Yearly Archives: 2011

Stoner Photo of the Day: Platinum OG Kush

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 7, 2011 Growing

Photo: Royce Good

There are between two and three ounces of medicine on this plant, according to the grower.

“This Platinum OG Kush turned out so good,” cultivator and Toke reader Royce Good told Toke of the Town.

One thing’s for sure: It’s nothing but trichomed-out buds, from head to toe.

My fingers practically get sticky just looking at it!

Marijuana Decrim Advances In Hawaii; Pot Would Be $100 Fine

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 7, 2011 Legislation, News

Photo: Zazzle

A bill that would reduce the penalty for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana to the status of a traffic violation has been approved by two Hawaii Senate committees.

The Committee on Judiciary and Labor with the Committee on Health to pass SB 1460 on Friday afternoon, February 4, reports the Hawai’i News Daily. The bill establishes a civil violation for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana that is subject to a fine of not more than $100.

The bill would also delete reporting requirements of the board of education for students possessing an ounce or less of pot, and clarifies that medical marijuana patients and primary caregivers may assert an affirmative defense to prosecution, criminal or civil, involving possession of one ounce or less.

Possession of more than an ounce of marijuana would be excluded from the state courts and state paroling authority to require defendants or paroled prisoners to undergo and complete substance abuse treatment.

Patient Burns Marijuana Crop After Being Threatened

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 7, 2011 Growing, Medical

Photo: Ben Watanabe/South Whidbey Record

Captn Blynd sets a pile of marijuana plants and buds ablaze outside his Freeland, Washington home after he said he received threats against his medical marijuana cooperative.

The founder of Whidbey Island’s first medical marijuana cooperative has followed through on his pledge to destroy his supply of medical marijuana following perceived threats to his wife and himself.

Captn Blynd, of Freeland, Washington, stacked 11 juvenile and mature cannabis plants and a kilogram jar full of a half-pound of dried marijuana buds on top of a pile outside his home last Tuesday, poured a fifth of Monarch 151 rum tincture on it, and drenched it all with gasoline, reports Ben Watanabe of the South Whidbey Record.

“Do I look like a rich guy to you?” Blynd asked. “Somehow I don’t think I am. This is plant matter. It’s not money, it’s not power, it shouldn’t reflect wealth. It’s legalized to make sick people feel better. That’s what it did for me.”

R.I. Looks At 18 Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 7, 2011 Dispensaries, News

Photo: Kathy Borchers/The Providence Journal

A large crowd turned out Monday morning for public hearings on the 18 applications for licenses to operate medical marijuana compassion centers in Rhode Island.

A large crowd turned out for the Rhode Island Department of Health’s hearing Monday morning to gauge what the public has to say about the 18 applications for licenses to operate medical marijuana dispensaries, or compassion centers as they are known in the state.

The hearing kicked off with three elected officials expressing strong opposition to the compassion centers. Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung, Rep. Peter Palumbo (D-Cranston), and Rep. Doreen Costa (R-North Kingstown) all expressed “grave concerns” about the proposed dispensaries, reports The Providence Journal.

Fung, who serves as public safety director for Cranston, said that Congress still characterizes marijuana as “a dangerous drug,” and he doesn’t want a compassion center in his city.

NM Medical Cannabis Law Will Continue For Now; Gov. Opposes

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2011 Legislation, Medical

Photo: Terra.com

N.M. Gov. Susana Martinez opposes safe access for patients, and wants to repeal her state’s medical marijuana law.

New Mexico’s medical marijuana program will continue for now, although the state’s new Republican governor has made it clear she dos not support the law, which allows people with certain medical conditions to use cannabis.

Gov. Susana Martinez said during her campaign that the state’s medical marijuana law puts state employees in the position of violating federal law and she’d like it repealed, reports the Associated Press.

But she also said New Mexico had pressing budget issues, so repeal is “not a priority” in the 2011 legislative session.

Oakland City Atty. Tells Council: Hire Your Own Pot Farm Lawyer

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 5, 2011 Growing, Legislation

Photo: nowtruth.wordpress.com

Oakland City Attorney John Russo doesn’t want to play Pot Farm with the City Council anymore.

