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Poll: Calif. effort to legalize pot falling short
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Field Poll released Friday suggests trouble for supporters of a California ballot proposition seeking to legalize marijuana for recreational use.The survey found 48 percent of likely voters oppose the initiative while 44 percent support it. That is far from the level of support typically needed at this stage of a campaign, said Mark DiCamillo, the poll's director.
"When you're starting out behind, the odds are against you, so that's going to be a tough one to pull off," he said.
Proposition 19 would allow adults to cultivate marijuana and enable local governments to regulate and tax sales of the plant to raise revenue. Proponents have said the proposal could generate $200 million per year, but others say the amount would be lower. California already allows marijuana use for medicinal purposes. More on this...
San Jose takes first steps to limit medical marijuana clubs
After an hour of passionate testimony from medicinal marijuana advocates and desperate pleas from parents worried about cannabis dispensaries near preschools, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday took its first steps to regulate medical marijuana — but pushed an even bigger debate down the road.
In a unanimous vote, the council gave the city the right to shut down any medical marijuana dispensary within 500 feet of sensitive sites, such as schools, day care centers and homes. The move would shutter about a half dozen of the 60 clubs that have sprouted up in recent months since the Obama administration said it would no longer go after medical marijuana in states such as California that allow it. More on this...
San Jose: Pot club advocates, foes give council an earful
San Jose: Can marijuana collectives be good neighbors?
Man mauled after smoking pot can get workers' comp
The Associated PressHELENA, Mont.—A Montana judge says it's not a worker's fault he got mauled by a grizzly bear at a tourist attraction, even if he smoked marijuana before trying to feed the animal.
Brock Hopkins acknowledged smoking pot before arriving to work at Great Bear Adventures on Nov. 2, 2007. When he entered the bear's pen, he was attacked and had to be hospitalized.
The owner of the attraction near Glacier National Park says Hopkins was a volunteer and that his use of marijuana caused the accident.
But Judge James Jeremiah Shea of the state Workers' Compensation Court ruled last month that Hopkins is eligible for benefits.
Shea found that Hopkins was paid, and therefore he's an employee. The judge also concluded Hopkins' use of marijuana was not the main cause of the attack.
Dispensaries Would Be an Improvement for Marijuana
www.cannabisnews.orgCHICO — Though Kris Kidd hasn’t received as much as a parking ticket in more than five years, the 42-year-old Chico resident says she is forced into criminal behavior on a routine basis, simply to relieve her pain.
Kidd, who holds a graduate degree and has an extensive resume in social work, suffers from no less than 11 medical ailments, including degenerative disk disease and scoliosis.
Most of Kidd’s day is spent in pain. Though she can walk into any of the more than 15 pharmacies in Chico and pick up a prescription for Vicodin, she can’t legally purchase the one drug that truly assuages her body and mind — marijuana.
“Right now, I have to get it illegally,” Kidd said. “I don’t have any place to go.” More on this...
Judge doesn't stop San Jose from threatening fines on pot clubs' landlords
A judge on Friday ruled that San Jose officials may continue to threaten landlords of medical marijuana cooperatives with fines of up to $2,500 daily, a practice that has resulted in the eviction of at least one cannabis club.
Although Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin Murphy ruled against the medical marijuana collectives, citing a lack of evidence to issue a ban on city officials from sending the letters, he did not throw out the case entirely. Murphy will listen to arguments from both sides at a hearing June 25. More on this...
Pot activists enlisting moms for legalization push
Legalizing Marijuana Just Makes Sense
A petition in California has placed a measure in support of the legalization of marijuana on the ballot for November, and the success of this measure will demonstrate the resolve of the American people not to be ignored by their government.
The federal government has exhausted all avenues through which to block the legalization of marijuana. They have inflated the budgets of law enforcement and bloated our prisons; they have refused the acknowledgment of well-known and well-regarded medicinal benefits, and they have demonized a harmless plant and the proponents of its use. They have done so consciously and maliciously, and the public has lost patience.
There is no political cloud obscuring this issue; it is non-partisan. The issue of the usage of marijuana is amoral because there is no causal harm to identify. The issue of legalization is a moral one. Is this not a victimless crime? Yet marijuana use is considered criminal. We have filled our prisons with more trifling drug users than violent offenders, and given out disproportionate sentences.
What arguments against legalization are left? Claims of marijuana being more harmful than alcohol or cigarettes have no basis in fact. Marijuana itself is not harmful.
According to "Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," published by the United States Department of Justice in 1988, Francis Young, the DEA's administrative law judge, said marijuana is safer than most foods we eat, and eating 10 raw potatoes can induce death while it is impossible to die from marijuana consumption. Click for more...
San Jose: Council votes on allowing, taxing pot dispensaries
As San Jose confronts a fiscal crisis forcing massive service cuts such as closure of popular community centers, the City Council moved Tuesday toward allowing medical marijuana collectives as a potential new source of revenue.
