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Purple Kush News Round-Up 11/22/2011


Marijuana found on plane abandoned near Houston
The Associated Press
BROOKSHIRE, Texas (AP) — Authorities hunted Monday night for the pilot and possible other occupants of a twin-engine plane carrying a large amount of marijuana that skidded off a runway at an airport west of Houston. John Kremmer, chief deputy of the ...
Obama pardons 5, commutes 1 sentence for convictions including selling drugs ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday pardoned five people convicted of charges ranging from intent to distribute marijuana to running an illegal gambling business. And he issued his first commutation, ordering the release of a woman next ...
Sointula's marijuana-law hunger striker dies
Victoria Times Colonist
Sointula's Istvan Marton, who was on a hunger strike to protest Canada's marijuana laws, has died of heart failure. He was 69. His doctor, Jane Clelland, confirmed that Marton died Sunday in Port McNeill Hospital. He had refused to eat for more than a ...
Navy discharging 28 sailors over use of synthetic pot
Reuters
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Twenty-eight Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are being discharged after they were caught using Spice, a designer drug that mimics the effects of marijuana, the Navy said on Monday. ...
Legal marijuana gets one step closer
The Copenhagen Post
The legalisation of marijuana in Copenhagen came a step closer after the City Council voted on Thursday to investigate ways to decriminalise the drug. A committee has now been established to determine the best way to legalise the sale of hashish, ...
Batavia joins cities banning synthetic marijuana
Chicago Sun-Times
Police Chief Gary Schira said detectives visited several retail locations where tobacco, alcohol and related items are sold and found the synthetic marijuana available at one liquor store and one gas station. Synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, ...
Marijuana prohibition divisive, hypocritical, costly
Vancouver Sun
Marijuana has become part of our culture, and no amount of money for prisons, police, prosecutors and punishment is going to change that. Marijuana was outlawed early in the last century for the purpose of oppressing minorities, and enforcement of its ...
HPD seizes more than 600 pounds of marijuana
Hattiesburg American
Lt. Eric Proulx of the Hattiesburg Police Department stands in front of 626 pounds of marijuana, valued at $500800, that was obtained during a traffic stop by an officer on HPD's interdiction team at about 1 am Sunday on Interstate 59 near the 63 mile ...
Medical Marijuana Debate Pulls In South Florida Seniors
WPBF West Palm Beach
The truth is, he's allowed to smoke marijuana. I'm not. The difference between you and I and Irv Rosenfeld is about 40 years of battling bone cancer and a major legal victory that he won against the federal government. He convinced the feds that he ...

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Purple Kush News Round-Up 11/21/2011


Editorial: NJ medical marijuana law fears serve as block to intended compassion
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Times of Trenton Editorial Board Last month, the Maple Shade zoning board turned down an application for a medicinal marijuana dispensary on a busy highway far from neighborhoods but convenient for motorists. Last week, a meeting in Upper Freehold ...

Medical marijuana, subsurface water on Butte supervisors' agenda Tuesday
Mercury-Register
By ROGER H. AYLWORTH - Staff Writer OROVILLE -- Medical marijuana will be back on the supervisors' agenda Tuesday, but this time it shouldn't generate crowds or controversy. In fact, the item is on the board's consent agenda and could well be handled ...
Weed360.com Sparks Up Success at the Kush Expo Connecting the Medical ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Kush Expo was in town, and not even the rain could stop those medicated patients from heading outside to smoke under the dedicated medical marijuana smoking tents. As the Anaheim Police Department watched and observed hundreds of cannabis users ...
Marijuana Reform Advocates Face Uphill Financial Battle In California
Neon Tommy
(Cannabis Culture/Flickr) Proposition 1518 to reduce marijuana penalties picks up where last year's failed legalization efforts left off, this time with a higher chance of becoming state law. But this latest push might not have the significant economic ...

Lawmaker eyes changes to synthetic marijuana ban
Chicago Tribune
AP Indiana communities say they're still worried about sales of synthetic marijuana despite a new state law banning the substance, and one lawmaker says it may be time to take "aggressive steps" to attack the problem. State legislators made it illegal ...
Pinal County deputies seize 4000 pounds of marijuana
AZ Central.com
20, 2011 10:49 PM Pinal County Sheriff's Office deputies cracked a human- and drug-smuggling ring, nabbed more than 4000 pounds of marijuana, made 10 arrests and seized a gun during a busy week that ended Saturday, authorities said Sunday. ...
USPS Intercepts Package Containing Marijuana
Gant Daily
The package was scanned via the K9 unit and contained 3.2 pounds of marijuana, according to the Clearfield-based state police. On Friday, representatives of the USPS Troop C Vice and the Clearfield State Police conducted a controlled delivery of the ...
Explosion caused by men smoking marijuana
Boston Herald
By AP SALT LAKE CITY — The windows of an apartment in suburban Salt Lake City were blown-out after authorities say an explosion was caused by three men using a leaking lighter while smoking marijuana. Cottonwood Heights police say Saturday night the ...
Handgun fired, suspected marijuana recovered at large party in Salisbury
Delmarva Daily Times
Officers got into the building with the assistance of the homeowner and recovered a loaded revolver and suspected marijuana, according to police. While clearing the area, three adults and a minor refused to leave the area and were arrested on charges ...

