This Week In Weed 12-15-08

Australia

Cannabis worth more than gold?
Australian Broadcast Corporation
Hemp farms now legal in New South Wales
Manning River Times
Nimbin Museum & Hemp Bar back in business
Cannazine

California

Medical Marijuana ID cards coming to Ventura County
Ventura County Star
Buying legal pot in Los Angeles
The Black Book Magazine
Patient spends 21 days in jail before case is dismissed
New Times

Colorado

Another sports star cited for marijuana possession
The Examiner

Florida

Electricity Co-op puts a bounty on grow houses
Highlands Today

Germany

Medical marijuana to be distributed by Arseus NV
Reuters

Ireland

One fifth of the Irish population has tried Cannabis
Irish Times

Japan

Cannabis use on the rise
The Mainichi News

Malaysia

Twelve years for six pounds of cannabis
New Straits Times

Maryland

Police departments making money from marijuana
The Baltimore Sun

Michigan

Doctors discuss medical marijuana
The Times Herald
Travers City Record Eagle

Montana

State passes law allowing terminally ill access to any drug. Does this include marijuana?
Associated Press

New Jersey

Novel sentence for conspiracy to grow
Daily Record
Senate committee to consider medical marijuana legislation
Star Ledger

Oregon

Medical marijuana patients to be denied the right to work?
Willamette Week

Pennsylvania

Obama may be stuck with ant-pot US attorney
The Raw Story

West Virginia

Police destroy 143,000 plants
Herald Dispatch

Wisconsin

Ballot initiative for medical marijuana?
Sheboygan Press

UK

Scottish Justice Secretary claims cannabis “causes real harm to our communities”.
BBC News
Seven grow operations in one tiny Welsh village
Wales Online
Bradford Police bust 100 cannabis factories in two years
Telegraph and Argus


USA

TOP STORY THIS WEEK
Marijuana legalization number one issue on change.gov
Alternet
Salem News
Monitoring the Future – annual report detailing drug use among teenagers
Bloomberg News
eFlux Media
Anniversary of the repeal of prohibition
Wall Street Journal
Marijuana to combat Alzheimer’s
Alternet Drug Reporter



This week’s action:

President elect Obama continues to solicit ideas from citizens concerning his agenda for change. To vote in support of marijuana decriminalization go to http://change.gov/page/content/openforquestions and search for questions on marijuana (I found 97 questions to vote for and 1 against).

Christmas gift ideas:

Silk pot plant


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