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Victoria Times-Colonist, 10 Feb 2010 - Supreme Court Asked to Overturn Ruling Favouring Vancouver's Insite (CNS) The federal government plans to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a B.C. ruling that allowed a safe-injection site to remain open.

Ravalli Republic, 10 Feb 2010 - The City of Hamilton business license for the town's first medical marijuana shop ran Amanda Davis and Kyle McCready $20. When Davis and McCready open their door to the public today, the products offered at their MD Farmacy storefront will run card-holding medical marijuana patients roughly $280-$480 per ounce of marijuana and $5-10 per baked good.

Daily Camera, 09 Feb 2010 - Broomfield on Tuesday joined the list of Colorado cities to impose a moratorium on the opening of medical marijuana dispensaries. Broomfield City Council voted 9-to-1 to institute a 180-day moratorium on the approval of any permits or licenses medical marijuana dispensaries would need to legally operate in the city.

The Bahama Journal, 09 Feb 2010 - Education officials have expressed serious concerns about drug use among high school students and recently urged the government to make the implementation of drug programmes and facilities for students a top priority. The Ministry of National Security recently released findings of the 2008 National Prevalence of Drug Use in High Schools Survey, which revealed that peer pressure is a major factor contributing to drug use by students. Ministry of Education officials noted that there is a lack of treatment programmes and facilities for students, particularly in Grand Bahama and the Family Islands.

Seattle Times, 09 Feb 2010 - Calling the law unclear, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Tuesday his office will not file criminal charges against a former Seattle man who police said had more plants at his community medical-marijuana garden than allowed under state law. Mark Spohn called Seattle police on May 26 after four armed men, posing as FBI agents, entered his house and stole some of the recently harvested marijuana plants he was growing at his Wallingford garden. When police arrived they found that Spohn had more than 100 additional plants, which he was growing for himself and 20 other authorized medical-marijuana patients, according to court paperwork.

The Press Democrat, 09 Feb 2010 - The Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday rejected a proposal to put a medicinal marijuana dispensary on the edges of the South Park neighborhood, siding with police who said the area already is plagued by gang members, prostitutes and drug traffickers. "I can't think of a worse location," said Councilman John Sawyer, part of a 6-1 vote to deny an appeal by San Rafael resident Mina Sohaei and attorney Scot Candell to open a 500-client dispensary on the southwest corner of Petaluma Hill Road and Barham Avenue.

El Paso Times, 09 Feb 2010 - EL PASO -- A resolution sponsored by city Reps. Steve Ortega and Beto O'Rourke would condemn the drug-related violence in Juarez and request that both the U.S. and Mexican governments take stronger action to end it. The resolution also calls for the legalization of marijuana and having the U.S. government regulate and tax its sale. This has been a personal issue of O'Rourke's for several years.

The Chatham Daily News, 09 Feb 2010 - Bridgetown - Justice Minister Rob Nicholson plans to reintroduce his get-tough-on-crime Bill C-15 to the Senate this spring. Nicholson told reporters Monday there is a better chance of having the bill passed as a result of the recent appointment of Bob Runciman and others to the Senate.

Vancouver Sun, 09 Feb 2010 - Synthetic Form Of The Drug Shows A Negative Effect In High Doses Marijuana does not appear to improve memory or reverse effects of Alzheimer's disease, according to a University of B.C. study done on mice bred to have genetic mutations for the disease.

Los Angeles Times, 09 Feb 2010 - Pancho Real's Chilling, Detailed Testimony Chronicles His Rise From Reluctant Killer to Shot Caller Pancho Real was at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church with his wife and daughter one Sunday in October 2006 when his cellphone rang.

The Orange County Register, 09 Feb 2010 - LAGUNA WOODS--The Golden Rain Foundation Board voted unanimously to ban Laguna Woods Village residents from growing medical marijuana in community garden centers last week in a closed session meeting. GRF said, by way of a press release from community manager PCM, its legal counsel Hart, King & Coldren advised against allowing medical marijuana to grow in open garden centers because it could put the community at risk for potential criminal activity.

El Paso Times, 08 Feb 2010 - For about $40 a week, teenagers and young men watched roads in the Valley of Juarez looking out for police, the Mexican army or unfamiliar vehicles from a rival drug cartel. For the same pay, they also carried out kidnappings and murders.

Summit Daily News, 08 Feb 2010 - DENVER (AP) - Medical marijuana dispensary owners lined up before 7:30 a.m. Monday to apply for operating licenses. Penny May, Denver's director of excise and licenses, said her office had processed 22 licenses by 11:30 a.m., with many more to go. May said as of a week ago, 477 sales tax licenses had been issued to medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver.

Nanaimo Daily News, 08 Feb 2010 - Criminals are becoming more creative in their quest to hide marijuana-growing operations, say police and an expert in the clandestine drug trade in B.C. Underground urban bunkers housing thousands of pot plants were raided in Nanaimo when police swarmed five properties in one day last month.

Nanaimo Daily News, 08 Feb 2010 - Mounties Encounter More Sophisticated Grow-Ops Marijuana is one of the largest funding sources to organized crime, according to an expert in the drug trade in B.C. As many as 10,000 marijuna-growing operations can thrive on any given day in B.C. and criminals will go to great lengths to hide them.

The Mail Tribune, 08 Feb 2010 - ASHLAND -- The man who opened the nation's first "pot club" for medical marijuana users will come to town Tuesday to speak in favor of legalizing marijuana. Dennis Peron, known as the "father of medical marijuana," supports across-the-board legalization of marijuana. In a telephone interview, he said enforcing existing laws costs the criminal justice system a fortune.

Edmonton Sun, 07 Feb 2010 - CALGARY - Cops say recent cases of people hospitalized after using cocaine tainted with a dangerous veterinary drug is another reminder illicit substances come with no quality-control. Winnipeg health officials blame cocaine tainted with levamisole, a chemical compound developed to treat intestinal worms, for sending two individuals to hospital with a potentially fatal illness over the past two weeks.

Whittier Daily News, 07 Feb 2010 - LA PUENTE - With a new law regulating medical marijuana dispensaries set to take effect this week, potential owners are rushing to get in before it's too late. If their applications are approved before Friday's deadline, the number of dispensaries in La Puente would nearly double, essentially rendering the city's new cap on them outdated.

The Calgary Sun, 07 Feb 2010 - Calgary cops say recent cases of people hospitalized after using cocaine tainted with a dangerous veterinary drug is another reminder illicit substances come with no quality-control. Winnipeg health officials blame cocaine tainted with levamisole, a chemical compound developed to treat intestinal worms, for sending the two individuals to hospital with a potentially fatal illness over the past two weeks.

Denver Post, 07 Feb 2010 - Until a few months ago, J.B. Woods was your standard-issue insurance agent. Auto, home, life. Would you like flood coverage with that? Then, in the middle of 2009, his phone rang: "I need insurance for my medical-marijuana dispensary," the caller said. And since that moment, few of the policies Woods has set up for clients have been standard-issue.