http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drug News en-us Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:44:28 -0700 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:10:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Modperl editor@mapinc.org (MAP Editor) webmaster@mapinc.org (MAP Webmaster) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n716/a08.html Seattle Times, 23 Jul 2008 - The police raid on Martin Martinez, a Seattle man who uses marijuana to dull the chronic pain from a motorcycle accident, made the page-one headline last Thursday: "Was Pot Raid Justified?" Martinez's lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, insists vehemently that it was not. In Seattle, the topic of medical marijuana and the law leads quickly to Hiatt. A native Chicagoan, 49, this blue-jeaned barrister is vehement often, his deep voice rising quickly to indignant italics. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n716/a08.html http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm DrugSense Weekly, 29 Feb 2008 - The experience of Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, California, accelerates the day when heavy dilemmas in our legal system might just force a fresh look at our marijuana laws. Presumably that will have to happen when state legislators, congressmen, and presidents are in recess, because the great enemy of sensible reform has been, of course, politicians high from righteousness. What happened to Rosenthal was that he was convicted of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy, facing a conceivable sentence of 100 years in prison and a fine of $4.5 million. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1288/a02.html Daily Southtown, 03 Nov 2007 - The Rev. Michael Pfleger, of St. Sabina Church, led yet another march on Chuck's Gun Shop in sunny Riverdale on Saturday. Why? To stop the killing, he says. Unfortunately, Pfleger is leading his flock down the wrong path. Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1288/a02.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1806/a02.html Tucson Weekly, 17 Nov 2005 - A Look at Pot: Its Users, Its Trade, Its Cultivation, the Research And the Anti-Prohibition Movement Marijuana. Cannabis. Grass. Pot. Smoke. Dank. Herb. Ganja. Dope. Hemp. It's the plant with a hundred names, including simply "weed," which is what it grows like. It's been grown for fiber and medicine and fun for thousands of years. In the United States, it currently has its own subculture and economy, and even its own decades-long guerilla war--the War on Drugs--plus a multi-faceted and increasingly visible anti-war movement. Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1806/a02.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1551/a05.html Core Weekly, 29 Sep 2005 - Medicinal marijuana has very little to do with getting stoned, yet it is difficult to separate the issue from the broader push for legalization. But perhaps the strongest argument for marijuana reform is its potential benefit to medicine. Because few comprehensive studies have been done on marijuana's medical efficacy, what is known is largely anecdotal. Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1551/a05.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1413/a02.html The Outlook, 25 Aug 2005 - A Deep Cove woman who faces a minimum 10-year U.S. prison sentence for allegedly moving and watering marijuana plants at a Bel Air, California residence eight years ago, is appealing an extradition order from the U.S government. "I face something that's incredibly scary, " says Renee Boje. "It's been devastating for me. It's caused a great deal of stress in my life. I feel I don't need to be persecuted in this way. Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1413/a02.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1394/a03.html New York Times, 27 Aug 2005 - When the Supreme Court ruled in June that states could not legalize marijuana for medical uses, Justice Stephen Breyer voted with the majority. But during oral arguments, he suggested an alternative way for patients to get it: let the federal Food and Drug Administration decide if marijuana should be a prescription drug. "Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum," he said. In theory, that sounds reasonable. But what if the officials doing the regulation are afflicted with a bad case of Reefer Madness? Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1394/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1239/a08.html Nashville Scene, 04 Aug 2005 - Why Prosecuting Victimless Crimes Is A Colossal Waste Of Time Whenever I think of marijuana, I think about vomit, specifically, the vomit of one Peter McWilliams, noted author of breezy self-help books such as Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School But Didn't and Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts. Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1239/a08.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1038/a09.html Vancouver Courier, 28 Jun 2005 - "The history of the 'war on drugs,' and more specifically the well-documented history of marijuana legislation, makes it clear that the goals of the repeatedly declared 'wars' have little to do with availability and use of harmful substances, and a lot to do with what is called 'population control' in the literature of counterinsurgency. The targets are both at home and abroad-overwhelmingly the poor and defenseless... The 'war on drugs' has the dual function of eliminating the disposable people (being civilized, we lock them up rather than murdering them) and frightening the rest, and has been cynically used for these purposes. The case of Renee Boje illustrates this cynical abuse of power..." - -Noam Chomsky Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1038/a09.html