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20 Million Marijuana Arrests, and Counting July 2, 2008 Sheriff and District Attorney Adopt Temporary Enforcement Policy for Measure B Cloud Seeding - Thursday & Friday - Mendocino County - Causing Storm Buildup & Lighting - Fires - Friday http://www.bammm.org/chem trails Chem Trail 6/19-20)2008 Cloud Seeding and then the West Coast Burned.  No on B says court ruling invalidates Measure B Gonzales v. Oregon and State v. Bonjour that the state of Iowa can make its own, independent determination of "accepted medical use.       US Government give a patent on pot     How can the federal government except pot to be have medical properties and patent it.     How can the federal government allow patent on a herb in the first place.   Carl Olsen Olsen Lawsuit/US Patent Hampson et al./Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants http://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/petitions/pdfs/orig_exhibit_29.pdf    Carl Olsen May 12, 2008 - Iowa Petition to Reclassify Marijuana   Kelley decision.  Court Case SB 420  unconstitutional Law David Jack Rethinking pot laws - Laura Hamburg Mendocino County 1.5 Billion Dollar Economy Ukiah Daily Journal Mendocino 1.5 Billion Dollars Pot Economy Proposition 215 legalized medical cannabis through the state initiative New article 4/30/08 Supporter of Measure B Apothecary Travel http://www.apothecarytravel.com/hightimes/cannabiscup/index.html

This group is still defining what we represent and more importantly how we can as a group handle it. Many of us lack time and experience dealing with Medical Marijuana and hopefully-collectively we can educate each other Alarm system Keep thieves away

ASA ACTION: New Report Shows Dispensary BenefitsCALIFORNIA: Dispensary Actions Around the State SAN DIEGO: Dispensary Closures Creating Political Pressure FEDERAL: Agent’s Attempt to Defraud Dispensary Backfires CALIFORNIA: Cops Stop, Seize Dispensary Delivery OPED: Prohibition Costs Friend’s Life US CA: Tips Smoke Out Indoor Pot Farms US CA: Pot Cultivation Called 'Big Business' Russia: Smart Growth? CN AB: Modern Smugglers Follow Old Routes CN ON: Marijuana May Relieve Chemo Patients' Nausea Cannabinoid May Halt Alzheimer's Progression, Study Says Colorado Cannabis Legalization Initiative Certified For November Ballot DOE Cuts Funding For Random Student Drug Testing Programs Seattle Hempfest Celebrates 15 Years This Weekend Cannabinoid May Halt Alzheimer's Progression, Study Says     Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Community Media Ch.72 5 a.m. M-F, 5 a.m. Sat, 4pm M-F on Ch. 72   Santa Rosa KRCB 91.1, 90.9 FM 3 p.m.,12 mid. M-F Ukiah KMEC 105.1 Weds, 8am; Spanish headlines 4 p.m, M-F

The Brain's Own Marijuana by Roger A. Nicoll, 01 Dec 2004 Scientific American Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could help to explain--and suggest treatments for--pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions Marijuana is a drug with a mixed history. Mention it to one person, and it will conjure images of potheads lost in a spaced-out stupor. To another, it may represent relaxation, a slowing down of modern madness. To yet another, marijuana means hope for cancer patients suffering from the debilitating nausea of chemotherapy, or it is the promise of relief from chronic pain. The drug is all these things and more, for its history is a long one, spanning millennia and continents. It is also something everyone is familiar with, whether they know it or not. Everyone grows a form of the drug, regardless of their political leanings or recreational proclivities. That is because the brain makes its own marijuana, natural compounds called endocannabinoids (after the plant's formal name, Cannabis sativa). The study of endocannabinoids in recent years has led to exciting discoveries. By examining these substances, researchers have exposed an entirely new signaling system in the brain: a way that nerve cells communicate that no one anticipated even 15 years ago. Fully understanding this signaling system could have far-reaching implications. The details appear to hold a key to devising treatments for anxiety, pain, nausea, obesity, brain injury and many other medical problems. Ultimately such treatments could be tailored precisely so that they would not initiate the unwanted side effects produced by marijuana itself.   Read more of this article    O'Shaughnessy's Journal of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group All truAlarm system Keep thieves awayth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/local/ci_4237398 Kind Meds 14649 Victory Blvd sweet # 24 Van Nuys, CA 91411 818-908-9580  is accepted as self-evident!         Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788-1860 )

Bartender in His Bedroom in Predawn 
Drug Raid -- Two Ounces of Marijuana Seized

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Daily Bible Study - Calamus or Cannabis

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June 2, 2005
"Milton Friedman: Legalize It!"
Forbes.com

