Cannabis Farmer

DrugSense Blog, 03 Sep 2010 - END PROHIBITION, CALIFORNIA Re "Legalizing is a dangerous choice" (Insight, Aug. 22): San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer claims that after marijuana is legalized, drug cartels will continue to profit from selling it. That's ridiculous.

Detroit Free Press, 03 Sep 2010 - A district judge in Ferndale said Thursday that he would allow state-approved medical marijuana defendants to keep using the drug while out on bond -- a sharp contrast to a Waterford judge's statement Tuesday that deemed marijuana use by defendants in a parallel case to be a bond violation. The contrast in treatment for those arrested in metro Detroit's first major medical marijuana raids showed the breadth of interpretations for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, Wayne State University law school professor Bob Sedler said.

The Chico News & Review, 02 Sep 2010 - Sprawling Commercial Marijuana Production Is Destroying Peaceful Foothills Life and the Environment Deer Peak Lake Estates. The name of this development in Yankee Hill conjures images of oak- and pine-studded rolling hills, wildlife and, of course, a body of water.

The Phoenix, 02 Sep 2010 - If you choose to partake, at least do it right The leaves are changing color, and it's not because you ate a special mushroom pizza. The air is crisp, the nights are getting longer, and you're drinking coffee at 4 am. It's fall, and time to go back to school.

Flint Journal, 02 Sep 2010 - DRYDEN, Michigan -- Jim Rasor, a Royal Oak attorney representing the owner of Compassionate Care Center of Michigan, says he believes Lapeer County officials are using a Tuesday raid of the center to show problems with Michigan's medical marijuana law. "It seems like the prosecution and sheriffs are using these laws to point out the shortcomings of the law," Rasor said.

Flint Journal, 02 Sep 2010 - QUESTIONABLE PATIENT-CAREGIVER RELATIONSHIPS LED TO LAPEER COUNTY RAID ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY DRYDEN, Michigan -- Lapeer County Sheriff Ron Kalanquin said a search warrant that was executed Tuesday on a Dryden medical marijuana dispensary was based off of three accounts of medical marijuana patients who did not have medical marijuana caregivers.

The Daily Tribune, 02 Sep 2010 - FERNDALE - One of the owners of a Ferndale medical marijuana dispensary raided last week said the facility won't reopen until court cases against owners and employees are resolved. "We're pretty much sitting on our hands waiting to see what the court does," said Matthew Curtis, co-owner of Clinical Relief, 352 Hilton, following a brief court appearance Thursday in Ferndale 43rd District Court. "We want to find out from the courts what we did wrong."

Detroit Free Press, 01 Sep 2010 - Despite impassioned pleas by several defense attorneys, Waterford District Court Judge Richard Kuhn Jr. refused today to allow medical marijuana patients to use the drug while out on bond-a decision met with low hisses in a courtroom packed with 13 defendants, their lawyers and supporters today. The 13 faced hearings following last week's raids of a medical marijuana dispensary and a compassion club for patients in Waterford.

Eastern Echo, 01 Sep 2010 - Marijuana has been illegal for years, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to legalize it. Every year on the first Saturday of April, Hash Bash in Ann Arbor rallies for the legalization of marijuana, held on the University of Michigan's campus. At Hash Bash, they rebel by smoking marijuana in public. During Hash Bash this year, people all over Ann Arbor were handing out business cards of doctors known to give the OK on receiving medical marijuana cards. This is because in 2008, the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act passed, which allows someone to legally smoke marijuana. Licensed medical marijuana dispensaries such as 3rd Coast Compassion Center on North Hamilton St. in Ypsilanti are becoming widespread.

In this episode of Visionary Artists Podcast we interview author Marc Fiszman about his new graphic novel, Coffee. The podcast begins by exploring some of the themes raised in Coffee, including multiple dimensions, absurdity in art and the trickster in folklore. The interview delves into Marc's creative process, the surreal and quirky humour in Coffee, his interest in metaphysics and much more. After a musical interlude, we discuss the dichotomy between materialism and idealism in the context of visionary art and mystical experience. We also hear what's to come on Visionary Artists Podcast, including some information about next week's interview with Allyson Grey. Music from the Correspondents, Younger Brother and Nujabes complement this lively and hyper-dimensional episode.

