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PhillyNORMLs 2011 Cannabis March
Category: Events | Posted on Wed, May, 18th 2011 by THCFinder
PhillyNORML(National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws)’s 2011 marijuana march on South Street this year will take place this Saturday May 21st. Participants are asked to maat at 5:00PM at the intersection of Broad and South Streets for a peaceful demonstration, while doors at the TLA open at 6:30PM for The Philadelphia Freedom Festival.
 
PhillyNORML has partnered with the bands Psychadelphia, Before the Accident Happens, The Primate Fiasco, I Yan I Arkestra, The Thirst Quenchers, and The Synth Circus for the concert (tickets are still available at $15 and will be $20 at the door).
 
Guest speakers this year at the march will be National NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, Celebstoner.com editor Steve Bloom, and Rob Dougherty from PhillyNORML among others.
 
More information for the event can be found at the Facebook event page, and at PhillyNORML’s event page.
 
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We need to smoke less?

Category: Fun | Posted on Tue, May, 17th 2011 by THCFinder

5 words I don't think any toker wants to hear! 

 

 

Thanks to reddit user NvlPtl for this photo.

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Did Obama Really Say He'd Respect State Medical Marijuana Laws? Yes.
Category: Politics | Posted on Tue, May, 17th 2011 by THCFinder
Fred Gardner at Counterpunch thinks I'm "way wrong" about medical marijuana politics under the Obama Administration:
 
Drug-policy-reform advocates are complaining bitterly that they have been double-crossed by Barack Obama. “What’s Behind the Obama Administration’s About Face Regarding Medical Marijuana?” asked Paul Armentano of NORML in the Huffington Post May 5.
 
“Obama’s Sudden, Senseless Assault on Medical Marijuana,” was the headline on a piece by Scott Morgan, associate editor of Stopthedrugwar.org. According to Morgan, “Recent months have brought about what can only be described as the rapid collapse of the Obama Administration’s support for medical marijuana.”
 
This is way wrong. There is nothing “sudden” or unprecedented about the DEA raids and other oppressive measures emanating from the Department of Justice. And neither Obama nor the DOJ ever expressed unambiguous support for medical marijuana. It was the reform honchos themselves who misread and misrepresented Administration policy.
 
 
So apparently, I misread statements like "I will not be using justice department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," to mean that the President was saying he would not be using justice department resources to circumvent…well you get the point.
 
If Obama and Holder never intended for anyone to think they would respect state medical marijuana laws, then they said a series of really stupid things to the media. Yes, I'm as aware as anyone else of the vague language in the Holder Memo and the fact that many raids occurred prior to the recent escalation, but for reasons I would have thought obvious, those facts should hardly be held to immunize the President from the accusation that he broke a campaign promise.
 
This administration went to great lengths to convince the American public that interference with state medical marijuana laws would no longer be a priority at the Dept. of Justice. That is the standard by which they must will be judged.
 
(Source) by Scott Morgan
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MT judge issues order against medical marijuana overhaul
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Tue, May, 17th 2011 by THCFinder
On Friday, shortly after legislation essentially banning medical marijuana in Montana took effect, a judge said ‘not so fast’ and signed an order temporarily stopping some parts of the law from being enacted.
 
Medical marijuana proponents have vowed a fight in a state where well over 60 percent of voters approved legalizing medical marijuana. They were able to raise $50,000 in just a few days, using the money to hire one of Montana’s top constitutional lawyers.
 
The judge’s ruling only suspends the new law’s ban on advertising medical marijuana products, most of which are set to become illegal in July.
 
Marijuana proponents say the new restrictions, passed recently by the legislature, would effectively ban medical marijuana in the state, in spite of voters’ wishes.
 
Medical marijuana proponents in Montana say one of the biggest problems with the new rules is that restricts caregivers to providing marijuana to only three patients, and prohibits them from charging the patients for the marijuana. Patients can also grow their own, but for many that is impractical.
 
People who were using the law as cover for recreational use will likely go back to buying on the street, but many who do have medical conditions which are alleviated through the use of medical marijuana will be out of luck.
 
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Why I Still Give My 11-Year-Old Marijuana
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Tue, May, 17th 2011 by THCFinder
(NEWSER) – Marie Myung-Ok Lee has been giving her autistic 11-year-old son medical marijuana for two years now, and judging from some of the responses she’s received from people who read her columns, “I will not be up for Mother of the Year any time soon,” she writes on Slate.
 
But she doesn’t care about that as much as she cares about the fact that her son woke up the other day “and wanted a hug—the boy who formerly woke us with a scream of pain. The boy who, since he was 3 years old, never gave us hugs or let himself be hugged, because he couldn't bear to be touched.”
 
In addition to allowing him to avoid the powerful psychotropic drugs—and their serious side effects—normally prescribed in similar circumstances, her son’s medical cannabis regimen has allowed Lee and her family to enjoy trips to the beach, the farmers’ market, and the zoo.
 
“[We] can actually enjoy each other, rather than being held hostage by his autism in a house full of screams, destruction, and three very unhappy people,” she writes. Of course, there have been setbacks, but there have also been triumphs—like when her son finally learned to ride a bike—and she’s ready to call the marijuana treatment “a qualified success.” 
 
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Portsmouth marijuana grower handed 15-year term
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Tue, May, 17th 2011 by THCFinder
A 30-year-old man will serve 15 years in prison for crimes related to a marijuana grow operation police found in the garage apartment of a Churchland residence.
 
David L. Patterson Jr. pleaded guilty in December to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, maintaining a fortified drug house, a related weapons charge and possession of a police scanner during the commission of a crime.
 
A detective said at Monday's sentencing that the estimated worth of the marijuana plants found in an apartment above a detached garage was about $87,000.
 
Police searched the garage and the house and confiscated six weapons, including three assault rifles - some loaded. Detective Tim McAndrew showed the judge those weapons Monday, as he had at a prior bond hearing.
 
He explained how officers are trained to take cover behind the engine block of their car to protect themselves if fired on by one of the rifles because 
 
conviction, and state sentencing guidelines called for a five-year sentence. Prosecutor Ed Ferreira asked the judge to exceed that and said the case was anything but typical.
 
He said Patterson had an "elaborate and ongoing" grow operation in a fortified house that was run for pure profit.
 
Patterson's lawyer, Eric P. Korslund, asked the judge not to exceed five years, arguing that his client had accepted responsibility, had no prior felonies and that a co-defendant was just as culpable.
 
Mary Usry, 40, who lived in the residence, is scheduled to be tried May 23 on charges of possession with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm with drugs.
 
Patterson's lawyer questioned the value that detectives put on the marijuana plants - based on an estimated profit of $1,000 from each of the 87 plants.
 
Circuit Judge Johnny E. Morrison gave Patterson a total of 28 years, suspending all but 15 and running time on some of the charges concurrently. He will serve 10 years' supervised probation upon release.
 
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