The Pot TV News for March 24, 2003
23 Mar 2003 17 minSENATE OKAYS MED MJ WITH $100 FINE
MARYLAND -- New law would allow a judge to impose a $100 fine if it is shown the herb is a medical necessity. Which makes us wonder -- if you die, do you only have to pay $50?
CANNABIS MEDICINE 'ON SALE THIS YEAR'
GREAT BRITAIN -- The first cannabis-based prescription medicines for more than 30 years will be available this year, according to the British drugs minister, Bob Ainsworth.
CANADIAN JUSTICE MINISTER AGAIN OFFERS DECIM -- TO DIVERT SUPREME COURT DECISION
OTTAWA -- A new hearing date of May 6 was announced last week by the Supreme Court and Mr. Burstein said he does not believe it is a coincidence that Mr. Cauchon is again talking publicly about decriminalization of marijuana.
PRESIDENT TO NOMINATE 1ST WOMAN AS DRUG CZAR
WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday announced his intention to nominate Karen P. Tandy, head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, as the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration. If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first woman ever to head the anti-drug agency.
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The Pot TV News for March 21, 2003
21 Mar 2003 21 minCOUNTY OKS MEDICAL MARIJUANA IDS
OAKLAND, CA -- After hearing from more than a dozen speakers -- some in wheelchairs and others with canes -- the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to support issuing medical marijuana identification cards.
CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW MEDICAL POT DISPENSARIES
HAYWARD, CA -- The City Council agreed Tuesday night to consider sanctioning medical marijuana dispensaries at its next meeting.
GOVERNMENT APPEALS MARIJUANA RULING
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND -- The federal justice department will appeal the ruling of a P.E.I. provincial court judge. Justice Ralph Thompson stayed a marijuana possession charge against a 19-year-old last Friday, challenging the federal marijuana laws.
MORE POT CASES STAYED BY P.E.I. COURTS
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND -- Three more men had charges of pot possession against them stayed in a province that has been notorious in the past for harsh punishments for cannabis defendants.
FEDS USE BOGUS ACCOUNTING TO HIDE REAL COST OF DRUG WAR
MOTHER JONES -- The White House has developed a new method of reporting federal drug spending that only incorporates "primary" drug war activities. The new budget cites incarceration and care for prisoners as "secondary consequences of the government's primary drug law enforcement," and will no longer be included in Federal spending reports of the cost of the drug war.
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The Pot TV News for March 19, 2003
19 Mar 2003 16 minTURN ON, TUNE IN, TAKE OVER!
VICTORIA B.C. -- Today's marijuana advocates never talk about dropping out. In contrast, at the fourth annual convention Monday of Hempology 101, speaker after speaker told of their battles working within the system. "We believe strongly in a civil, orderly, peaceful society," said Ted Smith, founder of Hempology 101.
POLICE MAY CONFISCATE COLLEGE DORM
NEW HAMPSHIRE -- McIntosh College is a small college of about 950 students that specializes in career-oriented education. Now, after arresting nine current and former McIntosh students on pot charges in August 2002, the local police want to confiscate the school's dormitory under federal civil forfeiture law.
CANADA'S TOP COP WANTS U.S.-STYLE POT GROW PENALTIES
SURREY B.C. -- Solicitor General Rich Coleman has issued a call for tougher, American-style penalties for pot growers, despite 72% support in polls for full legalization.
The Pot TV News for March 17. 2003
16 Mar 2003 19 minMEDICAL MARIJUANA TO BE IN DUTCH PHARMACIES MARCH 17
NETHERLANDS -- Under a groundbreaking new law effective March 17, physicians in the Netherlands will be able to prescribe medical marijuana and pharmacies will dispense it to patients as they do other prescription medications. This will make the Netherlands the first country to treat marijuana in the same manner it treats other prescription drugs.
AP REPORTS ON LORETTA NALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS -- A black deputy reminded her that marijuana's still illegal in the Alabama. She kept talking. "I told him that at one time it was illegal to help a slave to freedom in the state of Alabama."
JUDGE FREES MAN ON POT POSSESSION
CANADA - A judge in Prince Edward Island on Friday stayed charges of marijuana possession against a 19-year-old man, citing an Ontario ruling that said the charge of possession of marijuana is unconstitutional.
NY TIMES CRITICAL OF ASHCROFT
NEW YORK -- Mr. Ashcroft, once regarded as a peripheral, even clumsy, player in the Bush administration, has not only honed his skills as a bureaucratic infighter, he has also patched his tenuous relations with President Bush, who told Mr. Ashcroft last month that he was doing "a fabulous job."
The Pot TV News for March 14, 2003
13 Mar 2003 13 minCONGRESS GOES RAVING MAD
Once again the drunks who make drug police are demanding more police, prisons, judges, prosecutors and citizens as fodder for the Police States of America.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA APPEAL WEAK': JUDGE
Canadian judge finds appeal by government to be underwhelming.
COLLEGE PRESIDENT BUSTED FOR GROW OP
Another sad tale of how the narks cause far more harm than good.
Pot TV News for March 12, 2003
12 Mar 2003 25 minTHE IMPERIAL DRUG WAR
Somehow we knew that when Steve Kubby and his family moved from Orange County to British Columbia to avoid clashes with authorities over his medical use of marijuana he would not simply grow his medicine and stay quiet.
MEDPOT PATIENTS SEEK INJUNCTION FROM FEDS
In another legal setback for medical marijuana in California, a federal judge says two patients who used locally grown pot with their doctors' approval could face prosecution under federal drug laws.
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