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08-22-2005, 12:38 PM
Oliver Stone Pleads No Contest To Marijuana Charge
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone pleaded no contest to a
misdemeanour possession of marijuana while driving charge stemming from a police
checkpoint stop, officials said. Stone's attorney entered the plea for
his client Wednesday in Beverly Hills Superior Court, said Jane Robison,
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. The
director, who won Oscars for Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July,
was not in court.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41592
Randy Moss Admits Smoking Marijuana in the NFL
Oakland Raiders receiver Randy Moss admits he has used marijuana since
entering the NFL seven years ago and still smokes it "every blue moon."
"I have used, you know, marijuana ... since I've been in the league,"
Moss said in an interview for HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel"
scheduled to air Tuesday night. "But as far as abusing it and, you know,
letting it take control over me, I don't do that, no."
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41671
Canadians Watching Pot King Marc Emery's U.S. Drug War Saga
The arrest and possible extradition to the United States of one of
Canada's most well-known marijuana advocates has many people in Nelson, an
oft-noted hub of pot culture, taking notice. Last week, Canadian
citizen Marc Emery, referred to as "The Prince of Pot" in an RCMP search
warrant was picked up by police in Halifax and his Vancouver shop was
searched at the request of American law enforcement agencies.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41593
DEA Tries To Scam Customers Into Admitting That They Were Buying Seeds
Two weeks after the arrest of the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot,"
about 50 people who ordered marijuana seeds from Marc Emery's Vancouver
store are spooked by suspicious mail that asks for their personal
information and their money. Some think the letters -- which mimic Mr. Emery's
pro-pot zeal with the slogans "Smoke for Freedom of Choice! Smoke for
our leader! Overgrow the government!" -- could be the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency trying to smoke them out, although a U.S. prosecutor says
the letters are likely nothing more than a scam.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41629
Marc Emery Fights Back, DEA Expands Attack
Marc Emery, the cannabis seed seller who is viewed as a drug kingpin by
the US government, emerged from jail on August 5 a week after Canadian
police acting under orders from the DEA kidnapped him from a public
street in Halifax on July 29. He emerged from jail barred from operating
his seed business, which has closed permanently, but greeted as a
hero-martyr by a burgeoning marijuana activism community energized by the
arrest of Emery, his assistant Marijuana Man, and his close associate
Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41737
U.S. Drug War Madness Goes Too Far
One matter has become abundantly clear from Canadian polls: most
Canadians want the prohibition of cannabis to end and believe that adults who
use it should be left alone. Maclean's magazine now refers to us as
"mainstream" Canadians. But in a new and ominous move, George W. Bush and
his American "Reefer Madness" crusaders have now challenged Canadian
values and sovereignty. Displeased with Canada's tolerance for cannabis,
the US Drug Enforcement Administration has decided to bypass the
Canadian judicial system by secretly laying charges against Canadians under
their US laws.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41407
Bush's War On Marijuana
America's long-running war on drugs has, literally, gone to pot. More
than two decades after it was launched in response to the spread of
crack cocaine -- and in the midst of a brand-new wave of methamphetamine
use sweeping the country -- the government crackdown has shifted from
hard drugs to marijuana. Pot now accounts for nearly half of drug arrests
nationwide -- up from barely a quarter of all busts a decade ago.
Spurred by a Supreme Court decision in June affirming the right of federal
agents to crack down on medical marijuana.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41169
Mississauga Man Gunned Down by Florida Police
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says a 40-year-old
Mississauga man who was shot dead by police in Florida was lured to the
state by a suspected drug dealer to buy thousands of dollars worth of
marijuana.
Donovan Brooks' family, including his four children and former wife,
Antoinette White of Mississauga, will travel to Jamaica this weekend to
attend his funeral.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41767
Treat Pot Like Booze And Save $$$, Economists Say
In a report released in June, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of
economics at Harvard University, estimated that replacing marijuana
prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used
for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues
of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year nationally and from
$8.3 million to $9.4 million or more in Vermont.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41537
Pot Laws Have Failed Us--and Hurt Virginia
Virginians spend about $99 million each year to enforce state and local
marijuana laws. What are these taxpayers getting for their money? Not
much, according to a recent study. Jon B. Gettman, a senior fellow at
George Mason University's School of Public Policy, prepared the study,
titled "Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States,"
for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41587
Police Seize Pipes and Bongs At Hippie Headshop
After police went "shopping" at a recently opened store in Gillette,
the only thing left to sell was incense. More than 130 drug paraphernalia
items were seized Wednesday afternoon from the Hip Hop Hippie at 610 S.
