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Congrats PFlynn, may you have less difficulties with it than I did.

Long Beach has become the latest city caught in a crossfire between the state and federal governments over medical marijuana. Last week, federal Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) officials raided the Long Beach Cannabis Club, which is located downtown ( near a new condominium project and the...

Probably Dooms Future Attempts in Sonoma Valley The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 Tuesday afternoon to deny a pot club permit in the old Nicholas Turkey building just across the Ig Vella Bridge at 19445 Riverside Drive. Following nearly three hours of discussion and public...

^^ what have you done for ventilation?

NORWICH - There's something new for sale in Norwich. Since mid-November, Solstice Whole Foods & Herbs on South Broad Street has been selling clothing made of hemp, a crop that cannot legally be grown in the United States because it is related to marijuana. "It's been getting a lot of...

As background checks for volunteer recreation coaches become more and more common in New Jersey communities, one aspect in particular has begun to be debated. Should municipalities disqualify people from coaching because of a minor marijuana conviction in the past - even if New Jersey law...

Wonderful Job! You've solidified my desire to go HID even in a smaller set-up.

gorgeous stuff! What temps are your girls exposed too? Indoor? Outdoor? Day and Night?

Amazing

Gary Ross is a 45-year-old veteran living in Carmichael, near Sacramento, and until 2001, the mild-mannered father of two had been leading a productive life as a computer systems administrator, notwithstanding his chronic pain and spasms from a back injury sustained in 1983, while in the Air...

The United States is a nation governed by law at the federal, state and local levels. Sometimes these laws differ with each other. That's where the great principle of federalism comes in. Federalism permits state laws to be in conflict with each other, and even with the federal government...

On Nov. 16, a Star-Bulletin editorial declared, "Judge should halt DEA ban on hemp crops." The editors wisely noted that hemp is different from its distant cousin, marijuana, in that hemp contains only trace elements of the mind-altering chemical tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. The federal...

Lawrence Appeal Is One of Two Challenging Police Actions Topeka - Two minor drug cases, including one in Lawrence, have led to major constitutional questions before the Kansas Supreme Court over when police can search a person. The court will hear oral arguments at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in a...

Under our federalist system of government, the states, rather than the federal government, are entrusted to exercise a general police power for the benefit of their citizens. Due to this constitutional division of authority between the federal government and the states, the State of California...

Two Justice Reports Say Such Laws Don't Work Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is pressing ahead with plans to create mandatory minimum prison terms for drug crimes in spite of two studies prepared for the former Liberal government that say such laws don't work. A 2005 report prepared...