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Swedish Hemp Farmer Awarded Compensation
March 6, 2010 – After a decade-long struggle, a Swedish hemp farmer from Halland has won a favourable court ruling which declared the state’s seizure of his crop illegal. For all the legal wrangling, which was heard in both Swedish and European courts, the man was awarded just SEK 10,000 (USD 1,500) compensation. In 2000,…
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NJ: Jewish Groups Throw Support Behind Medical Marijuana Laws
January 26, 2010 – From the time Lisa Siegel was a little girl, she had terrible nausea, mental fog that came and went, and tightness and cramping in her muscles so severe that it would wake her in the night. She was 47 before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but she remembers a childhood…
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Marijuana legalization initiative headed for 2010 ballot, organizers say
December 14, 2009 – Supporters of an initiative that would legalize marijuana in California say they have collected enough signatures to ensure that it will be on the November 2010 ballot. The petition drive, which was run by a professional signature-gathering firm, collected more than 680,000 signatures, 57% more than the 433,971 valid signatures needed…
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Multiple Sclerosis Community Debates Benefit of Medical Marijuana-You be the Judge-Video
December 4, 2009 – Cancer patients, glaucoma patients and others can benefit from medical marijuana, and now a new analysis shows that it can help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients find relief from the muscle spasms that are the hallmark of the debilitating autoimmune disease. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOoa6Q4Bds] “The therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in MS appears to be…
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California Capitol Debates Marijuana Legalization
October 29, 2009 – SACRAMENTO — Marijuana legalization advocates and law enforcement officials duked it out in a three-hour legislative hearing Wednesday on whether making the drug legal under state law would be good public policy. Advocates said legalization and regulation could bring as much as $1.4 billion in state and local excise and sales…
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Where to Go to Sow Hemp Protest? DEA Grass!
October 13, 2009 – You want to dig a garden, you need a shovel. You want to dig a guerrilla garden of illegal hemp on the front lawn of Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters and get arrested for the cameras, you need a symbol. Shortly before they all were happily handcuffed Tuesday, the farmers took one…
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Updated: Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn
October 13, 2009 – A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested this morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. David Bronner, the president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a more than 60-year-old company that does tens of millions of…
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Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters
October 13, 2009 – Washington D.C. – Farmers, Hemp Industry Leaders Arrested for Planting Industrial Hemp at DEA Headquarters in Act of Civil Disobedience to Protest ‘Reefer Madness’ At approximately 10 a.m. this morning, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont farmer Will Allen, and fed up American entrepreneurs, who have dedicated their livelihoods to developing…
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California:Time to Get Real about Marijuana
October 12, 2009 – Californians have made it clear at the ballot box that they favor legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes. But, as critics feared, Prop. 215, the medical marijuana initiative that was passed 13 years ago, has only opened the door to abuse. It’s estimated that there are 40 marijuana dispensaries in Long…