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Mexico Proposes Jailing Musicians For Singing About Drugs

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 29, 2010 Culture, Global

South Central has gangsta rap. Mexico has narcocorridos.

Dudes, if you don’t like the song, maybe you should just change the station. A new proposal by Mexico’s ruling party could result in prison sentences for musicians who perform songs that “glorify drug trafficking.”

The proposed law would mean up to three years behind bars for those performing or producing songs or films that the government deems “glamorize criminals,” reports The Associated Press.

“Society sees drug ballads as nice, pleasant, inconsequential and harmless — but they are the opposite,” claimed Oscar Martin Arce, a National Action party Member of Parliament.

There are so many of the drug ballads, there’s even a name for the genre — narcocorridos. The songs often describe drug smuggling and related violence, and are increasingly popular among some norteño bands.

Marijuana Advocates Condemn Federal Raid Of Denver Potency Lab

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 29, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Photo: Westword

Cannabis potency testers Full Spectrum Laboratories were raided by federal agents Wednesday. Marijuana samples were seized, but no arrests were made.

Federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration earlier this week raided a Denver potency testing laboratory and seized medical marijuana samples.

Cannabis advocates say the federal raid is the latest example of continued official harassment of the medical marijuana industry, reports John Ingold at The Denver Post.

The raid of Full Spectrum Laboratories happened on Wednesday, according to Betty Aldworth, the lab’s outreach director. Aldworth said federal agents took dozens of medical marijuana samples, both small amounts of pot and test tubes of “extraction fluid,” but left the lab’s equipment.

No employees were arrested.

Aldworth was at the State Capitol to watch lab co-owner Bob Winnicki testify about State Senator Chris Romer’s new medical marijuana bill when both Full Spectrum employees got an email letting them know the DEA had “stopped by” the lab, reports Michael Roberts at Westword.

By the time Aldworth and Winnicki got back to the lab, “it was full of DEA agents” and other local law enforcement hangers-on who spent the next several hours seizing all the marijuana they could find.

Grandpa, 67, Holds Off Three Marijuana Robbers

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 28, 2010 News

Photo: CBS13.com

If you plan on stealing James Tillman’s marijuana, you’re going to need more than three guys.

They’re not going to get James Tillman’s weed.

Tillman, 67, on Sunday shot and wounded one of three burglars who broke into his Sacramento, California home to steal his medical marijuana, reports Elyce Kirchner of CBS13.com.

The other two fled and haven’t been seen since.

Mr. Tillman was definitely having none of their nonsense. After all, his grandkids were at home.

Tillman was in his bedroom when the intruders tried to go all gangster on him, but he wasn’t trippin.’

“We went back and forth and I shot him,” Tillman said. “They just didn’t give a damn. They knew we were in here, with the lights on, and with kids.”

California Men Get Marijuana Back From The Police

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 28, 2010 Culture, Medical, News

Photo: Courtesy Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight

From left, Jason Ramey, 30, Travis Stock, 31, and Garrett Houchins, 30, picked up their medical marijuana from the Red Bluff Police Department on Wednesday.

Three California men Wednesday picked up their medical marijuana from the Red Bluff Police Department, where it had been since being seized in an October raid.

Garret Houchins and Jason Ramey, both 30, and Travis Stock, 31, along with another man, Corey Perkiss, were growing 11 plants at Stock’s home, reports The Redding Record Searchlight.

They were arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale, processing marijuana and conspiracy.

NYPD Accused Of ‘Anally Assaulting’ Man For Marijuana Use

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 27, 2010 News

Graphic: strk3.com

Monday in New York State Supreme Court, Michael Mineo took the stand to describe his nightmarish experience in a Brooklyn subway station in 2008: Being held down by three New York City police officers and sodomized with a police baton.

Mineo’s crime? Smoking marijuana.

The Brooklyn cops chased Mineo into the station after they saw him smoking pot, reports Tony Newman at AlterNet.

Mineo says the cops tackled him and that one of them sodomized him with a police baton. The cops then gave him a summons, and threatened he’d be served with a felony charge if he went to the hospital for treatment or to the police station to report what had happened.

The story is corroborated by eyewitnesses, including a transit police officer. The three officers accused in the brutal attack are now on trial.

‘How To Smoke Pot’ Videos Get Nebraska Man Busted

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 27, 2010 Culture, News

Sarpy County Sheriff’s Department

David Johnson was arrested after sheriff’s investigators watched him smoking marijuana with his sons on YouTube.

A 44-year-old Nebraska man was arrested after sheriff’s investigators watched about 90 “how to smoke marijuana” videos on YouTube that also feature his sons.

The videos, filmed over a 16-month period that ended about two months ago — show David K. Johnson, 44, rolling joints and smoking marijuana from pipes and bongs with his two sons, 20 and 17.

Lt. Steve Grabowski of the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Department said an anonymous tip started their investigation of Johnson, formerly of Gretna, Neb.

A search warrant was issued Jan. 12 for Johnson’s then-home in Gretna. He has since moved out, reports Leia Mendoza of the Omaha World-Herald.

California Man Demands Police Pay For His Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 26, 2010 Growing, Medical, News

Photo: Emeraldeye

Eight grand a pound adds up.

A California man is asking the city of Costa Mesa to pay for 12 medical marijuana plants seized by the police in 2007.

An attached appraisal form with the claim says that “Kush” strain plants like those seized are worth about $8,000 a pound.

Gregory Barnett, 55, said in his claim against the city that police officers destroyed his crop, which was ordered returned by the court, reports Ellyn Pak at The Orange County Register.

WA Supremes: No Matter If You’re A Marijuana Patient, Cops Can Search And Arrest

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 21, 2010 Legislation, Medical, News

Graphic: thefreshscent.com

If you’re a legal medical marijuana patient in Washington and you thought your doctor’s recommendation protected you from search or arrest, you’re wrong. According to a new court ruling, you can be arrested and hauled into court every time an officer smells pot at your home — even if you are complying with the law.

In a sharply divided decision, the Washington Supreme Court Thursday ruled against a patient arrested for possessing marijuana — despite the fact that the patient had a doctor’s recommendation for medicinal pot.

Incredibly, the court found that police had probable cause to search the patient’s home, even after he presented what both he and the police believed to be a valid medical marijuana authorization form under Washington’s medical marijuana law.

California Supreme Court Strikes Down Medical Marijuana Limits

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 21, 2010 Legislation, Medical, News

Photo: puffpuffere, forum.grasscity.com

Imagine the concept: You and your doctor, rather than the Legislature, deciding how much medicine you need.

The California Supreme Court has struck down limits on how much medical marijuana patients can possess and cultivate.

Patients and caregivers with a doctor’s recommendation to use marijuana can now possess as much as is “reasonably related to the patient’s current medical needs,” a standard that the court established in a 1997 decision.

The court concluded that the restrictions imposed by the Legislature are an unconstitutional amendment of a 1996 voter-approved initiative.

Seattle’s New City Attorney Drops Marijuana Charges

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 20, 2010 Culture, Legislation, News

Photo: alapoet

Seattleites protest marijuana laws in the annual Marijuana March, May 2008.

As promised, Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing marijuana possession cases.

By the end of January, more than 25 people charged with possession could be off the hook, reports Linda Brill at KING 5 News.

Even if you are arrested for marijuana in Seattle, it’s more than likely you won’t be prosecuted.

During his campaign for city attorney, Pete Holmes promised he would dismiss marijuana possession cases brought by his predecessor, former City Attorney Pete Carr. Despite an initiative passed by Seattle voters a few years ago, Carr’s office had continued to vigorously prosecute many cannabis cases.

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