Archive for October, 2009

Oct 19 2009

Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

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Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
(AP)

Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle. The marijuana is distributed to members of a cooperative of medical patients who have received doctor's authorization to use the drug to treat their illnesses, such as AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Unlike several other states which permit marijuana sales to patients, Washington requires patients to grow marijuana themselves or designate a caregiver to grow it for them. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP – Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.

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Oct 19 2009

Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

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Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
(AP)

Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle. The marijuana is distributed to members of a cooperative of medical patients who have received doctor's authorization to use the drug to treat their illnesses, such as AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Unlike several other states which permit marijuana sales to patients, Washington requires patients to grow marijuana themselves or designate a caregiver to grow it for them. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP – Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.

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Oct 19 2009

Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

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Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
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Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle. The marijuana is distributed to members of a cooperative of medical patients who have received doctor's authorization to use the drug to treat their illnesses, such as AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Unlike several other states which permit marijuana sales to patients, Washington requires patients to grow marijuana themselves or designate a caregiver to grow it for them. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP – Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.

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Oct 19 2009

Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

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Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
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Marijuana plants are shown Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Seattle. The marijuana is distributed to members of a cooperative of medical patients who have received doctor's authorization to use the drug to treat their illnesses, such as AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Unlike several other states which permit marijuana sales to patients, Washington requires patients to grow marijuana themselves or designate a caregiver to grow it for them. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP – Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.

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Oct 18 2009

Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga (AP)

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Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga
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Larimer County Sheriff Department officers remove several boxes and a computer while executing a search warrant on the Richard Heene home Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/Will Powers)AP – A sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in Colorado’s “balloon boy” saga, which first sparked fear for the child, then relief that he was OK and now suspicions of a hoax.

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Oct 17 2009

Intel: Offensive starts in Pakistan tribal area (AP)

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Intel: Offensive starts in Pakistan tribal area
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People carry a person injured by a suicide attack in Peshawar, Pakistan  on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a mosque next to a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing more than 10 people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror that has hit the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)AP – Pakistan launched a much-awaited ground offensive in the al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan early Saturday, officials told The Associated Press, the toughest test yet in the nuclear-armed U.S. ally’s struggle against militants aiming to topple the state.


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