January and February: The Year began with the Cops Killing a Mother and Dog Police are using these paramilitary raids more than 100 times a day, often on simple possession of non-violent people; dogs are ruthlessly killed because of the war on this plant.
(note that the only marijuana found in this family home had to be scraped from a pipe, and the father was charged with child endangerment…What about the cops shooting weapons in a child’s room, and what about the permanent emotional scars to this child from these cops!)
…and then there was this next story that led to a lot of accusations from drug policy reformers that police shoot way too many innocent people in overly-aggressive drug raids. You may recall that this case in which the officer claimed that he opened fire on Tarika because he was startled by gunshots downstairs. Those shots were fired by his own fellow officers as they killed the family’s dogs. Tarika Wilson literally lost her life because a cop was freaked out by gunfire from another cop. Oh, and her baby daughter also got shot.
but February also had more SCIENCE coming out to support the anti-cancer properties that new findings are revealing…
February 2010: Medical marijuana news. Cannabidiol stops the spread of breast cancer
February also brought another major study that shows the medical uses for cannabis. This study lasted ten years and costs 9 million dollars. http://blog.mpp.org/medical-marijuana/more-proof-that-marijuana-is-medicine/02172010/The studies, funded by CMCR under the mandate of a 1999 legislative action, found that marijuana is particularly helpful in relieving pain associated with nerve damage and in treating the muscle spasticity from multiple sclerosis.
March found the ever fearful DEA sensing that cannabis is about to be used religiously arrested a minister in Hawaii, Roger Christie, who is becoming well known for using spiritual sacrament with his congregation. (note of interest Roger is still awaiting bail 9 months later)…here Roger gives instruction on how to make Holy Anointing Oil .
Speaking of the ridiculous Drug War Prisoners, other notable new prisoners for 2010 include…
Eddie Lepp
Marc Emery
John Wilson
Charles Lynch
April 2010: Federal Judge Suggests U.S. Change Anti-Marijuana Law
In sentencing a California pot shop owner to a year behind bars on federal charges of cultivating and selling marijuana, a U.S. district court judge based in Los Angeles suggested that the federal government change marijuana’s outlaw status.
Judge George H. Wu was very sympathetic to the plight of 47-year-old Charles Lynch, who was convicted in 2008 after federal authorities moved against his Morro Bay dispensary despite his bending over backwards to abide by California’s medical marijuana law. “Individuals such as Lynch are caught in the middle of the shifting positions of governmental authorities” vis-a-vis pot, the judge wrote.
Lynch was also caught in between presidential administrations: After Barack Obama took office he ordered the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to stand down on enforcing federal drug laws in states where medical marijuana is legal.
Wu wrote that (PDF) “ … much of the problems [in the Lynch case] could be ameliorated…by the reclassification of marijuana from Schedule I,” which is the government’s highest, outlaw-drug category.
Also In April… The Hemperer, Jack Herer passed on. Jack was considered the father of the modern Hemp movement, and he was a writer and researcher who wrote The Emperor Wears No Clothes. He was an activist for the wonders of Hemp plant until the last moments of his life, collapsing on stage having just given a Pro Hemp speech at the Seattle Hemp Fest. Jack will be missed by the many of us who admired him, RIP.
and another milestone… April 2010: 5 Years After: Portugal’s Drug Decrim
May brought a 30 year scientific finding about Cannabis… May 2010: Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection
June: Study of Cannabis being medically helpful for babies! Cannabis Reduces Infant Mortality
but the Prohibition War goes on… June 2010: A Record 85 killed yesterday
July 2010: The Veterans Administration will formally allow vets to use medical marijuana if they live in the (now 15 States and the District Of Columbia) that allow it.
In August Prescription drug deaths were skyrocketing…
http://wvgazette.com/News/TheKillerCure/200608130006
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HealingRegeneration/html/AccidentalDeathPrescriptio.html
September 2010: I liked it when this country singer Colt Jackson was came out for weed:
October and November…then came Proposition 19 to Legalize, Tax and Regulate Cannabis in California for adults over 21 years old…
Pot Was Smoked On National TV
Past Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders says to Legalize Marijuana
Retired Judge and many retired police came out in favor (note that the video turns to Prop 19 at about 5:oo)…
Conservatives come out…
Pretty Girls came out for Prop 19 too ( note that some really good info starts coming out at about 3:50 into the video)…
3,500,000 Californians said YES!, making 46% of the vote, this was so much more than in 1969 only 12% said yes to legalizing.
November: Arizona Becomes the 15th Medical Marijuana state…and… Washington DC becomes a Medical marijuana District in the November election!
November 2010: 30 Facts About Arizona’s New Medical Marijuana Law
Also in November The Border Patrol Arrested Willie Nelson keeping us all a little safer…Here is what Snoop Dogg thinks about that…
December 2010: New Mexico Approves Addition Plants For Growers
And to wind up the year Pat Robinson gives decriminalization his blessing…December 2010: Pat Robinson Favors Marijuana decriminalization
It’s been quite a year for the Cannabis and Marijuana Law Reform Movement…wishing us all a great New Year, keep on pressing on…blessings to you.
Ray Pague
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