June 2, 2005
"The High Cost of Prohibition"
Alternet.org

June 3, 2005
"Economists Call for Marijuana Reform "
The New Standard

June 3, 2005
"Further Evidence That Marijuana Prohibition is a Bad Idea"
Morons.org

June 3, 2005
"Colorado Pot Push Bypasses Aspen for Telluride"
Aspen Times

June 3, 2005
"Marijuana Lobby Points to Economic Impact"
Denver Business Journal

June 5, 2005
"Targeting Marijuana Saps Anti-Drug Effort, Critics Say"
Chicago Tribune

June 6, 2005
"Retail Industry Should Support Legalization of Marijuana, According to RetailWire Poll"
Press Release Newswire

June 7, 2005
"Reefer Madness: Is Sanity Breaking Out?"
Salon.com

June 7, 2005
"High Court's Pot Mistake; Lost in Supreme Shuffle: $14 Billion in Benefits We're Missing by Not Legalizing and Taxing Pot"
CNNMoney.com

June 8, 2005
"Fallout of Marijuana Verdict"
The Christian Science Monitor

June 14, 2005
"Getting Tough with the Terminally Ill"
The Times-Republican

June 16, 2005
"High and Mighty"
Los Angeles City Beat

June 26, 2005
"The High Cost of Prohibition"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

July 20, 2005
"Time For A Marijuana Sales Tax" (end)
San Francisco Examiner

July 21, 2005
"The Price of Prohibition"
Boulder Weekly

July 24, 2005
"Legalize Pot and Tax It? No Way, Say Lawmakers"
The Register-Herald

August 8, 2005
"Treat Pot Like Booze And Save $$$, Economists Say"
Out In The Mountains

September 4, 2005
"Legalise Mild Drugs?"
The Times of India

September 9, 2005
"Does Minnesota Need a Marijuana Sales Tax?"
The Minnesota Daily

September 10, 2005
"Marijuana Policy Isn't Working"
St. Petersburg Times

September 12, 2005
"Smoked Out"
Alternet.org

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Northern California's Mendocino County has been known for marijuana growing for at least 30 years. Part of the state's legendary Emerald Triangle of high-grade pot production along with neighboring Humboldt and Trinity counties, Mendocino has long profited from the underground economy. Last week, a local newspaper, the Willits News, tried to gauge just how large the profits may be, and the result is startling.

According to the News, the local marijuana industry will add $1.5 billion to the county's economy this year. With Mendocino's legal economy estimated at about $2.3 billion, that means the pot economy is almost two-thirds as large as all other legal economic activities combined. When combining the aboveground and underground economies, the marijuana industry is responsible for roughly 40% of all Mendocino County economic activity, a figure approaching the proportions of the Afghan opium economy.

As the News is quick to acknowledge, because marijuana is an illicit commodity, no one really knows how big the industry in the county is, so the paper relied on extrapolations based on the number of plants seized and on information it acquired about current wholesale (pound level and up) marijuana prices in the area. The County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team (COMMET) seized 144,000 plants this year, and District Attorney told the paper COMMET normally seized between five and eight percent of the crop, a little less than the 10% rule of thumb for estimating all drug seizures. The paper more than compensated for the lowball seizure rate by also factoring in a 20% crop loss to spoilage. Following the formula, the News estimated 1.8 million plants were sown in the county this year, with 1.32 million surviving droughts, floods, bugs, mold, and cops.

And while both the DEA and Mendocino County law enforcement like to say that one plant produces one pound, the newspaper consulted local grower "Dionysius Greenbud," who said the average yield is closer to a half pound -- a very rough estimate, given a local crop that consists of both high-yielding outdoor plants and smaller, lower-yielding indoor plants. The paper's in-the-ballpark estimate for total pot production in the county is thus some 662,000 pounds.

The paper assumed a wholesale price of $2200 a pound, based on reports from local growers, and a simple multiplication yields a total of $1.5 billion.

Is that figure out of line? It's hard to say. In last year's "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market," Eric Schlosser quoted former DEA officials as estimating the value of all marijuana grown nationwide at $25 billion. While it is difficult to believe that one California county accounts for nearly 5% of all pot grown in the US, who is to say different?

