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NJ Lawmakers May Change Overly Restrictive Medical Pot Rules

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 8, 2010 Legislation, Medical

New Jersey Senate and Assembly committees on Monday are looking at new resolutions to force changes to the overly restrictive medical marijuana rules proposed by the administration of Governor Chris Christie.

The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) issued draft regulations for the state’s medical cannabis program last month, reports Chris Goldstein at the Philadelphia NORML Examiner.

Among the new limitations proposed by the Christie Administration:

• A physician registry

• Capping THC content at 10 percent, compared to an average 18-20 percent in most medical marijuana states (no other state caps THC content)

• Having just three strains of cannabis available

• Forcing physicians to tell patients marijuana has a “risk of addiction“

• Limiting licensed cultivation to just two grow centers.

OMG! Charlie Sheen’s Porn Star Pal Is A Pothead! Wait, What?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 8, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: lazygirls.info

Porn star Capri Anderson, who recently called the cops on Charlie Sheen, was a teenage pothead! Yeah, I know. But that seems to be a pretty big deal to RadarOnline.com.

The porn star who Charlie Sheen recently trapped inside a New York City hotel bathroom during a cocaine-fueled sex-for-money exchange got busted for pot seven years ago, when she was only 15 — and the national press is now in a fine tizzy over the girl’s “secret drug arrest.”

Christina Walsh, a.k.a. porn starlet Capri Anderson, was arrested in April 2003 after she was caught with marijuana and drug paraphernalia, reports RadarOnline.com. At the time, Walsh was just 15 years old and in high school. (I know: apparently very high school.)

Report: Medical Marijuana Coming Soon To Israeli Pharmacies

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 8, 2010 Global, Medical

Graphic: IRXMJ.org

IRXMJ.org says it supports Israel’s sick, ill and dying with free medical marijuana.

The Israeli Health Ministry’s committee on medical cannabis recommended last Wednesday the addition of marijuana to the official list of medicinal drugs. That means it should be available in Israeli pharmacies within six months, if the Health Ministry accepts the recommendation, reports Phillip Smith at StoptheDrugWar.org.

The news was reported Sunday by the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine, which cited a Thursday newsletter from the Israeli embassy in Germany.

Dr. Yehuda Baruch, who heads up the medical marijuana committee, made the recommendation. Baruch said medical cannabis is helpful for multiple sclerosis, patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and for the relief of chronic pain.

Botched Raid: Mayor To Meet With Cops About Pot Enforcement

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 8, 2010 Growing, News

Photo: The Washington Apple

Way cooler than your average mayor: Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is reviewing marijuana enforcement policies after the botched raid of a legal patient

Battering Ram Raid Of Legal Seattle Patient By Machine Gun-Toting Officers Results In Review

Activist Group Invoices City For Cost Of Patient’s Door

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn will sit down Monday with top law enforcement officials to talk about how city police and King County deputies are enforcing marijuana laws.

McGinn, who supports legalizing marijuana, said a recent Seattle police raid in which only two legal medical marijuana plants were found shows the difficulties law enforcement officers face, report Emily Heffter and Sara Jean Green of The Seattle Times.

Seattle Anti-Crime Team officers brandishing machine guns burst through the door of Will Laudanski, a renter who was following state law and city policy on marijuana, according to a Seattle Police Department spokesman. The officers had a search warrant they had obtained after sniffing around Laudanski’s apartment and claiming to smell marijuana.

San Francisco Interview: Kevin Reed, Green Cross Dispensary

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 7, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

Photo: Luke Thomas/The Green Cross

Kevin Reed: “I like to hear what medicine or strain that people like or maybe want more of.”

4th Annual Medical Cannabis Competition Sunday, Nov. 14

Article and Interview by Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

Kevin Reed first started Green Cross Dispensary in 2004; soon the dispensary became too big for the neighborhood. Green Cross was shut down. After many negotiations and jumping through hoops with the city over possible locations, the best deal Reed could cut was to open a delivery service-only dispensary. That is where the situation stands today, except that he is looking aggressively for a new location.

