Postings For August 31,
1998 |
Marijuananews.com To Cover London Conference
On "Regulating Cannabis." |
Three Articles Demonstrate The Absurd Context
Of Marijuana Prohibition
– Full Prisons; A Police Shortage; Addiction To Legal Drugs |
The Houston Chronicle Calls For End to Funding
Of DARE – A True Believer Disagrees |
A Great Analysis of the Prospects for the
Canadian Hemp Industry At the First Harvest |
Kenex Gets Canadian Government Grant To Help
Fund a Non-woven Hemp Fibre Matting Line |
Postings For August 30,
1998 |
| French Police Seize Body
Shop Hemp Products and Promotional Material; Claim They "Encourage Drug Use."- 2
Articles |
| Houston Survey Shows
DARE Program Increases "Drug" Use, So The Mayor and Police Love It |
| Santa Barbara Paper
Advises Parents to Follow the Party Line On Marijuana |
Postings For August 28,
1998 |
You Can Help Dr. Lester
Grinspoon And William Novak
Write A Book On The Positive Uses of Marijuana |
Louisiana
Governor Backs Unprecedented Drug Testing Plan Despite Costs, Legal Problems -- NORML
P.R. August 27 |
| Miami Vice? The Miami Herald Prints More Lies
From the Drug Czar About The Dutch |
| "Gilligan" Pleads No
Contest; Gets 6 Months Unsupervised Probation |
Postings For August 27,
1998 |
| The Police May Have
Outnumbered the Plants In Fabulous Michigan Drug War Victory |
| Palo Alto Man Challenges
City To Follow Oakland’s Lead and Establish Official Cannabis Club |
| Chavez Changes Attorneys; Seeking
More Aggressive Medical Marijuana Defense |
| Postings For August 26, 1998 |
| Florida Home "Drug" Testing
Program Encourages Hard Drug Use By Waiting 4 Weeks To Begin Testing |
| There Are Now More Than
79 Million Internet Users In North America |
| Cutting Ditchweed Is A
Class 3 Felony In Nebraska – And A First Class Boondoggle For the Police |
| Reed College Ranks First
In Academic Standing, Third In Marijuana Use; Lewis And Clark Also A Contender |
| Postings For August 25, 1998 |
Arizona Drug Use Rates Show That Prohibition Is Not Working,
But Use Did Not Go Up After Prop 200 – 2 Articles |
| Seattle Paper Gives
Friendly Coverage To The Local Hempfest |
| How the Canadian
Prohibitionists Equate Marijuana And Cocaine In the New Party Line |
| Indiana Police Look For
Marijuana Patches In Cornfields |
| Postings For August 24, 1998 |
"The federal prosecutor personally
called my mother to tell her that if I was found with even a trace
of medical marijuana, her house would be taken away." -- Peter McWilliams |
Judge In Krieger Case Delays Sentencing To Get
More Information On Medical Marijuana |
An Intelligent and Friendly Report On the
Medical Marijuana Class Action Suit |
Nova Scotia Farmers Optimistic After Bringing
In First Test Hemp Crop |
| In Greenland The
Cannabis Trade May Equal 10% Of the Gross National Product |
| Postings For August 23, 1998 |
Shalala Says That Parents
Are Wrong To Be Relieved
That Their Children Are Using Marijuana Instead Of Heroin!