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Ukiah Daily Journal Marijuana Adds $1.5 Billion To County 

Marijuana Adds $1.5 Billion To County

Posted by CN Staff on November 25, 2005 at 20:15:26 PT By Mike ADair, Special For The Willits News  Source: Willits News  California -- In Mendocino County, the marijuana industry this year will contribute roughly $1.5 billion to the countys economy. Thats an estimated two-thirds of the countys legal economy, which in 2003 was about $2.3 billion. Although marijuana is thought to be a huge part of the local economy, it is impossible to know how big it is exactly. The crop is illegal; there are no crop reports, and production and sales records are not collected and authenticated by the county. For that reason most of the people contacted by this writer were unwilling or unable to speculate on the dollar size of it. Agriculture Commissioner Dave Bengston, Economic Development and Finance Corporation Director Madeline Holtkamp and Bank of Willits President Richard Willoughby were not able to even hazard a guess. Sheriffs Office Sergeant Rusty Noe, commander of the County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team (COMMET), also declined to give an opinion. That would be impossible to answer, said Noe. Between the illegal growing, both outdoor and indoor, and the medical marijuana, both outdoor and indoor, it would be impossible to estimate. Third District Supervisor Hal Wagenet, however, indicated a rough estimate could be made by making a few simple, back-of-the-envelope calculations. Wagenet arrived at a working number based on the number of plants seized by COMMET, which, according to Noe, is 144,000 marijuana plants for 2005. (Last year, he said, police seized about 92,000 plants. Plant seizures this year are up 56.5 percent over the 2004 figure.) In calculating the size of the countys marijuana industry, The Willits News used Wagenets formula. However some of the figures were revised and our assumptions differed slightly from Wagenets. According to District Attorney Norman Vroman, COMMET normally seizes between five and eight percent of the total crop grown in the county. We used that number instead of Wagenets 10 percent. We also thought it reasonable to include a spoilage figure of 20 percent, since nothing in agriculture is perfect. The only unknown in this equation is plant yield. Traditionally, Mendocino County law enforcement has estimated plant production at one pound of pot per plant. But according to grower Dionysius Greenbud--not his real name--the average dope plant yields about half a pound of grass. Greenbud cautioned, however, that number too is a rough estimate. I think an estimate of a pound per plant is high, he said. I usually get around a quarter pound a plant. But I was talking to a friend of mine who told me that he has these huge monster plants that give him about eight pounds a plant. So maybe a half a pound a plant is a little light. Former Third District Supervisor John Pinches agreed that an estimate of a pound of marketable marijuana per pot plant may be a little high. We decided to use the half a pound per plant figure, while admitting that our numbers are rough. The last element in the equation is the dollar value of the marijuana. According to Greenbud, the wholesale price of marijuana has been plummeting in recent years. In 1995, the wholesale price was $5000 a pound, Greenbud said. By 1999, it was $3500 a pound. Last year, in Willits it was down to $2500 a pound. The signs are showing that it is going to be less this year. It is looking like it might be $2200 a pound. Assuming a COMMET seizure rate of 8 percent, 1.8 million marijuana plants were grown in this county this year. Twenty percent were lost to spoilage, and eight percent were grabbed by law enforcement. That leaves 1,324,800 pot plants which produced an average of half a pound of pot per plant, yielding 662,400 pounds of cannibis. Assuming a wholesale price of $2200 per pound, this years harvest should yield a profit of $1.5 billion. A higher estimate would be reasonable if one assumes that some of crop is sold for a higher retail price, or if one assumes a higher yield than half a pound per plant, or both. By comparison, in 2004, raw timber brought an income of $66.6 million to timber producers and wine grapes brought in $60.1 million to grape growers. Marijuana, therefore, is at least 12 times larger than wine grapes and timber together. Richard Willoughby said that he did not know to what extent the marijuana economy penetrated the legal economy. He said growers were wary of depositing their money in local banks, because federal law requires banks file cash transaction reports for every deposit over $10,000. He also said that, based on the financial records of the three Willits banks (Bank of Willits, North Valley Bank and Washington Mutual) there was only about $125 million on deposit between the three institutions If you assume a marijuana economy of billions of dollars a year, to have $125 million on deposit isnt very much, he said. Complete Title: Cash Crop: Marijuana Adds $1.5 Billion To County Economy Source: Willits News (CA) Author: Mike ADair, Special For The Willits News Published: Friday, November 25, 2005 Copyright: 2005 The Willits News Contact: editorial@willitsnews.com Website: http://www.willitsnews.com/ Related Articles & Web Site: The Miron Report http://freedomtoexhale.com/mironreport.pdf Time for a Marijuana Sales Tax http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20977.shtml The High Cost of Prohibition http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20904.shtml

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Dearest Friends,
Here's the quick low-down on all our upcoming events -- starting RIGHT THIS HOT SECOND. Check it out. We need VOLUNTEERS (pretty please) for many of these gigs. Scan the list and see what strikes your fancy and then call me if you can help! 
Thank you!
Laura (489-2792)

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 7 PM KZYX on air debate: KC Meadow's Show: In-studio with Keith Faulder and Ross Liberty

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 9 AM KZYX on air debate: Karen Ottoboni: In-studio with Laura Hamburg and Ross Liberty

FRIDAY, APRIL 11 9:30 AM/Ukiah Courthouse/Courtroom E (?) Lawsuit hearing on Laguna/Hanamoto

SUNDAY, APRIL 13 2 PM NO On MEASURE B Meeting/Richard Johnson's Office: 203 N. State St. Ukiah (changed venue from the Ukiah Brewing Company).