“I miss not having the physical space of a dispensary,” Reed said. “I miss the interaction with patients. I like to hear what medicine or strain that people like or maybe want more of. Now the best I could I do is talk to my drivers. They tell me stories about the patients or their experiences. I really get jealous.”

Insured Home Deliveries Of Marijuana Start Next Week In Marin

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 5, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana

The Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana in Fairfax, California will start making cannabis deliveries to members of its collective next week, now that insurance concerns have been addressed, according to organizers.

“Finally!” said Lynette Shaw, founding director of the only licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Marin County.

Fairfax’s Planning Commission approved the marijuana delivery service in mid-June. Shaw said that since then, she has worked with the town attorney on the insurance coverage she’s required to have before starting operations, reports Richard Halstead at the Marin Independent Journal.

Shaw said the insurance policy, which is being provided by Sacramento-based Statewide Insurance (you seriously should do business with those folks), protects the town of Fairfax from any damages caused by the delivery service, as well as insuring the delivery people and their goods.

Pacific Island Almost Legalizes Marijuana, But Chickens Out

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 5, 2010 Culture, Global, News

Photo: EUCON

Can you say marijuana tourism? As soon as Saipan legalizes marijuana — which it almost did this week — the stoner dollars will start pouring in, mine included.

Ahhh… Sugar white beaches and sugar-frosted sticky buds.

A tropical Pacific island paradise almost just legalized weed — and no passport is required to visit from the United States, since it is a protectorate. While that stony dream may have just suffered a setback, it lives on and may soon be put up for a popular vote.

The House passed the marijuana legalization bill on Wednesday, but at least five of nine senators are lukewarm to the idea of legalizing marijuana in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which includes Saipan, Tinian, Ascuncion and Rota islands in the Pacific. This probably means the bill is doomed, reports Haidee V. Eugenio at the Saipan Tribune.

Analysis: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 5, 2010 Culture, Legislation, News

Photo: Democracy Now

Jon Walker, FireDogLake: “…Massachusetts is a strong candidate for becoming one of the first states to embrace legalization”

”If you want to win, you can do it here in Massachusetts”

~ Bill Downing, MassCann

Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions on Tuesday.

Massachusetts allows for citizens to put non-binding local “public policy questions” on the ballot, reports Jon Walker at FireDogLake. And voters in several precincts weighed in this year on whether their local representatives should “vote in favor of legislation that would allow the state to regulate and tax marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.”

More than 150,000 votes were cast on the marijuana issue across Massachusetts in districts containing about 8.5 percent of the total vote.

Veil-Wearing Woman Says Pot, Cold Medicine Caused Robbery

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 5, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: 3wishes.com

Here, dumb’s the bride?

A jury in Maryland has convicted a woman of burglary, assault and reckless endangerment for breaking into a neighbor’s house wearing “nothing but a bridal skirt and veil” — does that mean her boobs were out? — on a snowy night in February.

Thirty-three year old Melissa Wagaman testified in court Thursday that a combination of cold medicine and marijuana made her “hallucinate that she was getting married” and that her mother was locked in her neighbor’s basement, reports The Baltimore Sun.

Wagaman, in bridal get-up, head-butted a dining room window, causing shattered glass to cut an artery in her neighbor, Aaron Parrott’s arm.

The jury was having no part of defense arguments that Wagaman truly believed she needed to enter her neighbor’s house, and that she didn’t truly know she was endangering him.

Stoner Photo of the Day: Here’s How They Grow Weed In Oz

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 4, 2010 Global, Growing

Photo: Facebook

“Not much… Chillin’. Growin’ trees.”

These soaring 18-foot sativas are the bountiful crop of a proud grower in Australia, who reports that plants this size yield up to around 10 pounds each.

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