The council voted to approve a recommendation by Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio calling for an ordinance to be brought back in June that would allow a limited number of medical marijuana collectives and impose additional taxes on them to help support city services. The city clerk officially recorded the vote as 6-4, with Madison Nguyen, Nora Campos, Kansen Chu and Nancy Pyle opposed, and Councilman Pete Constant absent. Pyle later said she intended to vote with the majority, but the record had not been officially updated.
Mayor Chuck Reed initially urged the city to hold off until voters in November decide on a measure that would legalize recreational use of the drug. But he agreed to support Oliverio's proposal after he modified it to allow flexibility on the locations and taxes for collectives, and more time for city staff to prepare the ordinance. He cautioned that the proposal should not be seen as a welcome mat for marijuana drugstores.
"It doesn't mean anybody can do anything they want to do anywhere they want to do it," Reed said. "We're trying to implement state law in a way that allows us to control what we do in our city." More on This...
Medical marijuana supporters protest Medical marijuana supporters protest
Members of a Monterey cannabis club held a demonstration Monday afternoon, protesting a recent court order that prohibits them from dispensing medical marijuana at 554 Lighthouse Ave. Marc Rowland said the court order is forcing club members to get their medication on the street instead of in a safe environment, which their center provided. "We are trying to raise the public's awareness in a read more...
Hemp Cosmetics From The Czech Republic Helps Psoriasis And Eczema Get Down
Skin problems, their origin and treatment hemp cosmetics.
Do you suffer from psoriasis or eczema and even using the ointment and creams presribed by the doctor is not helping anything? In addition to these diseases, there are corticosteroids and other means.
Psoriasis is basically an accelerated process of reconstruction of the skin, which in this disease scales up to seven times faster.
From eczema in the world suffer 15 to 20% and from psoriasis about 3% of people. They often face the gaze of others. More on This...
Former GOP Governor Wants Pot Legal
A former New Mexico Republican governor on a national campaign to push for the legalization of marijuana found support yesterday in Columbia at the Muleskinners Democratic Club.
Gary Johnson, an entrepreneur-turned-two-term governor, was making the rounds in Columbia this week. He spoke to University of Missouri School of Law students Thursday and addressed the Muleskinners at their weekly luncheon before heading to a meeting last night of the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the ACLU.
Johnson dubbed himself the only elected official to have voiced support for legalized marijuana while in office from 1995 to 2003. That said, he has talked to lawmakers from both political parties who said privately that they support the idea.
Johnson said he began speaking out against the war on drugs as governor after he tried to crack down on drunken driving in his state. He was told law enforcement didn’t have the resources to significantly curtail the problem and the court system was too overburdened to deal with an influx of cases involving driving while intoxicated.
“Come to find out half of what police were doing and half of what law enforcement was doing and half of what the courts were doing was drug related,” he said.
Johnson said he began looking into legalization of pot as an alternative. “Little did I know the compelling reasons for legalizing it,” he said.
Just as Prohibition did not stop people from drinking alcohol, keeping marijuana illegal doesn’t make sense, he said, noting that it turns otherwise law-abiding, taxpaying citizens into criminals.
“Ninety percent of drug problems are prohibition related, not use related,” he said. More on This...
Classical music fans smoke the most dope
Lachlan Mackinnon, The Daily Record, 14th September 2006DANCE music fans enjoy the most sex - but lovers of classical music are more likely to have smoked cannabis.
And opera-goers have probably tried magic mushrooms, according to a startling study into the link between music and drugs. It also showed that 37 per cent of rap fans had more than one sexual partner in the last five years.
But country music fans prefer to stand by their man ...or woman.
Just 1.5 per cent of them had more than one sex partner in the five years.
Psychologist Dr Adrian North quizzed 2500 people across the UK on their musical tastes and lifestyle for the study. More on This...
Marijuana Cards Being Sold Without Doctors' 'OK'
Reporting David Goldstein
Los Angeles is about to implement some of the toughest restrictions in the state on medical marijuana dispensaries. But in an exclusive CBS 2 News hidden-camera investigation, we went undercover into medical clinics and found that recommendations for medical marijuana are being sold without ever seeing a doctor.
We found a man, who answers to the name of Dr. Scott, when he provides patients with what amounts to a prescription for medical marijuana. We don't know if he was smoking some of his own medicine or tobacco, when we caught him smoking a pipe in his car outside the clinic. But we do know he is not a doctor.
David Goldstein: "How do you do that? Only a doctor can give out recommendations?"
Dr. Scott: "I don't have to talk to you, dude."
Undercover producer: "I'm confused. Is this a doctor's office?"
"Yes it is."
At another location across town, a place bills itself as a doctor's office, but when we were there, there was no doctor, just prescriptions for sale and medical marijuana.
We found it over and over -- obtaining certificates to buy medical marijuana without ever seeing a doctor. More on This...
