US CO: County Still Working On Medical Marijuana Regs
The Flume, 08 Jul 2011 – The extension of the statewide moratorium on the opening of new medical marijuana centers has given Park County officials extra time to come up with rules concerning the burgeoning industry.
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Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 10 Jul 2011 – When I need tomatoes for pasta sauce, I don’t walk down my street knocking on doors asking if anybody has ripe romas. I go to the grocery store. When I need a T-shirt, I don’t drive 1,200 miles to the nearest cotton farm, pick a […]
Read moreUS CO: Column: A Sad Waste Of Public Money And Resources
The Aspen Times, 10 Jul 2011 – The politics of pot in Colorado sure seem to be heating up to climax of some sort, don’t you think? As the state government continues in its determined effort to overrule the voter-approved legalization of medical marijuana, with prohibition-style tactics, the entrepreneurs who tried to make a legal […]
Read moreUS AZ: Editorial: There's Irony In Objections To ACLU Suit
The Sun, 08 Jul 2011 – There is a good deal of irony in objections from Arizona State Attorney General Tom Horne to an American Civil Liberties Union challenge of the state’s lawsuit involving the voter-approved medical marijuana law. Implementation of the new law has been temporarily delayed because Gov.
Read moreUS IL: Champaign's Finney A Leading Voice On Law Enforcement Issues
The News-Gazette, 10 Jul 2011 – CHAMPAIGN – Champaign Police Chief R.T. Finney was installed recently as the president of the 1,200-member Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, the first Champaign police chief to hold that post in the organization’s 70-year history. Former Rantoul police chief Eldon Quick was the only other Champaign County law […]
Read moreUS MT: Editorial: More Teens Listening To Drug-Free Messages
The Billings Gazette, 08 Jul 2011 – Montana high school students are using less tobacco, alcohol and other drugs than they were two years ago and much less than a decade ago, according to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The 2011 survey results released this week by the Montana Office of Public Instruction show […]
Read moreUS MT: PUB LTE: See Who Benefits From Medical Marijuana
The Billings Gazette, 10 Jul 2011 – As a patient, a caregiver and mother of a patient here in Montana, I find it amazing that people in Billings are not in an outrage at our City Council. On Nov. 9, 2009, our City Council voted to do nothing about zoning medical marijuana dispensaries as they […]
Read moreUS WA: PUB LTE: Court Gives Power To The States
South Whidbey Record, 08 Jul 2011 – To the editor: Please read the U.S. Supreme Court decision made June 16, 2011 ( www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1227.pdf ). This decision confers the sovereign constitutional rights of the state to the individuals of the state.
Read moreUS MT: PUB LTE: Law Assumes Growing Marijuana Is Easy
The Billings Gazette, 10 Jul 2011 – I wish the best of luck to people who have a bona fide need for medical marijuana. In the next few weeks, you will all mostly likely turn to scrupulous sources for your legitimate need. The 2011 Montana Legislature passed many benevolent laws, including one that repeals the […]
Read moreUS MI: Judges Snuffing Out Probationers' Medical Marijuana
The Daily Telegram, 10 Jul 2011 – ADRIAN, Mich. – Medical marijuana users who run afoul of the law are discovering probation is an antidote to their certification cards. An Adrian man was warned against applying for a medical marijuana card when he was placed on probation Thursday for a cocaine offense.
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