Medical Herb News and Events

2010-02-11 HerbFolks.org Do the 'collective' California Police Chiefs openly conspire to deny safe access?

Well, that may be open to intepretation, or not.... you decide. Interesting reading, nonetheless.

 

 

2010-02-09 HerbFolks.org Something is happening here. What it is, ain't exactly clear...

Hey is this the sixties all over again? What's with these old folks, digging the herb? What a trip, two

factions of elders going at it over the plant. How cool is that? A year or two back, this community

advertised its intent (really, this happened) to obtain their own dispensary. After many months, we think

(not clear as of today if they still exist, above ground that is) they got one. Yet there were five, count 'em,

five, two miles away right next to the I5 freeway, already operating openly. All five were next to each other,

on the second floor of a ratty strip complex on a main drag. With two more a few blocks away. 

Board bans medical marijuana in community gardens

OCRegister - Claire Webb - 
LAGUNA WOODS—The Golden Rain Foundation Board voted unanimously to ban Laguna Woods Village residents from
growing medical marijuana in community garden ...

Mexican Cartels Join DEA in Opposition of US State Marijuana Laws

Salem-News.Com - ‎Jan 31, 2010‎
The centerpoints of the new campaign are both LA and San Diego Counties, where the will of the people is utterly
devalued. Marijuana never should have been ...
 
 
 * herbfolks editor's note: this is one of the clearest snapshots of the real situation here in the United States in 2010,
as it relates to cannabis, and the rogue DEA-Gestapo under Clinton/Bush/Obama. All three presidents employed these thugs. 
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2010-02-04 HerbFolks.org What do we do? The government is out of control, it seems....

How do we wage peace while being attacked? Very Very carefully, herb folks. Peace lovers.

Police want backdoor to Web users' private data... 

 

2010-02-03 Herbfolks.org Our meds work and theirs do not...... to hell with them!  Out these freaks!

They make huge profits selling you garbage they create in their labs, (all tax deductable R&D). They

lie about the results of their testing. They pay doctors to shill this junk for them. And they have the nerve

to deny US safe access? This is total bs, folks. Can I get a witness? Can I get an Amen out there?

The Depressing News About Antidepressants

Newsweek - Sharon Begley - ‎Jan 29, 2010‎
Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse...
 
 
 

Cal NORML is glad to note that Long Beach
approved a realistic dispensary ordinance,
dropping the requirement for on-site cultivation
and allowing variances from unreasonable buffer
zone requirements.
    - Dale Gieringer,  Cal NORML


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Marijuana Co-ops Will Be Regulated

By Kurt Helin
Editor

Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 2:38 PM PST

http://www.gazettes.com/articles/2010/02/03/community_news/doc4b69d4c954cd13
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2010-02-01 

Medical marijuana could save lives

Baltimore Sun - 
It is a known fact that medical marijuana enhances the appetite and mood, but not one doctor was able to prescribe medical marijuana, which alone might have ...
 
 

2010-01-29

Behind the Lack of Medical Marijuana Research: Feds Disallowing Initiatives Huffington Post (blog) - 

It's the "catch-22" that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the ...
 
 

PHOTO Tuesday the LA City Council approved an ordinance that will close hundreds of clinics while those that remain said they would be banished to industrial areas forcing their clients to travel longer distances.

Medical Marijuana Bill Approved by Senate Commitee

State Bill Colorado - Alicia McNallyBill Colorado - 
Chris Romer, D-Denver and Nancy Spence, R-Centennial sponsored the bill that aims to provide clarity to current medical marijuana legislation by providing ...
 

Anti-Medical Marijuana Michele Leonhart to Remain DEA Head

Opposing Views - Ben Morris - 
The raids were intended to send a political message and undermine emergingmedical marijuana laws. Bush was smitten with Leonhart's work fighting innocent ...
 
 
2010-01-26 

LA City Council members talk about their marijuana use

89.3 KPCC - 
Medical marijuana advocate Ali Rashi gives his speech at a Los Angeles City Council meeting to debate changes to the access and distribution of the drug, ...
 

 Congress: Bill to Do Top-to-Bottom Review of Criminal Justice ...

Jan 22, 2010 ... Congress: Bill to Do Top-to-Bottom Review of Criminal Justice System, Drug War Passes Senate Judiciary Committee ..
 
 
2010-01-19 

Is Marijuana a Medicine? Wall Street Journal - Anna Wilde Mathews - 

... for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego. But in a range of other conditions for which marijuana has been considered, ...
 

2010-01-15 

Medical Marijunna Free-For-All LA City Council Plans To End 

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎ "And that's not he purpose of the Compassionate Use Act," the landmark bill which first authorized 

medical marijuana consumption in California.

2010-01-12 

Initiatives passed and new ones filed: Nj and WAshington STate...

