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. [end]
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. [continues 639 words]
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. [continues 1111 words]
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. [continues 599 words]
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. [continues 1320 words]
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. [continues 425 words]
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. [continues 459 words]
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. [continues 508 words]
Orchard Park Woman Believes Drug Could Help Treat Daughter's Severe Seizures Wendy Conte thinks she has found something that could enable her daughter, Anna, to live without a tube constantly feeding drugs into her belly in hopes of staving off the severe seizures that have plagued her nearly the entire 81/2 years of her life. The solution that the Orchard Park mom points to is medical marijuana. Conte is among a growing number of people advocating for the State Legislature and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to legalize its use in New York. [continues 1040 words]
SEATTLE - The female marijuana plant, sold for its sticky psychoactive chemicals, is where the value lies in the marijuana industry. But the industry has long been dominated by men and can be crassly sexist, particularly in underground pot commerce. Women are relegated to supporting roles and sometimes blatantly viewed as sex objects, according to a study published this year. One Craigslist ad for pot trimmers posted by a grower in California sought a "good looking girl" willing to have sex. Legalization in Washington state, though, could give women recourse for sexual harassment and withheld wages, and make the industry safer for women in general, said Lydia Ensley, a Seattle dispensary operations manager. [continues 706 words]
I'm already sick of seeing and hearing from the three Lockport women who injected themselves with a flesh-eating drug. Amber Neitzel, 26, and her sister, Angela, 29, are admitted heroin addicts. Their mother, 48-year-old Kim Neitzel, also is addicted to the illegal drug. The women have become the face of Krokodil, a disfiguring man-made drug that leaves users with dead and rotting skin. Police officials are trying to identify the source of the drug, which costs about $8. [continues 686 words]
LITTLE AXE - Few Oklahomans could rival Norma Sapp's efforts to legalize marijuana. She drove a motor home across the United States, serving as the support vehicle for a friend who was riding his one-eyed paint horse, Misty, across the country to raise awareness of a message: "Cops say legalize marijuana, ask me why." She has walked the marble hallways of the state Capitol more times than she can remember to advocate for changes in Oklahoma's marijuana laws. And she ran for a state House office in the 1990s - and quickly learned she didn't want it. [continues 1004 words]
Facing the threat of a bitter court battle, a Colorado Springs mother on Monday resumed treating her 3-year-old son's cancer the traditional way: using chemotherapy. Had she been left to choose, Sierra Riddle would have swapped those chemo-filled pills for a unique strain of medicinal marijuana grown near Divide. "I'm not going to gamble with his life," Riddle said. "But at the same time, I don't think we should poison his body if he doesn't need it." [continues 506 words]
SEATTLE - The female marijuana plant, sold for its sticky psychoactive chemicals, is where the value lies in the marijuana industry. But the industry has long been dominated by men and can be crassly sexist, particularly in underground pot commerce. Women are relegated to supporting roles and sometimes blatantly viewed as sex objects, according to a study published this year. One Craigslist ad for pot trimmers posted by a grower in California sought a "good looking girl" willing to have sex. Another advertised that he'd pay extra for topless workers. [continues 1439 words]
From Washington State to Washtenaw County, Women Are Spearheading Policy Change. Members of the group Michigan Moms United gathered outside the state Department of Human Services last week, along with other groups protesting the controversial removal of 6-month-old Bree Green by Child Protective Services from her Lansing family. The child's father suffers from seizures and is a medical marijuana patient; her mother is a registered caregiver. An Ingham County Court referee ruled that Bree was in danger because her mother had marijuana in the house and someone with a gun could break in. [continues 923 words]
WEST JORDAN - A Utah mother whose 11-year-old son has severe epilepsy is helping to launch a legislative initiative to legalize a liquid form of medical marijuana in the Beehive state, which may put a new face on the issue. The face will be of children who could potentially be helped by a strain of the drug, not of unkempt potheads who roll their own weed. Jennifer May, of Pleasant Grove, believes a hybrid form of cannabis offers hope to patients, such as her son, who suffer from Dravet syndrome, which can trigger hundreds of seizures a day for its victims and limit the life expectancy to 18 years or fewer. Her family currently spends more than $75,000 a year on medication in an effort to provide some relief and hope for their child in dealing with his epilepsy. [continues 593 words]
Maybe before trying to be a cool dude by admitting toking up, even as an MP, Justin Trudeau should have been paying more attention to what his mother has said. She stated that quitting pot smoking was a great help with her mental issues. The proven fact is that the THC content of today's hydrophonic marijuana is many times more potent than in the past. This makes it more addictive, damaging to one's health. Justin Trudeau should have weighed all the facts before proclaiming himself a pot smoker. Larry Comeau Ottawa [end]
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The mother of a young man who authorities say fatally shot himself while handcuffed in the backseat of an Arkansas patrol car has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Jonesboro, its police chief and two officers. Lawyers for Chavis Carter's mother, Teresa Rudd, filed the federal lawsuit on Friday - almost a year to the day after Carter's death. Jonesboro police have faced criticism about the circumstances surrounding the July 28, 2012 death of Carter. Officers said they searched him twice without finding a gun, but later noticed him slumped over and bleeding in the back of the patrol car. [continues 210 words]
Editor's Note New Hampshire is the 19th state to allow some form of medical marijuana. The Telegraph's six-day series, Cannabis Care, examines New Hampshire's therapeutic marijuana legislation and how the law will work, including who can get the drug, how much it will cost and what needs to happen before the first batch of marijuana is legally distributed in the state. Inside her small apartment, Darlene Wilson looked over her various Native American artifacts and paintings that hung on the walls. [continues 850 words]
A 21-year-old Sterling Heights man was convicted Tuesday of driving under the influence of marijuana and causing the death of his girlfriend. Timothy Wilds likely faces time behind bars for the December 2010 crash in his hometown that killed Brittany Nowicki, 18, of Macomb Township. The main charge is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. A jury deliberated about 2-1/2 hours Tuesday following a three-day trial in front of Judge Mary Chrzanowski in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. [continues 440 words]
