Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with cannabis www.salem-news.com 2010 Kentucky Freedom Fighter Gatewood Galbraith has died at 64 years old. Galbraith spent his lifetime learning and working within the political and legal system. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1974 and from the University Of Kentucky College Of Law in 1977 and became "The People's Champion". http://salem-news.com/articles/january052012/gatewood-mb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052012/gatewood-mb.php Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:28:00 PST A lawsuit filed by the Arizona's Governor Brewer in an effort to stop medical marijuana patients from using the lawful herb was dismissed by the judge hearing the case. The ruling seems to come as a response to the motion to dismiss filed by the ACLU. The judge agreed, stating "These issues, as presented, are not appropriate for judicial review." http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/arizona-cannabis.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/arizona-cannabis.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:52:00 PST After Medical Marijuana was legalized in Oregon in 1998, I breathed a sigh of relief – now the Feds will quit harassing us. I knew many people were using it for legitimate medical reasons and why not. It works better and is cheaper than almost any pharmaceutical prescription. My elation was short-lived and the specter of Devil Weed and Reefer Madness reared its ugly head. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/ptsd-anguish.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/ptsd-anguish.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:17:00 PDT This is a headline pulled from the NYT July 19, 2011. It is not a coincidence that Patricia Kime from the Army Times newspaper interrogated me about this subject in the morning of July 20th for my opinion on this subject. http://salem-news.com/articles/july242011/mj-studiespl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july242011/mj-studiespl.php Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:00:00 PDT In British Columbia — the word is now out, thanks to Bill Finley of Hemp & Company, in Victoria, where I got this magnificent bead on the story. http://salem-news.com/articles/july152011/hemp-manufacture-dw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july152011/hemp-manufacture-dw.php Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:22:00 PDT The Oregonian recently published "Pharmacy robberies sweep the US" which is about OxyContin in robberies of pharmacies with the robbers killing any possible witnesses. Kudos for telling the truth. These robberies occurred 686 times in 2010 and will probably go up this year as the OxyContin problem is widely endemic. About 1.3 million pills were stolen in 2010 and the street price for one OxyContin pill went up to $80. The article also pointed out that there are at least 7 million marijuana users. http://salem-news.com/articles/july042011/oxycontin-deaths-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july042011/oxycontin-deaths-pl.php Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:07:00 PDT Fees for registering with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program will double, from $100 per year to $200 per year, due to a Budget Bill that passed out of the Joint Ways and Means Committee and into the main chambers late Wednesday. The increase in fees was included in one of the over 30 bills that the Committee “barreled through” on Wednesday. Sen. Doug Whitsett, R-Klamath Falls, objected to the lack of scrutiny over the bills, stating, “It's unacceptable to get this kind of information with no time to study it.” http://salem-news.com/articles/june092011/ommp-feehike.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june092011/ommp-feehike.php Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:00 PDT The wariness of many Oregon medical marijuana patients was validated Friday, when local MMJ dispensaries received a direct warning from the Federal Government and Oregon's top lawmakers. In some areas, there have been privately run medical dispensaries...doing business on borrowed time. Without the affirmation from voters last fall, it looks like "dispensaries" may not have a leg to stand on. Or do they? http://salem-news.com/articles/june062011/cannabis-dispensaries.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june062011/cannabis-dispensaries.php Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:15:00 PDT Despite the US government's staunch opposition to medical cannabis farms in Oakland and elsewhere, the feds have begun licensing a whole lot of large legal pot grows throughout the country. But this weed is not for cannabis dispensaries and their patients; it's for Big Pharma. The Drug Enforcement Administration told Legalization Nation in an e-mail last week that 55 unnamed companies now hold licenses to grow cannabis in the United States. http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/cannabis-pharma.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/cannabis-pharma.php Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:20:00 PDT It is with very deep sorrow that I must inform all of you that our Cannabis-Family has lost yet another invaluable freedom fighting activist. Born in Sacramento, California on June 6, 1968, Seeva Marie Moreno-Cherms elected to leave our world prematurely on the evening of 4-20-2011 in her Grass Valley, California home. http://salem-news.com/articles/may262011/seeva-cherms_jg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may262011/seeva-cherms_jg.php Thu, 26 May 2011 00:40:00 PDT The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) has never received an answer to its 2002 petition, despite a formal recommendation in 2006 from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the final arbiter in the rescheduling process. As recently as July 2010, the DEA issued a 54-page "Position on Marijuana,"but failed to even mention the pending CRC petition. