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| Postings For April 30, 1999 |
What If the Colorado Shooter Had Been Using
Marijuana Instead Of A Pharmaceutical?
Two Different Standards. |
Alterna Again Puts Out Prohibitionist
Propaganda In A Press Release
To Announce Its Pro-Hemp Billboards |
Prohibitionist LA Times Runs Favorable Article
On Hemp. |
Great Column By CBC Newsworld Host:
"Law and order types should be in favour of the decriminalization of pot." |
| Postings For April 29, 1999 |
Judge Rules That Prop 215 Protects Against
Cultivation Charge;
Major Implications For Kubby and Other Cases. Possible "Sales" Charge Remains. |
Minneapolis Prohibitionist Opposes Hemp
Cultivation, Says
"The marijuana smoked at Woodstock contained "industrial hemp" levels of
THC."
See The Punch Line At the End |
One
Of Australia’s Top Prosecutors Says
He Would "rather see marijuana sold in corner shops than by criminals on the
streets." |
The Scotsman Says,
" A sensible drugs policy would treat each drug according to the risk it
posed to health." |
House
Republicans To Introduce Student Drug Testing Bills In Congress;
Oregon First State To License Medical Marijuana Patients -- NORML PR |
| Postings For April 28, 1999 |
Former Head Of NIDA Sort of Calls For
Medical Marijuana Tests in Washington Post Op-ed.
Taking Care Of the Prohibitionist Party Line. Not the Patients. |
Decrim Bill Introduced In Canadian Parliament
– By Member of A Conservative Opposition Party! |
Transcript Of Recent Medical Marijuana
Debate In Canadian Parliament
Shows Real Concern About The Issues, In Contrast To The DEAland Congressional Record.
But Doctor Spouts Party Line. |
Most Nations Permit Growing of Industrial Hemp
-- "The United States is an island of denial in a sea of acceptance."
Scathing Criticism Of Prohibitionist Opposition To Hemp In Knoxville Paper |
New Zealand Police Cannot Ban High Times
Magazine |
| Postings For April 27, 1999 |
When The Partnership For A Marijuana-Free
America Speaks,
The Media For A Marijuana-Free America Parrots.
Widely Reported Press Release About Kids and "Drugs" Mentions Marijuana 29
Times, Alcohol 0! |
Emphasis On Marijuana Precludes Realistically Measuring Success of Drug
Czar’s Ad Campaign.
Prohibitionist Propaganda Supposedly Aimed At Children Really Aimed At Adults. |
California Medical Marijuana Task Force
Organized By Lockyer Pushes Ahead |
California Libertarian Party Launches Web
Site, 215Now.com,
Calling For Implementation of Medical Marijuana Initiative In Response to Kubby Arrest. |
| Postings For April 26, 1999 |
Favorable Reaction By Prohibitionist
Canadian Press and Police To Chiefs’ Recommendation
To "Decriminalize" Marijuana Bodes Well – Cover For The Politicians –
2 Articles |
Depressed Commodity Prices Cause Explosion In
Western Canadian Hemp Planting
– Too Much Too Soon? |
Now The Oregon Farmers Wanting to Grow Hemp
Run Into Opposition From Narcs
-- Very Good Article |
Leading Scottish Paper Covers Debate On
Prohibition
– The Tories Sell Out Freedom As The Police Begin To Defend It.
Very Strange. -- 3 Articles |
Swiss Proposal To Legalize and Regulate
Sale of Cannabis
Driven By Realism, Not Libertarianism |
| Postings For April 25, 1999 |
Federal Judge In McCormick Case Says
There No Way To Distinguish Between Marinol and Marijuana In Urine Tests.
McCormick To Remain Free On Half Million Dollar Bail. |
Judge In Key Placer County Medical Marijuana
Case Suspends Trial To Research The Issues:
Does The Law Mean What It Says? |
10 Million Dollar Suit Filed By 71 Year-old
Sacramento Cancer Patient With "Prescription"
Who Was Arrested For Growing 13 Medical Marijuana Plants. |
California Police Forced To Return Medical
Marijuana; By Order of The State Supreme Court |
Montana Judge Confiscates Home Of Veteran
Growing Medical Marijuana For Gulf War Syndrome |
Family Research Council Issues A (Misleading) Correction, But No Apology. |
| Postings For April 23, 1999 |
Government Committee Recommends That
Switzerland Legalize Sale And Use Of Marijuana,
But Only For Swiss Residents, Not Tourists. You Can Unpack Now. |
Counterblaste to DEA: Fallacious Pharmacology.
