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Toronto G-13 Church of the Universe members learn Monday, Feb. 7 2011, whether their constitutional challenge to the marijuana laws prohibiting them from using cannabis as sacrament succeeds. The ruling will be announced Monday morning 10 a.m. at University Avenue courthouse. Reverends and witnesses from the case, which took place over several weeks in the summer, will be in attendance.
The last half-hour of our constitutional challenge to Canada’s felt like a bargaining session. We asked the court to consider striking down all the weed laws (possession, possession for the purpose, trafficking, production, production for purpose,) because Health Canada program is illusory for a majority of seriously ill Canadians. The crown recommended the judge only invalidate personal marijuana production based on my criminal charge and to give parliament a year to correct its course.
CANNABIS CULTURE - UPDATE: The live show took place on Saturday at 4pm! CC editors Jodie Emery and Jeremiah Vandermeer webcast LIVE from The Vancouver CannaMed Fair, the city's first medical marijuana expo.
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, showed a fake copy of its Office 2007 software found for sale on the streets of Mexico and “brazenly” stamped with the rectangular “FMM” logo of the Familia drug cartel to demonstrate the link between counterfeiting and organized crime.
CANNABIS CULTURE – Academy Award-winning Hollywood icon Jack Nicholson criticized America's War on Drugs in a recent interview with a British newspaper, and said he still smokes marijuana.
Newsletter #2, January 21st to 28th 2011 – I just finished reading a 450-page adventure novel, "Pirates of Savannah" written by a fellow Libertarian. It’s a fun read about the early settlers of the area along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, taking place in the years 1720-1740. It’s a story of struggle by ordinary (but heroic & brave) folk (all prisoners from English jails released to go to the “New World”) vs. the King of England and villainous lackeys, referred to as “lobsterbacks”, “Red-coats” and other harsher terms.