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Glamor Model Charged With Meth: It Was Fake Snow

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By on Global, News

Photo: Star Now
Erin Alberino, pictured above, was arrested for methamphetamine — which she says turned out to be fake snow

​A New Zealand glamor model who was charged with possessing half a million dollars’ worth of methamphetamine said test results show the substance was harmless fake snow.

Erin Alberino, who is facing serious drug charges for the white powdery substance, said she had received results from Environmental Science and Research showing that the white powder was snow she bought from The $2 Shop, reports Bevan Hurley at the N.Z. Herald.
“The ESR confirmed that the substance was not methamphetamine, and that it was not an illegal drug of any kind,” confirmed Alberino’s lawyer, Fergus Steedman.
Alberino is on strict bail conditions at her parents’ home until her next court appearance on December 14.
“I would prefer to wait until after court but the results have come back as Instant Grow Snow, not methamphetamine,” Alberino said.
The model was arrested after a raid on a suspected “meth lab” in Feilding, New Zealand, last month. She was charged with possession of methamphetamine for supply, possessing cannabis, and permitting a vehicle to be used in the commission of a drug offense.
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Cannabis Trade Association Formed In Washington

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Photo: Cannabis Fantastic

​In a sure sign of the growing public acceptance of the medical marijuana industry in Washington State, two dozen members of the community have joined forces to create the Washington Cannabis Association.

The new trade group said in a statement that it “intends to be an active participant in shaping forthcoming legislation to reform Washington State’s medical cannabis law […] and to give the industry a public face as it seeks to provide safe, consistent access to medicine for qualifying legitimate medical patients in Washington State.”
“The medical cannabis industry has matured dramatically over the past year, and our new Washington Cannabis Association is proof,” said Philip Dawdy, WCA’s media director.
“The WCA is putting all of its resources into fixing our state’s vague laws governing how patients can get their medicine,” Dawdy said. “Patients are better served and our communities are safer when there are regulated and licensed operations which monitor quality and adherence to state laws while serving patients.”
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OMG, Britney Spears Smokes Pot! And Other Non-Surprises

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Photo: Jeremy Cowart/WireImage.com
At the end of her April 8 concert in Vancouver, Britney stopped performing because, she said, “people were smoking marijuana in the audience.”

​New audio released by Star magazine contains pop tart Britney Spears’ “confession of smoking marijuana,” and we are evidently supposed to be shocked and dismayed by this news. On the tape, recorded by Britney’s ex-husband, Jason Alexander, he also confesses to smoking pot, and says to her: “You know I got the best pot in California if you really want to smoke.”

Alexander’s admission is followed by a reply where Spears admits “I smoked the fucking joint and went back to bed,” reports Radar Online.
Alexander — who is friends with Spears, and was married to her for 55 hours in 2004 — said that Britney recently called him and told him her boyfriend and agent, Jason Trawick, had beaten her up and given her a black eye. He also claimed that Spears said she had aborted Trawick’s baby this year.
For it’s part, Britney’s camp has denied everything. Spears released a statement saying it’s all a bunch of lies, and “her people” have threatened a lawsuit.
The ex-hubby, however, is not backing down. Alexander passed a lie-detector test and produced an audiotape of the conversation. He told the Star that he “stands by the story 100 percent” and that he certainly knows what his ex-wife sounds like on the phone.
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Misdemeanor Pot Defendants Go To Jail In NYC — If They’re Poor

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New York City is the world “leader” in marijuana arrests. And if you don’t have bail money, you could be spending a couple of weeks in jail for a misdemeanor offense.

​Thousands of people charged with low-level marijuana “crimes” in New York City spend days in jail for these misdemeanors, not because they have been found guilty, but because they are too poor to post bail, according to a report released on Friday.

And faced with the choice of pleading guilty and getting out of jail, or fighting the charges and staying behind bars while awaiting trial, many of the defendants choose to plead guilty, the report said.

The report, which examines the bail conditions for people charged with non-felonies like smoking marijuana in public or jumping a subway turnstile, found the overwhelming majority of defendants in cases in which the bail was set at $1,000 or less were unable to pay and were sent to jail — where they remained, on average, for more than two weeks, reports Mosi Secret at The New York Times.
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Fight To Legalize Cannabis In African Nation Lands In High Court

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Photo: OurWeed
Swazi marijuana is one of the few pure Sativa strains left in the world.

​A challenge to the marijuana laws of the southern African nation Swaziland is going all the way to the High Court. Dr. Ben Diamini wants cannabis legalized, and he has also called upon the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade to grant him a 10-year exclusive license to grow “dagga,” as the herb is called locallly.

