Purple Kush News Round-Up 11/12/2011

Upstate NY mom, son charged with growing marijuana Wall Street Journal AP NUNDA, NY — Authorities say they've charged a 61-year-old woman and her son with growing hundreds of marijuana plants on their rural western New York property. The Livingston County Sheriff's Office tell Rochester media outlets that deputies were ...

Study on Calif. marijuana clinics and crime removed by national think tank ... Washington Post By AP, LOS ANGELES — A nonprofit think tank has removed a study from its website that said crime increased near medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles after they were closed. Warren Robak, a spokesman for Santa Monica-based Rand Corp., ...

White House tramples California pot laws Chicago Sun-Times In their Oct. 7 press release announcing “coordinated enforcement actions” against medical marijuana dispensaries, California's four US attorneys use the adjective “commercial” to describe their targets eight times and refer to “profit” nine times. ...

MEDICAL MARIJUANA - BEHIND THE SMOKE: Card holders give up right to bear arms ... Southgate News Herald By Dave Herndon Seventeen states and Washington, DC, have passed laws legalizing marijuana for medical use. The drug, medical or otherwise, is not legal at the federal level. People nationwide who pick up a medical marijuana card instantly give up ...

Inside A Medical Marijuana Farm KDRV Medical marijuana growers say they are constantly operating with the fear that federal agents may raid them, and two recent raids in Southern Oregon are reinforcing that fear. The High Hopes Farm, located outside Ruch, grows about 200 plants for its ... KDRV

Marijuana bust made through postal service inspection NECN (NECN: Melissa Toupin, Worcester, MA) - Leicester's police are getting a pat on the back for helping to make a big marijuana bust. Police say they got a call after postal inspectors noticed a package, one filled with school supplies. But it turns out, ...

Pot brownies at friend's funeral sicken three elderly people San Jose Mercury News By Mona Shadia An elderly man and two women were sent to the hospital Saturday after eating brownies that contained marijuana at a memorial service for a friend in Huntington Beach, police said. The three people -- both women are 71 and the man is 82 ...

Billings City Council postpones vote on medical marijuana storefronts Billings Gazette The City Council voted 9-1 on Tuesday night to postpone a final vote on an ordinance that would ban storefront medical marijuana businesses after city staff advised council members that a hearing on the issue wasn't advertised to the public. ...

Baby Tests Postive for Marijuana; Mother Arrested First Coast News A mother was put in jail on a child neglect charge after her baby tested positive for marijuana, but as of today the charge against the mother has been dropped. At Wolfson's Children's Hospital on Sept. 3, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office ...