Yearly Archives: 2011

Hemp For Jobs: KC Hempfest This Saturday

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2011 Culture, Products

KC NORML Hosts Annual Hempfest this Saturday, September 17 In Hodge Park Beginning at High Noon

The annual KC Hempfest hits Kansas City this Saturday in Hodge Park. The event, sponsored by the Kansas City affiliate of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), is free and open to the public and will take place at the amphitheater located within the park.

Missouri Governor’s Son Cited For Marijuana Possession

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2011 News

Riverfront Times

Willson Nixon, 21, son of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, got busted for pot early Saturday morning.

The son of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was issued a citation for possession of marijuana early on Saturday.

Police officers claimed Willson Nixon, 21, tried to hide the weed after they were sent to a loud party at Brookside Apartments in Columbia, Missouri. Upon entering the complex, police claimed they detected an “overwhelming smell of marijuana in the hallway.” They also found multiple apartments with open doors.

“This is a private matter that will be handled through the municipal process,” the governor said, reports Mark Slavit at KCRG. “My son is a fine young man, and we will be working through this issue as a family.”

What would be even cooler, Governor, is if you “worked through this issue” as a STATE, and got Missouri’s nonsensical pot laws off the books.

“We’ve been getting calls about loud parties at this complex every weekend,” claimed Jill Wieneke, spokeswoman for the Columbia Police Department.

Bulgarian Farmers Switch From Tomatoes To Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2011 Global, Growing

Fresh Plaza

Cannabis has proven to be a tempting crop for low-income pensioners in Bulgaria

Farmers in southwest Bulgaria have decided to put aside traditional crops such as tomatoes for something more profitable — cannabis. The only problem is, marijuana is still very illegal in this impoverished eastern European nation.

But that’s the very reason weed is more profitable than tomatoes or corn. Black market profits are hard to turn down if you’re on a fixed income, perhaps retired and elderly, and your meager pension doesn’t cover the rising cost of living, reports Fresh Plaza.

According to Terra.com.pe, Bulgaria, one of the poorest countries in the European Union, has very low pensions, making the temptation to enter the world of cannabis cultivation very strong. Marijuana brings 15 euros a gram on the Bulgarian black market, which beats the hell out of tomatoes.

Violent Attack At Marijuana Rally Ignored By Police

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2011 News

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According to bystanders, the man pictured at right allegedly used the sign he is holding in the photo to strike a pro-marijuana protester in the head. Police refused to do anything about the incident, smilingly saying it “looked like an accident.”

A violent attack by an anti-marijuana individual on a pro-marijuana protester at a medical cannabis rally in Michigan last week was ignored and laughed off by police who saw the incident, according to eyewitnesses.

The attack, which occurred at the medical marijuana rally at the state capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, happened to medical marijuana patient/activist “J.,” according to eyewitnesses.

“He got smacked in the head (purposely) by the guy with the ‘Say No To A Pothead Society’ sign and told he ‘could now go to hell,’ ” activist Zig Zag Man wrote in a Facebook note.

“J. had his sign raised higher than the idiot and when J. put his sign down to rest (sort of heavy), the anti-pothead swung his sign and hit J. in the face and twisted his head out of his normal ‘range of motion’ with the titanium plate holding his neck to his spine (he even had his neck brace on),” Zig Zag Man wrote.

“J. got over to the cop (adrenalin rush) and said ‘I want him arrested for assault,’ and the cop smiled and said, ‘Looked like an accident to me!’ “

The Marijuana Business: No Pictures Please, I Got A Family Here

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 13, 2011 Culture, Growing

Mother Jones

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

The man under the faded Giants cap wiped his forehead again for about the thousandth time. It was hot and it was late. Harvey should have been here 30 minutes ago.

The duffle bag in the back of his ancient Charger ticked like a tell-tale bud wanting to get out. The man wanted to go. He had pressing business at 2:30 that he couldn’t be late for. Then there was this other guy to hook-up with.

His long mane fell out of the cap as he ran his hand through that swamp of molted hair looking for dust on the horizon. It was a little before 2 and the temperature was deep into the red.