 

Playlist: Nujabes - Just Forget; The Correspondents - Rentaclown; Nujabes - tsurugi no mai; Younger Brother - Weird on a Monday Night

 

You can download Coffee or read the first two chapters at marcfiszman.com

See Allyson Grey's beautiful art at www.allysongrey.com

 

Visit www.beyondthebasin.com and use the contact form in About the Author for the chance to get one of five copies of Coffee - first come first serve!

 

The Union, 31 Aug 2010 - 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 decided the best way to get people to sober up was to pass an 18th Amendment banning the sale, transportation and manufacturing of alcohol in America.

Duluth News-Tribune, 31 Aug 2010 - Council President Bob Finsland and Police Chief Floyd Peters will introduce the ordinance at the Sept. 7 council meeting. Following the lead of the Duluth City Council, Superior will attempt to pass an ordinance banning the sale, purchase or possession of synthetic marijuana in the city of Superior, according to a news release from Mayor Dave Ross' office.

Athens Banner-Herald, 31 Aug 2010 - The People's Pharmacy: Can medical marijuana be used to fight cancer? I would like you to know about medical marijuana for cancer. In her late 30s, my wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4a. It was a 6 centimeter tumor that had grown around the hepatic artery and portal vein.

The Downey Patriot, 31 Aug 2010 - The Planning Commission will consider revising the city charter on Wednesday to permanently bar medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in Downey. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Daily Camera, 31 Aug 2010 - A decision by the Boulder County Land Use Department to approve the transformation of a one-time organic egg farm north of Longmont into a marijuana growing operation will stand, county commissioners decided Tuesday morning. The commissioners decided not to "call up" the docket for a public hearing, which means the Land Use Department's decision is final. But the commissioners said that the 67-acre Szymanski Farms, 10347 Yellowstone Road, will face other hurdles before marijuana can actually be planted there.

The Cortez Journal, 31 Aug 2010 - Board Of County Commissioners Votes Down Medical Marijuana Facilities The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to ban the operation of medical marijuana centers, cultivation sites and infused product industries in unincorporated portions of the county.

Leicester Mercury, 31 Aug 2010 - A drug user died after taking heroin contaminated with anthrax, health officials revealed this morning. Thomas Forbes, 29, of Loughborough is the fourth heroin user in England to die after taking a dose of the drug which had somehow become contaminated with anthrax.

Leicester Mercury, 31 Aug 2010 - A man is paying hundreds of pounds for a cannabis-based drug to try and ease the agonising pain caused by multiple sclerosis. Andrew Cooper, from Ibstock, is about to begin taking the new drug, Sativex, the first cannabis-based medicine licensed for use by MS sufferers.

Record Searchlight, 31 Aug 2010 - Redding criminal attorney Jeffrey C. Stotter called a news conference Monday at the Redding Police Department so cameras would be rolling when his client got back the 17 pounds of pot police had been holding as evidence for three years. Members of the media showed up. So did Stotter. But Donald Longwood, the 71-year-old Redding resident whose marijuana was about the be returned wasn't there.

Daily Targum, 31 Aug 2010 - The University refuses to comment extensively on the matter and the story has somewhat laid low for the past 30 days, but the rejection to grow medical marijuana on University grounds was a mistake. The plans of being the state's sole marijuana grower went up in smoke after University officials turned down this financially beneficial and innovative move. As a research university, we are supposed to be groundbreaking, and this would have been the ideal opportunity - therefore the refusal to be the first university in the country to grow medical marijuana seems to be unfounded. According to the Associated Press, private businesses grow the drug in the 13 other states that permit medical marijuana. Being on the cusp of researching this newly legalized drug would have provided more than financial advantages. After all, we have the resources and Gov. Chris Christie supported the cause - the only hurdle was the Universities frightened attitude toward losing federal funding.