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Pot TV News for May 5, 2003
05 May 2003 17 minPOLICE FAIL TO BLUNT TOKER'S BOWL
VANCOUVER -- Eight police, a police boat, a squad car and an undercover car were mustered to defend what is left of Canada's pot laws. However, police failed to thwart the 2003 Toker's Bowl Boat Party, and were forced to watch from the sidelines as 200 happy guests fired up and partied all night.
THE HEALING POWERS OF CANNABIS
By Dr. Robert Melamede, Biology Dept. Chairman, University of Colorado
UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN CANNABIS PROHIBITION
By Dr. Ethan Russo, Montana State University
CIVIL RIGHTS IN CANADA
Alan Young, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School
The Pot TV News for May 2, 2003
30 Apr 2003 20 minGOING TO POT: HIGH TIMES
ONTARIO -- In London, police say they could raid a different home used only to grow marijuana every day if only they had the time. "There's so many out there. I'm sure we don't even scratch the surface," said one undercover officer in the drug unit.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CLINIC IN FAIRFAX STILL BATTLES FEDS
SAN FRANCISCO --Standing up for patients' rights and rights in general is all in a day's work for Shaw, who has been a member of the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce since 1997. The way she sees it, someone has to do it.
MARIJUANA BUST LEADS TO DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE
HONOLULU -- A highly decorated Air Force pilot faces a dishonorable discharge and 14 days in the brig after being caught trying to smuggle less than one gram of marijuana.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CERTIFIED AS CANADA'S FIRST TOTALLY ORGANIC POT
DUNCAN, British Columbia (AP) -- Eric Nash and his wife, Wendy Little, are Canada's first licensed medical marijuana growers to have their crop officially certified 100 percent organic by the Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia.
PROFESSOR ALAN YOUNG:
What will happen now to the Health Canada medical marijuana regulations?
The Pot TV News for April 30, 2003
29 Apr 2003 23 minHEMP FOODS ON THE ROPES
Products containing the active ingredient in marijuana remain on the shelves as a federal court reviews a ruling that would ban them.
CANADA RETHINKS MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS
OTTAWA -- Under pressure from the courts to reform its medical marijuana policy, Health Canada is considering a Dutch option in which marijuana would be made available to needy patients at the corner pharmacy.
LOCKED AWAY IN PAIN
Jail shouldn't keep people from medicine in a civilized country, but it does in the case of Mike Patriquen.
POLICE MELLOW ON WEED
CALGARY SUN -- A poll showing increasing tolerance among Canadians for liberalized marijuana laws reflects the approach police are forced to take with the drug, said a Calgary Mountie.
GOING TO POT: 'BORN IN HYSTERIA'
ONTARIO -- Born in hysteria and nurtured by foreign policies, Canada's pot laws have survived decades of attempts to reform, toughen or quash them..
DR. ETHAN RUSSO:
WOMEN AND CANNABIS
The Pot TV News for April 28, 2003
27 Apr 2003 20 minCANNABIS MAY BECOME 'THE ASPIRIN OF THE 21ST CENTURY'
UK INDEPENDENT -- New studies show, "Cannabis could win a new role as the aspirin of the 21st century, with growing evidence that its compounds may protect the brain against the damaging effects of aging."
ED ROSENTHAL SUING HIGH TIMES
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- No one is saying how much money is in the trust that owns and finances High Times magazine, but Ed Rosenthal says he qualifies as a long term employee and he wants his share.
UN REAFFIRMS REEFER MADNESS, DESPITE PROTESTS
DRC NET (EDITORIAL) -- UN Narks complain, "And cannabis consumption and production not only remains intractable, it is "by stealth infiltrating our minds and our society in terms of acceptance."
CANCEL THOSE TRAVEL PLANS TO ITALY
UK INDEPENDENT -- Italy promised to sign up to a draconian regime of drug prohibition this week, even though many European governments are introducing more relaxed drug policies.
DR. ETHAN RUSSO COMMENTARY:
Will cannabis win a new role as the aspirin of the 21st century?
The Pot TV News for April 26,2003
26 Apr 2003 24 minUTAH JUDGE THROWS OUT PERON CASE
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) -- Fifth District Judge J. Philip Eves ruled Monday that because police entered the motel room of Dennis Peron, John Entwistle, and Kasey Conder, on Nov. 14, 2001, without a search warrant, none of the evidence seized could be used during trial.
GW PHARM RESPONDS TO CRITICISM
CANNABIS CULTURE -- UK med-pot researchers defend their research and methods in the face of criticism from Cannabis Culture.
STATE ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL
SACRAMENTO -- A bill introduced by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, contends that "the federal government is actively harassing and intimidating California patients and caregivers through prosecution, and the California Legislature should defend the will of the voters.''
EDITORS PREDICT WAMM SUIT COULD WIN
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL (EDITORIAL) -- "The lawsuit filed this week over medical marijuana growing in Santa Cruz contains some fascinating legal arguments."
DR. ETHAN RUSSO COMMENTARY:
Is GW Pharmaceuticals a threat or a savior to cannabis legalization?
The Pot TV News for April 24, 2003
23 Apr 2003 19 minFORMER SURGEON GENERAL REPORTS ON MEDPOT
DRKOOP.COM -- Former U.S. surgeon general and anti-medpot crusader Dr. C. Everett Koop reports.that researchers from the Institute of Neurology in London are now experimenting with marijuana to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
FEDERAL MARIJUANA TOO POTENT TO USE
OTTAWA -- Health Canada's medical tests delayed again; first crop inconsistent, second crop may be abandoned as "too strong," too hard to grow.
SANTA CRUZ TO SUE FEDS OVER WAMM RAID
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California county and its major city plan to sue the federal government on Wednesday to allow the use of medical marijuana in a lawsuit they said will mark the first legal challenge over the issue brought by a local government.
HALL CONVICTION CUT DOWN ON APPEAL
REDDING, CALIFORNIA -- A state appellate court has overturned convictions of a Redding mother and son found guilty of conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, but innocent of possessing it in a highly publicized medicinal marijuana case three years ago.