"The contention that smoking cannot possibly be an acceptable route for the
administration
of a therapeutic substance is morality dressed up as science." by Peter Webster |
Meanwhile Back In Limbo (That’s The Capital
of DEAland):
Medical Marijuana Initiative Results Still Unknown. A Really, Really
Secret Ballot. |
Even The Narcs Don’t Like The Illinois Internet
Marijuana Bill;
It Keeps Them From Telling Kids How To Make Marijuana Dangerous – 2 Op-eds |
The Cat and The Cannabis, Not By Dr. Seuss
-- Medical Marijuana Isn't Just For People |
| Postings For April 22, 1999 |
Presidential Candidate Bauer’s DC Hate
Tank
Tries to Draw Connection Between Marijuana and Colorado Tragedy:
"Nearly 76 percent of at least once-a-year pot smokers report carrying a gun to
school."
The Big Lie And Hitler’s Birthday. |
Canadian Police Chiefs To Support
"Decriminalization" Of Marijuana.
"Government will give serious consideration to recommendation." -- 2 Stories |
Drug Czar’s Office Endorses Arresting,
Jailing Medical Marijuana Smokers;
Canada’s Parliament Resumes Historic Medical Marijuana Debate -- NORML Press Release |
Small Prohibitionist Paper In British Columbia
Laments "Cops Can’t Keep Up With BC Drug Trade."
"They’d sooner go after someone trafficking cocaine than someone who grows pot
because a coke addict is more likely to rob a bank." Realistic Priorities Over
Ideology? |
Report On Prop 200 Gets Favorable Story in New York Times
– Gives Numbers On High Costs Of Prisons. Only Brief Reference to Medical Marijuana. |
Renee Boje Hearing Adjourned To May 5 To
Set A Date For The Extradition Hearing.
Canadian Asylum Sought. |
| Postings For April 21, 1999 |
New NIDA Sponsored "Latest Research" Shows
Competitiveness of Heavy Marijuana Users
Not Impaired When They Stop Smoking – Well, That Is My Interpretation
– 2 Versions From Reuters |
Iowa To Make It A Felony To Give Away
Marijuana:
"We need to be a little bit tough on some of these kids
because maybe they don’t have the structure at home that our kids do." |
Charlotte Paper Advocates Using
"Paraphernalia" Law to Censor Cannabis Related Publications. |
Owner Of Canadian Cannabis Store Responds
To Local Editorial On Police Misconduct – Very Well Done. |
Prop 200 Saving Arizona Millions, Cutting
Drug Abuse,
Says New Report by State Supreme Court |
| Postings For April 20, 1999 |
North Dakota Becomes First To Legalize Hemp
Cultivation; Cruise Missiles Level Bismarck.
Soros Buys State. Terrified Peasants Flee To Canada! Film At Eleven. |
Gettman Rejects DEA’s Effort To Reschedule Marinol
Without A Hearing,
While Leaving Marijuana In Schedule One. |
Kansas Highway Searches Find Far More
Marijuana Than Hard Drugs;
Police Admit They Are Having No Effect, But They Are Really Making Things Worse:
Aggravating Drug Problem, Reducing Freedom, Wasting Police Resources. Operation Pipeline |
UK Group Announces London May Day Cannabis
Action Program.
"May Day is Jay Day: No Victim -- No Crime" |
| Postings For April 19, 1999 |
Over 20 Heavily Armed LA County Deputies Raid
Home Of Andrea Nagy;
Ignore Letters From Doctor, Lawyer, and Even Ventura County Court Restraining Order;
Destroy Medical Marijuana Plants – Special To MarijuanaNews.com |
One Of The Most Bizarre Marijuana Arrests
Ever. There Was No Marijuana!
A Reader Is Charged With Five Felonies For Having Grow Lights In Storage.
He Asks How He Can Fight Back. |
Operation Pipeline Designed By DEA
For Nationwide System To Search Cars Without Cause;
"Once they’ve given consent, they’ve dug their own grave." |
Michigan Tech University NORML Holds Annual
Campus Rally For Legalization Of Marijuana.
