cannabisnews.com: Store for Medical Pot Opens in Roseville Store for Medical Pot Opens in Roseville Posted by CN Staff on January 31, 2004 at 10:40:11 PT By Art Campos & Jocelyn Wiener, Bee Staff Writers Source: Sacramento Bee A medical marijuana store has quietly opened its doors in Roseville, just weeks after a new law took effect permitting qualified patients and caregivers to cultivate the plant.Owner Richard Marino and his friends held a small christening ceremony Jan. 22 inside the freshly painted, sparsely furnished storefront that now houses Capitol Compassionate Care. "People need a safe environment where they can get their medical marijuana, so they don't have to get it on the streets, and they can get quality for a reasonable price," Marino said. "Hopefully, this can cut down on street trafficking." But whether the new "cannabis club" will be allowed to remain open may depend on which law-enforcement agency is looking at it.Roseville Police Chief Joel Neves said Marino can operate as long as he complies with laws derived from Proposition 215, which was approved by voters in 1996 to permit the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes."Clearly, the law passed by the voters allows this type of business," Neves said. "These businesses exist throughout the state."But Richard Meyer, a special agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, indicated the Roseville club could have a short run."Federal law is clear about marijuana: It is illegal to cultivate, possess or distribute it," Meyer said. "So if that club is selling marijuana, it's going to be in violation of federal law."Just because (the Roseville club) is in operation doesn't mean it's legitimate or that we condone it. They should not be surprised if one day we show up with a warrant at their door."Meyer said closing cannabis clubs has been difficult because of staff shortages.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/medical/story/8191148p-9122380c.htmlSource: Sacramento Bee (CA)Author: Art Campos and Jocelyn Wiener -- Bee Staff WritersPublished: Saturday, January 31, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Sacramento BeeContact: opinion sacbee.comWebsite: http://www.sacbee.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmBacking for Law on Medical Pot Climbs in Pollhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18267.shtmlMedicinal Marijuana Law Gains Favorhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18262.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #9 posted by Patrick on February 01, 2004 at 21:11:55 PT Max F;owers Excellent point and great advice... If you are outraged, as you well should be, then keep talking about it, posting about it... research it and find out exactly what the boundaries are supposed to be according to the real laws we allegedly go by. I will I will.... [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by The GCW on January 31, 2004 at 21:17:00 PT Denver Post vs. Rocky Mountain News US CO: Kopel: Post gets medical pot story right Pubdate: Jan. 31, 2004 Source: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)Viewed at: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_2618480,00.html Kopel: Post gets medical pot story right Dispute over Hayden man's possession of marijuana is not yet in federal court January 31, 2004The Denver Post excelled and the Rocky Mountain News did not in reporting the latest legal development in the Hayden medical marijuana case. Last year, a group of federal and state agents raided the home of a 57-year-old man in Hayden who possessed marijuana in accordance with Colorado's medical marijuana law. A Routt County judge threw out the case and ordered the agents to return the man's marijuana. When the agents refused, the judge threatened to find them in contempt of court. On Jan. 23, as accurately reported in the Post on Jan. 25, the U.S. attorney's office filed papers in federal court, asking that the state case be "removed" from state to federal court. Removal is a procedure by which a federal court can take jurisdiction over a state court case. The Post article explained the legal procedures, and made it clear that the federal court has not yet ruled on the U.S. attorney's effort to remove the case.In contrast, the News article on Jan. 24 began, "U.S. authorities moved a conflict between federal and Colorado marijuana laws to federal court Friday, snatching it from a Colorado judge . . ." The News incorrectly claimed that the case had already been "moved." The News vaguely referred to "U.S. authorities," while the Post specified that the office of the U.S. attorney had filed the motion. The News never explained the procedure for moving a case from state to federal court, while the Post accurately explained "removal" and quoted from the U.S. attorney's motion arguing why removal should be granted in the Hayden case. Part of the problem with the News article, I learned, was that editors cut too much from the reporter's orignal story. Also, the reporter reasonably relied on mistaken information from a U.S. attorney's spokesman; the spokesman thought that removal is self-executing. Instead, removal is automatically self-executing in civil cases, but not in criminal cases. At the time the reporter talked with the spokesman, the federal court clerk had not yet decided to classify the case as a criminal case. