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Vicente Fox, Mexico's President, is to sign into law a measure that decriminalises the possession of small amounts of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and heroin, his spokesman said....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 6:17pm PDT
Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 3:52am PDT
Possessing marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by Congress....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:51pm PDT
· FEDERAL: Appeals Court Reverses Rosenthal Convictions
a.. ASA ACTION: FDA Denial Raises Questions about ASA Petition
b.. FEDERAL: Fallout From FDA Foolishness Far From Finished
c.. CALIFORNIA: Dispensaries Still the Big Local Issue
d.. MONTANA: First Test of State Law Coming
e.. NEW JERSEY: Activists Call For Patient Protections...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:48pm PDT
****5) Tuesday, May 2nd, Merced: Convince Board of Sups Not to Join San
Diego Lawsuit Against 215!**
**6) Friday, May 5th, Oakland: Court Support for Keith Alden****
7) Monday, May 8th, Sacramento: Court Support for Dr. Mollie Fry & Dale
Schafer
8) Monday, May 8th, Ceres: City Council to Vote on Extending Dispensary
Moratorium
9) Tuesday, May 9th, Napa: Court Support for ***Gabriel Strasburg*
**10) Tuesday, May 9th, Sausalito: City Council to Vote on Extending
Dispensary Moratori...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:45pm PDT
In this issue of the Vote Hemp Report, we
bring you
an update on HR 3037, the first-ever federal
Industrial Hemp
Farming Act, and a report on the progress of hemp
farming in Canada....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:08pm PDT
Please show up tomorrow morning to speak out against Merced County’s decision to
join San Diego’s lawsuit to overturn Proposition 215. Bring as many friends and
supporters as you can!...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:46pm PDT
British troops have begun deploying in a Taliban-dominated area riddled with corruption and tribal rivalries, where the only industry is growing poppies. Tom Coghlan reports from Grishk and Lashkargar, Helmand Province...
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:24pm PDT
News of a 5 ton + cocaine bust at an international airport in the Mexican state of Campeche this month does not directly link to Jeb Bush,Governor of the state of Florida,it does have direct links to the Huffman Aviation flight school of his pal Wally Hilliard in Venice,Florida where the Saudi terrorists trained for the 9/11 WTC attack.Jeb Bush's pal Wally Hilliard was himself involved in a heroin import scheme that was considered one of the largest in Florida history,40 pounds,also by way of...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 11:30pm PDT
In the 1980s Melanie Dreher and colleagues at UMass Amherst began a longitudinal study to assess the well-being of infants and children whose mothers used cannabis during pregnancy. The researchers lived in rural Jamaican communities among the women they were studying. Thirty cannabis-using pregnant women were matched for age and socio-economic status with 30 non-users. Dreher et al compared the course of their pregnancies and their neo-natal outcomes, using various standard scales....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:28am PDT
2) Saturday, April 22nd, Modesto: Merced County Patients' Coalition Meeting
3) Saturday, April 22nd, ***Garden Valley: El Dorado County AAMC Meeting
4) Monday, April 24th, Riverbank:*** City Council to Vote on Extending
Moratorium
5) Tuesday, April 25th, Newport Beach: City Council to Vote on Extending
Moratorium
***6) Thursday, April 27th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting
***7) Saturday, April 29th, Marysville: Yuba-Sutter ASA Meeting...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 4:45pm PDT
more info is on indybay's calendar: http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=9629&day=23&month=4&year=2006...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 12:38am PDT
When: Friday, April 21st at noon.
Where: Sacramento City Hall, 915 "I" Street, Sacramento, CA 95814....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 4:25pm PDT
Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word that the city of
Seaside, CA is voting tonight on whether to adopt a 45-day moratorium
against permitting any dispensaries in the city....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 4:24pm PDT
Salvia divinorum is under attack. The forces of puritanism have turned their witch hunt drug war, against the diviner's sage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 6:45pm PDT
New York's drug laws ensure that the privileged and connected receive leniency for the same offenses that send thousands of blacks and Latinos to prison....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 6:19pm PDT
(this announcement was from 12:20pm)...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:36pm PDT
In a newly published opinion, People v.
Russell, the Cal. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
has ruled that the fact that a patient is legally
cultivating medical MJ does NOT constitute
probable cause for issuing a search warrant....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:11pm PDT
Please take a few minutes today to contact both of the
following board members, politely and briefly urging
them to support the medical marijuana ID card program
in Stanislaus County and to submit it to the Board of
Supervisors as soon as possible...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:05pm PDT