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The Pot TV News for Monday, July 29, 2002
29 Jul 2002 23 minANTI-POT EFFORTS BOOST ICE USE
"Marijuana eradication in Hawaii contributed to the increase in the use of the drug "ice," according to a government study."
SUPPORT WIDENS FOR S.F. CANNABIS FARMS
"Beyond the one-liners, however, is the serious matter of how to get medical marijuana to patients in a structured, limited way that fulfills the will of the overwhelming majority of California voters who passed Proposition 215 in 1996."
VANCOUVER SUN CALLS FOR DECRIMINALIZATION
"The arguments against decriminalization are either trivial, specious or dishonest -- or all three. The arguments in favour of it are compelling."
CONGRESSMEN TELL FEDS TO BUTT OUT
A former aide to President Reagan and several members of Congress - including an openly gay, die-hard liberal; a one-time Libertarian presidential candidate and a Orange County Republican - said the time had come to end federal prohibition of medical marijuana in states that authorize its use.
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The Pot TV News for Friday, July 26, 2002
25 Jul 2002 25 minDRUG CZAR URGES POLICE TO "ACTIVELY OPPOSE" VOTER INITIATIVE
"Nevada is a state that is facing a crisis: the legalization of marijuana,"said Mary Anne Solberg, deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
LAMBETH CANNABIS EXPERIMENT SHUT DOWN
UK Police end successful program that reduced crime by up to 50% by diverting police away from arresting cannabis users.
S.F. CONSIDERS GROWING ITS OWN
"If the federal government insists on standing in our way locally, we must take matters into our own hands and protect the lives of our community members and protect their right to access life-saving medicine," said Leno, a Supervisor for San Francisco.
INTERVIEW: WAYNE JUSTMAN
Director of the SF Patient's Cooperative
The Pot TV News for Wednesday, July 24, 2002
23 Jul 2002 22 minCANADA'S CANNABIS REBELLION
The New York Times takes a surprisingly honest look and the reality of cannabis decriminalization in Canada.
WALL STREET JOURNAL LIES ABOUT POT
The First Amendment rightly protects the fraudsters at the Wall Street Journal, so for them the only punishment will be the contempt of a generation once the bubble of prohibition bursts.
CANNABIS REFUGEES BACK IN NEWS
CTV, CBC, and FOX jump into media frenzy after Cannabis Refugee article in U.K. Guardian
BC BUD, NO COPS AND HIGH TIMES FOR EDMONTON
"Imagine: burning a fattie while your butt is nestled into an oversized sofa. A waitress brings you a mocha latte and a veggie wrap as that unmistakably sweet scent floats with some subtle music across the room. A colourful, glass bong sits on every table and there's marijuana beer on tap."
The Pot TV News for Monday, July 22, 2002
22 Jul 2002 36 minHIGH COURT FIXES LUNGREN'S FRAUD
Learn how a tragic blunder by the campaign manager for Prop. 215 and fraudulent actions by former A.G. Dan Lungren, resulted in a disastrous interpretation of medical marijuana law that took six years and a Supreme Court decision to fix.
US CANNABIS REFUGEES CROSS BORDER
The U.K. Guardian and WorldNetDaily report on Americans seeking political asylum in Canada, due to persecution by their own government because of their use of medicinal marijuana.
PROSECUTORS DELAY BC SUPREME COURT APPEAL
The writ says "the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act fails to adequately exempt persons from criminal liability who possess or produce marijuana for personal medical use."
LAX MARIJUANA LAWS BAFFLE TOURISTS
National Post consults with BCMP Bookstore's Scott Hearty on marijuana laws.
A HIGHER IMMORALITY
ABC News reports the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and the Progressive Jewish Alliance are among the groups that are now opposing the drug war.
INTERVIEW WITH STEPH SHERER
The executive director of Americans for Safe Access wants California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to start doing his job and protecting sick people.
The Pot TV News for Friday, July 19, 2002
19 Jul 2002 32 minTORONTO STAR: REFORM MARIJUANA LAWS
"Canada's marijuana laws are not working. The country's police chiefs said so years ago. So did the Senate's legal affairs committee. Even the Canadian Medical Association Journal has joined the call for decriminalization of simple possession of cannabis for personal use."
A FUGITIVE, A HERO -- OR 'POLITICAL PRISONER'?
Eleven days ago, Mitchell Crooks was on the lam, wanted by police in Placer County, where in 1999 he'd skipped out on a seven-month sentence. Now he is a hero to those who have suffered from police brutality.
THE CIA'S MKULTRA PROGRAM
Hundreds of Nazi war criminals were given jobs at Edgewood Arsenal, which supplied the drugs, chemicals and poisons for the CIA’s counterespionage and assassination programs. Children as young as eight years old were subjected to trauma-based mind control programming to mold them into "Manchurian Candidate" spies, assassins and sexual blackmailers. ACHRE’s final report documented more than 4000 experiments, and anywhere from 16,000 to 23,000 unwitting victims.
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS 215
Ailing Californians who use or grow marijuana with a physician's approval are protected by state law from prosecution, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Thursday. In its first review of a 1996 medical marijuana initiative, the court said medical users who are arrested may have the charges dismissed without a trial if a doctor has approved use of the drug. Analysis by Attorney Bill Panzer.
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The Pot TV News for Wednesday, July 17, 2002
17 Jul 2002 23 minBUSH SPY CORPS ELICITS '1984' FEARS
Critics say that having Americans act as "domestic informants" is reminiscent of the infamous Stasi, the East German secret police service that snooped on ordinary East German citizens for more than 40 years.
SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS "LIFE OR DEATH" APPEAL
What part of "life or death," do they not understand?
CANADA TO DECRIMINALIZE?
Alliance MP Randy White, says Cauchon should wait to read the reports. "These are details that have to be worked out in the Commons, not for some obscure little minister trying to get political hits from the Canadian public, blurting out that he might decriminalize this."
MALAYSIAN ADDICTS TURN TO COW DUNG
"The cow dung emits gases like sulfur, and addicts sniff on these gases to get high,'' the official at the agency said on condition of anonymity.
ODD SQUAD COP BACK ON HOT SEAT OVER E-MAIL
"The politics are rapidly changing here, with a new chief of police, some new right-wing police board members and a new mayor to follow in a few months. . . .the steamroller of gentrification is on the move."
THE TALLAHASSEE PROJECT
Dr. John Beresford discusses his new book, written by female drug war inmates in a federal prison.
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