Reported By MSNBC -- When We Can Use The Internet To Move The Campuses, We Will Win. |
| Postings For April 18, 1999 |
Appeal by Oakland Club Raises Important
Constitutional Issues -- Op-ed and Article |
A Remarkable Article Comparing The Effects
of Marijuana and Alcohol On Driving |
| Postings For April 16, 1999 |
Run For Your Lives! "US Says Drugs, Terror Pouring In
From Canada"!
Or, The Problems Of Living Next To A Superpower Run By Narcs. |
Police Misconduct In Canadian Marijuana Raid
Demonstrates
How Marijuana Prohibition Undermines Justice And Wastes Police Resources
– An Article That Makes The Point and An Editorial That Misses It. |
A Reader Offers An Insight Into The
"Drug Testing" Racket |
| "Decrim"
Killed In New Hampshire, Advances In Nevada -- NORML Weekly PR |
| Postings For April 15, 1999 |
Prosecution Of Placer County Medical Marijuana
Growers
Has Major Implications For Kubby Case. |
New Zealand NORML
Press Release Announces Global Protests
Against Marijuana Prohibition On May 1st. – May Day Is J-Day! |
Hemp Legalization
Progresses In Hawaii and North Dakota
-- Republicans Key Backers In Both States |
Australian Cannabis
Users Diverted From Criminal System Would Clog "Treatment Programs"
-- So They Will Be Offered Only "Education."
Will The "Education Program" Explain Why They Were Arrested In The First Place? |
| Posting For April 14, 1999 |
Column By Authors of the IOM Report On
Medical Marijuana
Shows Why The Public Does Not Trust The Medical Establishment –
And Why They Should Not! With Analysis by Richard Cowan |
| Postings For April 13, 1999 |
A Year in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition
1998: A Chronology By Kevin Nelson |
Mother Who Tested Positive For Marijuana
Retains Full Custody Over Baby
With Help Of NORML and NORML Legal Committee Members |
First Set Of Interrogatories Filed By
Government
In Philadelphia Class Action Medical Marijuana Suit |
Brownie Mary, Requiescat In Pace |
| Postings For April 12, 1999 |
When Is There Mercy ? When Is There Journalism?
An Excellent Article On A Horrifying Story Ignored By The Major Media |
Alan Bock Gives An Excellent Overview Of
The Prospects For Medical Marijuana |
Kubby Seeks Implementation Of Prop. 215 In
Orange County;
Launches The Kubby Chronicles Email Letter
– See Subscription Info Below |
Drug
Czar's Comments On Drug Survey of Young Children
Show That The "War on Drugs" Is Really Just A War On Marijuana |
Canadian Farmers Get High Yields From Hemp
Harvest;
24-Fold Increase In Acreage In Western Canada Over Last Year!
DEAland Farmers Find DEA Unyielding In Hate Harvest |
Excellent Hemp Story In The Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Postings For April 11, 1999 |
The Rule of Lawlessness: Police Brazenness In The Kubby
Case.
The Fourth And Fifth Amendments, Or Forfeiture and Thievery. The Choice Is Ours. |
Forfeiture as Enterprise By Kay Lee |
Nebraska Law Enforcement
Colludes With Feds To Cheat State Schools of Money
Stolen Under Forfeiture Laws. No Honor Among Thieves? |
The Sexist And Racist
Implications Of The Supreme Court’s Further Erosion Of Rights
Will Have Greatest Impact In Marijuana Cases – An Op-ed and An Article |
| Media Awareness
Project of DrugSense Hosts MarijuanaNews.Com |
| Postings For April 9, 1999 |
Marijuana Prohibition In Canada May Have Just
Lost By A Nose;
Ontario Appeals Court Rules Police Claims Of Smelling Marijuana Not Sufficient For Arrest.
