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Coming to terms with the impossibility of winning a drug war
DWR: Sunday, January 4, 2009

Massachusetts police finally get it...
DWR: Saturday, January 3, 2009

Police Plan Clamp Down On Shops Accused Of Glamorising Drug Use
Barrett, David Daily Telegraph 03 Jan 2009
Police are to launch a crack down on retailers who display drug-related paraphernalia, because of fears they are glamorising abuse of illegal substances. The businesses, known as "head shops", operate entirely within the law but the Association of Chief Police Officers ( Acpo ) is devising new rules on how police and local councils can work together to combat "community concerns" about the stores. The guidelines are expected to see police and trading standards officers demanding changes to the way stores operate, and could even lead to the authorities demanding that items are taken off display. continued...

Head Shop Supply
"World's Largest Head Shop Directory"



Proposition 215 and You

US MA: Police Balk At Ticketing Marijuana Offenders
Levenson, Michael Boston Globe 03 Jan 2009
Massachusetts officially decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana yesterday, but many police departments across the state were essentially ignoring the voter-passed law, saying they would not even bother to ticket people they see smoking marijuana.



Editorial: Pot Possession Should Be Legal
Register Citizen 02 Jan 2009

Editorial: Marijuana Possession Should Be Legalized
The Herald 02 Jan 2009 The Middletown Press

As Californians can testify, getting the stuff, even for legal medical use, is risky, thanks to a federal government that stands four-square against legalization and occasionally demonstrates this by prosecuting suppliers, whatever the state statute.

Editorial: Prison Blues
The Star-Banner 31 Dec 2008

Editorial: Hear No Evil, See No Evil
Miami Herald 03 Jan 2009



CCUA Chronology of Implementation
by Fred Gardner and Pebbles Trippet
November 1996 through May 1999

Introduction

1996
1997
1998
1999

When Prop 215 passed, many optimists thought it would mean the beginning of the end of a destructive, costly prohibition. They assumed the significance of the vote was unmistakable —the people of California had told the government to lay off citizens who were using marijuana for medical purposes. These optimists clung to the naive belief that, America being a democracy, elections results mattered.

But the passage of Prop 215 was viewed by Attorney General Dan Lungren, as a mistake to be rectified by law enforcement. He instructed police and prosecutors to keep arresting and charging people who used marijuana, even if they had the approval of a physician. Marijuana arrests in California actually increased in 1997, according to the Bureau of Criminal Statistics, to 57,667 —up for the sixth year in a row. Many doctors came to feel less willing to discuss marijuana as a treatment option with their patients, as they feared Lungren’s wrath and the attention of Janet
Reno’s Justice Department.

This chronology of the medical marijuana movement is for patients, caregivers and concerned citizens who want a fuller, more coherent account than the corporate media has provided. We apologize in advance for the incompleteness of the chronology. We ask all participants in the movement to contact us ASAP to fill in the blanks.
—Fred Gardner and Pebbles Trippet continued...

San Diego County, CA To Sue To Overturn Medical Marijuana Law

Editorial: What is San Diego smoking?



California Senate Bill 420 (HS 11362.7)

Medical Marijuana Implementation
AUTHOR(S): Vasconcellos
(Principal co-author: Assembly Member Leno).

SB 420 was a compromise that considered much input from patients and reformers.
It clears up certain implementation issues surrounding Prop 215 (HS11362.5)
and formulates a voluntary system to protect patients from arrest.
It sets biased and unrealistic standards as the default baseline for protection,
but also empowers localities to adopt scientific local medical marijuana guidelines.

compromise / käm-prə-ˌmīz
Settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
Something intermediate between or blending qualities of two different things.
A concession to something derogatory or prejudicial (a compromise of principles)

con·ces·sion / kən-ˈse-shən
The act or an instance of conceding.
The admitting of a point claimed in argument.
Something conceded.

con·cede / kən-ˈsēd
To grant as a right or privilege.
To accept as true, valid, or accurate.
(the right of the state to cage sick people is generally conceded)
To acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly.


The Website for Cultural Survivalists

California medical marijuana law, SB 420

Court Opens Door for Persecuting Med Pot Suppliers

D.M.V "simply disregards" Prop 215



Marijuana And Miracles
(An op-ed in the Sacramento News & Review by Steve Kubby, the medical-marijuana patient, activist, defendant and 1998 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate in California, explains the documented efficacy of marijuana in preserving his life, and the injustice of his persecution at the hands of prohibition agents in Placer County who have ignored Proposition 215.)