14 States are liberated....more to follow! 

Ballot Effort for Dispensaries in Oregon

Medical marijuana advocates are seeking to put on the November ballot a measure to create a

system in which state-licensed pot growers would distribute their crops to dispensaries where people

could buy the drug to treat their ailments.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010769

 

New push to legalize medical marijuana in Indiana

Updated: Monday, 11 Jan 2010, 12:21 PM EST
Published : Monday, 11 Jan 2010, 12:21 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - There's a new movement to legalize medical marijuana in Indiana.

A lobbyist for the organization called Re-Legalize Indiana filed the paperwork to create a political action committee

Monday morning. Bill Levin wants a ban on the cultivation of marijuana to be repealed. He said he has support from

Republicans and Democrats.

“We need legislation to pass, we need, we need doctors, we need farmers, we need the whole state to get together.

We're putting the package together,” said Levin.

Re-Legalize Indiana created a Facebook page three weeks ago and has almost 10,000 followers.

Thirteen states currently permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/politics/new-push-to-legalize-medical-marijuana-in-indiana 

 
 
2010-01-06 

Health Sciences Enters Into Negotiations for Colorado Medical Marijuana License

CNNMoney.com (press release) 
Gaffney continues, "Our goal is to obtain proper and legal licenses in each of the legalized medical marijuana states during 2010.
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2009-12-29
 

  Calls For Regulation As Colorado Medical Marijuana Stores Spread The Crime Report 

  The number of businesses that sell marijuana has jumped in Colorado, where use of pot for medical reasons has been allowed since 2000. ...

  10 Reasons the US Military Should (Officially) Use Pot
  AlterNet - Penny Coleman - 
  Medical marijuana may have a host of advantages over other treatments for traumatized vets, but the VA won't even study its ...
 
 

2009-12-22 SD Local ASA Herb Warrior Marcus Boyd sent this in just now. This is not a democrats vs. republican thing......

or a NORML and ASA thing, its all of us against the corrupt system, or we will all be taken out one at a time, divided.

We need to confront Bonnie's funding sources with direct action! Senator Barbara Boxer is a well known California

liberal democrat who's 'priority projects' include Bonnie Dumanis' right-winged misguided drug crime unit.

See the story on the "SD Jewish World" blog.
http://sdjewishworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/boxer-bill-for-s-d-gang-and-drug-crime-unit-advances/

Let's get Ms. Boxer focused on holding Bonnie's federal funds in front of her like a carrot on a string. 
 
We need to flood Barbara Boxer's office with our requests for help against Bonnie's misguided attack on the MMJ community.

Anyone know how we setup a email system like this one on ASA's
 site?
 
 
So we can have our members quickly and easily send a message to Ms. Boxer and every other funding source in the state. 

Your thoughts?
Marcus
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2009-12-18

Marijuana activists seize on California fiscal jam

Reuters - Mary MillikenEric Walsh 

Fifteen years after Californians led the nation in approving the use of cannabis for medical purposes . . . 

 

Teens: Pot Better Than Cigarettes, Alcohol

 TIME 

* editors note: we don't suggest kids smoke herb for pleasure, but they do what they want.

Teens are young adults forming their own opinions, why not tell them the truth, folks? Herb

will interfere with their ability to do homework, and to drive etc, but it ain't booze or cigs,

both of which have a huge body count. Its just the way it is, grow up, "grown ups". 

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2009-12-16 

One Small Soldier in a Big War

by: Rick Cabral, t r u t h o u t | Report

 

Richard Lee rolls down the street in his wheelchair...

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2009-12-13

Trouble Ahead for Medical Marijuana in California

TIME - Alison Stateman  

A display case at Belmont Shore Natural Care showcases . . .

 

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See the KPBS Video and read the text (Scott Chipman particularly). This has gone on long enough..... Will someone sue the hell

out of this city and our DA so we don't have to listen to SCOTT anymore? Will good citizens stand up and put these jerks

in their place? Will the average person who smokes herb recreationally, stand up ? Come out of the cannabis closet, please?

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2009-12-11

Medical-marijuana facilities in Tulare County told to close down

Visalia Times-Delta - Valerie Gibbons 

As owner of the Compassionate Cannabis Information Center in Goshen, Tammy Murray is ... 

 

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2009-12-10 

He's flying to 'Cannabis Planet'

OCRegister - Peter Larsen - 
He's struck deals to broadcast in four new markets, San Diego, ...
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2009-12-09  Rally and fund raiser for John Wilson on December 14 - Medical marijuana ...

Examiner.com - 
John Wilson faces 20 years in prison for growing 17 marijuana plants that he used to treat his Multiple Sclerosis.
Wilson was told by Superior Court Judge ...
 
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Whats going on in the rest of the US? JRMMA, Colorado, DC...

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2009-12-02 

Multiple medical marijuana clubs bud in Silicon Valley

The Spartan Daily - Samantha Rivera - 
Montgomery, a patient at the dispensary, said patients previously had to travel to San Francisco, Oakland or Santa Cruz to purchase
their medical marijuana ...
 

