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The Pot TV News for March 10, 2003
10 Mar 2003 10 minMichele Kubby tells Refugee Board Gordon Starr lied and then gives them the evidence. Board says despite his behavior, Starr cannot be legally removed.
THE IMPERIAL DRUG WAR
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER EDITORIAL -- "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. . . We hope the Kubbys are allowed to stay in Canada for now. But the real solution to their problem and the problems of thousands of seriously ill people is for the United States to adopt more rational drug policies."
DON'T MISS OUR PROFESSOR ZIGGY SEGMENT AT THE END OF TODAY'S SHOW!
The Pot TV News for March 8, 2003
08 Mar 2003 25 minSteve was placed on I.V. antibiotics and rest for three weeks, forcing a postponement of the current hearings. Here is some, but not all of the media coverage on this hearing.
U.S. POT SMOKER SEEKS REFUGEE STATUS
'POT REFUGEE' MAY BE FORCED TO LEAVE CANADA
AMERICAN POT ADVOCATE SEEKS REFUGEE STATUS IN CANADA
HEARING FOCUS OF WAR ON DRUGS
DON'T MISS OUR PROFESSOR ZIGGY SEGMENT AT THE END OF TODAY'S SHOW!
The Pot TV News for March 5, 2003
04 Mar 2003 26 minNO PRISON FOR JEFF JONES
In a remarkable reversal Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter A. Nowinski threw out the three-month prison term he imposed last week on medical marijuana activist Jeff Jones and placed him on probation for three years. Judge said he was moved by a demonstrator who handed him a flier headed, "How could this happen in America?" and asked, "Did you hear what happened here last week?"
PAT MCCARTNEY:
Journalist Pat McCartney explains his upcoming testimony in the American Pot Refugee hearings.
The Pot TV News for March 3, 2003
02 Mar 2003 26 minNARKS FURIOUS AT D.A. FOR PROSECUTING BAD COPS, DEFENDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA
SAN FRANCISCO -- "I'm an activist. I have experienced the negative side of law enforcement. I don't automatically assume the police are always right," said Terence Hallinan, District Attorney for San Francisco, after obtaining a grand jury indictment against the S.F. Police Chief.
RCMP CAN'T USE SATELLITES TO FIND DRUGS
OTTAWA -- Canadian police are no longer high on the idea of using space satellites to detect illicit marijuana fields. Following a trial of the experimental method in British Columbia, the RCMP found that Canadian growers are quite good at evading aerial detection.
POLICE STILL HARASSING RICK REIMER
ONTARIO -- Rick Reimer won a landmark acquittal in January for impaired driving while under the influence of marijuana, but that hasn't stopped the Ontario Provincial Police from secretly asking the Ministry of Transportation to pull his driver's licence for impaired driving.
CONSERVATIVE POLITICIAN ATTACKS REFUGEE HEARINGS
Abbotsford MP Randy White vows he’ll stop a U.S. medical marijuana users from gaining refugee status here in Canada, a precedent he says could open the floodgates to thousands of drug users from south of the border.
UN ATTACKS BLUNKETT'S NEW CANNABIS LAW
"The intellectual poverty of the prohibitionists is so obvious that it no longer merits serious discussion. They are not interested in evidence from the real world; they are simply blinkered ideologues. Yet the INCB still tries to enforce the catastrophic US model across the globe."
POLICE WAR ON POT HURTS KIDS
Children of pot growers face horrific abuse by police.
The Pot TV News for Feb 28 - Mar 02
28 Feb 2003 33 minJEFF JONES SENTENCED TO 3 MONTHS
SAN FRANCISCO -- Angry that the attorney for Jeff Jones blamed a fellow judge for disrupting a major pot trial in Sacramento federal court, a magistrate judge sent Jones to prison for three months and to pay nearly $4000 in fines.
POT JURORS SAY THEY RECEIVED OUTSIDE LEGAL ADVICE
ALTERNET -- Lawyers for convicted medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal say he is entitled to a new trial because two jurors in the case received outside legal advice that compromised their ability to make an impartial judgment.
MARIJUANA IN SPORTS
ESPN -- Marijuana is illegal -- and apparently, among today's athletes, popular. The news has a constant litany of athletes linked to marijuana.
OPERATION PIPE DREAMS IS A NIGHTMARE
ALTERNET -- I'd like to direct Mr. Brown to the Web site of revelationarms.com of Aloha, Oregon. They will sell me a gun silencer, online.
CANNABIS CORNER
Professor Ziggy show you what tools work best.
The Pot TV News for February 26, 2003
25 Feb 2003 26 minU.S. RAIDS FIRMS SELLING PARAPHERNALIA
WASHINGTON -- "People selling drug paraphernalia are in essence no different than drug dealers," said John Brown, acting DEA chief. "They are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."
BONG WEB SITES TO BE USED BY DEA TO CATCH VISITORS
INTERNET -- If the court orders the sites to be redirected, Ashcroft said, they will point to a DEA.gov Web page where, "we may take additional steps to identify you based on this information, and we may share this information, including your identity, with other government agencies."
DA AND COPS SEEK REVENGE ON LEGAL PATIENT
CALIFORNIA -- Mike Loftus, who is disabled and uses prescription marijuana to prevent dizziness and nausea, was arrested and cleared of illegally possessing the drug in 1999 and 2001. Now, under a 6-plant guideline enacted by local law enforcement agencies last year, county prosecutors have re-charged him with felony possession of an illegal drug for sale and child endangerment.
CALIFORNIANS ANGRY AT DAVIS, WARY OF BUSH
CALIFORNIA -- Growing dismay over the state's shaky fiscal future and the possibility of war with Iraq have them angry at Gov. Gray Davis and increasingly wary of President Bush, a new poll showed today.
ANTI-AMERICANISM IS ON THE RISE IN CANADA
CANADA -- There's a rising wave of anti-Americanism in Canada. It's partly about anti-war sentiment, which runs deep in this country. It's partly about the perception of George W. Bush as a cowboy. But it's largely about America's wealth and power.