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Officer Shoots Pregnant Unarmed Woman During Drug Raid

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​A pregnant, unarmed woman was shot during a drug raid in Spokane, Washington on Friday morning, and she remained hospitalized as investigators pieced together exactly what happened in the county’s third officer-involved shooting within a month.

A Washington State Patrol detective sergeant shot the woman, who is 39 weeks pregnant, while “serving a search warrant” at the Victoria Apartments on Lincoln Street, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, reports Meghann M. Cuniff of the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The shooting is being investigated by the Sheriff’s office, along with members of the Spokane Police Department and the Washington State Patrol.
Officers found no weapons in the home, confirmed Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan. He claimed they did, however, find drugs — crack cocaine, marijuana, and controlled prescription medications — during execution of the search warrant.
But a woman who identified herself as the victim’s mother, but who wouldn’t give her name, said there were no drugs or weapons in the home.
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15 Firms File Papers To Sell Medical Marijuana In Arizona

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​The rush is on. It isn’t even legal yet, unless and until the voters approve in November. But more than a dozen companies are setting up shop in Arizona in hopes of getting into the business of selling medical marijuana.

The initiative, if passed, will allow 120 dispensaries across the state, reports Howard Fischer of the Arizona Daily Star. Each one will be permitted to grow an unlimited amount of marijuana onsite and at one additional location, but cannot cultivate it within 500 feet of a school.
The Arizona law requires that medical marijuana dispensaries be set up as nonprofit corporations. But that isn’t deterring prospective dealers who hope to get one of those 120 licenses.
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Entrepreneurs Eager To Tap Into Saginaw Medical Pot Market

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Photo: Jared Hamilton/The Saginaw News
Keith Beyerlein, left, and Christopher Krieger, both of Reese, Mich., are the owners of GrowMart, a new hydroponic indoor growing store. The store’s merchandise could be used to grow any plant indoors, but they said 85 percent of their sales are to people who grow marijuana.

​Getting their first retail business off the ground in Saginaw, Michigan’s untapped medical marijuana market made sense to two 20-something entrepreneurs from Reese.

High school buddies Keith Beyerlein, 25, who graduated from Reese High School in 2003, and Christopher Krieger, 28, a 2001 graduate, opened their new hydroponics business, GrowMart, in Saginaw in mid-July, reports Gus Burns of The Saginaw News.
The business partners are quick to point out that their store doesn’t sell marijuana or paraphernalia.
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Canadian Medical Marijuana Patient Frustrated By Federal Delays

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​Jeff McKay has had a stressful eight months as he waits for Health Canada permit allowing him to possess and use an additional eight grams of marijuana to alleviate symptoms of HIV and Hepatitis C.

McKay, 37, of Guelph, already has a Health Canada permit allowing him to possess three grams of marijuana per day, which he takes to improve his appetite that he says has been drastically affected by HIV treatment, reports Thana Dharmarajah of the Guelph Mercury.
“Everything is riding on the balance of possessing that card,” McKay said. Following a doctor’s appointment in February, with a recommendation that he increase his daily intake of marijuana, McKay sent his application to Health Canada.
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Prop 19 To Legalize Marijuana Gains Support In California

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​A new poll finds growing support for a November ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in California.

Sunday’s survey by the nonpartisan Field Poll on Prop 19, which will be on the state’s November ballot and would legalize marijuana and tax its production, distribution and sale, shows more voters warming to the measure, which is now leading 49 to 42 percent, with 9 percent undecided.
A Field Poll in July showed the measure trailing, 44 percent Yes to 48 percent No, reports Jim Miller of the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
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Cervantes To Speak At S.F. Cannabis Expo September 25

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Jorge Cervantes, master cannabis cultivator, is among the distinguished guests at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo, San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 25.