Russo has delivered another blow to the city’s plans to license and tax large-scale marijuana farms — he’s withdrawn his legal advice and told the City Council to hire their own attorney.

In the letter Russo advises the council to retain outside counsel for the duration of the deliberations on the medical cannabis cultivation issue, reports Cecily Burt of The Oakland Tribune. He said that once an attorney has been secured, his office will turn over the files it has amassed so far.

Medical Marijuana Debate Gets Heated In San Bernardino

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 4, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, Medical

Photo: ASA San Bernardino County

The debate over medical marijuana dispensaries grew heated Thursday morning at the San Bernardino County Planning Commission meeting, which was set to vote in the afternoon on a staff proposal to ban the facilities in unincorporated areas.

Outside the county government center shortly before the hearing, 30 to 60 advocates rallied in support of safe access to medical marijuana, reports Natasha Lindstrom of the Victorville Daily Press. Activists carried signs reading “Pills Kill,” “Collectives, Not Street Drugs” and “Marijuana = Medicine.”

Some of the patients smoked cannabis outside the government building as they protested, according to the Daily Press.

Meanwhile, those favoring a dispensary ban criticized the medical marijuana facilities, claiming they “increase crime and blight” in surrounding neighborhoods and are “widely abused by young adults.”

The Planning Commission, likely a bit taken aback by the vociferous debate on both sides, delayed a vote until February 17, so the issue remains unresolved for now.

Man Arrested After Calling 911 For Marijuana Growing Advice

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 4, 2011 Growing, News

Photo: Danbury News-Times

Robert Michelson, 21, thought it would be a good idea to call 911 to get legal advice on growing marijuana

Well, at least he got an answer to his question. A Connecticut man who called 911 looking for legal advice on growing marijuana is now facing multiple drug charges.

Robert Michelson, 21, allegedly called Farmington Police Thursday night to ask “how much trouble he could get in” for growing one marijuana plant, police said, reports the Danbury News-Times.

The dispatcher advised Michelson that he could be arrested. Michelson then thanked the dispatcher and hung up.

Police then traced the call to an address on Waterville Road. Narcotics officers from Farmington went to the house and reportedly discovered that Michelson was — surprise, surprise! — growing marijuana.

Feds Warn Oakland: Industrial Marijuana Farms Are Illegal

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2011 Growing, News

Photo: Adrian Rushton/Colchester Gazette

There was some more ominous saber-rattling from federal drug warriors Wednesday as a U.S. Attorney strongly warned Oakland that big industrial marijuana farms are illegal, and that the Department of Justice is considering “civil and criminal legal remedies” if the city goes ahead with its plans to permit them.

In a letter [PDF] obtained by The Bay Citizen, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag warned that the DOJ is “concerned” about Oakland’s “licensing scheme that permits large-scale industrial marijuana cultivation and manufacturing as it authorizes conduct contrary to federal law and threatens the federal government’s efforts to regulate the possession, manufacturing, and trafficking of controlled substances.”

The central point of Haag’s letter was clear: Marijuana is illegal under federal law.

Microsoft Claims Drug Cartels Selling Fake Copies Of Its Software

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2011 News, Products

Photo: Fugitive.com

This stash of cash totaling $205 million was stolen, I mean seized, from Mexican drug cartel members by Mexican Federal Police and the American DEA during a joint raid on a suspected cartel boss’s home

Gotta watch those darn south of the border “drug cartels.” Not only have they fought back against Mexico’s War On Drugs, resulting in thousands of deaths, but now they’ve gotten into Bill Gates’s pockets, too.

Drug cartels are making fake copies of Office 2007 and selling ’em on the streets of Mexico, at least if you believe David Finn, Microsoft’s associate general counsel for anti-piracy, reports Curtis Cartier at Seattle Weekly.

Finn showed off a copy of counterfeit Office software “brazenly” stamped with the rectangular “FMM” logo of La Familia drug cartel, reports Heather Smith at Bloomberg.

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