Survey Results From California Do Not Support Party Line, So They Are Buried. |
| Juvenile Drug Arrests
Soar As Result of Increased Popularity Of Marijuana And Ignorance of Risks Of Laws |
California Medical
Marijuana User With Cancer Prosecuted Despite Letter From Doctor,
"Baseball-Size Lymph Glands" |
| A Schizophrenic Review
Of Medical Marijuana Initiatives |
| Postings For August 21, 1998 |
Peter McWilliams Released On $250,000 Bail
After Month In Federal Jail
Marijuananews.com Visits Los Angeles |
| New York Times
Prohibitionist Propaganda On Vancouver Slanders Amsterdam |
Sending The Right Message: $6
Million Hemp Processing Plant In Rural Manitoba
"Sends a very strong signal to farmers." |
Florida Narks Hail Failure of Medical
Marijuana Initiative To Make Ballot
As "Major victory in the war on drugs." |
| Postings For August 20, 1998 |
70 Year Sentence For Will Foster "Shocks
Our Conscience" Say The Judges, So They Cut It to Just 20! |
Relative
Safety Of Moderate Marijuana Smoking Not Challenged
By New Study -- NORML Release August 20, 1998 |
UN Prohibitionists Demand Censorship Of
Anti-Prohibitionists, Even Medical Marijuana and Hemp Info |
LA Times Article Complains The Media Should
Provide Prohibitionist Propaganda For Free |
Postings For August 19,
1998 |
Buckley Deplores The Mistreatment of
McWilliams By The Feds |
LATEST RESEARCH Finds That Heavy Marijuana
Smoking Produces
Pre-Cancerous Conditions; Save The Children! |
Canadian Magazine Takes Skeptical Look At
Claims About Potent BC Marijuana |
Louisville Paper Editorializes Strongly In
Favor Of Hemp:
"Brave enough to stand up and make the case for hemp." |
Pennsylvania Farmers Reminded of Their Hemp
Heritage At The Lancaster Hemp Project ‘98 |
Postings For August 18,
1998 |
Customs Service Press Release
Shows How Increased Enforcement of Prohibition Encourages Hard Drug Use |
The Media, Monica, and Marijuana |
It Turns Out the CIA’s Pet Cocaine Dealer Was
Actually Working For the DEA, Too |
Peron Cleans Memories Out Of The Closed Market
Street Cannabis Club |
| Teen Drug Use Soars So
Texas Capital City Drops DARE As A Poor Use Of Police Resources |
Postings For August 17,
1998 |
Prohibitionist Propaganda "Drug Education" Is Such A Complete
Failure
That It Can’t Persuade Kids Not to Soak Joints In Formaldehyde |
Peron Replants After The DEA Destroys Medical
Marijuana Harvest |
Is The Wakeford Case A Way For Canadian
Politicians To Duck DEAland Pressure On Medical Marijuana? |
To Native Americans The Issue Is Sovereignty,
Not Just Hemp; Now If Everyone Else Would Just Wake Up! |
"Manitoba used to be one of the major
growers of industrial hemp before it was banned 1930s."
It May Be Again. |
Postings For August 16,
1998 |
20 DEA Agents Seize 150 Medical Marijuana
Plants At Peron’s Plantation; No Heavy Lifting. |
Second Judge Rules Prop 215 Cannot Be Used In
Chavez Defense – 2 Articles |
| Judge Orders
Boston To Issue Permit For MassCann NORML’s Annual Hempfest – More Free
Publicity |
The Sioux May Have To Sue The DEA To Be
Allowed To Grow Hemp On Tribal Lands |
A Wry Look At the Louisville Forum On Hemp;
"The DEA argument was the party line." |
Postings For August 14,
1998 |
Oregon
Democrats Oppose Marijuana Recriminalization Effort -
NORML Weekly Press Release August 13, 1998 |
Using Federal Law
Legalizing Drug Dealing By Narks,
Oakland Makes Cannabis Club Staff Agents of City – 2 Articles |
Survey On Teen Alcohol
Abuse and Violence Shows How Misdirected
The Prohibitionist "Anti-Drug" Campaign Really Is |
| Woody Harrelson Draws A
Crowd At Kentucky Hemp Debate; Great Journalism |
| A Review of Colorado Hemp
Cultivation Prospects; Not Good |
| Viagra, Marijuana And
Hypocrisy -- Two Can Be Fatal; One Is Illegal |
When Growing Marijuana Is Punished More
Harshly Than Infanticide, Morality and Law Are Upside Down |
Postings For August 13,
1998 |
| The DEAland Crime Rate
May Be Three Times Higher Than Is Reported |
New Jersey
Governor Heralds Efforts to Weed Out Marijuana Growers;
Marijuana Hotline and Reward Program |
| A Portrait Of The Doctor
Leading The Oregon Medical Marijuana Drive |
Western Australian Police Persuade Politicians To Ease Up On First Time
Cannabis Offenders
– Yes, the Police! |
Postings For August 12,
1998 |
LA Weekly Looks Into How The Peter
McWilliams Arrest Happened. Sounds Like LA Confidential |
Canadian Health Minister Owes Medical
Marijuana Activist Wakeford
"An Apology And Canadians An Explanation" |
| Louisiana To Reassess "Drug
Screen" For Welfare Recipients; Politicians Think That They May Be Lying |
| Albany NORML Leader
Speaks At Hempfest; Reported In Amsterdam (New York, That Is) |
| Canadian Hikers And Pilots
Urged To Turn In Marijuana Growers For A $1,000 Reward |
Posting For August 11,
1998 |
Marijuana Prohibition
And Potency, Price, And Safety --
"Is Marijuana Stronger Than It Was Back In the '60s, When Everyone Thought It Was
Harmless?"
