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7 circles of Juarez: teenage assassins
120,000 Juarez youngsters aged 13 to 24 â or 45 percent of the total â are not enrolled in any education or do not have any formal employment. Because drug prohibition forces the trade underground, drug trafficking organizations step in to provide jobs, using their operatives in the slums to look out for talented young gunslingers. Youth are hired to kill for as little as $100.
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Medical Marijuana Raids Continue Despite Obama's Pledge
Recent DEA raids in California are once again raising questions about the Obama Administration's commitment to respecting state laws:
San Diego, CA -- Federal agents raided at least three San Diego-area medical marijuana dispensaries [Friday] in the early morning hours. Sources say that Green Kross, Unified Collective and Kush Lounge were all served federal search warrants and were subjected to aggressive SWAT-style raids which resulted in the arrest of as many as 12 people and the seizure of money, medical marijuana and patient records. These raids come as the City of San Diego is deliberating an ordinance to regulate the local distribution of medical marijuana. [Americans for Safe Access]
It's possible, of course, that there were violations of state law taking place here, in which case the DEA's involvement would be consistent with Obama's policy. But it remains unclear why California police would need federal assistance enforcing their own laws. The cynical interpretation would be that the tendency of local juries to acquit medical marijuana defendants has led San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis to have the feds do her dirty work.
Meanwhile in Mendocino:
A marijuana activist group on Friday protested a federal law enforcement raid on a Mendocino County pot farm, saying it was protected by the county’s new medical marijuana cultivation ordinance.
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The Covelo farm owned by Joy Greenfield, 68, was registered with Mendocino County authorities under an ordinance that allows medical marijuana collectives to grow up to 99 plants.
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Federal agents removed 99 plants and took a computer and cash, the group said. Greenfield wasn’t there at the time.
Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman confirmed Friday that the property owner had the proper paperwork and the marijuana was legal in the eyes of the county. [Press Democrat]
Once again, there could be more to the story, but it sure sounds like classic DEA craziness. The grower's relationship with local law-enforcement casts doubt on the possibility of impropriety, so we're left wondering what the hell is going on here.
Events like these are inevitable under a vague federal policy left to the whims of the DEA's bullying cowboy mentality. Only a change in federal law will bring an end to this, but for the time being, the Obama Administration would do well to eliminate all apparent departures from the well-received hands-off approach they've promised the American people. I don't see what's so hard about that. If circumstances emerge that absolutely necessitate DEA activity involving medical marijuana, then it shouldn’t be too hard to provide an explanation for why federal resources were needed. That's the very least you can do.
Obama's pledge to respect medical marijuana laws enjoys broader public support than almost anything else he's done since taking office. Screwing that up would be stupid, cruel and pointless.
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Drug Truth 07/12/10 + 17 New Affiliates!
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Press Release: Plan for medical marijuana at hospitals called "pie in the sky"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey (CMMNJ)
www.cmmnj.org
CONTACT: Ken Wolski RN 609 391 2137 [email protected] or Chris Goldstein [email protected]
Plan for medical marijuana at hospitals called "pie in the sky"
Last month the New Jersey Legislature delayed medical marijuana access and floated a new concept for the program: Rutgers University could be named as the sole source for all medical cannabis cultivation and the marijuana would be distributed only by hospitals.
The full presentation from the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals (NJCTH) was reported in the Newark Star-Ledger today. CMMNJâs Chris Goldstein spoke via phone Friday with NJCTH President J. Richard Goldstein (no relation). He said that NJCTH was invited for what were described as informational discussions in Trenton and not to draft language for the law, calling the medical marijuana proposal âpie in the sky.âÂ
NJCTHâs Goldstein explained, âThis is not a full plan. This was just an initial conversation with some key players. The Christie Administration just ran with it.â
Governor Chris Christieâs staff and some legislators have been speaking frequently with the media about the proposals. Patients could access marijuana at hospitals, to be sure, and Rutgers University certainly has the capability of farming medical cannabis. But their Boards of Directors and retained attorneys would be hard pressed to take on the one thing that private businesses already do: Risk.
New Jersey hospitals and Rutgers University have not fully examined their federal liabilities. None of those entities have committed themselves to putting their assets on the line for sick and dying patients. They are not alone; not a single hospital or university in the US currently engages in the production or distribution of state regulated medical marijuana.* Thirteen states have medical marijuana programs running where private non-profit or for-profit business owners take on the tremendous risk presented by ongoing federal prohibition. Any one of several authorities could seize their properties and assets at any given moment. The owners and employees of medical cannabis businesses also take on the risk of personally losing their freedom through federal arrest.
There do exist groups of private citizens ready to get New Jersey âs program running. New Jerseyâs medical cannabis patient advocacy groups and others groups interested in offering information about the medical marijuana program have not been afforded the same opportunities to meet with âkey playersâ that Rutgers the NJCTH have enjoyed. Form letters sent from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services claimed that state officials were considering no proposals from any group.
The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act currently calls for the initial licensing of six, private Alternative Treatment Centers (ATCs) around the state. Patients can only gain legal protections by purchasing marijuana from an authorized ATC. The NJ Department of Health and Senior Services is currently scheduled to begin the regulatory process in October and bring the medical cannabis program online starting in January 2011.
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The Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey is intensifying efforts to educate the public and legislators about the ways to best serve the patients who qualify under the law. Ken Wolski RN, executive director of CMMNJ, said, "The proposal to monopolize New Jersey's medical marijuana program to provide a funding source for training new doctors in the state represents a betrayal of the very patients that the law was designed to protect and serve."
A cannabinoid researcher from Temple University will address the CMMNJ monthly public meeting which will be held on July 13, 2010 at the Lawrence Township (Mercer Co.) Public Library from 7 - 9 pm.
* The University of Mississippi hosts the only DEA licensed marijuana cultivation facility. The single strain of cannabis is distributed to four federal medical marijuana patients. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) also oversees the federal marijuana. It is used for research on a very limited basis.
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Ken Wolski, RN, MPA
Executive Director
Coalition for Medical Marijuana--New Jersey, Inc. www.cmmnj.org
219 Woodside Ave.
Trenton, NJ 08618
609.394.2137
[email protected]
CONTACT: Ken Wolski RN 609 391 2137 [email protected] or Chris Goldstein [email protected]
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Wal-Mart continues to find itself under pressure from medical marijuana advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union has stepped forward to file a lawsuit against the corporation for its firing of medical marijuana patient Joseph Casias. 
Colorado, long an important front for battling marijuana prohibition, is under pressure from veterans and medical marijuana advocates pressing the state to allow medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece titled "Strapped Police Run on Fumes, and Federal Pot-Fighting Cash" detailing the ways in which federal dollars keep police forces afloat while forcing them to pursue ineffective eradication efforts. 
Our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance recently released a study finding, among other things, that although blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rate as whites, they are being arrested at up to four times the rate as whites. This absolute lack of racial justice is just one more reason we need to end marijuana prohibition today. 
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Why I'm here
This is my first entry. I want to stop the killing. I believe that legalization and regulation of all drugs is the way to this end.
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State chooses marijuana dispensaries
Maine's Department of Health and Human Services has selected three licensees to operate Maine's first six medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Damages slashed in false drug case
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Marijuana Legalization: California Pot Price Could Drop to $38 an Ounce, Rand Study Finds
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Appeal: 2010 is Important in Drug Policy -- And So Are You
2010 is a critical year in the effort to end prohibition and the war on drugs. The StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) "Changing Minds, Changing Laws, Changing Lives" campaign is asking for you to pitch in -- your support is more important now than it has ever been before!