In the Trenches
Seattle Hempfest Sues City and Art Museum
NEWS RELEASE
July 31, 2006
Contact: Dominic Holden (206) 877-2240
Vivian McPeak (206) 295-7258
Event backers file suit against City; Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park named
Permit application unprocessed, sculpture park construction plans violate law, organizers say
SEATTLE The Seattle Hempfest is filing suit Monday in King County Superior Court against City officials Ken Bounds, the Parks Department Superintendent, and Virginia Swanson, the Special Events Committee Chair, to compel the officials to create safe access to Myrtle Edwards Park and issue a Special Event Permit in time for the August 2006 event.
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Seattle, WA
United States
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New DrugScience.org Web Site Released
July 31, 2006
For Immediate Release:
The DrugScience.org web site (www.drugscience.org) has been revised, redesigned, and developed in a showcase on science and the marijuana issue. Now DrugScience is set to introduce features in political science to supplement its longstanding archives on the cannabis rescheduling petition and the recent history of marijuana research.
The redesigned DrugScience.org is the home of the Cannabis Rescheduling Petition and background on the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis. The content of both the 1995 and the 2002 Rescheduling Petitions are available in easily accessible html, along with considerable background and archival materials including the original evaluations of THC and Marijuana by HHS prior to the historic hearings before Judge Francis Young in the 1980s. Created by Jon Gettman, DrugScience presents material on the history of rescheduling efforts as well as detailed explanations of the scientific research behind the legal and medical arguments for medical cannabis. The segmented presentation of the material from the two rescheduling petitions provides a rich source of subject matter to link to in various contexts, such as a short explanation why cannabis has low toxicity or a review of the Gateway Theory, all accessible through browsing the contents of the petitions or use of our powerful search engine.
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United States
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Belgian "Draw Up Your Plant" Campaign for Cannabis Regulation
“The Flemish Institute for Alcohol and Drugs Questions” and our cannabis association “Draw Up Your Plant” agree on a specific problem:
Belgian cannabis law is creating legal insecurity for Civil society.
Draw Up Your Plant organized a very successful press moment on Thursday Juli 27. “The mother plant, seeds and clones” were the subject of our action this time. We showed the planting of the seed to grow a mother plant that'll provide clones for the Draw Up Your Plant plantation.
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Belgium
Cops Say Legalize Drugs: LEAP Forum at DPA Los Angeles Office
For Immediate Release
Contact: Alberto Mendoza, (213) 201-4785
July 20, 2006
Growing Movement of Law Enforcement Officers Indict the War on Drugs
LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) to Debut 12-minute Video Offering Radical Alternative to War on drugs
LEAP Event (Thursday, July 27th) Comes as West Hollywood Makes Marijuana Enforcement Lowest Priority
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Los Angeles, CA
United States
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Belgian Cannabis Activists to Plant Seeds to Protest Seed Ban
Here is the text of a press release from ENCOD and "Draw Up Your Plant," a Belgian pot users' organization:
Belgian cannabis consumers united in "Draw Up Your Plant" will put the seed
for the first mother plant, in spite of controversy on the possession of seeds
Thursday 27 July, 12 hs. in the Botanic Garden of Antwerp (in front of the
glasshouses)
On Thursday 27 July, a seed of cannabis will be put in a flowerpot. The
Location:
Antwerp
Belgium
Kootenay Cannabis Community Mobilizing Over Holy Smoke Bust
The powerful cannabis community in BC's Kootenay region is not taking the Holy Smoke bust lying down. Holy Smoke will undertake a strong legal defense, and supporters will hold what they promise to be the largest pot rally in the area's history on August 5.
Here is an update from Holy Smoke co-owner Alan Middlemiss from the Cannabis Culture forums:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=current&Nu...
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Nelson, BC
Canada
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ASA Press Release on Americans with Disabilities Act Medical Marijuana Case
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2006
Americans for Safe Access
State, National Groups Add Support to Medical Marijuana Employment Case
Legislators, Medical Organizations, Disability Advocates File in Supreme Court
San Francisco -- Medical organizations, California state legislators and disability rights organizations have all filed supporting briefs with the California Supreme Court in a landmark employment rights case involving medical marijuana. The amici curiae or ‘friend of the court’ briefs all argue that medical marijuana patients deserve civil employment protections provided by California state law.
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CA
United States
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United States
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Interpol Medical Marijuana Letter, Michael Krawitz
A nice letter from Michael Krawitz. I can't speak to the meaning of the treaties insofar as they could be said to support medical marijuana, but at a bare minimum the DEA's claim that international treaties preclude medical marijuana is amazingly bogus -- even by DEA standards! And Michael is right -- in moral terms, at least, what's going on now is a crime against humanity.
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United States
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DownsizeDC.org Action Alert to De-Fund the Drug Czar
Quick. You need help. Desperately. Get out the yellow pages, or do a web search. Look under "people to tell you what to think."
Don't find it? Maybe it's in the government pages?
Oops. Sorry for the bother. You've already hired someone to tell you what to think. He's called the Drug Czar. His job, paid for with your tax dollars, is to tell you what to think about national drug policy.
That's it. That's all. That's what the Drug Czar does. He tells you what to think.
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United States
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