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by The GCW on January 31, 2004 at 20:42:11 PT Don Nord Legal Defense Fund Don Nord Legal Defense FundA Legal Defense Fund has been set up for Don Nord to support him and his attorney in this important case. Don is living on a fixed income and must now buy expensive synthetic pharmaceuticals to take the place of his medicinal cannabis. Don's attorney, Kris Hammond, is working pro bono. Since this case has been seized by the feds, they both must now make an expensive four hour commute from Routt County to the federal courthouse in Denver.Any little bit will help.Make checks payable to: Don Nord P.O. Box 1616 Hayden, Colorado 81639For information on Don's case, see: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4526&wtm_view=news http://www.mapinc.org/find?GAC=n-us-co&LABEL=Colorado&YY1=1998*************************************************************** Distributed as a public service by the: Colorado Hemp Initiative Project Email: cohip levellers.org Web: http://www.levellers.org/cohip/ "Fighting over 60 years of lies and dis-information with 10,000 years of history and fact."(This will also be posted on the last C-news post about this issue.) [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on January 31, 2004 at 20:15:11 PT Virgil I saw that article today and set it up to post and then I looked at it and looked at it again and thought it was not worth needing to snip the article because it wasn't saying anything really profound. I wonder why they don't talk about illegal diamond smuggling and their association with terrorism. I checked the Globe and Mail earlier and they didn't have anything up on their site. I thought I'd wait until the Globe and Mail came out with a related article and then I'd post it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Virgil on January 31, 2004 at 20:03:04 PT Kind of quiet, is it not This article is up today at the Vancouver Sun. Ruppert Murdoch owns a chain of Sun Papers in Canada, but the Vancouver Sun is not one of them. The article is about using BC Bud to buy arms for Afganistan. The prohibitionist have come unhinged.Dated this Saturday at http://tinyurl.com/38a4b - B.C. marijuana is financing guns being used by Afghan insurgents, the province's top law enforcement official said Friday.Solicitor General Rich Coleman told the Vancouver Board of Trade that weapons used in Afghanistan were tracked and the trail led back to the sale of B.C. marijuana, he said. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Max Flowers on January 31, 2004 at 14:42:25 PT Patrick You're not losing your mind. You percieve it exactly right, that federal law is supposed to be enforced on federal property and only in certain cases in state jurisdiction, like if there was a formal state of war and there were army troops in the streets defending us from attackers, or in cases where it is constitutionally allowed for such as alcohol sales.You are also correct in noticing that federal agencies like DEA are have been drunk with power for decades and as a result have lost their ability to see the constiutional boundaries of federal power. In other words, their perspective is "screw the Constitution, Bill Of Rights, and any other law that would hold us in check; whatever we say is the law is the law."If you are outraged, as you well should be, then keep talking about it, posting about it... research it and find out exactly what the boundaries are supposed to be according to the real laws we allegedly go by. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on January 31, 2004 at 12:40:52 PT Flushy flushy Headline: Bush predicts $517 Billion deficitMath: 517 Billion divided by 366 days (leap year y'know) divided by 24 hours divided by 60 minutes comes out right at about a million dollars a minute.So I really want to know if, tomorrow on SuperBowl Sundae, they actually paid for the ONDCP ad, at $2.3 million per 30 seconds. Because for those 30 seconds, the drug war would be the MAIN DRAIN on the economy. It's almost worth having the drug war spending clock at mapinc.org/lte running in real time just to watch the jump. I don't know if this clock does such things in real time, but perhaps it should. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Virgil on January 31, 2004 at 11:38:43 PT Why does North Carolina not have MLG Someone seems to think things need to change at http://tinyurl.com/pls2In 1969, the Supreme Court declared that the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 that brought federal hedgemony onto what should properly be regarded as nations. States are nations and agreed to a common defense and the need to not restrain trade from one nation from another. They got together and created a government and enumerated its powers so that it would not transgress on the rights of the states or the the inalienable rights of man.In 1971 Nixon created the DEA by executive order. