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- What if Day Care Workers Get Stoned on Marijuana and Kill Children?
You may think legalizing marijuana is such a great idea, but what if it's actually the worst idea ever? Here's someone who believes the latter, and they've written a letter to their local newspaper explaining why.read more - This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Two of our four bad apples this week come from the Big Apple, one for planting drugs and one for transporting them.read more - Missouri, Tennessee Ponder Legislator Drug Tests
Bills that would require state legislators to undergo drug tests have been filed in Missouri and Tennessee.read more - US CA: Edu: Column: Mary Jane: Wow, She's Still Not Legal?
Daily Titan, 07 Feb 2012 - Some people shake in their boots at the thought of legalizing marijuana. The idea that it could be regulated and controlled like alcohol and tobacco scares the hell out of them. Those people are ignorant and disillusioned, and it's at no fault of their own. Both our grandparents and parents were exposed to the mentality that smoking pot will send a person into a Reefer Madness lifestyle. They were mortified at images of hit-and-run accidents, suicide, murder and rape-all at the hands of the theatrical, over-the-top dramatization of what happens when people get high. - Colorado 'Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol' Campaign Was Short on Signatures, But...
The campaign was found to have an unusually high number of invalid signatures, and now has 15 days to collect enough valid signatures to cover the shortfall. - US MI: Oxford Village To Discuss Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
The Oakland Press, 06 Feb 2012 - The Village of Oxford is considering taking steps many Oakland County locales have taken regarding the issue of medical marijuana in their communities. The village council will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14 to address whether medical marijuana dispensaries in the village will be permitted to operate. - CN ON: Drug Dealer Agreed Not To Sue Police, Court Told
Toronto Star, 06 Feb 2012 - A former senior Crown attorney says he had no idea a marijuana dealer, as part of a plea bargain, had signed a document releasing drug squad officers who allegedly beat him from any liability for his injuries. Kofi Barnes, now a provincial court judge, was the Crown who supervised 10 federal prosecutors at Old City Hall, including Beverley Olesko, who took Christopher Quigley's June 3, 1998, guilty plea. - US MI: Attorney General Trying To Shut Down Macomb County
The Daily Tribune, 06 Feb 2012 - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is again trying to shut down a Chesterfield Township medical marijuana dispensary, claiming it sold marijuana outside the rules of the law. Judge John Foster scheduled a Feb. 13 show-cause hearing for attorneys to argue Schuette's claim Big Daddy's Hydroponics and Compassion Center violated the law when it sold marijuana to an undercover officer armed with a medical marijuana license but who didn't list Big Daddy's as his caregiver. - US: Legal Recreational Marijuana: Not So Far Out
Time Magazine, 06 Feb 2012 - LEGAL RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA: NOT SO FAR OUT With medical marijuana now available in 16 states, decriminalizing pot for recreational use could be around the corner The drive to legalize marijuana has long been a fringe cause, associated with hard-core libertarians and college-age stoners. But it could go mainstream in a big way in this November's election, when Washington could become the first state to legalize recreational pot use. If it does -- or if voters in any of several other states do -- this year could be a turning point in the nation's treatment of marijuana. - Canada: Harsher Sentences for Pot Growers Than for Pedophiles
Toronto Star, 05 Feb 2012 - OTTAWA--Media reports that some pot growers will face harsher mandatory-minimum sentences than child rapists under the Conservative government's new crime bill were enough to catch the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. A request by The Canadian Press for cabinet records on the controversial omnibus crime legislation turned up a single document - -- much of it blacked out under a broad, discretionary exemption in the Access to Information Act.
