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Ottawa Citizen, 25 Feb 2010 - Government Should Be Sole Provider of Cannabis, Narcotics Control Board Says Justice Minister Robert Nicholson said Wednesday the government's medical marijuana regulations are under review after the UN's drugs watchdog warned Canada needs to tighten up the system.

Edmonton Journal, 25 Feb 2010 - Justice Minister Puts Marijuana Regulations Under Review Justice Minister Robert Nicholson said Wednesday the government's medical marijuana regulations are under review after the UN's drugs watchdog warned Canada needs to tighten up the system.

Victoria Times-Colonist, 25 Feb 2010 - Justice Minister Robert Nicholson said yesterday the government's medical marijuana regulations are under review after the United Nation's drugs watchdog warned Canada needs to tighten up the system. The Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board said Canada is operating outside international treaty rules aimed at minimizing the risk that criminals will get hold of cannabis grown under the program.

The Journal-Pioneer, 24 Feb 2010 - BEDEQUE - It's not common to want to be elected Opposition leader in the P.E.I. legislature. But even though Bedeque's Caitlin Kimmet isn't a political figure, that's exactly what she asked for last weekend.

Alliston Herald, 24 Feb 2010 - A lawyer representing former Alberta Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, who was charged with drunk driving and cocaine possession last September, said the case should come to a resolution on March 9. Jaffer is the husband of Simcoe-Grey Conservative MP and Minister of State (Status of Women), Helena Guergis

Vancouver Courier, 24 Feb 2010 - 'Pot Shop' Operated For At Least A Week A 59-year-old marijuana activist is facing several drug charges for allegedly selling marijuana, LSD and other drugs out of a storefront in Mount Pleasant. Klaus Kaczor, who calls himself Bud the Oracle, operated his "pot shop" for at least seven days at 564 East Broadway before police arrested him Feb. 17.

Vancouver Courier, 24 Feb 2010 - Critic Says Harper Government Waging Failed American Drug War The leading crusader in the U.S. for drug policy reform got his first look at the city's supervised drug injection site last week. Dr. Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, came away impressed after his visit Friday to Insite on East Hastings.

Star-News, 24 Feb 2010 - In March of 2008, when New Hanover County was considering the purchase of a helicopter for the sheriff's office, authorities said local taxpayers wouldn't foot the bill. At the time, former sheriff Sid Causey said the $683,050 helicopter would be paid for by federal grants and seized drug money.

Star-News, 24 Feb 2010 - New Hanover County Schools will receive an additional $150,646 in forfeited money from the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office, officials say. The funds are seized money that authorities now suspect should have gone to the schools in the first place. Sheriff Ed McMahon's announcement on Tuesday means that in the past two months he has pulled $323,529.15 from his office's budget and given it to the schools.

Metro, 23 Feb 2010 - While being royalty may have its advantages, even Vancouver's Prince of Pot couldn't get into the Molson Canadian Hockey House on Sunday to watch Canada do battle with the U.S. "They (VANOC) just don't want the association," said Marc Emery about being denied access to the bustling venue. "They're worried about me being seen beside the athletes."

London Free Press, 23 Feb 2010 - COURTS: Joshua Chladek pleads guilty to drug charges after a lit cigarette set off a blast in the illegal grow op he was hiding in a rented farmhouse You'd think Joshua Chladek might know better.

Greenville News, 23 Feb 2010 - COLUMBIA -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford balked Tuesday at ordering the early release of nonviolent inmates to ease a $29 million deficit at the Department of Corrections. Instead, he said there needed to be consensus among all three branches of state government before any prisoners are set free early. The governor's comments came during the state Budget and Control Board meeting. The panel cleared the way for the prisons agency to spend more money than it has. It's the third time in three years the prisons agency has run short of cash as budget cuts have taken a toll on its operations.

Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb 2010 - Advocates Hope to Get Boost From Boomers in Legalization Effort In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

Ottawa Citizen, 23 Feb 2010 - After years of controversy, Denmark opened its first clinic on Monday to distribute free heroin under medical supervision to people who are heavily addicted to the drug. The Scandinavian country joins Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany to allow prescriptions for medicinal heroin.

Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb 2010 - Bryan James Epis, the first person associated with a California cannabis buyers' club to be tried in federal court for growing pot, was ordered back to prison Monday by a Sacramento judge to serve the balance of a 10-year term. Epis, 42, had been free for nearly six years on an order issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after he had served more than two years of the term for growing and conspiring to grow marijuana.

Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb 2010 - Attorney for Medical Marijuana Distributor Says the Felony Counts Are 'Politically Driven.' More than four months ago, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned that state law does not allow dispensaries to sell medical marijuana and zeroed in on Organica, a popular Venice-area outlet, as one possible target.

El Paso Times, 22 Feb 2010 - The brother of the third-highest ranking member of the Juarez drug cartel has been arrested by the Mexican army even while the bloodshed continued in Juarez with more than 20 murders since Friday. Soldiers arrested Roberto Sanchez Arras on federal weapons charges on Thursday in the town of Villa Ahumada, located about 90 miles south of Juarez.

San Diego Union Tribune, 22 Feb 2010 - Democratic Forum Draws Four for Attorney General Democratic candidates for state attorney general yesterday took varying positions on the merits of legalizing marijuana, but agreed that medical marijuana needs to be much more heavily regulated than it is now.

The Daily Journal, 22 Feb 2010 - VINELAND -- New Jersey farmers, including some in this area, see a chance to add an important new crop now that the state has legalized medical marijuana. "We would all like to grow it because we think it would be a good cash crop -- literally," Fairfield nurseryman Roger Ruske said.

SouthtownStar, 22 Feb 2010 - CHICAGO -- Multiple choice. Essays. Pop quizzes. Students at Marist High School may be subjected to yet another test next school year, but it's one they can prepare for by doing nothing at all. Principal Larry Tucker insists a proposed new drug testing policy at the school isn't geared toward punishing students at the coed Catholic school in Chicago's Mount Greenwood community.