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| The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies says it will be the first marijuana training facility in the Northeast. |
The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies, a Rhode Island-based medical marijuana training center, announced on Thursday the September launch of its basic medical marijuana training class in Warwick, R.I., which it said is the first professional medical marijuana training class in the northeastern United States.
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| A Washington medical marijuana patient will be paid for his 15 cannabis plants after they were stolen, then recovered and taken into evidence by deputies. |
The plants, which are now being held as evidence in the criminal case against two men accused of stealing them, may be needed in court, and will likely spoil before they can be returned to their rightful owner, according to Kitsap County Sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson, reports Josh Farley at the Kitsap Sun.
"We don't want to provide something back that could cause illness," Wilson said.
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The key to so many problems in our world today is cannabis, the Tree of Life.
Cannabis hemp will displace petrochemical and pharmaceutical corporations that dominate our politics today, and decentralize wealth and influence at a time of growing technological advancement.
Stop the Drug War before they kick in your door.
For those facing execution for anti-cannabis laws in Malaysia and elsewhere, work for global cannabis freedom.
For those languishing in jails and prisons for anti-cannabis laws everywhere, work for global cannabis freedom.
For our forests, the web of life and the Mother Earth, which suffers from extraction of her resources and poisoning of our environment, work for global cannabis freedom.
For economic and political justice, work for global cannabis freedom.
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Dispensaries, Growing
Monday, Jul. 26 2010 @ 1:12PM
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The university said that, if it were to grow the herb, which is illegal for any purpose under federal law, it could lose out on millions of dollars of government funding, reports Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times.
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Dispensaries, Growing
Wednesday, Jul. 21 2010 @ 11:46AM
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The 5-2 vote came after two hours of heated debate between growers who argued the proposal could destroy their livelihoods, and businessmen who said it could turn Oakland into the Silicon Valley of marijuana, reports John Hoeffel at the Los Angeles Times.
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| If this is your garden and you live in Pitt Meadows, Mayor Don MacLean has a message for you: Get the hell out of town. |
The list of outlawed businesses in the sleepy little British Columbia town include massage parlors, X-rated video stores, strip bars, hydroponic gardening stores, nuclear power plants, used car lots, and even giant advertising icons placed on the tops of buildings -- you know, those big gorillas you see at car dealerships.
Existing municipal bylaws ban all those things in Pitt Meadows, and now they're going after legal medical marijuana -- the first town in Canada to do so, reports Rod Mickleburgh at The Globe And Mail.
"We are just saying 'no,'" said Pitt Meadows' longtime mayor, obvious Nancy Reagan fan Don MacLean, of the town's move to ban the production of medical marijuana.
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Warrants for possession of marijuana were served Tuesday for Michael R. Cabrera, 26, and Angie M. Cabrera, 25, of Suffolk, reports Tracy Agnew at the Suffolk News-Herald.
Police answered a domestic disturbance call about 8 p.m. Friday in the Hillpoint neighborhood, according to city spokeswoman Debbie George.
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Monday, Jul. 12 2010 @ 11:36AM
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A Royal Oak, Michigan man met with city officials in May to discuss his plan to avoid foreclosure on his 23,000-square-foot warehouse by leasing it to medical marijuana growers, according to documents posted on the city's website.
If all the warehouse's space is used for growing cannabis, the building could become the biggest marijuana facility in the state, Michigan Medical Marijuana Magazine publisher Rick Ferris told the Detroit Free Press.
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Federal prosecutors claim that Charles Edward Polly was growing at least 100 marijuana plants. They said he also had eight firearms, including four shotguns, reports Carl Keith Greene of the Corbin Times-Tribune.
Polly was also charged with intending to distribute "a mixture containing a detectable amount of marijuana," whatever the hell that means.
The 70-year-old wasn't supposed to have guns, and he had previously "been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year." Polly had weapons including two 12-gauge shotguns, one 20-gauge shotgun, one .410-gauge shotgun, two .22-caliber rifles, a .22-caliber revolver, and a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
Polly, along with Ann Marie Smith, 40, of London, Ky., were also charged Wednesday with misrepresenting qualifications for Supplemental Social Security income.
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| Joseph Lightfoot is a legally licensed caregiver with all his paperwork in order. But he's been charged with felony child abuse for growing medical marijuana. |
Joseph Daniel Lightfoot and Amber Brooke Wildenstein, both 29, were arrested after police noticed the grow operation when they were called to the home on a domestic-violence report from a neighbor earlier this month.
A police investigation found that "it had only been a verbal argument, so no domestic-violence crime had been committed," said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office, reports Michael Roberts at Denver Westword.
Three children, ages 7, 9, and 11, live in the home with the couple.
Because of the presence of the children, Lightfoot and Wildenstein are each facing one count of felony child abuse, according to the district attorney's office. They were released on $50,000 bond each.
