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From NBC2, in Fort Myers, Fla.:

A vacant house in Lehigh Acres may look like just another foreclosed home, but deputies actually found out it was a ‘budding’ business.

Deputies removed around 100 marijuana plants from the home….Deputies say it’s one of two new scenarios: a grow house operator with no intent of ever paying the mortgage, or someone simply noticed that the house was empty and set up shop.

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Thibodaux man arrested for medical marijuana

Published: Monday, June 23, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 23, 2008 at 11:33 a.m.

GRAY — A shipment of medical-grade marijuana allegedly bound for Louisiana from California was intercepted by State Police Thursday, resulting in the arrest of two men living in a Thibodaux apartment on drug charges.

State Police Troop C spokesman Gilbert Dardar said local troopers were contacted Wednesday by authorities in Mendocino, Calif., and notified that a “large amount of marijuana” was en route from a private delivery service to 2316 St. Bernard Road, Apt. E.

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Bush: Marijuana Laws Up to States

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, October 22, 1999; Page B7 

 

Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush says he believes individual states should choose whether to ban the use of marijuana for medical purposes, but is stopping short of saying the District should enjoy that privilege.

The Texas governor, who in recent weeks has distanced himself from several positions taken by conservative Republicans in Congress, said that when it came to congressional efforts to ban a medical marijuana law here, he was in Congress’s corner.

Campaigning in Seattle on Saturday, Bush answered questions about medical marijuana laws by saying, “I believe each state can choose that decision as they so choose.”

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And thanks:

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NY Assembly Passes Medical Marijuana Bill

ALBANY — The New York Assembly passed a bill today that would protect New Yorkers with life threatening or debilitating conditions from arrest for using medical marijuana when their doctors believe it would be the best treatment option, 79-48.

    The bill is similar to the medical marijuana bill the Assembly passed last year. The version passed today was modified to address concerns voiced by members of the Senate, who have until June 23 to pass the bill before the legislature recesses.

 

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3 ballot questions poised to move to state. ballot

By Associated Press
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 -

BOSTON - Backers of ballot questions that would end Massachusetts’ income tax, ban greyhound racing and ease marijuana laws say they have enough signatures to make the November ballot.

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Few medical marijuana ‘adverse events’

MONTREAL, June 17 (UPI) — Medical use of cannabinoids from marijuana does not cause an increase in serious negative medical side effects, Canadian researchers said.

 

Researchers at McGill University Health Centre and McGill University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver said that as the use of cannabinoid medications increases, so do concerns about their potential to cause “adverse events.”

Dr. Mark Ware of the McGill University Health Centre said the analysis reported 31 separate clinical studies of cannabinoid medications conducted between 1966 and 2007. Adverse events were categorized as either serious or non-serious; with serious adverse events defined as those leading to death, hospitalization or disability.

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The GOP will be crushed this November.

Idaho GOP: No Marijuana For The GOP

A resolution opposing legalizing marijuana, even for medical use, passed the GOP’s resolution committee this afternoon. Delegates voted 21-9 for the measure that Ada County delegate and former Deputy Attorney General Jeremy Chou presented. The move was seen by some as a direct attact against a Ron Paul supporter who has gotten three marijuana inititives passed in Hailey, just south of Sun Valley.

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AGRICULTURE

B.C.’s heavy rain threatens $1-billion in marijuana revenue, activist says

British Columbia’s marijuana industry is poised to lose $1-billion this year if the constant rainy weather battering the region doesn’t stop, activist Marc Emery said yesterday.

The B.C. Marijuana Party founder says the mid-May to mid-June growing season has been attacked by the big three - “cold, clouds and excessive moisture” - leaving most outdoor plants only about 15 centimetres tall, much smaller than they should be.

“When the soil is really, really wet it tends to move and cause root rot and waterlogged soil,” he said. “Plants can’t handle that much water.”

Marijuana buds are also growing mould and a dusting of mildew, compounding the problem.

Weather is the No. 1 help or hindrance to the illicit $6-billion to $8-billion B.C. industry. And the problem is stretched right across the province, “from Vancouver to the Kootenays,” Mr. Emery said.

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Medical marijuana limitations dropped

Published: June 11, 2008
By Nicholas Grube

Triplicate staff writer

Faced with the possibility of opening the county up to future litigation, the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday opted to come up with a new ordinance that will remove all cultivation and possession limits on medical marijuana.

The decision will shift the burden of what constitutes an appropriate amount of medical marijuana onto patients, their doctors and law enforcement.

“It places the responsibility for the medical necessity for the use of marijuana squarely on the user,” Sheriff Dean Wilson said. “They need to work with their doctors to get the medicine that they need.”

This means medical marijuana patients will have to consult with their physicians to determine an appropriate dosage and then get a new prescription with these medical guidelines written on it. Otherwise, Wilson said, what is deemed a reasonable amount of medical marijuana would be up to the discretion of law enforcement.

 

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