" Spokane City Council agreed unanimously that medical marijuana should be legal and available to those who need it.

Rotorua Daily Post, 02 Feb 2012 - Workers are using bleach in a bid to beat drug tests at Bay of Plenty businesses. Latest figures from the New Zealand Drug Detection Agency reveal the number of workplace tests in the region has more than doubled in the last year.

Sun-Sentinel, 01 Feb 2012 - Florida's three-year attack on pill mills and rogue doctors has taken a bite out of sales of oxycodone, the prescription drug that turned South Florida into the pain-pill capital of the Southeast. Sales of the narcotic painkiller fell 20 percent last year at Florida pharmacies and other outlets, according to data released this week by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Lawrence Journal-World, 01 Feb 2012 - Topeka -- Even though a bill legalizing the medical use of marijuana is now in both sides of the Kansas Legislature, officials have shown little interest in making it a law. Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City, introduced Senate Bill 354, the Cannabis Compassion and Care Act, during Monday's session. It was referred to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, where it will likely sit without a hearing.

The Calgary Sun, 01 Feb 2012 - "A solution of 6.55 g of 3.4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) as the free base and 2.8 mL formic acid in 150 mL benzene was held at reflux under a Dean Stark trap until no further H2O was generated." So read the opening lines of a recipe, in a volume globally condemned by police as the cookbook of the illegal pharmaceutical industry - the chemical stew in question a drug better known as ecstasy.

The Calgary Sun, 01 Feb 2012 - Calgary cops are considering offering an ecstasy amnesty in the wake of a rash of recent deaths. As members of the Calgary Police Commission met Tuesday, Commissioner Charles Pratt raised the possibility of offering an amnesty to quell a spate of fatal overdoses linked to a tainted version of the party drug.

Arizona Daily Sun, 01 Feb 2012 - PHOENIX -- State lawmakers are moving today to deny university and college students living on campus the right to use medical marijuana even if they have the legally required doctor's recommendation for the drug. Legislation crafted by Rep. Amanda Reeve, R-Phoenix, would make it illegal not only to use but even to possess marijuana on the campus of any public or private post-secondary institution. That would include not only the state university system and network of community colleges but also various private schools that offer degrees or certificates.

The Craig Daily Press, 01 Feb 2012 - Convictions and drug seizures reported by the All Crimes Enforcement Team in its 2011 report raise questions about how effective and necessary the unit is today in Moffat and Routt counties. On the surface, the numbers don't appear to warrant the time, resources and expense. There were some surprising figures released in Monday's Craig Daily Press story outlining last year's activity by the All Crimes Enforcement Team, a task force that operates in Moffat and Routt counties.

The Globe, 01 Feb 2012 - The Lawrence Hall second-floor hallway is a commonly traveled route. Whether students are hurrying to class or strolling to the Point Cafe, it serves as a showcase for many advertisements pertaining to Point Park University. Movie-poster sized ads are encased along the walls, relaying information for student activities or upcoming deadlines. Last week, one poster stood out from the others. Themed with black and green type and a translucent image of a marijuana leaf, the blown-up poster from Alcohol and Other Drug Education hung in the hallway for a few days. Coincidentally, the poster seemed to appear around the time that The Globe reported the increase of drug use among Point Park students. "Legalize marijuana?" it stated in all capital letters. "It's a plant, so it's natural, right?"

Massachusetts Daily Collegian, 01 Feb 2012 - Unlike tobacco, smoking marijuana - even when done regularly - does not damage the performance of people's lungs, according to a recent study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association. The two-decade research, which followed 5,000 people who smoked an equivalent of one joint per day over the course of seven years, found out that despite their regular marijuana use, subjects were still able to push out a normal amount of air in one second after taking a deep breath. This means that only minimal if any pulmonary obstruction has developed, contrary to findings involving tobacco.

Chilliwack Times, 31 Jan 2012 - I would like to clarify a few issues regarding the Health Canada Medicinal Marihuana Access Regulations (MMAR) program. Physicians do not "prescribe pot." Every Canadian citizen qualifies automatically for MMAR if they meet the Health Canada criteria-anyone providing evidence of a qualifying condition, and/or anyone who's been to a specialist for their condition. This has nothing to do with the doctor's views on the matter-patients either qualify or they do not.

The Calgary Sun, 31 Jan 2012 - If You Do the E Circulating on the Streets Right Now, You're Going to Need One of These Expensive, Shiny Boxes At this point, consider it a suicide attempt. That's the harsh life and death decision facing those planning to take ecstasy =AD or what they might believe is ecstasy =AD when nine Calgary-area corpses have already been linked to the same mislabelled drug.