MAP - Hemp

East Bay Express, 25 Aug 2010 - Just who intends to puff, puff, pass on Proposition 19? Jennifer Soares came out of the closet on April 17, 2010, but not in a gay way. She's a drug lawyer against legalization. Sitting on a legal panel at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo at the Cow Palace, Soares was asked by an audience member her thoughts about Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, which will appear on the ballot November 2. With the pungent smell of pot wafting through the endless rows of booths advertising everything from hemp clothing to THC lollipops, Soares nervously spoke into the microphone.

Bellingham Herald, 23 Aug 2010 - TACOMA: Patient upset with police arrests, raids Cat Jeter wants Tacoma city officials to know how people living and working in the city feel about medical marijuana, but her message needs more than mere words.

Toronto Sun, 21 Aug 2010 - Behold the Church of the Gerbil, where the Ten Condiments command that you shall be fuzzy at all times and listen to "The Chipmunk Song" until the chinchillas come home. Call us sacrilegious, but we find it hard to take a "religion" seriously when it not only promotes the use and sale of pot and gives membership cards to dogs, but also claims The Church of the Gerbil as an affiliate.

Seattle Times, 20 Aug 2010 - Sensible Washington, the group that sponsored a marijuana-legalization bill that didn't make it on the ballot this election season, plans to launch its 2011 legalization campaign at Seattle Hempfest this weekend. Sensible Washington, the group that sponsored a marijuana-legalization bill that didn't make it to the ballot this election season, plans to launch its 2011 legalization campaign at Seattle Hempfest this weekend.

AlterNet, 19 Aug 2010 - I've Collected the Eight Craziest Claims About a Post-Legalization State of California Predicted by Opponents of Prop 19. As California gets set to vote on Prop 19 - an initiative to legalize marijuana statewide - some people's minds are being completely blown, man. But it's not the people smoking the stuff, it's the people trying to keep it banned.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 15 Aug 2010 - Caregiver Lenny Brown brought medical marijuana to show potential patients at the Bozeman Hempfest at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds Saturday, but he was asked to remove it from the premises. "I wouldn't have come here if I knew I couldn't display my medicine," Brown said. "All I heard was that they were going to shut us down - that we needed to put it away."

The Times-Herald, 15 Aug 2010 - The marijuana tug-of-war -- with supporters likely endorsing a hemp rope -- is gaining intensity as a state ballot measure to legalize the drug is less than 100 days away. Those with a lot of TLC for THC -- tetrahydrocannabinol, the main ingredient in weed -- hope a passing vote for Proposition 19 allows pot smokers 21 and older to come out of the living room and, at the same time, add a chunk of cash to the state treasury.

Saginaw News, 15 Aug 2010 - THOMAS TWP. -- On Friday, a neon-green sign that said "Tri-City Compassion Club, park here" in stenciled block letters was posted in front of the lot and Thomas Township home owned by John F. Roberts. Roberts, 49, whose home -- where he lives with his fiancee Stephanie Whisman, 38 -- was raided by DEA agents July 6, is the new location of the Tri-City Compassion Club.

Washington City Paper, 12 Aug 2010 - Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn Wants to Be D.C.'S First Legal Medical-Marijuana Dealer. But First He Has to Navigate City Regulators, Well-Financed Competitors, and Suspicious Neighbors. Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn spent 27 years teaching the Torah in shuls from central New Jersey to southern Australia. Lately, he's been talking a lot about a passage from Leviticus, the part about not standing idle while your neighbor bleeds.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 Jul 2010 - In November, Californians will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot initiative legalizing all marijuana use, whether medicinal or not. According to the latest poll of likely California voters, Proposition 19 will pass. This will put the Obama administration in an awkward position.

Los Angeles Business Journal, 12 Jul 2010 - Indoor Crops Thrive Thanks to Favorable Law. Despite L.A.'s recent and well-publicized crackdown on pot shops, another side of the industry is thriving: the growers. With state law encouraging shops to grow their own marijuana rather than get supplies on the black market - often from Northern California - demand is rising for pot grown in small indoor facilities across Los Angeles County.

Omaha World-Herald, 12 Jul 2010 - LINCOLN -- As his wife was slowly dying from cancer, Craig, Neb., farmer DeJay Monson turned to something that had helped him overcome seizures and migraine headaches arising from a childhood school-bus accident. Feeding his wife, Dana, marijuana, baked in foods or infused in liquids, returned some function to her life, Monson said Monday, fighting back tears.

Washington Post, 10 Jul 2010 - In the small backroom of Capitol Hemp, a head shop in Adams Morgan, a worker dutifully arranges an array of ceramic pipes displayed in a well-lit glass case. Another clerk helps a couple of customers as they peruse a selection of bongs and vaporizers. Stored behind the counter is another amply stocked product whose popularity is booming: "spice," the generic name for a legal "synthetic marijuana." Capitol Hemp owner Adam Eidinger said that in the 18 months since he began stocking spice, demand has doubled each month, and its sales now represent a third of his revenue. On some Fridays, he said, his two District stores can bring in $10,000 from the sale of spice alone.

San Bernardino Sun, 10 Jul 2010 - Thomas Place, 55, of Rialto, wants more research conducted on the ingestion of marijuana to assist AIDS patients and has helped create an AIDS patient medical marijuana group to further the cause. "I just want to help other people," Place said, after showing off his concoction of marijuana tincture, a concoction that he says has helped him overcome renal failure. "I've seen people in different clinics struggling."

Toronto Star, 09 Jul 2010 - Arbi Kevorkian has always made sure his weed is legal. Every summer for the past four years, Kevorkian has sent off the renewal form to Health Canada two months before his medical marijuana licence expires in July.

Langley Advance, 09 Jul 2010 - A local business owner wants to open a medical marijuana dispensary. Langley needs a medical marijuana dispensary somewhere in the community, according to the local business owner who is licensed by Health Canada to provide medical pot.

100 Mile House Free Press, 07 Jul 2010 - The 100 Mile House Industrial Hemp Project is up and running again, as a student co-ordinator has been hired and a test plot has been seeded. Project manager Erik Eising was in 100 Mile last week to meet with Horse Lake resident Robin Diether who was hired as the project student co-ordinator on June 30.

Lincoln Journal Star, 05 Jul 2010 - It wasn't the mellow gathering one might expect. After a parade through downtown Lincoln on Monday, women in tie-dye dresses and men with cardboard posters cheered at passing cars in front of the Capitol.

Los Angeles Daily News, 21 Jun 2010 - I predict that by the end of the year the sale of marijuana will become so common in L.A. that Mom will be able to say, "Timmy, run down to Vons and get me a quart of milk, a loaf of sourdough bread, a pound of tomatoes and two ounces of pot." Even though an effort is being made to limit the number of places that sell marijuana, and even barring home delivery, there will be no way to keep it totally under control.

Time Magazine, 21 Jun 2010 - Some call it a green rush. In the past five years, the number of medical-marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles has exploded from four to nearly 600. To get a handle on what one city official called a "chaotic situation," more than 400 were shuttered June 7, following a January vote to limit their numbers in response to complaints that many were catering to recreational users. When it comes to using the drug for medical purposes, though, no one did it like the ancients.