Purple Kush News Round-Up 11/20/2011


Yuba supervisor tough on medical marijuana
Appeal-Democrat
By Ben van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat If you want strong opinions from Yuba County Supervisor Andy Vasquez, just mention "prescription for medical marijuana." Using "prescription" and "medical" implies a standard Vasquez said he believes can't be applied ...
Lack of answers on medical marijuana focus at Lansing expo
Lansing State Journal
It was clear Saturday the state's medical marijuana law remains in a haze as several Michigan residents asked experts to clarify it during the first-ever Medical Marijuana Expo, Convention and Symposium in Lansing. "I can't give you a definite answer ...
Coachella envisioned as medical marijuana capital
The Desert Sun
Owner Stacy Hochanadel said the not-for-profit medical marijuana collective has 1200 plants right now and can meet 80% of their demand. Hochanadel already has plans to expand the plant growing area but if Proposition 19 passes he will expand even more ...
Alleged marijuana use ends with bang in Cottonwood Heights
Salt Lake Tribune
By Janelle Stecklein Three people escaped injury Saturday night when their alleged marijuana use touched off an explosion in their home. Cottonwood Heights police Sgt. Mark Askerlund said the three were allegedly smoking marijuana inside an apartment ...
Former Morristown man arrested on marijuana charges
Knoxville News Sentinel
By Lance Coleman A former Morristown man was arrested Friday night on two separate warrants for possession and possession for resale of approximately $78000 worth of marijuana, Morristown police said. According to a press release, Nicholas James ...
Retail Insurance Broker Offers Medical Marijuana Coverage
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Scott Sherwood at www.scottsherwoodins.com has been placing coverage options to medical marijuana businesses for over five years. Many medical marijuana business owners don't know insurance is available for their unique operations. ...
Man facing marijuana charges misses hearing
Livingston Daily
A Unadilla Township man accused of growing 47 marijuana plants at his home is wanted on a bench warrant after failing to show for a hearing Friday, according to court records. Richard William Nicely, 53, who claims he has a valid medical marijuana card ...
'Green rush' causing ruckus in Colorado
San Francisco Chronicle
At the 2011 Hempcon medical marijuana convention in Denver in October, business lectures and panel discussions shared the program with more provocative events, like a Miss Hempcon pageant, in which scantily clad women - many dressed as nurses - danced ...
Marijuana meeting to be held at Allentown High School
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
By Erin Duffy/The Times UPPER FREEHOLD — A proposed medical marijuana farming operation is expected to be the center of conversation at a township committee meeting Tuesday. The rescheduled meeting will take place at 7 pm in the Allentown High School ...

The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Marijuana grow house found in upscale Atlanta neighborhood; neighbor says ...
The Republic
Police tell WSB-TV a chain of events led them to the house after they stopped a U-Haul truck full of marijuana. Sgt. Scott McBride tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution officers arrested three men and one woman at the home. Police didn't immediately ...

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Purple Kush News Round-Up 11/19/2011


Medical Marijuana Inc. to Acquire Biotechnology Company PharmaSphere, LLC from ...
Sacramento Bee
18, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC: MJNA) is proud to announce the execution of an option to acquire 100% of PharmaSphere, LLC. PharmaSphere, a cutting edge biotechnology company which has a solution for the production of high ...
Marijuana grow house dismantled; $75K seized
SunHerald.com
By MARGARET BAKER - MOSS POINT -- A month-long drug investigation launched in Mobile has ended with the seizure of $75500 and the dismantling of a hydroponic marijuana grow house on Franklin Creek Road in Jackson County, ...

SunHerald.com
Marijuana on TV: A budding acceptance
Variety
Such breakthroughs are incremental, to be sure, but reflect a gradual evolution, as evidenced by a new Gallup Poll that for the first time found half of respondents support making marijuana legal. According to Ethan Nadelmann, exec director of the Drug ...
Sheriff's office, Homeland Security bust nets hundreds of pounds of marijuana
Lake County News
The service of a search warrant by the Sheriff's Narcotics Task Force and the US Department of Homeland Security at a Lakeport home has resulted in several felony arrests, the seizure of nearly 350 pounds of processed marijuana, and the seizure of more ...
3 students cited for marijuana possession
SouthCoastToday.com
By Brian Fraga WAREHAM — Three Wareham High School students were caught with small amounts of marijuana after a massive police-led drug sweep through the town's middle and high schools Friday, police said. Around 9:30 am, 15 canine officers from the ...
Feds find 400-yard tunnel between California and Mexico used to shuttle tons ...
MassLive.com
By Patrick Johnson, The Republican Photos courtesy of US Drug Enforcement AgencyPallets loaded with several tons of marijuana seized when federal agents shut down a secret tunnel between Mexico and the United States. The US Drug Enforcement Agency ...

MassLive.com
Marijuana Smoker Norman Smith Booted From Cedars Sinai Hospital Liver ...
LA Weekly (blog)
18 2011 at 11:59 AM
Medical marijuana advocates are getting behind the plight of a cancer patient who says he has been kicked off a liver transplant list at Cedars Sinai Medical Center because he smokes medical marijuana. The California-based group ...
Police seize two pounds of marijuana in probe
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Stacey M. Lee, 27, and Jonathon M. Noerper, 26, both of the 100 block of Cotton Avenue in DeKalb, were charged with possession of more than 30 grams of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia and ...
Traffic stop yields 12 pounds of marijuana
Newnan Times-Herald
By News Staff A traffic stop Thursday night on Interstate 85 in Coweta County yielded a find of 12 pounds of marijuana. The vehicle was stopped just south of Bullsboro Drive in Newnan at the 43 mile marker southbound, said Maj. ...

Newnan Times-Herald

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