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Industrial hemp is legal in Oregon but growers say they can't get on with their business until the federal government change its policies. full storyCANNABIS CULTURE - California became the first of 13 states to exempt medical marijuana users from prosecution. Federal law does not provide this legal exemption, leaving patients, caregivers and law enforcement unclear on how to proceed. full storyFor more than 70 years, possession of marijuana has been a crime in Canada. For most of that time, there were no exceptions for anyone using it for medical reasons. full storyA sex-for-marijuana Internet sting by the Tigard Police Department is over because the Washington County district attorney's office stopped prosecuting the prostitution arrests. full storyJudge suspends free speech of activist Bob Newland by banning his public advocacy of medical marijuana for a year. full storyLOUISVILLE, KY - On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of strip searches in the public schools, two young women filed an action in Jefferson County Court against a local middle school and several of its employees for using "grossly intrusive" methods to discover an alleged cache of marijuana. full storyCheck out my latest update on the status of the BC3 Extradition, R v. Beren (the Vancouver Island Compassion Society Constitutional Challenge), R v. David Malmo-Levine and Bill C-15. full storyA Charleston woman agreed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday to a judge's suggestion that she have her fallopian tubes tied as part of her probation. full story-
The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected complicated constitutional arguments that deficiencies in the medical marijuana regime and conflicting jurisprudence should invalidate the criminal drug law. full storyWisconsin Rep. Jeff Wood arrested on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession full storyUK Cattle farmer turned cannabis farmer receives suspended sentence full storySelected exerpts from the testimony presented to the sub-committee on Bill C-7: ...we are under a fair amount of pressure from our neighbours to the South, who see us a weak link in the chain... -Bruce Rowsell -Director of the Bureau of Dangerous Drugs O full storyThe Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs full storyThe Hon. Diane Marleau
Minister of National Health & Welfare
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Ottawa, Ontario
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Industrial hemp is legal in Oregon but growers say they can't get on with their business until the federal government change its policies. full story
CANNABIS CULTURE - California became the first of 13 states to exempt medical marijuana users from prosecution. Federal law does not provide this legal exemption, leaving patients, caregivers and law enforcement unclear on how to proceed. full story
For more than 70 years, possession of marijuana has been a crime in Canada. For most of that time, there were no exceptions for anyone using it for medical reasons. full story
A sex-for-marijuana Internet sting by the Tigard Police Department is over because the Washington County district attorney's office stopped prosecuting the prostitution arrests. full story
Judge suspends free speech of activist Bob Newland by banning his public advocacy of medical marijuana for a year. full story
LOUISVILLE, KY - On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of strip searches in the public schools, two young women filed an action in Jefferson County Court against a local middle school and several of its employees for using "grossly intrusive" methods to discover an alleged cache of marijuana. full story
A Charleston woman agreed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday to a judge's suggestion that she have her fallopian tubes tied as part of her probation. full story
The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected complicated constitutional arguments that deficiencies in the medical marijuana regime and conflicting jurisprudence should invalidate the criminal drug law. full story
