Author Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

Ban On Tourists In Dutch Cannabis Cafes To Begin Jan. 1

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 15, 2011 Dispensaries, Global, News

Foreign visitors will be banned from the “coffee shops” which sell cannabis in southern Netherlands starting January 1, supposedly to combat “anti-social behavior” among tourists. (So when do the tourists get banned from bars?) The ban won’t hit Amsterdam, however, until a year later, in 2013.

The Dutch Justice Ministry announced the ban was going forward after a consultation period, despite opposition from some MPs who called the move “tourism suicide, reports Travelmail Reporter at the Daily Mail.

Licensed coffee shops will be considered private clubs under the new rules. Their maximum of 2,000 members will be limited to Dutch residents 18 and older who carry a so-called “dope card.”

DARE Unit Pulled Over Carrying Marijuana Also Had Sex Toys

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 15, 2011 News

Pikeville KY

The DARE Dildo Debacle: Crime Commission President Calls For ‘A Hard Look’ At Backpack Full of Dongs

A Louisiana DARE unit that was pulled over in New Orleans last March carried not only marijuana, but sex toys and performance enhancing pills.

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education sport utility vehicle was at the center of a controversy earlier this year after it was pulled over and New Orleans police discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside on March 8, reports WDSU.

High IQ Linked To Drug Use: Decades-Long British Study

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 Global, News

Zazzle

It’s the smart thing to do.

The next time some buzzkill tries to hit you with the old drooling stoner stereotype, tell ’em about a new British study that finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults than people who score low on IQ tests as children.

The data come from the 1970 British Cohort Study, which has been following thousands of people over decades, reports Jennifer Bixler at CNN. The children’s IQ scores were taken at ages 5, 10 and 16. The study also asked about drug use, among other questions.

When the participants turned 30, they were asked if they had used drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the past year.

The study found that men with high childhood IQs were up to twice as likely to use illegal drugs than their lower-IQ former classmates. The difference was even more pronounced in girls, where those with high IQs were up top three times more likely to use drugs as adults.

SF Patients’ Choice Cannabis Competition 2011: Inside Report

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspo
ndent

The Fifth Annual Medical Cannabis Competition, ‘The Patients’ Choice,’ was the place to be Saturday night for local activists, growers and what could be called the backbone of San Francisco’s medical marijuana community.

A benefit for the ever-vigilant patients’ rights group, Americans for Safe Access, the affair started around two in the afternoon and went until the smoke cleared at 9 p.m.

While many local dispensaries and other cannabis friendly businesses help sponsored the event, everyone knows the joyous Kevin Reed, proprietor of the Green Cross dispensary, is the major force behind the night’s event.

Medical Cannabis, 30 Years Later: A Question

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 Medical, News

Irvin Rosenfeld

Irv Rosenfeld, a 58-year-old stockbroker from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, doesn’t look like a record-setting pothead. But he’s smoked more than 120,000 U.S. government joints since 1982.

On November 20, 1982, the United States federal government sent a Florida citizen 300 cannabis cigarettes in a shiny tin can.

The U.S. government, known the world over as a champion of preying on the sick with a weapon they call the “War On Drugs,” continues to send that same man the same ration of joints 29 years later.

This delivery of medicine is part of a “Compassionate Investigative New Drug” Program that exists to study “new drugs”, in this case, marijuana.

Over that 29-year period the government has performed no such study.

Irvin Rosenfeld of Florida will begin his 30th year of smoking cannabis cigarettes on November 20, 2011 — and he feels great.

Event Will Connect Ft. Collins Cannabis Patients With Caregivers

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Denver Westword

The Caregiver Connection event will be held at Harmony Wellness’s headquarters in Windsor, Colorado, on Friday, Dec. 16 and on the second Friday of each month thereafter.

Medical Marijuana Patient Resource Center Helps Patients to Stand United in Face of Bans

Since Fort Collins, Colorado recently voted to ban medical marijuana centers, or MMCs, about 15,000 NoCo patients have wondered: “What will this mean for the medical cannabis community in Northern Colorado?”

In response to a potential epidemic of no safe access for patients, In Harmony Wellness Services is providing pathways to patients for longterm solutions to be able to safely and reliably access their medicine, as outlined in Amendment 20.

14-Year-Old Boy Died From Smoking Plastic, Not Fake Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 News

KDKA

Brandon Rice, 14, died last month, four months after destroying his lungs by smoking Spice through a plastic PEZ candy dispenser.

Despite the true story having been available for some time now, many mainstream media outlets continue to inaccurately report that a 14-year-old Pittsburgh boy died last month after a lung transplant made necessary due to his smoking fake pot which destroyed his lungs in June.

As tragic as the story is — and as bad an idea it is to smoke fake pot — the eighth grader’s death was not, as widely reported, due to chemical burns on his lungs from smoking fake marijuana. It was due to the fact that he smoked the ‘Spice’ out of a plastic PEZ candy dispenser, which partially melted and coated his lungs with toxic chemicals, as reported more than two weeks ago by Lucy Steigerwald at Reason.

Inmates Accused Of Having Marijuana In Jail

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 14, 2011 News

LaSalle Southwest Corrections

Richwood Correctional Center is not a place you want to be, but it’s better with weed than without it.

Two jail inmates were arrested Monday at Richwood Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana, and charged with possession of contraband in a penal institution and simple possession of marijuana.

According to the Richwood Police Department, a correctional officer saw Chase Courville, 23, and Marcus Bruton, 26, make a “transaction” under a table in the jail, reports The News Star of Monroe, Louisiana.

When officers seized the substance, it tested positive as marijuana.

Man Gets Out Medical Marijuana At TSA Checkpoint, Gets Through

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 11, 2011 Medical, News

Mike Schaef

Mike Schaef put his medicinal cannabis in the scanner bowl at SeaTac, and after a short delay, he was given back his medicine and allowed to go on his way.

It’s usually not a good idea to whip out your medical marijuana while going through a Transportation Security Administration airport checkpoint, but sometimes, in some airports, in some medical marijuana states, it turns out OK.

Case in point: Mike Schaef of Tacoma, Washington, who operates North End Club 420, a medical marijuana patient collective garden.

When going through security at SeaTac airport just south of Seattle Friday morning at about 10:15, Mike put about two grams of cannabis in the scanner bowl in the TSA line.

Cities Can Ban Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Appeals Court

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 11, 2011 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

Mark Zaleski/Riverside Press-Enterprise

Medical marijuana patient Abel Chapa demonstrates in front of Riverside 4th District Court of Appeal as arguments are heard in two medical marijuana dispensary ban cases, one in Riverside and one in Upland

In a decision that could have immediate effects, California cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries within their borders, a state appeals court has ruled.

Other courts have upheld local governments’ authority to restrict and zone the locations of the shops, or even declare temporary moratoriums, but Wednesday’s ruling, in a Riverside case, was the first to address a citywide ban, reports Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle.

The issue has made its way through the California courts for years, but the opinion issued Wednesday is the first one that directly addresses the issue in unambiguous language, reports John Hoeffel at the Los Angeles Times. The decision upholding Riverside’s dispensary ban will likely result in more cities and counties prohibiting the pot shops.

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