Butler Spaeth, said police Detective Andy Boisvert. The store claimed
to sell tobacco products, but no tobacco or tobacco products were found
on the premise, Boisvert said. Pipes, bongs and water bongs were taken.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41539
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone pleaded no contest to a
misdemeanour possession of marijuana while driving charge stemming from a police
checkpoint stop, officials said. Stone's attorney entered the plea for
his client Wednesday in Beverly Hills Superior Court, said Jane Robison,
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. The
director, who won Oscars for Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July,
was not in court.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41592
Randy Moss Admits Smoking Marijuana in the NFL
Oakland Raiders receiver Randy Moss admits he has used marijuana since
entering the NFL seven years ago and still smokes it "every blue moon."
"I have used, you know, marijuana ... since I've been in the league,"
Moss said in an interview for HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel"
scheduled to air Tuesday night. "But as far as abusing it and, you know,
letting it take control over me, I don't do that, no."
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41671
Canadians Watching Pot King Marc Emery's U.S. Drug War Saga
The arrest and possible extradition to the United States of one of
Canada's most well-known marijuana advocates has many people in Nelson, an
oft-noted hub of pot culture, taking notice. Last week, Canadian
citizen Marc Emery, referred to as "The Prince of Pot" in an RCMP search
warrant was picked up by police in Halifax and his Vancouver shop was
searched at the request of American law enforcement agencies.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41593
DEA Tries To Scam Customers Into Admitting That They Were Buying Seeds
Two weeks after the arrest of the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot,"
about 50 people who ordered marijuana seeds from Marc Emery's Vancouver
store are spooked by suspicious mail that asks for their personal
information and their money. Some think the letters -- which mimic Mr. Emery's
pro-pot zeal with the slogans "Smoke for Freedom of Choice! Smoke for
our leader! Overgrow the government!" -- could be the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency trying to smoke them out, although a U.S. prosecutor says
the letters are likely nothing more than a scam.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41629
Marc Emery Fights Back, DEA Expands Attack
Marc Emery, the cannabis seed seller who is viewed as a drug kingpin by
the US government, emerged from jail on August 5 a week after Canadian
police acting under orders from the DEA kidnapped him from a public
street in Halifax on July 29. He emerged from jail barred from operating
his seed business, which has closed permanently, but greeted as a
hero-martyr by a burgeoning marijuana activism community energized by the
arrest of Emery, his assistant Marijuana Man, and his close associate
Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41737
U.S. Drug War Madness Goes Too Far
One matter has become abundantly clear from Canadian polls: most
Canadians want the prohibition of cannabis to end and believe that adults who
use it should be left alone. Maclean's magazine now refers to us as
"mainstream" Canadians. But in a new and ominous move, George W. Bush and
his American "Reefer Madness" crusaders have now challenged Canadian
values and sovereignty. Displeased with Canada's tolerance for cannabis,
the US Drug Enforcement Administration has decided to bypass the
Canadian judicial system by secretly laying charges against Canadians under
their US laws.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41407
Bush's War On Marijuana
America's long-running war on drugs has, literally, gone to pot. More
than two decades after it was launched in response to the spread of
crack cocaine -- and in the midst of a brand-new wave of methamphetamine
use sweeping the country -- the government crackdown has shifted from
hard drugs to marijuana. Pot now accounts for nearly half of drug arrests
nationwide -- up from barely a quarter of all busts a decade ago.
Spurred by a Supreme Court decision in June affirming the right of federal
agents to crack down on medical marijuana.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41169
Mississauga Man Gunned Down by Florida Police
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says a 40-year-old
Mississauga man who was shot dead by police in Florida was lured to the
state by a suspected drug dealer to buy thousands of dollars worth of
marijuana.
Donovan Brooks' family, including his four children and former wife,
Antoinette White of Mississauga, will travel to Jamaica this weekend to
attend his funeral.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41767
Treat Pot Like Booze And Save $$$, Economists Say
In a report released in June, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of
economics at Harvard University, estimated that replacing marijuana
prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used
for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues
of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year nationally and from
$8.3 million to $9.4 million or more in Vermont.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41537
Pot Laws Have Failed Us--and Hurt Virginia
Virginians spend about $99 million each year to enforce state and local
marijuana laws. What are these taxpayers getting for their money? Not
much, according to a recent study. Jon B. Gettman, a senior fellow at
George Mason University's School of Public Policy, prepared the study,
titled "Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States,"
for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41587
Police Seize Pipes and Bongs At Hippie Headshop
After police went "shopping" at a recently opened store in Gillette,
the only thing left to sell was incense. More than 130 drug paraphernalia
items were seized Wednesday afternoon from the Hip Hop Hippie at 610 S.
Butler Spaeth, said police Detective Andy Boisvert. The store claimed
to sell tobacco products, but no tobacco or tobacco products were found
on the premise, Boisvert said. Pipes, bongs and water bongs were taken.
http://www.420times.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41539