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121CN PI: Grieving Mother to Protest for More Services to HelpTue, 15 Apr 2014
Source:Guardian, The (CN PI) Author:Wright, Teresa Area:Prince Edward Island Lines:Excerpt Added:04/16/2014

The mother of a man believed to have taken his own life as a result of drug addiction will stage a protest Tuesday in the hopes of getting government to provide more services for addicted Islanders.

Dianne Young's son Lennon Waterman would have turned 30 on Monday. He has been missing since early November.

Young believes he took his own life by leaping into the cold North River. RCMP found his clothes on the North River causeway after receiving reports of a man on the causeway the night of Nov. 8, 2013.

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122 US NC: In Durham, One Woman's Struggle With Heroin AddictionSun, 06 Apr 2014
Source:News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Author:McDonald, Thomasi Area:North Carolina Lines:84 Added:04/06/2014

DURHAM - Heroin may be a new drug for some who are switching from prescription painkillers. It is not new to April Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, 32, is a heroin addict. She grew up in East Durham in a family ravaged by drugs a father she described as a raging alcoholic, a mother hooked on prescription pills and an older brother whose addiction to crack keeps him in and out of prison. At her request, The News & Observer agreed not to use her full name.

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123 CN BC: Woman Gets $500 After Police SearchFri, 04 Apr 2014
Source:Nelson Star (CN BC) Author:Nesteroff, Greg Area:British Columbia Lines:97 Added:04/06/2014

Woman Gets $500 After Police Search

Although he rejected most of her arguments, a judge has ordered the City of Nelson to pay a woman $500 in damages over a police search conducted almost five years ago.

Charity Mason sued the city, Cst. Drew Turner, and then-chief Dan Maluta after the pick-up truck she and partner Vaughn Blais were in was pulled over on the south end of the orange bridge on the morning of June 26, 2009 for a possible traffic violation.

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124 CN ON: Girl With Epilepsy Needs Marijuana Extract, Mom SaysWed, 02 Apr 2014
Source:Metro (Ottawa, CN ON) Author:Greenway, Trevor Area:Ontario Lines:56 Added:04/03/2014

'Charlotte's Web'. Non-THC Strain Of Marijuana Only Available In The U.S.

Kim Martelle just wants her daughter to grow up like other kids: playing, swimming and getting into a little bit of trouble.

But for eight-year-old Cadence Hope, many of her days have been spent in a wheelchair with a hockey helmet strapped to her head to prevent brain damage from the multiple "aggressive seizures" she has daily.

"While parents are busy buying hockey helmets for their kids to play hockey, we were busy buying a hockey helmet so that our daughter could go out in the 40 C heat of summer to play with her brother," said Martelle, beginning to cry.

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125US CA: Ariz. Sheriff Must Return Encinitas Woman's PotWed, 02 Apr 2014
Source:San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Author:Davis, Kristina Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:04/03/2014

ENCINITAS - Encinitas resident Valerie Okun just wanted her medical marijuana back. Now, at the end of a three-year legal battle, it looks as though the Yuma County sheriff is going to have to hand it over.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Sheriff Leon Wilmot's appeal in the case, meaning the Arizona State Supreme Court's ruling on the matter stands, and Okun should get her marijuana back.

Okun and her husband were driving to a gem show in Arizona when they were stopped at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Yuma on Jan. 28, 2011. She declared the three-quarters of an ounce of medical marijuana in her possession, which was in two labeled prescrip-tion bottles, said Okun's Yuma attorney, Michael Donovan.

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126 CN AB: Marijuana Gives Girl Second ChanceWed, 02 Apr 2014
Source:Airdrie Echo (CN AB) Author:Smith, Dawn Area:Alberta Lines:111 Added:04/02/2014

Like many eight year olds, Airdrie's Mia Wilkinson likes chocolate, Lady Gaga and the cartoon Phineas and Ferb.

But Mia is anything but average.

The little girl has never walked, never attended school and just recently started saying "mom."

According to her mother, Sarah, Mia had her first seizure when she was just 29 minutes old and was diagnosed with atypical Odahara syndrome.

Also known as Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy with Burst-Suppression (EIEE), Odahara is a progressive epileptic encephalopathy seen outwardly with tonic spasms and partial seizures.

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127 US ME: PUB LTE: It Takes Whole Marijuana Plant to Save GirlSat, 29 Mar 2014
Source:Morning Sentinel (Waterville, ME) Author:Meehan, Susan W. Area:Maine Lines:46 Added:04/02/2014

L.D. 1739, "An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act," was returned to the Legislature's Committee on Health and Human Services on Feb. 11, after parents and patients expressed concern with the language about "kief" as well as other concerns.

I know our legislators in Maine's House and Senate have no ill intent toward our children, but they are being misled. This committee has completed its review. Committee members report that the proposal now references Maine's Criminal Code in regard to "hashish," and now directly prohibits the use of hashish. By the referenced Maine Criminal Law Code, hashish is defined to include marijuana extracts. With the change of words from "kief" to "hashish," and this reference to Maine's Criminal Code, the law effectively bans my daughter's medication.