Between the LB’s in the trunk, the Charger’s engine actually ticking under the midday sun, and the clock in his head counting off like a nasty verbal egg timer telling him he needs to get moving if he wants to make his hook-up and his 2:30, he was getting nervous — for a man who doesn’t get nervous. The man would have started pacing if it wouldn’t have looked too suspicious.

Beleaf In Nature® Offers Medical Marijuana Apparel

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 12, 2011 Culture, Products

Beleaf In Nature

There’s clothing, and then there’s clothing that makes a statement.

Beleaf In Nature® clothing is the second kind; the company designs medicinally oriented apparel for the medical marijuana movement.

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill pot t-shirts; Beleaf In Nature has created some of the most unique art in the cannabis culture.

The shirts aren’t focused on individual strains, but capture the themes of Beleaf In Nature and Releaf Thru Nature with high-resolution animated characters such as Mr. and Mrs. Greenbuds, Dr. Greenbuds and the old classic American Gothic revisited.

“The history and culture of cannabis as a medicine and the necessary elements produced from cannabis is our unique approach,” sales guy Eric from Beleaf In Nature told Toke of the Town. “Our goal is to create a line of apparel that would make any patient proud to wear our tasteful designs and let the world know its time has arrived and I Beleaf In Nature!”

Man Caught With Marijuana… At Police Station

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 12, 2011 Global, News

Skyscraper City

The Argao police precinct station in Cebu, Philippines: Not a good place to bring your stash

An Australian man was arrested when marijuana was found in his possession while he visited two female friends jailed at the Argao police precinct in Cebu, Philippines Saturday night.

Police said crushed, dried marijuana wrapped with tinfoil was recovered from Gary Frank Brough, who went to the Argao precinct around 9 p.m. to visit his two friends, who were being detained on theft charges, reports Jucell Marie P. Cuyos of the Inquirer News.

Brough wasn’t allowed to visit the two women since visiting hours are only from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., but police claim he “insisted on entering.”

Employee Fired After Commenting On Marijuana Email; Files Suit

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 12, 2011 Culture, News

Hemp News

After being fired for responding to a coworker’s email about marijuana, a Louisiana man has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Pan America Laboratories in federal court in New Orleans.

Krisner O. Green, who filed the suit on September 8, was employed by Pan America from July 2010 until his firing in September 2010, the lawsuit says. Green says he was subjected to racial remarks and a racially hostile work environment during his three-month employment, reports Michelle Keahey at The Louisiana Record.

Google Maps-Type Listing Launched For Marijuana Dispensaries

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 12, 2011 Dispensaries, Products

PotLocator.com

Cheeba.com, which calls itself “the medical marijuana industry’s first and only cannabis-based search engine and advertising platform,” on Monday launched a Google Maps-type listing system for dispensaries, marijuana doctors, and smoke shops.

The new marijuana mapping system is the cannabis equivalent of Google Maps. When a user searches for dispensaries and collectives, doctors, lawyers, head shops or any other type of marijuana-related business, local business listings are displayed on a map based on the actual search criteria as well as the user’s IP address.

The search platform at Cheeba.com now integrates sponsored listings from PotLocator.com directly into Cheeba and gives canna-businesses a free, realtime advertising portal via access to its official Twitter page, according to Jason Draizin, chairman and CEO of parent company the Medical Cannabis Network (MCN).

Marijuana Dispensary Partners With Cannabis Testing Lab

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 12, 2011 Dispensaries, Products

Holistic Herbal Healers

Holistic Herbal Healers, a medical marijuana dispensary in San Jose, California, has recently formed a partnership with Pure Analytics, a Santa Rosa-based cannabis testing lab, to have all of their medicine tested to ensure it is free of harmful chemicals and contaminants, and to inform patients of its potency.

“We are excited to offer our patients the extra peace of mind that testing by Pure Analytics brings,” said the office manager at San Jose Wellness Center Holistic Herbal Healers. “We are committed to ensuring that all of our medicine is clean and safe.”

Pure Analytics tests marijuana flowers and edibles to ensure they’re free of dangerous pesticides, molds and fungi. They also use chromatographic analysis to verify concentrations of THC, CBD and CBN, the three cannabinoids most associated with marijuana’s healing properties.

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