2006 Sbs Report
State by State Marijuana Laws

PDX NORML 1999 News
About Cannabis and Drug Policy

Why Losing Food Stamps Is Now Part of the War on Drugs
(An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Herman Schwartz, a professor of constitutional law at American University and author of "Packing the Courts: the Conservatives' Campaign to Rewrite the Constitution," explains the cruel, counterproductive consequences that have resulted from an amendment by Sen. Phil Gramm to the 1996 welfare law.

Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
by Peter Schrag
Published on Sunday, June 3, 2001 in the Contra Costa Times

Loss of Federal Education Aid Draws Opposition

Bush To Enforce Financial Aid Drug Law

Starving Babies and Illegal Food



Marijuana - America's Most Profitable Plant
(The spring issue of Whole Earth features San Francisco criminal defense attorney Tony Serra railing eloquently against official efforts to undue Proposition 215 - and the jurors that let them get away with it. "Jurors have become mad dogs, they have been so conditioned by media and police propaganda. . . . I can still win a jury trial. At this office, we do marijuana case after marijuana case, and we win many of them. But it's nothing like the sixties, when all levels of society showed a robust interest in actualizing constitutional rights and expanding the common denominator for justice. It is fairly dismal out there now.")



Medical pot case against journalist dropped
(The San Francisco Bay Guardian notes the state of California has dropped charges against Chico journalist and medical-marijuana patient Pete Brady. Meanwhile, the federal government successfully prosecuted B.E. Smith for growing 87 marijuana plants at his Trinity County home, despite his attempt to invoke Proposition 215.)

Man Convicted In First Medicinal-Pot Trial
(The Orange County Register recaps the cultivation conviction Friday in Sacramento of B.E. Smith. The trial is believed to be the first in a California federal court involving a medical-need claim since Proposition 215 was passed in 1996.)

Federal jury convicts man of marijuana cultivation
(The Associated Press version)

Actor Harrelson, Judge Clash In Pot Trial
(The Sacramento Bee finally gets around to covering the prosecution on federal cultivation charges of B.E. Smith, yet another medical-marijuana patient who thought he was protected by Proposition 215.

B.E. Smith Trial in Sacramento



Marvin Chavez Moved to Susanville
(A list subscriber forwards the prison address of the California medical-marijuana activist who was indicted as director of the Orange County Cannabis Co-op for giving away medicine, denied a Proposition 215 defense at trial, and then sentenced to six years in prison - five years more than a cop from the same jurisdiction who stole methamphetamine from an evidence locker.)

THE DEMONIZATION OF GANJA

Woman’s Christian Vengeance Union

Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message

Effort To Disguise a Medicine as an Illegal Drug

Legislators Ignore People's Will
(Three letters to the editor of the Anchorage Daily News protest the Alaska legislature's nullification of the state's new medical-marijuana law and other undemocratic usurpations.)

DAREyl SWAT Gates LAPDog Perversions

Prison Industrial Complex Attacks Prop. 5

Vote Rigging,Suppression,Purging,Manipulation

DeJaVu 1930's



Ruling Allows Cops To Seize Cars
(An Associated Press article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune says the U.S. Supreme Court today reversed the Florida Supreme Court, voting 7-2 to reinstate Tyvessel Tyvorus White's conviction for possessing crack cocaine police found in his car after seizing it without a warrant. The initial seizure of White's car was based on police officers' belief that it had been used several months earlier to deliver illegal drugs.)

Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail
Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA

The Counterculture Colonel

All Eyes on the Bailout $Trillion Defense Bill Passes

DEA Wipes Out L.A. Cannabis Resource Center
Marihuana Policy Project November 3, 2001
On October 25, scores of DEA agents descended upon the L.A. Cannabis Resource Center in West Hollywood, seizing the center's computers, files, bank account, plants, and medicine. The DEA cited the May 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision as justification for its action. No charges have been filed.

OiNkDeCePtion Is Flying Blind

Drug Worrier Recycling

DEA -- a record of constant failure

420 Dysfunction Junction, Incarceration Nation

Dr. Mollie Fry gets 5 ******* Years! MM



Dave Herrick's 2nd Anniversary
(A list subscriber shares a letter from Salinas Valley State Prison in California, where the medical-marijuana patient/activist is serving a four-year sentence for selling medicine through the Orange County Cannabis Co-Op, after having been denied a Proposition 215 defense. Herrick's appeal is scheduled for June 21, and he may be paroled in October.)

