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Month: June 2012
Supremes give Detroit pot vote a green light
BY W. KIM HERON
Pro-marijuana activists won a great victory in the Michigan Supreme Court today when the high court ruled that Detroit voters should be allowed to decide whether they want to liberalize the city’s marijuana law.
It is been a long fight. Two years ago the Coalition for a Safer Detroit gathered enough signatures to place on the ballot a measure that would prevent Detroit cops from citing people for violation of the city ordinance if they are at least 21 and possess less than an ounce of pot on private property.
Police could still arrest people, it just wouldn’t be a violation of the city code. That would effectively take away any financial incentive for cops to make the busts since any fines would go to the county, not Detroit.
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http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2012/06/supremes-give-detroit-pot-vote-a-green-light/
It is been a long fight. Two years ago the Coalition for a Safer Detroit gathered enough signatures to place on the ballot a measure that would prevent Detroit cops from citing people for violation of the city ordinance if they are at least 21 and possess less than an ounce of pot on private property.
Police could still arrest people, it just wouldn’t be a violation of the city code. That would effectively take away any financial incentive for cops to make the busts since any fines would go to the county, not Detroit.
Read complete article here:
http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2012/06/supremes-give-detroit-pot-vote-a-green-light/
Congressional candidate Andy Caffrey smokes pot in TV ad
Medical marijuana now law in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Gov. Dannel Malloy has signed into law a bill allowing the medical use of marijuana in Connecticut.
The governor’s office announced the signing of Public Act 12-55 Friday.
Patients who have illnesses such as cancer, glaucoma, epilepsy and Chrohn’s disease could qualify to receive marijuana.
“For years, we’ve heard from so many patients with chronic diseases who undergo treatments like chemotherapy or radiation and are denied the palliative benefits that medical marijuana would provide,” Gov. Malloy said in a statement. “With careful regulation and safeguards, this law will allow a doctor and a patient to decide what is in that patient’s best interest.”
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http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/politics/medical-marijuana-now-law-in-conn#.T8mwSbBSTxW
Michigan Supreme Court: Medical marijuana patients safe from prosecution
By Dawson Bell
The Michigan Supreme Court, in its first major ruling on a case arising from the use of medical marijuana, said that the voter-approved law on medicinal pot provides broad legal protection from prosecution. / WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press
The Michigan Supreme Court, in its first major ruling on a case arising from the use of medical marijuana, said today that the state’s voter-approved law on medicinal pot provides relatively broad legal protection from prosecution, even for patients who do not register for a state medical marijuana card.
In a pair of cases out of Oakland and Shiawassee counties, the court ruled unanimously that lower-court interpretations of the marijuana statute had been too restrictive.
In the Oakland County case, the court said the law allows a person arrested on a marijuana-related offense to assert a medical marijuana defense, as long as the use of marijuana was recommended by a doctor after the law was enacted in 2008 and before the arrest.
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http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/NEWS06/120531054/Michigan-Supreme-Court-Medical-marijuana-patients-safe-from-prosecution?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Moscow Mistakenly Plants Field of Marijuana Instead of Grass
The Moscow Times
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Authorities removed over 230 cannabis plants growing near a city metro station
A field of wild cannabis plants was discovered on city land near a Moscow metro station after apparently being accidentally planted by city authorities themselves, drug control authorities said Thursday.
The Federal Drug Control Service said its agents had to “try out the profession of gardening” to remove at least 230 bushes from the area around the Brateyevo metro station that is currently being built in the south of Moscow, a statement on the agency’s site said.
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/city-mistakenly-plants-marijuana-field-instead-of-lawn/459631.html#ixzz1wUP5kHqU
Ecstasy and cannabis should be freely available for study, says former government adviser David Nutt
Former government adviser says regulations make it too difficult to research psychoactive drugs with potential medical uses
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Nutt said there had been little research on drugs like cannabis that could help scientists understand consciousness, mood and psychosis. Photograph: Guardian
The classification system that makes drugs such as cannabis and MDMA (ecstasy) illegal has prevented scientists from properly researching their possible therapeutic uses for conditions such as schizophrenia and depression, according to the government’s former chief adviser on drugs.
Professor David Nutt said the UK’s laws on misuse of drugs needed to be rewritten to more accurately reflect their relative harms and called for a regulated approach to making drugs such as MDMA and cannabis available for medical and research purposes.
“Regulations, which are arbitrary, actually make it virtually impossible to research these drugs,” said Nutt. “The effect these laws have had on research is greater than the effects that [George] Bush stopping stem cell research has had because it’s been going on since the 1960s.”
Almost all the drugs that could help scientists to understand brain phenomena such as consciousness, perception, mood and psychosis are illegal, including ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms. Nutt said there had been almost no work in this field because the government made it difficult for scientists to access the drugs.
A Home Office spokesperson told the Guardian: “The Home Office licensing regime enables bona fide institutions to carry out scientific research on controlled substances while ensuring necessary safeguards are in place.”
Nutt, who is professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, made his comments at a briefing in London on Wednesday to mark the launch of his book, Drugs Without the Hot Air.
Professor David Nutt said the UK’s laws on misuse of drugs needed to be rewritten to more accurately reflect their relative harms and called for a regulated approach to making drugs such as MDMA and cannabis available for medical and research purposes.
“Regulations, which are arbitrary, actually make it virtually impossible to research these drugs,” said Nutt. “The effect these laws have had on research is greater than the effects that [George] Bush stopping stem cell research has had because it’s been going on since the 1960s.”
Almost all the drugs that could help scientists to understand brain phenomena such as consciousness, perception, mood and psychosis are illegal, including ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms. Nutt said there had been almost no work in this field because the government made it difficult for scientists to access the drugs.
A Home Office spokesperson told the Guardian: “The Home Office licensing regime enables bona fide institutions to carry out scientific research on controlled substances while ensuring necessary safeguards are in place.”
Nutt, who is professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, made his comments at a briefing in London on Wednesday to mark the launch of his book, Drugs Without the Hot Air.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/31/ecstasy-cannabis-study-david-nutt?newsfeed=true
Marijuana-Friendly Texas Congressional Candidate Beats Eight-Term Incumbent
by Zach Rosenberg
Tuesday, Texas congressional candidate Beto O’Rourke beat the eight-term incumbent El Paso Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. O’Rourke, before we forget to mention it, is in favor of marijuana legalization.
O’Rourke himself couldn’t believe the news when he heard that he’d secured 50.5% of the vote, asking the attendees of his victory party if it was really happening. After all, his opponent Reyes was publicly backed by both former President Bill Clinton and President Obama.
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http://www.kushmagazine.com/news/2925-marijuana-friendly-texas-congressional-candidate-beats-eight-term-incumbent
Kuwait – Marijuana ‘Grown’ In Homes To Meet Local Market Demand
Asked why marijuana is so attractive to youth, the source said it clears up the mind and helps one think clearly. He doesn’t consider it as intoxicating. “It is a strong anti-depressant.”
KUWAIT CITY, May 29: Hemp, the plant from which marijuana is produced, is cultivated indoors by some drug users in Kuwait.
The source who revealed this to the Arab Times under conditions of anonymity is a youth, a regular marijuana smoker himself.
He has been using marijuana since the age of 16. He procures marijuana from his friends who cultivate the hemp in their villas indoors.
However, as indoor cultivation is not a very dependable source of supply, he and his friends often buy “the stuff” that comes through a chain of drug peddlers whose origin is never really known.
An ounce of marijuana costs about KD 500 in Kuwait, the source revealed. “Of course, there are grades in quality, and I am talking about the best quality.”
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http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/183849/reftab/36/Default.aspx
