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Prince of Pot: War Talk26 Mar 2003 20 min Marc finaly gets around to talking about the subject he's been avoiding and everybody else has been talking about.... The War! And particularly how it's straining US and Canadian relations. Also included, vintage Emery and Q & A with Michael Moore after the Oscars...............
The Pot TV News for February 12, 200312 Feb 2003 22 minOTTAWA APPEALS AS COURT FORCES CANADA TO DISTRIBUTE MEDPOT OTTAWA -- The Canadian government will go to court to save its muddled marijuana laws even as it is promising to liberalize them and as a court forces them to distribute the government-sanctioned marijuana growing in Manitoba for "open" clinical trials. COUNTY MAY JOIN WAMM SUIT SANTA CRUZ -- The county may decide Tuesday to join a medical marijuana club in suing the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. WILL ROSENTHAL CASE DESTROY FEDERAL MEDPOT ENFORCEMENT? AlterNet -- The disappointing verdict in the Ed Rosenthal case may end up doing more to ignite California voters than a hung jury would have done. JUDGE KILLS DRUG TREATMENT LAW PASSED BY VOTERS WASHINGTON D.C. -- An initiative passed by D.C. voters last fall that would require the city to offer treatment to scores of nonviolent drug offenders cannot take effect because it illegally dictates how the D.C. government must spend its money, a judge ruled yesterday. "DUDE, YER GETTIN' A CELL" NEW YORK -- Actor Benjamin Curtis, who portrays a stereotypic stoner named "Steven" in Dell Computer Corp's "Dude, yer gettin' a Dell" commercials, was arrested for marijuana possession, officials said on Monday. 
The Pot TV News for October 7, 200207 Oct 2002 23 minDECRIMINALIZE POT, COMMONS COMMITTEE ARGUES Several members on the House of Commons committee said in interviews that they favour eliminating a law that can saddle people with a criminal record for smoking marijuana. COURT REVERSES MARIJUANA RULING Reversing a lower court ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals said that Congress had the right to block District of Columbia residents from voting on whether to legalize marijuana for medical use. CALIFORNIA COUPLE SUES POLICE OVER RAID A jury should determine whether the county and a sheriff’s detective must reimburse a pair of medical marijuana advocates whose plants and growing equipment were destroyed after a raid on their home, a court commissioner ruled this week. DR.ROBERT MELAMEDE: HOW CANNABIS HELPS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RICHARD COWAN: TREATIES NO BARRIER TO LEGALIZATION Join our e-list for automatic show updates. 
The Pot TV News for Monday, July 29, 200229 Jul 2002 23 minANTI-POT EFFORTS BOOST ICE USE "Marijuana eradication in Hawaii contributed to the increase in the use of the drug "ice," according to a government study." SUPPORT WIDENS FOR S.F. CANNABIS FARMS "Beyond the one-liners, however, is the serious matter of how to get medical marijuana to patients in a structured, limited way that fulfills the will of the overwhelming majority of California voters who passed Proposition 215 in 1996." VANCOUVER SUN CALLS FOR DECRIMINALIZATION "The arguments against decriminalization are either trivial, specious or dishonest -- or all three. The arguments in favour of it are compelling." CONGRESSMEN TELL FEDS TO BUTT OUT A former aide to President Reagan and several members of Congress - including an openly gay, die-hard liberal; a one-time Libertarian presidential candidate and a Orange County Republican - said the time had come to end federal prohibition of medical marijuana in states that authorize its use. Join our e-list for automatic show updates. 
The Pot TV News for Friday, July 26, 200225 Jul 2002 25 minDRUG CZAR URGES POLICE TO "ACTIVELY OPPOSE" VOTER INITIATIVE "Nevada is a state that is facing a crisis: the legalization of marijuana,"said Mary Anne Solberg, deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. LAMBETH CANNABIS EXPERIMENT SHUT DOWN UK Police end successful program that reduced crime by up to 50% by diverting police away from arresting cannabis users. S.F. CONSIDERS GROWING ITS OWN "If the federal government insists on standing in our way locally, we must take matters into our own hands and protect the lives of our community members and protect their right to access life-saving medicine," said Leno, a Supervisor for San Francisco. INTERVIEW: WAYNE JUSTMAN Director of the SF Patient's Cooperative 
The Pot TV News for Wednesday, July 10, 200210 Jul 2002 27 minPROBLEMS WITH OTTAWA'S POT CROP Prairie Plant Systems Inc., a Saskatoon company, has grown more than 250 kilograms of unharvested marijuana since it got a $5.7-million contract with Health Canada. However, an indefinite government delay now means patients who want the drug must supply it themselves or name someone else to grow it for them. MILTON FRIEDMANS 30-YEAR-OLD ADVICE This week, President Bush, publicly praised economist Milton Friedman, noted how "the rest of the world is finally catching up with Milton Friedman." But Bush conveniently ignored Friedman's 30 year opposition to the War on Drugs, while lauding the economist for his free market theories and valuable contributions to society. Interview with David Nolan, founder of the Libertarian Party, speaking from the Libertarian National Convention on the future of Party and the future of the United States. Join our e-list for automatic show updates. |