Analysis By Richard Cowan |
Postings For August 10,
1998 |
California Libertarian Party Pays For Press
Release
Saying McWilliams’Arrest Is A "Wake-Up Call to Californians" |
| Prop 200 Backers Lose In
Battle Over Ballot Description In Arizona |
"Drug-prevention education plays a
disproportionately large role in the alienation of young people." |
| New Zealand Associate
Minister of Health Says, "We will not tolerate any form of drug-related harm."
Sure |
| Postings For August 9, 1998 |
| Libertarian Party
Says Peter McWilliams Is Victim of Efforts To Discredit Medical Marijuana |
Canadian Government Says Man With AIDS
Doesn’t Need Medical Marijuana;
Judge Promises Ruling Soon - 2 Articles |
UK Will Not Arrest Medical Marijuana Users For
Telling About Their Experiences – IoS --
But Dr. Guy Is Against Smoking It -- 2 Articles |
Heicklen Continues to Challenge Process -- Marijuana Smoke Out News August
6 |
Wisconsin TV Station Follows Prohibitionist
Propaganda On Ditchweed
With Plea To "Report illegal drug activity online." |
Kentucky
Forum, Including Woody Harrelson, To Debate Hemp |
The Economist Looks At Hemp; Positive, But Not Up to
Their Usual Standards |
Postings For August 7,
1998 |
Drug Czar Lies Again About
the Dutch, Who Respond With The Facts; Czar’s Aid Says,
"forces at work to legalize drugs are trying to bring these wonderfully allied
governments into conflict." |
| Is Crime In DEAland Really
Down? Or Is It Just That Police Fraud In Reporting Crime Is Increasing? |
New Zealand Police Wallow In Reefer Madness,
But They Wouldn’t Oppose "Decrim" -- 3 Articles |
Oregon Recriminalization Would Cost Over One
Million – "Worth it," Says Prohibitionist |
| Oklahoma Ditchweed
Biological Warfare Destroys 200 Plants – Agent Red? |
Postings For August 6,
1998 |
Chavez Declines Plea Bargain; New Judge
Appointed; He Will Reconsider Prop 215 Defense;
DA Returns Patient Records – After Copying |
| Canadian AIDS Patient
Sues To Force Government To Provide Medical Marijuana |
World Famous Harvard Scientist Stephen Jay
Gould Testifies For Medical Marijuana |
California
Marijuana Arrests Soar Despite 215’s Passage NORML Foundation Weekly Press Release |
Postings For August 5,
1998 |
"I’m not trying to save the world,
but I’m an American."
Chavez Says He Will Reject Plea Bargain and Fight; His Attorney Urges Him To Reconsider |
| 96 Percent Of Viewers In BBC Poll Favor
Legalizing Medical Marijuana; Over 40,000 Respond -- IoS |
| Possible Cannabis Research in Britain,
Unenthusiastically Reported In The British Medical Journal |
"In one year, the beer industry spends
three times more on TV advertising
than McCaffrey has to spend on all media." |
Toronto Students Use
Less Marijuana, More Alcohol and Solvents
– Gasoline! Who Says Prohibition Doesn’t Work? |
Postings For August 4,
1998 |
"It is the love of freedom, not the hatred of tyranny,
that will turn this warring parent into an adored embrace." -- Peter McWilliams |
Todd McCormick Pleads Innocent To "Conspiracy" Charges |
Change Of Judge In Marvin Chavez Case Follows
Scathing Media
Coverage Of Judicial Misconduct -- 3 Reports |
Nevada Medical Marijuana Initiative Gets On
Ballot After All |
Arizona Paper Carries Column by Rhode Island
Editor Endorsing Prop 200
– Without Mentioning Medical Marijuana |
Postings For August 3,
1998 |
| Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes It To
Ballot in Washington State, But Not In Maine |
The AP Reveals That Funding For Oregon Medical
Marijuana Initiative Came From Out Of State;
When Will They Examine The Funding Of Marijuana Prohibition? |
| Heicklen Fights Kangaroo
Court Procedures; Marijuana Smoke Out of July 30, 1998 |
US Prison Population Increases Again to A New
Record!
Way to Go! We’re Number One! We’re Number One! |
| Postings For August 2, 1998 |
How the Government Helps Medical Marijuana
Patients:
"McWilliams vomited repeatedly in court Friday, prompting guards to keep a trash can
nearby." |
| How You Can Help Peter McWilliams |