Quick Hits (News)Police Refusal to Return Medical pot Prompts SuitBy: Charles McCarthy (Fresno Bee) MADERA -- Whether the city of Chowchilla and its former police chief, John Robinson, should be penalized for refusing to return about a pound of medical marijuana to its owner remained undecided Friday. Police Retreat From Cannabis CaseBy: Heidi Rowley (Visalia Times-Delta staff writer) Jeff Nunes, 26, loves his plants. He fingers the green, glossy leaves and looks lovingly at the 2-foot-tall plant as if it were his life's salvation. 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in PrisonBy: Connie Cass (AP) WASHINGTON - America's prison population grew by 2.9 percent last year, to almost 2.1 million inmates, with one of every 75 men living in prison or jail. Missing: A Laptop of DEA InformantsBy: Michael Isikoff (Newsweek) Federal investigators are frantically trying to determine what happened to a missing laptop computer that contains sensitive data on as many as 100 Drug Enforcement Administration investigations around the country, including a wealth of information about many of the agency's confidential informants. |
Growin' Our Own (Feature stories)Home-Grown in Broken HomesBy: Herb Terry Every year countless potheads from across the globe make pilgrimages to their Holy land of Holland. This year we were among that dutiful throng. We came on a special mission: To offer Bud Life's readers a clear window into Dutch grow houses. Upon arriving in Amsterdam, an excited coffeeshop employee welcomed us to "the real happiest place on earth". He described it as "Disneyland on pot", and then later, "paradise without the forbidden fruit". Following that metaphor, we asked him who grew the 'trees of knowledge' and stocked his coffeeshop's shelves. Now understanding the focus of our article, not coffeeshops but grow houses, our excitable friend grew serious. "Sorry", he said, "that's the part we don't talk about. We don't talk about growers or suppliers". He asked, also, that we don't use the name of his shop or him in any article about grow houses. A Pack of Scurvy DogsBy: Elmore Stone God damn right. Medical marijuana patients, their caregivers and marijuana smokers in general need them pesky lawyers, and pronto, to rid us of those scurvy dogs - the Federales. With 0-2 in the 9th, Ashcroft Looks to the High CourtBy: Marcia Coyle (National Law Journal) Washington -- Before the end of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court may be asked to wade once again into the legal thicket surrounding assisted suicide and the medical use of marijuana because of recent court defeats suffered by the Bush administration. Drug Up Your Teen TodayBy: Mark Morford (SF Gate Columnist) Is your teenager depressed? Throwing things? Sulking like she hates you and only speaking in monosyllabic grunts and playing her Staind or Avril Lavigne or Hoobastank MP3s way too loud? Sure she is. Damn kids. Are they slouching way too much and wearing low-slung clothes and locking the door to their bedrooms and masturbating chronically, and then racking up huge cell-phone bills as they complain endlessly to their best friend about their unrequited loves and horrible parents and how much they hate life and how they're always despondent and put upon and pimply and miserable? |
Pipeline (Other stuff)A Note From the BossWe appologize for the July edition of Bud Life being late. Some of our staff has moved to another state and because of that the magazine was late getting placed online. Live free, Panama Red Man to Fight to Regain Marijuana -- AgainBy: Amy Hilvers, (Bakersfield Californian staff writer) In what may be a first, the Kern County Sheriff's Department returned marijuana it seized in a raid. City of Oakland Withholds Permits from Cannabis ClubsBy: Jim Herron Zamora (Chronicle Staff Writer) Oakland's once-bustling downtown enclave of medical marijuana clubs is about to disappear -- less than a year after it earned its nickname -- after city officials refused last week to issue permits to several popular establishments. Fresno Authorities Busy Busting Marijuana FarmsBy: Mark Arax (Contra Costa Times) Fresno -- On the edge of suburbia here, where farmland awaits the developer's plow, the magnificent gardens of Southeast Asian refugees rise and fall. Texas Scandal Throws Doubt on Anti-Drug Task ForcesBy: Laura Parker (USA TODAY) A 16-year-old federal program that has poured about $500 million a year into more than 750 regional anti-drug task forces is under fire from critics who say that a lack of oversight has led to wrongful convictions of citizens and theft, perjury and misuse of public funds by law enforcement officers. |
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