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128 US MN: Benefit Set For Hibbing Girl With Dravet SyndromeThu, 27 Mar 2014
Source:Duluth News-Tribune (MN)          Area:Minnesota Lines:38 Added:03/29/2014

A Hibbing child who has become a centerpiece in the discussion about whether to legalize medical marijuana in Minnesota will be the subject of a benefit dinner next month.

The "Amelia Bedelia Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction" will take place for Amelia Weaver beginning at 6 p.m. April 25 at the Hibbing Park Hotel, organizers said.

Amelia, 7, has been diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a form of epilepsy that causes her to experience more than 30 seizures a day and has severely hampered her development. Her parents, Josh and Angie Weaver, have said they will move to Colorado if medical marijuana doesn't become legal in Minnesota this year. They cite reports of children with Dravet Syndrome who have been helped by a form of medical marijuana in Colorado.

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129US GA: Failure Of Medical Marijuana Bill Leaves Hall MotherSun, 23 Mar 2014
Source:Times, The (Gainesville, GA) Author:Witman, Emma Area:Georgia Lines:Excerpt Added:03/25/2014

Failure of medical marijuana bill leaves Hall mother sad, determined

Amendment derails cannabis oil plan despite both houses' backing

In the expiring moments of the 2014 legislative session Thursday, Georgia lawmakers gleefully threw shredded paper in the air, a tradition signifying the end of business.

In the upper gallery of the House, however, there was a much different show of raw emotion.

Oakwood mother Sarah Caruso was one of several Georgia parents distraught after a law that would have allowed access to medical marijuana failed to be brought for a House vote.

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130 CN ON: Grandmother Waits In Angst For Police Pot RaidWed, 19 Mar 2014
Source:Metro (Ottawa, CN ON) Author:Greenway, Trevor Area:Ontario Lines:60 Added:03/23/2014

Laurie MacEachern Uses Medical Marijuana to Treat Several Ailments

A 54-year-old "grandmother with no criminal record" is waiting for the day RCMP officers show up to raid her Cornwall home. She expects it to be any day now.

Laurie MacEachern uses medical marijuana to treat her idiopathic neuropathy, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and spinal injury. She grows her own pot in a home garden, but when April 1 rolls around, she will be considered a criminal.

"We are all pretty stressed out," said MacEachern, breaking down into sobs.

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131 US MI: Woman Sues Sheriff's Office After Raid At Son's HomeThu, 13 Mar 2014
Source:Oakland Press, The (MI) Author:Phillips, Dave Area:Michigan Lines:79 Added:03/15/2014

PONTIAC - A 69-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against Oakland County and its Sheriff's Office, accusing Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) members of "violently handl(ing) and treat(ing)" her one year ago.

Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe called the lawsuit "frivolous" and said Haney's attorney "tried to blackmail us" before filing the suit.

Mary Ann Haney filed the suit - which also names the Birmingham Police Department, City of Birmingham and seven deputies and officers as defendants - last week in Oakland County Circuit Court. Her attorney is Michael Zavier. Haney went to visit her son, Bryant Wesley Haney, at his home in the 900 block of Smith Street in Birmingham on March 7, 2013. There, she encountered NET officers who were conducting a search warrant on the home after Haney "sold marijuana to a cooperating individual on two separate occasions," according to the Sheriff's Office.

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132 US CA: Column: When Girl Scouts And Medical Weed Went ViralWed, 26 Feb 2014
Source:East Bay Express (CA) Author:Downs, David Area:California Lines:116 Added:02/27/2014

A Bay Area Mom's Decision to Allow Her Daughter to Sell Cookies in Front of Medical Pot Dispensaries Made International Headlines.

A progressive Bay Area mom who boosted her daughter's sales of Girl Scout Cookies by targeting medical pot clubs made international news this month, after the Express first published a report about it on its blog on February 19 and the story was picked up by everyone from Mashable and NPR to KTLA and the Huffington Post.

The idea, by San Francisco mom Carol Lei, was genius: Set up a table in front of a cannabis storefront to sell boxes of cookies to marijuana users. (Cannabis is, of course, a powerful appetite stimulant that works directly on nerves in the stomach as well as the brain.)

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133US AZ: Girl Scouts Sell Cookies Near Medical-Pot StoresSun, 23 Feb 2014
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)          Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:02/24/2014

PHOENIX - Customers of some medical-marijuana dispensaries are finding that some Girl Scouts seem to be foregoing the usual supermarket stops for selling their beloved cookies.

A few days after a teenager sold dozens of boxes outside a San Francisco pot dispensary, 8-year-old Lexi Menees planned to return to TruMed Dispensary in Phoenix on Saturday for the same purpose.

The girl's mother, Heidi Carney, got the idea after hearing about what happened in San Francisco.

The family says Lexi sold more than 50 boxes on Friday.

