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New York Times, 14 Jun 2010 - MEXICO CITY -- Faced with a surge in drug-related killings in recent days, President Felipe Calderon on Monday offered a spirited defense of his government's antidrug offensive. On Thursday night and Friday morning, attacks between rival drug trafficking organizations [...]

Iowa — State legislative leaders have dropped plans to have a committee study legalization of medical marijuana. The decision could lessen the chances of a full debate on the controversial issue next year. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in February that legislators would appoint a committee to study [...]

New York Times, 14 Jun 2010 - TINGO MARIA, Peru -- Coca cultivation is surging once again in this country's remote tropical valleys, part of a major repositioning of the Andean drug trade that is making Peru a contender to surpass Colombia as the world's largest exporter of cocaine. Mexican and Col [...]

Chilliwack Progress, 11 Jun 2010 - The bottom seems to have dropped out of the federal Crown's case against four men charged with multiple drug and weapons offences last year in relation to an alleged marijuana distribution house in Rosedale. Federal justice officials did not return calls for an ex [...]

California is on the verge of legalizing marijuana for general use – within certain age limits, of course. Debate on the subject is now raging, but the measure will be on the November ballot in the Golden State. Fourteen states, including California, already permit the use of cannabis for medical purposes, [...]

How Individual Rights Protect Commerce City Councilman and lawyer Darryl Glenn makes sound policy statements much of the time.  Yet, he’s the latest to repeat a myth about medical marijuana that’s promulgated mostly by a small group of prosecutors, former prosecutors and Attorney General John Suthers. “The issue is the dispensaries because that’s the [...]

Calgary Herald, 13 Jun 2010 - Mom Plans Hectic First Day Home After a nearly two-year separation, a 12-year-old boy seized by American authorities and put into foster care there spent his first full day back in Calgary with his family at a farmers' market, his mom said. [...]

Sentinel Review, 11 Jun 2010 - Oxford County youth as young as 10 years old are experimenting with drugs, according to a new report released Thursday at the Fusion Youth Centre in Ingersoll. "What was alarming to me was the age that kids start using drugs -- between 10 and 12 years of age,&quo [...]

The Daily Sentinel, 12 Jun 2010 - The Grand Junction City Council will air out its options for handling statewide medical marijuana legislation during a workshop meeting Monday at City Hall. Under the provisions of recently signed medical marijuana legislation, city and county boards in Colorado ca [...]

The Daily Times-Call, 12 Jun 2010 - On Aug. 1, Boulder County officials may finally get a tally of how many businesses are growing or selling medical marijuana at locations outside the county's cities and towns. Any established medical marijuana centers operating in unincorporated parts of the coun [...]

El Paso Times, 12 Jun 2010 - More than 25 gunmen with high-powered weapons burst into a drug rehabilitation center late Thursday in Chihuahua City and killed 19 men, an act that was described by officials on Friday as the worst in the city's history. In Juarez, three municipal police officers were [...]

Drug control groups are calling for a tightening of laws relating to synthetic cannabis products, which can be bought over the counter but have not been tested for safety. Trading under exotic names ...

Drug control groups are calling for a tightening of laws relating to synthetic cannabis products, which can be bought over the counter but have not been tested for safety.Trading under exotic names such as Puff and Thai High,...

Phil Saxby, President of NORML NZ, today welcomed the New Zealand Medical Association’s stance on cannabis for medicinal use and called upon the Government to adopt the same sensible position.

Morning Sun, 13 Jun 2010 - Allowing patients with a physician's "certificate" to legally smoke "medical marijuana" seemed like a good idea to Michigan voters at the time. They approved the state ballot issue in November 2008. [...]

Nevada Appeal, 13 Jun 2010 - Even though Nevada voters have rejected them twice in recent years by 60-40 margins, the drug legalizers will return to the Silver State in 2012. I hope we send them home for good next time around. The Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) announced last [...]

Vail Daily, 13 Jun 2010 - Vail pushes a fun ski town image. But this week it was a buzz kill -- at least for medical marijuana patients who don't want to leave town to get their ganja. In other words, a free ride on the West Vail Green won't get you any green leafy. [...]

Nice video here featuring Shelly Martinez, an ex WWE Diva who found cannabis saved her life after becoming addicted to prescription pills when she damaged her back. Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon [...]

Daily Press, 11 Jun 2010 - Adelanto Rolls Out Ban SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is set to extend the moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas. And following the lead of Apple Valley, Hesperia and Victorville, the Adelanto City [...]

Calif. — Mirroring a trend seen throughout the state, Humboldt County medical marijuana patients can now purchase buds, hash, plants and even medicine-infused edible treats without leaving the comfort of their own homes. Across California, medical marijuana delivery services are popping up in the hundreds, as the medical marijuana industry [...]

I have a couple of autoflowering plants in my window now, having taken them off the roof because of the aphid and blackfly problem. My friend suggested that as they are flowering I should feed them. He uses Guano, which looks great on paper, though is a little expensive.After a bit of research I fo [...]

Providence, RI — An eclectic group of Rhode Islanders that includes an acupuncturist, the state’s former auditor general, a retired Cranston police chief and a longtime educator are affiliated with the 15 applicants seeking to open the first compassion center to sell marijuana to patients in the state’s [...]

Wauneta Breeze, 11 Jun 2010 - Nebraska will probably legalize medical marijuana. Let me explain. (And don't run screaming to phone your state senator until you've read the explanation.) For the most part, tracking the development of major changes in major social and economic policy is a long-term c [...]

Huffington Post, 10 Jun 2010 - Andrew Breitbart's popular right-wing website, Big Hollywood, just published a blistering attack on the musician Sting, philanthropist George Soros, and formerly incarcerated activist Anthony Papa for appearing in an anti-drug war video -- a two-minute promo where peo [...]

A public health drive aimed at educating heavy marijuana users most likely to run into problems with the drug should replace the current one-size-fits-all criminalization of all users, says a new Canadian study. “We’re arguing for a differentiated approach that recognizes that some people, but only some, a minority, have problems from their cannabis use and [...]

Education Better Than Punishing Young Kids Teens should be discouraged from smoking marijuana as part of good public-health policy, not because they’ll be punished by police, according to health researchers.  Most casual users of cannabis suffer few ill-effects but it is those users who start young and smoke a lot of pot over a long period [...]

The Canadian Thought His Profitable Seed Sales Could Upend the U.S.  War on Drugs.  But Now He Is Stuck Behind Bars in Seattle. For years, his seed catalogs were scrutinized by discerning cannabis cultivators across the U.S.  and Canada, much like the ladies of Cumbria might fuss over Chiltern’s inventories [...]

Colorado — In the wake of new legislation regulating the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, advocates in Colorado are planning another attempt to simply legalize the drug for recreational as well as medicinal purposes. Activists have their eyes on placing a state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2012. The [...]

Helena Independent Record, 11 Jun 2010 - Montana's professional pharmacists say they don't want to get into the medical marijuana business, scuttling an attempt by at least one lawmaker to firm up Montana's controversial pot scene by making pharmacists dispense the drug, not "caregivers." [...]

Morgan Hill Times, 11 Jun 2010 - More than seven months after MediLeaf opened its doors without city permission amidst a splash of controversy, the Gilroy-based medical marijuana dispensary hardly receives notice from passersby. Yet directors of MediLeaf, which has added two dispensaries in San Jos [...]