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A resolution before US Congress that would decriminalize marijuana possession and use for responsible adults now has six co-sponsors, including crucial support from members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

US Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), sponsor of HR 5843, held a press conference July 30, 2008, in Washington, D.C., with fellow lawmakers and advocates from organizations working to reform U.S. drug laws, in order to speak on the legislation.

The co-sponsors are US Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Ron Paul (R-TX).

On a side note: A July 30, 2008, online CNN poll found that 76 percent of respondents favor the legalization of marijuana as opposed to 24 percent against. The Washington Examiner, in a July 31 online poll, found that 75 percent favor legalization, versus 25 percent who are against it.

So, why is something that 24% of people are opposed to illegal exactly?

Cannabis ring, lighter ‘could identify skeleton’

ABC Online, Australia

Investigators have consulted with the coroner and a pathologist and do not believe the man was murdered.

It is hoped a number of items found at the scene may help identify him.

They include a silver ring with a marijuana leaf emblem, a metal flip-top lighter and a ‘tazo’ commonly found in chip packets.

Cannabis plants found at fire bombing
The Australian, Australia

POLICE have stumbled across a crop of cannabis plants at a suburban unit where a molotov cocktail hurled through a window started a fire.

The petrol bomb was thrown through the front window of the unit in Main Road, St Albans in Melbourne about 10.15pm (AEST) yesterday, police said.

Police believe a person was in the unit at the time the molotov cocktail was thrown but left before police arrived.

After inspecting the scene, police discovered about 35 cannabis plants being harvested in several rooms of the house.

Fort Collins couple to sue city over $200000 worth of dead …
The Coloradoan, CO

A Fort Collins couple is planning to sue the city and Larimer County for more than $200,000 after police officers destroyed their 39 marijuana plants two years ago.
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Last year in court, James and Lisa Masters successfully showed that city police illegally seized their plants following a raid at their home on Aug. 2, 2006. Judge James Hiatt in December ordered the city to return the seized pot plants, which by then were dead.

The Masters say they use the marijuana for medicinal reasons, growing some for their personal use, and dispensing the rest to other people registered under the state’s medical marijuana law.

And they say that state law, enshrined in the state Constitution as Amendment 20, required the government to maintain their plants.

“The Masters suffer from debilitating medical conditions that were made worse by the stress of this lengthy case,” their lawyer, Rob Corry Jr., wrote in a letter to the city and county declaring plans to sue. “Their valuable medical marijuana was taken away and killed in violation of Colorado law.”

City and county officials say federal law requires them to destroy the plants, or at the very least not care for them.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

AZFamily, AZ

Officers searching the vehicle and its contents noticed discrepancies with two ladders on top of the van and when they took the ladders down and inspected them, discovered 74 packages of marijuana hidden inside the sides of the ladders. The officers seized more than 211 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated street value of $343,000.

In another incident that happened early Sunday afternoon, August 17, CBP officers arrested a 33-year-old man from Mexico after discovering 76 pounds of marijuana hidden inside the gas tank of the 1989 GMC truck he was driving.

The drivers in both incidents were arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation.

Both incidents resulted in the combined seizure of 287 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated street value of almost $500,000.

Raid unearths mammoth hybrid marijuana farm in S. Utah canyon
Salt Lake Tribune

Iron County officials have found thousands of massive marijuana plants near a canyon south of Cedar City.

Iron County Sheriff’s spokesman Jody Edwards said Wednesday that officers — tipped off by hunters — have located at least two major grow areas composed of “very healthy, tall, robust marijuana plants.” Some of the plants towered to 8 feet high and had shafts 2 inches in diameter.

Edwards said it is clear that whoever grew the pot used a hybrid seed that allows marijuana to thrive, even in weather that is not normally conducive to growth. The canyon area, located at about 7,500 feet elevation, gets cool at night, Edwards said, adding that marijuana typically needs hot, humid weather at lower altitudes to flourish.

Officials have not yet estimated how many acres the pot farm encompasses, but Edwards said they needed to walk “quite a distance” to cover the entire area. The find seems to be part of a trend in the southern Utah area lately.

In late July, officials found about 7,500 pot plants with an estimated value of $9 million in neighboring Washington County’s Pine Valley area when some hikers reported seeing the marijuana.

How to obtain a medical marijuana card
PR CannaZine

The difference with a medical marijuana prescription is that there is no need for the state to approve of your individual use of medical marijuana. Rather, the medical marijuana laws allow doctors to prescribe the use of medical marijuana for certain illnesses. This is, in fact, much better news for marijuana users than if the state issued licenses.

The government can’t take away your right to use a medicine that a doctor determines you would benefit from (As long as the medication is approved by the government).

Medical marijuana is basically just like any other prescription medication as far as the law is concerned with regards to its intended use.

The only thing that differs is the method of obtaining the medication. You can’t, after all, just go down to your local pharmacy and get a prescription filled for an ounce of the best hydroponically grown buds available.

What you can do, however, is go to any one of the increasing number of medical marijuana co-ops and cannabis clubs around the state and buy the best marijuana, hash, cookies, brownies and anything else they have that contains marijuana.

Man arrested after incident at Greenleaf home
Green Bay Press Gazette

A Tyler man accused of growing marijuana in an alleged cost-saving move is jailed on felony possession charges. Bond is $15,000 for 55-year-old John Daniel Miller III, who remained in the Smith County Jail late Tuesday.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Randal Hiller declined to release information on Miller, including whether he has an attorney following Monday’s arrest.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Randy Meadows told the Tyler Morning-Telegraph that a tip led officers to some rural property, where several marijuana plants — encircled by old tires — lined the driveway.

Deputies confiscated more than 70 plants worth about $100,000.

Meadows said Miller told deputies he knew they were coming “sooner or later” and he was cultivating his own marijuana because the cost of buying the illegal substance had gone up.

Only 70??

So, you know all those anti-drug campaigns that they throw in your face to avoid Marijuana? Well, guess what they’re lying! Long myths about Marijuana being harmful has been proven over and over to not be remotely true. Here were go again..

Parenting Failures Enable Teen Substance Abuse, Report Says
Kansas City infoZine, MO - Aug 15, 2008

Allen St. Pierre, director of NORML, a non-profit group advocating for the legalization of responsible marijuana use, said in an interview, “Marijuana, as science has well proven, is not addictive.”

Although it can cause mild withdrawal, he said, it cannot be compared to alcohol, other illegal intoxicants or prescription drugs.

“Potency is a product of prohibition,” St. Pierre said, explaining that people will move to a more potent version of a product when it is illegal. To say Americans did not have access to potent marijuana in the past is not realistic, he said.

Obama’s campaign isn’t talking much about Obama’s view on the current never ending drug war in america. While McCain says he’ll “uphold the law” – meaning no change. Obama has yet to make a statement what he will do, Obama for change?

Obama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA Member
Right Side News, GA - Aug 15, 2008

She warns that Obama has “voted for at least two pro-legalization [of marijuana] bills” and that drug legalization advocates are spreading the word that Obama will not support federal enforcement of federal marijuana arrests. She said a questionnaire, which includes the question, “Do you support keeping drug possession, dealing and trafficking a crime?,” has not been answered by the Obama campaign. John McCain, on the other hand, vows to “uphold the law,” she says.