​World-renowned cannabis cultivation expert Jorge Cervantes is expected to speak during the 2010 International Cannabis & Hemp Expo, at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 25. 
Cervantes will be taking a rare timeout from his most recent countryside video production to present an Expo exclusive, “Bud Porn: Getting Up Close & Personal With Your Buds.”
The Expo is held September 25 and 26 in San Francisco at The Cow Palace, and presenters said it aims to share a fresh new approach for cannabis education. 
“I’m honored to take part in this event that highlights cannabis as a global solution and the power we all have to help make that happen,” Cervantes said. “After eight years of self-imposed exile, it feels good to be in an America that is more free and to be able to legally grow medical cannabis.”
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Medical Marijuana Jars Offer Storage, Light Protection

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​​We all have our favorite ways to store cannabis. Some of us are old school, using sandwich baggies or zip-locks. Others favor stash cans, 35 mm film containers, plastic containers or mason jars. As for me, I just discovered my favorite stash jar a couple weeks ago: Violet Glass Jars from Medical Marijuana Jars.

Violet biophotonic glass provides the best protection from the sun’s damaging rays, and according to Medical Marijuana Jars, they are made to scientific standards insuring medicine stays fresher longer.
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Mich. City Approves Home-Based Medical Marijuana Operations

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​The Grand Haven City Council passed an ordinance this week allowing home-based medical marijuana caregivers to operate in the Michigan city.

The decision follows an initial moratorium issued back in February, reports Steve Patterson at WZZM. Registered caregivers now have the right to grow and distribute marijuana from their homes.
Caregivers who grow marijuana must work from home as licensed home businesses, according to the ordinance. They may not open storefront dispensaries like those in California and Colorado.
Also, caregivers can only operate from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., with never more than two patients in the same home. The home businesses must be at least 1,000 feet away from the nearest school.
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Maine Likely To Have First Marijuana Dispensary In New England

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Graphic: Maine.gov
Safe Harbor Maine is expected to open early next year in Biddeford, becoming New England’s first medical marijuana dispensary.

​Until two weeks ago, it appeared that Rhode Island would open New England’s first marijuana dispensary. Now it looks as if Maine will be doing the honors.

One of the two will be the first state in New England to open a compassion center to sell cannabis to patients registered in state-authorized programs.

“It appears our neighbor to the north will beat Rhode Island to the punch,” concedes W. Zachary Malinowski of The Providence Journal.
A spokesman for the Maine Health Department said the first of eight dispensaries across the state should open for business soon after January 1, 2011. Licenses have been awarded over the past two months to operate dispensaries in each of the state’s eight public health districts, according to the Health Department’s Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services.
Safe Harbor Maine Inc., a nonprofit organization, hopes to be the first to open early next year in Biddeford, Maine, not far from the New Hampshire state line. The business will probably serve fewer than 100 patients in the first year, according to Glenn Peterson, Safe Harbor’s CEO.
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Dispute Over Medical Marijuana Video Results In Lawsuit

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​The producer of an instructional video about growing medical marijuana said the advertising and consulting firms it hired have conspired to copy, distribute and sell the DVD without its permission.

Grow Scene Productions filed a federal lawsuit, saying it enlisted Haze Consulting, Get Me Goings Productions, Robert Pyne Media and Sareli Marketing to promote its video, Mary N’ Jane Present the Successful Indoor Cultivation of Medical Marijuana, featuring the fictional characters “Mary” and “Jane,” reports Maria Dinzeo at Courthouse News.
The companies allegedly told Grow Scene that the video would not be finalized or reproduced without Grow Scene’s written approval, but on August 17, Grow Scene found Haze promoting the video at a Las Vegas marijuana trade show.
When confronted, Sammy Trujillo of Haze said he was in the process of printing 10,000 DVDs for distribution at Seattle Hempfest later that month, according to the complaint.
Trujillo allegedly got the video from Robert Pyne, of, not surprisingly, Robert Pyne Media, and a man named Marlo Jordon “was responsible for ordering and paying for” the 10,000 unauthorized DVDs, according to the complaint.
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