– Major Development! |
Continued Persecution of California Medical
Marijuana Patients Exposed By SF Bay Guardian
– Great Article |
Arcata Medical Marijuana Program A Model Of
Cooperation Between Police And Medical Community |
Judge In Brady Case Allows Him To Use Medical
Marijuana
And Asks Prosecutor To Consider Dropping The Marijuana Charges |
| Postings For April 8, 1999 |
Illinois
Bill Criminalizes Marijuana Information On The Internet -- NORML PR
NORML Executive Director calls the proposal one of the "dumbest" he’d ever
heard. |
Florida Supreme Court Hear’s Challenge To
Medical Necessity Defense For Medical Marijuana,
Because Governor Bush Wants "to bring this state’s feelings about drugs to the
forefront." |
Florida Aids Patient And His Doctor Say That
Marijuana Kept Him Alive;
Joe Hart Is Plaintiff In Class Action |
Boje Case Gets More Publicity In Canada For
Cruelty Of DEAland Marijuana Laws |
THE HEMP
CASINO, HEMP WHORLED, & ROPERS VS. DOPERS
By John E. Dvorak, Hempologist |
| Postings For April 7, 1999 |
Nutrition Entrepreneurs Durk Pearson and
Sandy Shaw's
Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Against McCaffrey
Applauded By Orange County Register Editorial, Says Lockyer Should Support Suit. |
Florida Plaintiff In Medical Marijuana Class
Action Suit Files Civil Suit
Alleging That The Sheriff’s Deputy Vandalized Home And Stole Items,
Including A Valuable Coin Collection. |
78 Percent Of Canadians Favor Medical
Marijuana – What Is Rock Waiting On? DEAland? |
Edmonton Fireman Fined And Given Probation For
Growing His Own "Potent Pot"
In "Sophisticated Hydroponic Grow-Operation" -- With 15 Medical Marijuana
Plants! --
Bad Journalism and Bad Laws |
College Freshman Survey Indicates
Increasing "Conservatism"--
"Less than 33 percent support legalization of marijuana."
Little Change From Last Year, But Way Up From 17% Ten Years Ago! |
Fourth Graders Use Inhalants Much More Than
Marijuana,
But Prohibitionist Propaganda Organization Press Release Shows
Both The Failure of Marijuana Prohibition and Their Failure To Understand Their Own Data |
Nine Of "More Than Twenty" Aussie Cops
Tested Failed "Drug Tests"
According To Swedish Prohibitionists |
| Postings For April 6, 1999 |
The Ban On Industrial Hemp May Be Hurting
Marijuana Prohibition
Even More Than Legalizing It Would.
Is The Czar Considering A Tactical Retreat? – An Article And A Great Editorial |
Environmentalists Push For Hemp In The
Northwest – Useful Links |
Utah Narcs Lament That Publicity About Meth
Distracts From Marijuana – Prohibitionist Party Line |
Using DNA To Trace Origins Of Contraband
Cannabis Should Win A Nobel Prize
For The Most Absurd Misuse of Science – See the Punch Line At the End |
| Postings For April 5, 1999 |
Tale of Two Capital
City Newspapers:
The Washington Post and The Ottawa Citizen On Medical Marijuana
-- Maybe We Should Apologize To King George. |
"Those who
insist on keeping the plant illegal bear a serious degree of moral responsibility for
young marijuana users who do go on to use cocaine, heroin, PCP or other genuinely
dangerous or addictive drugs."
Alan Bock, of the Orange County Register On the Real Gateway |
Plight Of Class Action Lawsuit Plaintiff
Joe Hart Gives More Proof
That the Suppression of Medical Marijuana Is Murder |
Dying AIDS Patient Peter McWilliams Demands
Drug Czar McCaffrey Implement Medical Marijuana Recommendations of National Academy of
Sciences Institutes of Medicine Report |
| Postings For April 1, 1999 |
An Official Statement On The Netherlands’
Drug Policy; Published In The Most Improbable Place |
Leading British Journals, The New Scientist And
The Lancet, Cite The IOM Report -- 2 Articles |
UK Drugs Tsar Seems To Endorse Medical
Marijuana, Calls It "The Herb,"
But Things Are Not Always What They Seem. |
Cannabis Use So Commonplace Among British
Schoolchildren
That It Is No Longer Regarded As An Act Of Rebellion, UK Drugs Tsar Admits |
San Mateo County Wants To Do Research On
Medical Marijuana;
They Are About To Learn A Lot About Marijuana Prohibition |
New Zealand Pays Former Narcs Compensation For
Being "Marijuana Addicts"
– No, This Is Not An April Fools Joke! |
NORML
Reports:
More On Toronto Study Saying Marijuana Induces Minimum Driving Impairment Compared to
Alcohol;
California Democrats Adopt Resolution Supporting Hemp;
State Senate Okays Bill Forcing Michigan Cities To Impose Criminal Penalties For Marijuana
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Polemics Against Prohibition –
Guest Column By Robert Nelson, Author of The Great Book of Hemp |
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