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Tulsa World, 05 Sep 2010 - Following the recent indictment of several Tulsa police officers, the district attorney's office has widened its review of drug cases to include cases that involve eight officers whose names have surfaced in a grand jury investigation. District Attorney Tim Harris' office [...]

The Daily Tribune, 05 Sep 2010 - Michigan's Legislature may not have gone far enough when it approved legislation following voter approval of medical marijuana in 2008. But it was clear that it did not legalize the sale and purchase of marijuana by those with no medical needs. And the law and how i [...]

Edmonton Sun, 05 Sep 2010 - Oblivious Canadians Romp on the Beach As Thousands Executed in Vile Drug War What conflict has resulted in more than four times the deaths of allied casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan combined? Would it help to know it's a country where more than one million Canadians va [...]

Auburn Journal, 04 Sep 2010 - Is the Proposition 19 pot initiative going to harm or help California? Proponents like Dale Sky Jones, executive chancellor of Oakland's Oaksterdam University, contend passage of the proposition will save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars now wasted on enforcing [...]

Los Angeles Times, 04 Sep 2010 - A medical marijuana dispensary that Los Angeles was seeking to shut down under its three-month-old ordinance has won a court order allowing it to stay open, the first ruling from a local judge to favor one of the hundreds of stores affected by the new law. On Thursd [...]

The Record, 04 Sep 2010 - STOCKTON - There was a short stack of reports on the desk of police Sgt. Cliff Johnson, a Stockton narcotics investigator, on Thursday morning, each of them from someone complaining of illegal drug activity. They were about to become someone else's problem. "If we can [...]

GW Hatchet, 02 Sep 2010 - GW Needs To Revisit The Medical Marijuana Ban With the passing of Initiative 59 this spring, medical marijuana became legal in the District. Finally, the D.C. Council realized the lunacy of keeping the substance illegal for medical purposes. But GW administrators clearly s [...]

Seattle Times, 04 Sep 2010 - The U.S. war against marijuana has failed and actually threatens public safety and rests on false medical assumptions. Guest columnist John McKay, Seattle's former U.S. attorney, argues why the laws against marijuana should be changed. I DON'T smoke pot. And I pretty mu [...]

The Aspen Times, 01 Sep 2010 - Town Staff, Applicants At Odds Over The Review; Decision Will Be Appealed To Town Council BASALT -- The town government has rejected an application from a group of businessmen to reopen the town's only medical marijuana dispensary and start a pot farm. [...]

Chesterton Tribune, 03 Sep 2010 - A spike in fatal and near-fatal overdoses in Northwest Indiana is prompting suspicion that heroin now in circulation may be Fentanyl-laced, extremely pure, or a combination of both. In a guest commentary published elsewhere in today's edition of the Chesterton Trib [...]

The Cortez Journal, 02 Sep 2010 - Southwest Intertribal Voice will host an open Native American Church prayer ceremony Friday as part of its ongoing Native American Cultural Preservation Project. The space has already been cleared and plans drawn for the ceremonial grounds, which will include a hog [...]

Flint Journal, 02 Sep 2010 - QUESTIONABLE PATIENT-CAREGIVER RELATIONSHIPS LED TO LAPEER COUNTY RAID ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY DRYDEN, Michigan -- Lapeer County Sheriff Ron Kalanquin said a search warrant that was executed Tuesday on a Dryden medical marijuana dispensary was based off of three [...]

Central Michigan Life, 03 Sep 2010 - Marijuana is prohibited on Central Michigan University's campus, despites the state's legalization of the substance for medical purposes. CMU must abide by federal law, which states the substance, whether medicinal or recreational, is illegal to use or possess. [...]

The Daily Tribune, 02 Sep 2010 - FERNDALE - One of the owners of a Ferndale medical marijuana dispensary raided last week said the facility won't reopen until court cases against owners and employees are resolved. "We're pretty much sitting on our hands waiting to see what the court does," [...]

Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug 2010 - A ballot measure to legalize a small amount of marijuana in Detroit won't make the November election as originally hoped, petition organizers said today. Organizers for the Coalition for a Safer Detroit warned that the battle to legalize up to an ounce of pot may b [...]

The Exponent, 31 Aug 2010 - Two businesses were asked to stop selling the synthetic marijuana, spice, by the West Lafayette Police. Chief Jason Dombkowski said he sent letters to the Citgo gas station at 101 W State Street and Amused on Chauncey Hill "officially requesting" that they ceas [...]

The Southeast Sun, 01 Sep 2010 - Though the use of lithium strips has long been used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine across the nation, Coffee County Sheriff's Department officials say it is increasing in popularity in the county. In recent drug raids by the Coffee County Sheriff's Departme [...]

The Madison Courier, 01 Sep 2010 - Website Will Track Sales Of Ingredients A new Web-based tool in the fight against methamphetamine will allow retailers to put in data about pseudoephedrine purchases and will give people an opportunity to file anonymous tips about suspected methamphetamine activit [...]

Chico Enterprise-Record, 01 Sep 2010 - Our view: An empty warehouse filled with marijuana? Sounds like a nightmare Chico shouldn't encourage. At first it sounded like a joke. Somebody wants to take a huge vacant building near the Chico Municipal Airport and fill it with 600,000 square-feet of marij [...]

The Union, 31 Aug 2010 - I'll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today. Guys like Al Capone would see to that. Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, during a period when our governm [...]

The Cortez Journal, 31 Aug 2010 - Board Of County Commissioners Votes Down Medical Marijuana Facilities The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to ban the operation of medical marijuana centers, cultivation sites and infused product industries in unincorporated portions [...]

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 30 Aug 2010 - SANTA CRUZ -- A new synthetic marijuana and the resurgence in popularity of a hallucinogenic drug have police and community leaders worried because both substances are legal and for sale in the Santa Cruz area. "I don't know enough about this stuff," Wat [...]

Daily Camera, 31 Aug 2010 - A decision by the Boulder County Land Use Department to approve the transformation of a one-time organic egg farm north of Longmont into a marijuana growing operation will stand, county commissioners decided Tuesday morning. The commissioners decided not to "call up [...]

Aurora Sentinel, 30 Aug 2010 - AURORA | How much is too much when it comes to medical marijuana? Members of the Aurora City Council Neighborhood Services Policy Committee suggested preliminary rules to help solve questions of home-grow operations during an Aug. 19 meeting. [...]

See the rest of M.D. Shorter's Mukwah photos here. Mukwah Jamboree is a different sort of music festival. As much as it's about camping in the woods and hearing a wide range of great music (ranging from dubstep to ska), there is an element of community that's hard to duplicate at larger festivals. [...]

Whoops. This is not quite what I had planned for the remaining Purple Jems. Time to get some more seeds! Can you guess what happened here? [...]

The Billings Gazette, 30 Aug 2010 - We're encouraged by last week's legislative action moving the process forward to tighten Montana's medical marijuana regulations. Granted, this is just a little step in what will be a long legislative effort that could bring more restrictions to the state's medic [...]

The Gazette, 28 Aug 2010 - Maketa Says Pot Moratorium Would Do Harm Monument Police Chief Jacob Shirk is a respectable, qualified lawman and a person of integrity. He would have made a good sheriff. But he didn't stand a chance in his recent primary race against Sheriff Terry Maketa. [...]

Toronto Star, 27 Aug 2010 - Calgary company with help from local firms develops electric vehicle with body parts made from hemp Don't call it the cannabis car, but a Calgary transportation company and its partners including some Toronto firms have developed an electric vehicle with hemp body parts. [...]

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 29 Aug 2010 - It took a few headlines around the state about how local communities were coping with the explosion in the use and sale of medical marijuana, but some Montana lawmakers are finally getting serious about regulating this burgeoning industry at the state level. O [...]