San Diego Medical Cannabis activist, and local hero, found not quilty of all herb charges yesterday.

For complete, accurate reporting, on this, his first trial, stay tuned to Herb Folks Dot Org. See our San Diego News, and the

Jovan Jackson Innocent pages for background and breaking news about Answerdam. There may be another trial, if the DA is stupid

enough to pursue him on other charges. 
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2009-11-30 breaking news....

Ruling: Pot allowance should be jury's call

A state appeals court in San Diego has ruled that exactly how much marijuana a medical-marijuana user can legally possess is a question that

jurors should decide, and using limits defined in state law is improper.

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Former Deputy Drug Czar Still Looks For Marijuana Prohibition To Pay Her

November 29th, 2009 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director

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Wage Peace Now! Help us Stop Bonnie Dumanis from wrecking hundreds more lives. 

 Channel eight was there with cameras for James Pitt. Where was CNN? CNN said they'd investigate.... are they just fox news in drag?

Deputy D.A. admits to buying medical marijuana - San Diego ...

Nov 17, 2009 ... (CBS 8) - James Pitts is all too familiar with San Diego courtrooms, ... witness in a case being brought to trial by his own office... 

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2009-11-27 

From ASA Media Specialist Kris heremes on the ASA Blog – Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines

“This story would be amusing if it wasn’t so tragic. The Answerdam Alternative Care Collective (AACC) was a medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego.
It was doing the best it could to comply with the law: it was collectively run, it did not make a profit, it verified its member patients, and it paid sales
tax to the State Board of Equalization. So, what was the problem? San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and the lack of a local ordinance with
which to regulate dispensaries like AACC...”

Read the entire post with links at http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=477 

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2009-11-25 

Patient Pistol-Whipped During Marijuana Robbery | NBC San Diego

A woman buying medical marijuana got between some gunman and their target Wednesday morning.
 
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2009-11-24 Sheba offering patients medical marijuana

Ha'aretz - Dan Even - ‎There, she was able to smoke her marijuana by an open window. Shamai recently finished drafting a formal protocol for administering medical marijuana...

2009-11-24 Irvin Rosenfeld Has Received Over 115000 Joints from the Federal Government

ABC News - Russell Goldman - ‎

‎Ironically, the government that supplies Rosenfeld with medical marijuana has for decades denied the drug's efficacy, penalized those states that legalized ...

2009-11-16 LA City Council panels reject ban on medical marijuana sales

Los Angeles Times - 
Duncan's organization and the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients threatened to sue the city if the council adopted the provision, arguing that the city .

Los Angeles Herb News

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C.A. Revives Prosecution of Marijuana Dispensary

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This landmark case has been in the works for four years, folks. Note the precise wording used "The ruling gives prosecutors a new opportunity to convict Stacy Robert Hochanadel, the founder of CannaHelp, and co-managers and owners James T. Campbell and John R. Bednar on charges of possession of marijuana for sale, transportation of marijuana, and maintaining a business for the purpose of selling marijuana. Hochanadel started the business in 2005.....

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2009-11-04 Federal prosecutor: Medical marijuana raids won't stop

Raw Story - Daniel Tencer 
Operators of medical marijuana dispensaries in California are quickly learning that, contrary to recent news headlines, federal raids of ...
 
 

obama lied before why listen now?

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2009-10-18 
2009-10-17 Got pot? Fly from Oakland- SJ Mercury News
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October 10, 2009 Most worthless person in LA 

The Los Angeles District Attorney, having solved every other crime problem in the county, has decided to start going after medical marijuana dispensaries. 

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what IS legal ?

SD District Attorney accountable to nobody

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September 172009; 9:04 a.m.; ... Most people agree the laws governing medical marijuana are vague and confusing. ...

Debating San Diego's 'Hard Line' on Medical Marijuana | KPBS.org

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The picture of the menu is a tribute to a FINE herb spot shut down on 9 9 09 by nazi storm troopers armed to the teeth. A snarling pack of wild dogs sent by Bonnie Demonic to disrupt the peace. God bless the brothers at THC.


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The 2009 911 Reign of Terror

published 9 13 2009 by Examiner.com 

‎Reports continue to come in of federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries up and down the West Coast.

San Diego has been hardest hit.    

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Marijuana Author Jack Herer Collapses After Stage Appearance at Portland Hempstalk (VIDEO)

Tim King Salem-News.com
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Archives from May 18 'til Sept 2, 2009 (spring/summer)

State of Herb by State

Medical Pot Dispensary Approved, But Ordinance Still in Limbo

Noozhawk - Giana Magnoli - ‎Sep 3, 2009‎

The Santa Barbara Planning Commission last week approved plans for a medical marijuana ...

Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in 1974

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000

when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors

in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis

 
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