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 drew up a schedule of narcotics even though it is an incorrect term. It gave the DEA the power to regulate that schedule as well as enforce it. When the DEA moved to ban hempfoods saying it had a few molecules of THC and that they had the power to override specific regulations allowing hempseeds, they moved into the area of legislation.Cannabis had always been used in medicine, because what were you going to take for a headache or migraine or menstual cramps or bad back before Bayer made aspirin. Seriously, what would you take? And yes I realize aspirin does not help migraines and menstrual cramps. It also does not relax you and give you a good nights sleep. If you need to put your dog to sleep aspirin in their food is what my vetrinarian uncle recommended. You can use cannabis for a full lifetime and if you do not smoke it, you will not even cough.The federal government does not have a cannabis policy. It has an attitude. The study of Cannabis Prohibition is a lesson in the media and government lies. Reefer Madness was a movie made for the purposes of propaganda. It can be seen at pot-tv.net. The demonization will require your children to pay for the ganjaganda that will be on this Sunday while the alcohol companies encourage people to eat their livers out, and wash the seratonin out of their brain as it creates alcohol induced depression, and build the high that will fall to a hangover. Millions of dollars for demonization but not any cents/sense for freedom and the best way.Nixon put cannabis in Schedule 1 which prevented all research without the DEA approval and removed your universities rights to explore medical value in a time proven plant. Nixon did undertake studies that were really to find harm. Those studies led to a 1974 finding that cannabis cut off the blood supply to cancer tumors. Nixon also declared a War on Cancer in 1971. The War on Cannabis was more important than the War on Cancer and the media ignored the study for decades and so did the USG. These studies did lead to states adopting laws for uses such as nausea for cancer patients who could not hold down any nutrition without the assistance of cannabis. In North Carolina the laws also allowed it for glaucoma. There was even a federal program started, even though one of the three requirement of Schedule 1 is that it not have medical value and should be removed because it has to meet all three, to provide federally grown cannabis to the sick. Seven people still get federal cannabis under a program that was shut down when the AIDS epidemic threatened to bring cannabis to the forefront of medicine and make it a common thing.It was Reagan that would bury all the studies and turn the National Institute of Health into a hunter of harm that has really proven its safety when you think about it, and away from an agency of the people to explore the potential of the cannabinoids that were always known to help with pain. The War on Cannabist would tell science and medicine to stop. Cannabis Prohibition is mass murder and people like Kerry and Edwards and Lieberman are conspirators in this murder. And if you had a free media you would know this already and their would not even be Cannabis Prohibition.Yes, Kerry is a drug warrior, but so is Joe and John. And yes, your media is controlled and you would know so, if it were not. And if you think that you cannot use cannabis for a lifetime without even a cough, you are sadly mistaken. It is prohibition that makes smoking it so popular as I would use hash oil myself or even a vaporizer if I did not think the goons would take it away from me and put me in jail for it like Tommy Chong. If you want to see how plutocratic rule is in bed with monopolistic media just watch the beer commercials and the demonization ads that your children will pay for their whole lives. Think of the tyranny involved in maintaining Cannabis Prohibition and remember people's inalienable right to do what they want if they harm no one. So, there is a clue why we do not have medical laughing grass in North Carolina. It is because in 1937 the federal government inflicted a horrid prohibition on what was always a Miracle Plant.If Kerry wants to war on freedom. Bring it on. I will war with him. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Patrick on January 31, 2004 at 10:57:33 PT Once again… I must mention that Federal Law can and should be enforced on federal property and facilities. State Law should trump federal law everywhere else within the state. If not, what is the freaking point behind state vs. federal law. Maybe that fact that I have been smoking ganja for over 30 years has clouded my reasoning capabilities and common sense? Nearly every day I walk past a government installation that clearly states "Federal Law will be enforced on these premises" If state law is to be the law enforced on this side of that damn fence, then why & how can our state law enforcement officials not protect us from the frickin DEA??? I mean really, where does the jurisdictional boundary of federal and state law truly lie? Someone? Anyone? [ Post Comment ] Post Comment