drug policy reform

A Newport Beach couple have opened what they describe as a marijuana school, and city officials say it's legal as long as they don't distribute pot there. Chadd and Alysha McKeen don't care that passersby can see the six 3-foot-tall marijuana plants growing inside their new storefront. "I want to tell people to stop being afraid of it," Chadd McKeen, co-founder of Otherside Farms, told the Daily Pilot.  

When publicly scrutinizing the integrity of an organization and the members that make up that organization, perhaps it would behoove the journalists who report the news to present facts rather than spinning the truth to meet a particular publication's apparent collective political agenda. "A digital scale, a gun and a large amount of cash inside two alleged 'pay-owe' envelopes that are now missing are the basis of Nevada County's case ..." These statements pertaining to the trial of Mr. Engstrom, in whi  

More than four months after voters expanded Maine's medical marijuana laws, a bill to implement the changes is receiving mixed reviews from groups and individuals on both sides of the issue. The Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee voted 9-0 on Thursday to endorse a measure creating a new, regulated system for approved patients to acquire the drug. But law enforcement and state officials wanted changes to ensure the new system does not create problems for towns and police.

I think that’s a smart idea: Take it one step at a time   -Janet Mills

 

For the second time this month, leaders of the Henry County Democratic Party are meeting to elect a new county party chairman. The meeting Saturday is to find a successor to 33-year-old Kyle Allen Sproston of Geneseo, who was elected to the post March 3. Sproston resigned this week after he was arrested on marijuana charges.  

 

ROMULUS, Mich. Authorities say a man grabbed two bags containing 45 pounds of marijuana from a luggage carousel at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. They seized the drugs Thursday night after stopping a Chevy Tahoe on the Southfield Freeway in Detroit and arresting the driver, Clifford Skinner. Customs agent Kurt Fiegel says Skinner indicated that he worked for a drug organization that would secretly place drug-filled luggage on flights to Detroit.  

A New Jersey man with multiple sclerosis was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for growing marijuana plants he said he needed to treat his condition. John Ray Wilson, 37, was convicted in December of second-degree manufacturing of marijuana and third-degree possession of psychedelic mushrooms. State Superior Court Judge Robert Reed had barred references to Wilson's medical condition during the trial, ruling that personal use was not a defense, and that New Jersey had no law sanctioning the use

We're disappointed that he's in state prison for smoking marijuana to treat his multiple sclerosis   -James Wronko

 

Medical Marijuana Law Would Protect Workers... What happened in Michigan to a WalMart worker who was fired for testing positive for doctor-recommended medical marijuana probably could not happen in Arizona -- if voters approve a ballot measure in November.... OUTRAGE: MS Patient Gets 5 Years For Medical Marijuana...  

Yesterday, we published an extended interview with DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin , a lightning rod for controversy about medical marijuana. Predictably, some of his assertions about the DEA's actions troubled Jessica Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. But along with her criticisms, Corry, the wife of fellow attorney/advocate Rob Corry, also saw some positives in Sweetin's rhetoric, which was far less strident than in some previous interviews.

We want to talk with Agent Sweetin about that   -Jessica Corry

 

A bill that would legalize the medical use of marijuana in Massachusetts will be recommended for further study, according to local state Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, who chairs the committee reviewing the legislation. That means that the bill will likely die, according to the state legislature's web site (Mass.gov/legis). Bill Downing, director of the pro-medical marijuana Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MASS CANN), said in an e-mail to the Gazette that Jamaica Plain voters should be "hopping mad."

This is one [bill] that I think we’re going to study   -Jeffrey Sanchez