Dr. Diamini pointed out that in the past 5,000 years, no one has died of cannabis anywhere in the world. He wants to High Court to help him get an order allowing him to operate a cannabis processing factory and set up a marketing company, with all dagga growers in Swaziland as suppliers, reports Mtheto Lungu at Africa News. He said that his factory will then solicit orders from local and international pharmacies.
Diamini said he would involve international research institutions to conduct research on processed and raw cannabis.
Holding a doctorate in education and a bachelor of science degree with a major in chemistry, Diamini said cannabis is not a drug and is not addictive. He said it is neither intoxicating nor poisonous.
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Patient Advocates Protest LA County Marijuana Dispensary Ban

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Photo: Natl NORML
Don Duncan, ASA: “It’s not acceptable to marginalize the patient community in Los Angeles and deprive them of access to this important medication”

​In a move called unnecessary and hurtful by patient advocates, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to take a final vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county, rescinding dispensary regulations adopted by the board in 2006.

Members of the medical marijuana community, frustrated by the imminent passage of a ban on access to their medication, are planning to protest the board’s vote on Tuesday. They hope to draw attention not only to the need for access in unincorporated areas of L.A. County, but also a failure by the board to provide sufficient cause to rescind its existing regulatory ordinance.
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Overgrow The World: Pot Re-Legalization Through Inundation

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Photo: Full Stop India
Plant cannabis everywhere this spring. Overgrow The World!

​Overgrow The World has the same goal as most of us: “Full re-legalization of cannabis/hemp for all farmers and responsible adults around the world.” But OTW plans to achieve this goal through a unique method: planting marijuana in public, highly visible places.

A global “spring planting” is planned to specifically target areas which will be plainly visible, in order to get more national and international media coverage on the issue of cannabis re-legalization.
“Perhaps the simplest solution is the most visible,” reads the tagline on the OTW website, “and the idea is just that,” group founder ElectroPig Von Fökkengrüüven told Toke of the Town.
“I figured the best way to do that was to bring it to the streets of every city, town and village around the world,” the mysterious ElectroPig told us. “And if the plants are seen NOT chasing children down the street, and they are seen to NOT stick needles into people’s arms, maybe a bit of common sense ‘might’ start to filter into even the most willfully ignorant person’s mind.”
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Brighten A Pot Prisoner’s Day: Christmas Cards For Cannabis

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​The Christmas Cards for Cannabis effort, sponsored by the activist group Moms for Marijuana, gives you a way brighten the holidays for those who are being held in prison for weed.

“Help bring some hope to these friends of ours who are being held in prison for their involvement with cannabis,” said Amy Green of Moms for Marijuana.
Green invites everyone to join Moms for Marijuana in sending Christmas Cards for Cannabis. You can send a card with warm wishes to someone behind bars for a cannabis “crime.”
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Driver Flees On Foot After Marijuana Found In 18-Wheeler

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Photo: KXXV
This 18-wheeler had from 600 to 1,000 pounds of marijuana aboard, but the driver fled on foot after a Texas State Trooper found the weed.

​Law enforcement authorities are searching for a man who fled on foot after a large amount of marijuana was found inside his truck.

A Texas State Trooper stopped to check on an 18-wheeler parked on the northbound side of Interstate 35 in Waco around 5:20 Thursday morning, reports Louis Ojeda Jr. at News Channel 25.
The trooper asked to search the truck, and the driver seems to have foolishly given consent. Between 600 and 1,000 pounds of marijuana were found in the trailer, according to Cpl. Charlie Morgan, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
Two people were taken into custody, but the driver, Jose Juan Gonzalez Jr., 26, of Laredo, Texas, fled on foot and the cops are currently looking for him.
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‘Marijuana USA’ Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 8

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CNBC’s Trish Regan travels the country and finds that in many places, marijuana has already shed its back-alley stigma.

​​Marijuana USA will take CNBC viewers back inside the flourishing pot industry on Wednesday, December 8 at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. The one-hour documentary, reported by correspondent Trish Regan, looks at the world’s most commonly used illicit drug as it comes out of the shadows and into the mainstream.

As more states pass laws permitting the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the once vilified weed is being met with a newfound acceptance. Some hope — and others fear — that the whole country may soon be going to pot.
CNBC’s Trish Regan travels the country and finds that in many places, marijuana has already shed its back-alley stigma.

Regan reports from Colorado, where a new and thriving marijuana industry is providing much-needed money and jobs in a weak economy. The fast growing business is attracting a new generation of cannabis entrepreneurs — savvy young professionals emerging from the unlikely fields of finance, biotechnology, government and medicine — who are re-branding pot as a natural herbal remedy and selling it openly in dispensaries all over town.
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