Susan de Queljoe, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus-Pine Council, says that this is not something the organization would encourage but that it's up to the parents.

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134 US GA: Monroe Mother Makes Plea For Medical Marijuana ToMon, 10 Feb 2014
Source:Macon Telegraph (GA) Author:Lee, Maggie Area:Georgia Lines:114 Added:02/14/2014

ATLANTA -- In front of a packed room at the Georgia Capitol, Monroe County mother Janea Cox pleaded for her daughter's life at the first hearing on a new medical marijuana proposal.

"I'm going to lose my child if this drug is not approved," said Cox, whose daughter Haleigh is the inspiration and namesake for House Bill 885, by state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon.

"We're going to break up my family," a tearful Cox said while her child was a few miles away at Children's Hospital of Atlanta at Egleston, where she has been for more than 50 days since a severe attack that caused her to stop breathing for several minutes.

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135 US: Va. Girl's Heroin Overdose Shows 'Disturbing' TrendSat, 01 Feb 2014
Source:Washington Post (DC) Author:Zapotosky, Matt Area:United States Lines:150 Added:02/03/2014

The teen had never injected heroin before, authorities say, and on that hot summer night, she could not find a vein. An acquaintance put the needle in Emylee Lonczak's arm for her.

As she and others drove back to Northern Virginia from the District, the 16-year-old passed out, court papers say. Someone suggested dumping her in the city, but the other two people in the car said no, the papers say. They finally settled on carrying her into the basement of one of their homes, laying her on a bed.

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136 US CA: Concow Woman Gets Probation For Pot, Child EndangermentWed, 22 Jan 2014
Source:Chico Enterprise-Record (CA) Author:Olson, Ryan Area:California Lines:106 Added:01/22/2014

OROVILLE - A woman was placed on four years probation Tuesday on marijuana and child endangerment charges for conditions at her Concow-area house in 2011.

Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert Glusman handed down the sentence for defendant Daisy Jean Bram, 33. Terms included 78 additional days in jail, completing a child abusers treatment counseling program and restrictions on drug use, including medical marijuana.

Outside of court, Bram said she would take her licks, but asked what the benefit was of additional jail for a first-time offender to herself, her children or the public.

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137 CN ON: Why Do Women End Up In Jail?Fri, 10 Jan 2014
Source:Peterborough This Week (CN ON) Author:Vandonk, Todd Area:Ontario Lines:198 Added:01/12/2014

Usually They Start Out As Victims Who Use Drugs to Numb Their Pain, Then Live to Feed Their Addiction

Amy takes her first toke of crack when she is 15 years old.

Childhood memories of her drunk father pointing a rifle at her on Christmas Day and her stepfather raping her multiple times are lost in the euphoria that allows her to escape reality.

But the heavenly high is short lived. It always is.

For the next 18 years, Amy goes to any lengths to find her next fix.

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138 US CA: Jury Convicts Woman On Marijuana, Child EndangermentWed, 18 Dec 2013
Source:Chico Enterprise-Record (CA) Author:Olson, Ryan Area:California Lines:84 Added:12/19/2013

OROVILLE - A jury has convicted a woman on marijuana and child endangerment counts for a grow and conditions at her Concow-area residence in 2011.

The Butte County Superior Court panel of four men and eight women took about six hours before reaching a verdict today in the trial of Daisy Jean Bram, 33.

The jury found Bram guilty of felony counts of cultivating marijuana and possessing it for sale. Investigators found 95 marijuana plants and 7.1 additional pounds at Bram's Yellow Wood Road residence on Sept. 29, 2011.

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139 US OH: Woman Dies After Errant Shot During RaidFri, 13 Dec 2013
Source:Chillicothe Gazette (OH)          Area:Ohio Lines:87 Added:12/14/2013

CHILLICOTHE - A 35-year-old Ross County woman is dead after she was shot in the head during a raid Wednesday on U.S. 23, and it appears the shot was fired from the weapon of a law enforcement officer, Ross County Prosecutor Matt Schmidt said Thursday.

The dead woman is 35-year-old Krystal Barrows, who was inside the home at 467 U.S. 23 South in Ross County when the U.S. 23 Task Force entered at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. Schmidt confirmed the death to the Gazette late Thursday.

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140 CN BC: Young Surrey Woman Is Gone But Her Views On Medicinal PotThu, 12 Dec 2013
Source:Now, The (Surrey, CN BC) Author:Zinn, Jacob Area:British Columbia Lines:83 Added:12/12/2013

Surrey's David Hutchinson hopes his late daughter's emotional speech on medical pot may sway Supreme Court

SOUTH SURREY - It was one of Beth Hutchinson's goals to speak about the benefits of medical marijuana at a cannabis conference.

The South Surrey woman spent four years battling glioma, a cancerous brain tumour, and the only medicine she found that helped was THC released from cannabis. While Beth succumbed to her tumour on Oct. 25 at the age of 20, her words are still going to reach a very important audience: the Supreme Court of Canada.

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