Drug Czar Attacks Prop. 5

Drug Czar Attacks Prop. 1

Drug Cop Lies Sent over 150 to Jail 10.9.8

Drug War Becomes a Shooting War
Ellen Komp, Anti-Drug War activist September 5, 2001
Grover T. "Tom" Crosslin, 47, who owned Rainbow Farm campground in Newberg Township, Michigan, was shot and killed by an FBI "observer" on Monday, September 3 after a four-day standoff at the campground. One day later, Crosslin's roommate Rolland Eugene Rohm, 28, was fatally shot at the property by a Michigan State Police officer. Both men allegedly aimed guns at the law enforcement agents who shot them

* Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
* Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001
Rainbow Farm Massacre

Angel's Fight to Stay Alive

300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression

Authoritarians Wrecking Crew

Once Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why the US Outlawed Pot

William F. Buckley, Jr. Requiescat In Pace



PROP. 215 - MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
Only Puritans and Dan Lundgren would deny seriously and terminally ill patients access to appropriate and effective medication.

Obama Tilts Toward Iran Contra Gates

One In Five High Schools Piss Taste Students 9.29.8
Finally - a drug free workforce! 9.30.8

Oakland City Council Votes
To Shield Local Cannabis Dispensary From Federal Prosecution
July 30, 1998, Oakland, CA: The Oakland City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Wednesday designed to protect the city's local medical marijuana dispensary from federal criminal and civil liability.

Jerry Brown Losing Control?



872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not

Marijuana Arrests Up For 6th Straight Year in California 8/07/98
The number of marijuana arrests in California increased again in 1997 despite the passage of Proposition 215, according to newly released figures from the Bureau of Criminal Statistics, The data show 57,667 marijuana arrests in 1997, up from 56,956 in 1996, conclusively refuting claims by Attorney General Lungren that Prop. 215 has effectively legalized marijuana.

Blessed is the Police State?
Exporting DEAmocracy



Forgotten man By Scott Henry
creativeloafing 12.04.02
Steve Tucker served a 10-year prison sentence for selling light bulbs. Is America's drug war worth it?

Grant Krieger Convictimed

Paradise Lost ... final days of WAMM?

Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List

Teddy Kennedy's Cannabis Brain Tumor Cure



Kill the Messenger

Kathmandu and the Black Prince

The D.E.A.th of Timothy Garon RIP

Rachael Hoffman RIP

Signs of Sickness and D.E.A.th



Peter McWilliams sues Dan Lungren

"The lawsuit is simply asking Attorney General Lungren to do his sworn duty, nothing more." The suit charges AG Lungren with four breaches of the California Constitution.

Peter McWilliams Sues Attorney General for Failure to Enforce Prop. 215 10/09/98

The Murder of Peter McWilliams — An Indictment, Not an Obituary – by Richard Cowan

Welcome to PeterMcWilliams.org
A website in memory of author Peter McWilliams ( 1950 - 2000 )

Why Was Peter McWilliams Murdered? by Paul Krassner
PeterMcWilliams.org Archive

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Note. Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act

HS 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

* has been recommended by a physician

* person's health would benefit

* or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

* no physician in this state shall be punished,

* Illegal possession and cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver

* upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician

* The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article and voluntarily apply to the identification card program.

* "Qualified patient" means a person who is entitled to the protections of Section 11362.5, but who does not have an identification card issued pursuant to this article.

* It shall not be necessary for a person to obtain an identification card in order to claim the protections of Section 11362.5.

* A qualified patient or a person with an identification card

* Any individual who provides assistance

* A designated primary caregiver who transports, processes, administers, delivers, or gives away marijuana for medical purposes

* (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability.

Politicians and Cops are not necessary!

Former Cop: Legalizing Drugs Will Help Fight Gang Violence
Legalize and regulate drugs, or look to Mexico for our future. That's what one 28-year veteran Vancouver Police officer is saying about the ongoing wave of gang violence in Metro Vancouver. Tony Smith says keeping drugs illegal will only lead to more murders.



How To Fight Gang Killings
"The War on drugs fails, and is doomed to perpetual failure, because it is directed not against the root causes of drug addiction and of the international black market in drugs, but only against some drug producers, traffickers and users... the War is doomed because neither the methods of war nor the war idiom itself is appropriate to a complex social problem that calls for compassion, self-searching insight and factually researched scientific understanding."

Justice Department Will Stop Medical Marijuana Raids, Attorney General Says