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 6:30 PM City Hall/City Council-Sponsored Public Forum
Moderated by Karen Ottoboni: Laura Hamburg and Dr. Peter Keegan and Ross Liberty and John McCowen. Mostly audience Q & A. NEED MAJOR NO ON B SHOWING! PACK 'EM IN AT CITY HALL!

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 7 PM Greater Ukiah Valley Chamber of Commerce and the North Coast Builder's Exchange/City Hall Supervisorial Q & A with all 11 candidates. Measure B to be discussed.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 6:30 PM? City Council Meeting. Council will VOTE ON MEASURE B (agenda item under "Old Business) after hearing public feedback. NEED MAJOR NO ON B PRESENCE! PACK 'EM IN AT CITY HALL!

FRIDAY, APRIL 18/TIME? Ukiah Courthouse/Hearing on motion for a preliminary injunction -- Richard Johnson's ballot TRO.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, Noon Shotgun Restaurant (Hopland)/Mendocino County Employers' Council Luncheon meeting (closed to public) Laura Hamburg gives short presentation

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 10- 5 PM Earth Day Celebration At Alex Thomas Plaza/Cloud Forest Institute and MEC. Laura Hamburg speaks from the stage in the afternoon. We need VOLUNTEERS to table (we've already secured a slot), to register voters, etc...
Cloud Forest Institute hosts evening boogie at Saturday Afternoon Club:

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, NO ON B BENEFIT BOOGIE: 1PM- 2AM  420 JAM at Area 101 in Laytonville. Panel Discussion on Measure B 3-5 pm with Laura Hamburg, Dan Hamburg, Paula Deeter and Pebbles Trippet. 6 pm music with 7 bands. Major boogie. NEED VOLUNTEERS TO collect donations, register voters, hand out info.

TUESDAY, APRIL 22 10-4 PM/Mendocino Community College all-day Earth Day Event. NEED VOLUNTEERS TO TABLE. Laura Hamburg will table, register voters.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29 7-9:30 PM/Assembly of God Church in Boonville/Anderson Valley Community Action Coalition Measure with Pebbles Trippet, Dr. Peter Keegan, Keith Faulder and more. Moderated by Karen Ottoboni.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27 2PM NO On MEASURE B Meeting/Richard Johnson's Office: 203 N. State St. Ukiah (changed venue from the Ukiah Brewing Company).

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 OR MAY 1 6 PM Fort Bragg In-studio televised debate hosted by the Ft. Bragg Advocate/Mendocino Beacon and the Mendocino Coast Television (MCTV) with Dan Hamburg and Dr. William Courtney, Ross Liberty and more

FRIDAY MAY 2 CASPAR INN NO ON B BENEFIT BOOGIE -- Details to come.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 UKIAH'S NO ON B BENEFIT BOOGIE hosted by Laura Hamburg and Erica Cooperrider. 9pm Saturday Afternoon Club featuring Rootstock -- plus the thrilling debut of the much-anticipated Billy Thornsby Band with all-star support from Sid.

MONDAY, MAY 5 First Absentee Ballots mailed out.

MONDAY, MAY 19 LAST DAY TO REGISTER

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 MEASURE B IS DEFEATED!!!

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Proposition 215 legalized medical cannabis through the state initiative process, and therefore any changes to its content would require another initiative to be passed by California voters.  This requirement is to prevent individuals from changing this law for their own special interests.  It means that Senate Bill 420 is illegal and unconstitutional, as are any other rules made by our officials on this matter.

The people voted on medical cannabis, and our government officials are now trying to make it illegal by creating new rules that have not been approved by the people of California. 

The district attorney and law enforcement are supposed to serve the people who voted for the laws.   It is obvious that our public servants are not following the law or the public's best interest when it comes to medical cannabis.

 --Wayne Graham

 

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New article 4/30/08

Proposition 215, through the state initiative process, legalized medical cannabis and; therefore, any changes to its' content would require another initiative; such as, Measure B, to be passed by the Mendocino voters. This requirement is to prevent individuals from changing laws for their own special interests.  It means that Senate Bill 420 is illegal and unconstitutional, as are any other rul