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242011/asa-cannabis.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242011/asa-cannabis.php Tue, 24 May 2011 09:12:00 PDT Oregon HB 3664 is controversial, opposed by the cannabis community and promoted by law enforcement, purportedly to curb “rampant abuse” of the program. It takes components from "dead" bills, it compacts them into one, says Jennifer Alexander, with OCTA. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242011/cannabis-hb3664_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242011/cannabis-hb3664_bk.php Tue, 24 May 2011 01:02:00 PDT On the heals of historic grassroots victories in the state legislature, Colorado cannabis patients and advocates are confused and surprised by an attempt to undermine these victories by a conservative faction of national and local drug policy reform groups. MPP/DPA/Sensible/SAFER filed 8 different versions of a ballot initiative Thursday creating a Constitutional amendment for a marijuana distribution system controlled by law enforcement. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202011/colorado-cannabis.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202011/colorado-cannabis.php Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:00 PDT With a headline designed to wow the citizens of Oregon, the state’s Attorney General John Kroger announced the “President of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion” on Wednesday. That sounds pretty impressive, until the rest of the statement is revealed: Guilty of a Misdemeanor. “This conviction doesn’t prove legitimacy of the case,” Stanford said. http://salem-news.com/articles/may192011/stanford-court_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192011/stanford-court_bk.php Thu, 19 May 2011 03:47:00 PDT In a letter sent late yesterday, the ACLU expresses deep concern about recent letters from several U.S. attorneys from across the country that threaten people who comply with state medical marijuana laws, including state employees and state licensed providers of medical marijuana, with federal prosecution. "Patients, providers and legislatures need clear guidance from DOJ so they can proceed in confidence that state law will be respected." http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/aclu-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/aclu-marijuana.php Fri, 13 May 2011 16:24:00 PDT Dr. Toribio Robert Mestas had been randomly targeted for prosecution by the South Metro Drug Task Force because he gave recommendations for medical marijuana. In his dismissal of the case, Judge Horton ruled that there was nothing improper about Dr. Mestas' recommendation of medical marijuana to an undercover police officer complaining of severe pain and that Colorado's Constitutional Amendment protected physicians by guaranteeing them an exception from the state's criminal laws for making medical marijuana recommendations. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/marijuana-doctor.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/marijuana-doctor.php Fri, 13 May 2011 13:50:00 PDT Portland will be host to a special event this Saturday, a panel discussion on the topic of industrial hemp in America featuring Gatewood Galbraith, Paul Stanford; and Casper Leitch. Whether you support the Democratic party, the Grand Ole Party,or the Teapot Party or any other party, the opportunity to participate in this discussion is well worth your time, and that of your friends for that matter. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/galbraith-portland.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/galbraith-portland.php Fri, 13 May 2011 10:18:00 PDT No recruit ever considered that basic training would be easy, and in a time of war, they quickly discover that combat is a far cry from Hollywood’s portrayal. Reality is what it is. Dr. Phil Leveque knows this to be true. He served in the US Army and lived through World War II- and bears the scars within to this day. “We were psychologically and physically stretched beyond normal limits and many recruits died. A bunch more were permanently psychologically damaged and the end result was PTSD even during training.” http://salem-news.com/articles/may052011/cannabis-ptsd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052011/cannabis-ptsd.php Thu, 05 May 2011 11:16:00 PDT America likes to boast its country’s quality of economic competitiveness. It’s an old story. But here’s one for Canada. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032011/industrial-hemp_dw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032011/industrial-hemp_dw.php Tue, 03 May 2011 14:18:00 PDT Calling all Patients! Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) cardholders are coming together to defend the OMMA and fight for its expansion- and advocates are asking for patients to come to the Capitol. Tomorrow, April 14th, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. proposed Senate Bill 874 will be going through what is known as a "gut and stuff" session. What's a "gut and stuff"? It's an opportunity to retain the framework of a bill and change what's within it. http://salem-news.com/articles/april132011/oregon-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april132011/oregon-marijuana.