Monday, May 18, 2009

This Week in Weed 05-18-09

Arizona

Majority support medical marijuana, ballot initiative moves ahead

AZFamily dot Com, Arizona Capitol Times


California

Marijuana business studies on campus?

San Francisco Chronicle

Debate over legalization continues

Press Democrat, Appeal Democrat, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Sun Herald

City council bans marijuana dispensaries

San Diego Tribune

Council debates allowing medical marijuana dispensaries

Lake County News


Canada

Toronto Freedom Festival – the largest marijuana festival in the world

AltSounds dot Com


Connecticut

NORML drops Connecticut chapter after criminal case

Courant dot Com


Idaho

Medical marijuana bill to be introduced

Boise Weekly


Ireland

Canines employed in drug interdiction

Irish Times


Massachusetts

Legislation proposes medical marijuana to be available in Massachusetts

Winchester Star


Michigan

City of Niles attempts medical marijuana regulation

South Bend Tribune, WNDU TV

Upset police get bad dreams on medical marijuana

Daily Press, Saginaw News


Minnesota

Cops are not doctors, yet they continue to be consulted on medical marijuana

MinnPost, Minnesota Independent


Netherlands

Border coffee shops to become members only

Straits Times, Dutch News, Radio Netherlands


New York

Legislators to vote on medical marijuana

Staten island Advance


New Zealand

Strange story of infant who supposedly ate “cannabis oil”, turns out the child ate methamphetamine, but that isn't exactly clear from the headline.

Herald on Sunday


Ohio

Majority supports medical marijuana

WTOV 9, Chicago Tribune, News Leader


Rhode Island

Cannabis - a growing remedy for the ills of Rhode Islanders

Providence Journal


Texas

Medical marijuana bill headed for defeat

Beaumont Enterprise


UK

Newspaper invents “cannabis addiction”

Lancashire Telegraph

Family of expelled cannabis dealer sues private school

The Telegraph

Police chief admits – cannot win the war on drugs

The Press & Journal

Police claim to be winning (again, despite all evidence to the contrary) in the war on drugs

Camden New Journal


USA

Marijuana should never have been made illegal in the first place

CBS News, Chicago Sun Times, Arizona Daily Star

White house “Drug Czar” calls for an end to the “War on Drugs”

Norml, MPP, Salem News, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal

Supremes will not hear San Diego County's challenge to state medical cannabis law

San Diego Tribune

Medical Marijuana Inc.,

Cannazine


SCIENCE

Debunking the superpot myth

Norml, Huffington Post

New study debunks 'marijuana causes cancer” myth

MPP

Cannabis kills cancer cells

WebMD

Cannabis more effective treatment for a host of symptoms

ASA


TAKE ACTION:

Norml, ASA, MPP

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