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Unwanted Raid yet again on Medical Marijuana Update on Roger Mentch and the Hemporium...
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 1:22pm PST
Take action to end marijuana prohibition in California! Urge your legislators to support Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's marijuana regulation bill!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 3:51pm PST
Medical Marijuana Provider Convicted as Drug Dealer 
Until May 28, 2008 John Ottombrino was just another yoga and massage teacher, giving lessons and alternative health information from his home in Kearny Mesa. Then police broke in his door and arrested him for cultivation of marijuana and possession with intent to sell. Though he was growing it for three medical marijuana patients and had letters from their doctors proving it, the cops ignored that evidence — and so did the judge at his trial, who wouldn't let him introduce evidence that he wa...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 1:53pm PST
California Mendocino County Under Medical Marijuana Seige Now On-going medical marijuana busts through-out Mendocino County have been arresting local residents daily. I was one of five busts made and charged with two felonies (cultivation and intent to sell/distribute) last Friday, February 20, 2009, even though I had my doctor recommendation and was growing with the guidelines published at the Mendocino county web site....
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 8:58am PST
Write Your State Senator or Representative and Urge Support for Marijuana Law Reform Earlier this year NORML proclaimed, "Change is sweeping the nation; are you a part of it?" Today we are urging you to visit NORML's Legislative Action Alert page and find out....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2009 12:24pm PST
Several die in Mexico drug violence Tuesday, February 17, 2009 : Mexican president asks US for firm measures against arms trafficking across border....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 7:26am PST
MMJ Week, Monday: Join the Movement as a Member and Ambassador Now is the time
to join the movement by becoming an ASA Member. And now is the time to be part
of the real change to come by signing up as an ASA Ambassador....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 9:21pm PST
Dr. Grinspoon has added a blog to his Uses of Marijuana website Lester Grinspoon M.D. has just announced that he has added a blog to his Uses of Marijuana Website, a website devoted to further understanding and appreciation of the way in which marijuana enhances a variety of experiences.
The blog located at http://www.marijuana-uses.com will be a vehicle for Dr. Grinspoon to educate the public about research and advances in marijuana and medical marijuana research....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2009 10:05am PST
S.D. Cracks Down on Medical Marijuana as Feds Loosen Up 
Don Duncan, California statewide director of the national medical-marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA), came to San Diego February 10 to tell local members that the outlook for medical marijuana is good. He pointed to a policy statement from a spokesperson for President Obama that said the federal government will stop using its police power to interfere with state medical marijuana laws. But that was cold comfort to many of the people in the room, especially those targeted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 4:12pm PST
NEWS BRIEFING on Death Penalty Documentary on Execution of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Set A new documentary on the death penalty and execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be screened Friday at Sacramento State University....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 7:14pm PST
White House: DEA Raids in Medical Marijuana States Will Stop No sooner was President Obama sworn in than the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) decided to provoke him.
Two days after the January 20 inauguration - before the Senate had confirmed the nomination of Attorney General Eric Holder - the DEA raided a medical marijuana dispensary in South Lake Tahoe, California, one of the states that has made such facilities legal. This, with full knowledge that as a presidential candidate Obama had pledged to discontinue such raids....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 7:51am PST
Mariano Herran Salvatti, Former Mexican Drug Tsar and Chiapas Attorney General, Arrested On January 24, the Chiapas state government arrested former federal drug tsar Mariano Herran Salvatti for embezzlement. Additional charges and accusations--ranging from links to drug cartels to torture of political prisoners--continue to pile up....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 7:48am PST
Judge orders CA to release many nonviolent offenders SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal judges on Monday tentatively ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next three years to stop dangerous overcrowding.
As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percentage considered by a three-judge panel. Judges said the move could be done without threatening public safety -- and might improve a public safety hazard....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 10:52am PST
Leggo those Eggo's! (Kellogg Boycott) Marijuana activists nationwide today began a coordinated boycott of all Kellogg Co. products, after the cereal and snack maker chose to drop their sponsorship of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps over a photo that was made public last week, apparently showing the 8-time gold medal winner partaking of the herb at a party....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 7:27pm PST
Audience Packs Library for Medical Marijuana Film 
For many of the 300 people who packed the San Diego Public Library screening of "Waiting to Inhale," Jed Riffe's film on the medical marijuana issue, it's not just a movie but something they're living. The film begins with a raid on a medical marijuana growers' collective, and at least two members of the audience talked about having gone through similar raids from San Diego County law enforcement just days earlier. The audience was highly partisan but the film itself was surprisingly fair-min...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 5:16pm PST
Good Work! Obama Responds, Takes Stand Supporting MMJ Well done! The White House received thousands of your faxes and phone
calls, and almost immediately took a stand in support of medical
marijuana states, upholding President Obama's campaign promises to end
the federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 11:36am PST
Update on San Diego Busts this week After more investigation and release on bail of some of the local mobile
dispensaries, it seems that all the cases are linked to a local patient "Jessica"....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 10:14am PST
Modesto Needle Exchange (MNE) - A Street Based Service for Public Health issues Modesto Needle Exchange is every 2 weeks monthly at Mono Park in the Airport District of Modesto Ca,.
Mono Park is on Mono Dr. off Santa Cruz Ave, (look for fliers)....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2009 3:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2009 8:21pm PST
AN END to Jackbooted DEA raids on Pot Dispensaries ? You in SanDiego know all about the DEA Federales disrespecting STATE LAW and how they have repeatedly harrassed, confiscated and persecuted in court not only in Cal, but in all the Compassionate sttates allowing Med Pot. The end may be at hand as noted in this Americans For Safe Access release. Just waiting for OBAMA to appoint a DEA TSAR with a heart.............
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 10:54am PST
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