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:23:00 PDT The Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee approved a bill yesterday, SB 308, which would allow patients who use marijuana to treat a medical condition to use a medical necessity defense in court. The bill would also create a panel to advise the legislature on best practices for creating a medical marijuana program in 2012. The Senate passed the bill by a 41-6 vote on March 24, and will need to approve the bill again because of amendments made by the Judiciary Committee. http://salem-news.com/articles/april082011/maryland-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082011/maryland-marijuana.php Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:48:00 PDT If passed, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 will regulate the legal sale of marijuana to adults through state-licensed stores, allow adults to grow their own, license Oregon farmers to grow marijuana for state-licensed stores and allow unlicensed Oregon farmers to grow cannabis hemp for fuel, fiber and food. OCTA 2012 organizers need to gather 90,000 registered voters' signatures. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292011/octa-approval.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292011/octa-approval.php Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:20:00 PDT Scientific trials have for decades documented the anti-cancer properties of cannabis and its constituents. Yet, it took until this week for the website of the National Institute of Cancer, a component of the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health, to finally acknowledged the herb’s therapeutic utility for patients living with disease or suffering from the adverse side-effects of cancer treatment. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252011/cannabis-cancer.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252011/cannabis-cancer.php Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:55:00 PDT Seattle Hempfest is pleased to announce that Hempfest will take place at Myrtle Edwards Park, Aug. 19, 20, 21, 2011. After six months of ongoing negotiations, and a federal lawsuit filed by Hempfest, the City of Seattle has agreed to grant Hempfest a Special Event Permit for 2011. Hempfest organizers are encouraging the public to ignore all rumors of cancellation. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/hempfest-seattle.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/hempfest-seattle.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:25:00 PDT Every arrest of a lawbreaker makes a big difference to the state of Oregon- every dime collected, a huge relief to the tax payers. That’s what one would hope, that the powers-that-be had the best interests of we average citizens at heart. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/stanford-thcf_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212011/stanford-thcf_bk.php Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:20:00 PDT I wasn't surprised by the Oregon legislature hearings about Medical Marijuana and the shrill, ignorant posings of those trying to restrict its legal use. Researchers, doctors and patients say cannabis works better and is safer than almost all of the FDA approved medicines. http://salem-news.com/articles/march042011/marijuana-medicine-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march042011/marijuana-medicine-pl.php Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:22:00 PST About 75 people stood outside Oregon’s capitol last Wednesday in the freezing cold, demanding their health rights are respected by the legislature. Before the bills hit the Legislature, controversy was already showing it's antagonistic head. There is a small faction of the cannabis community that, though they profess to have the best intentions of the medical patients at heart, regularly join forces to put forth legislation that is not a reflection of the majority of those very patients. http://salem-news.com/articles/march022011/oregon-cannabis_bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022011/oregon-cannabis_bk.php Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:08:00 PST When I volunteered for the Army in 1944, I wrongly assumed that I would be treated like a human volunteer – wrong. We were all treated like peons by our immediate superiors whether they had one stripe or 4 stars. It wasn’t fun getting shot at. Shortly after I got out of the Army, I got a broken neck. I had no money and I was under VA care for about 10 months. They used an experimental drug on me. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/va-mistreatment-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/va-mistreatment-pl.php Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:36:00 PST The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy director Gil Kerlikowske wanted to fly to Seattle to speak personally with the paper's full editorial board after they ran an editorial supporting a bill to tax and regulate marijuana. Bruce Ramsey, the editorial writer, says the White House called “right after our editorial ran, so I drew the obvious conclusion... he didn’t like our editorial.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/seattle-pot-kerlikowske.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282011/seattle-pot-kerlikowske.php Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:17:00 PST “My hope is to include women – and men – both within and outside of the medical cannabis community,” says Anna Diaz, event coordinator and member of the NWA Steering Committee. “We are thrilled to open up to the public for this special event,” said Madeline Martinez. “We appreciate the chance to show the café to those who may not be able to visit under normal circumstances and to support everyone in our community, not just Oregon Medical Marijuana Program participants.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february222011/norml-event.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222011/norml-event.php Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:03:00 PST