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Stash for Fri, Apr 29, 2011

April 30, 2011   Marijuana News

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  1. DEA raids at least five dispensaries in Spokane, Washington
  2. The ACLU takes up the appeal of Joseph Casias, the Wal-Mart worker fired for medical marijuana use
  3. Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the nation’s first statewide pot ban in Massachusetts

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  • Kevin Oliver from Washington NORML recorded live yesterday at the THC Pharmacy being raided by DEA
  • Steph Sherer from Americans for Safe Access

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Obama’s Marijuana Fail

April 30, 2011   Marijuana

united-statesLast Wednesday, April 20, President Barack Obama made an appearance in Northern California on the most marijuana-friendly day of the year, 4/20.  That same day, cannabis-patient-advocacy group Americans for Safe Access delivered Obama’s marijuana report card.  And, no, the president didn’t smoke it.

He earned an F.

“The report card highlights broken promises, half-measures, and a general failure by the Obama Administration to address medical marijuana as a national public health issue,” read the report by ASA.  Specifically, ASA cited a 2009 Department of Justice memo, which urged federal prosecutors to deprioritize enforcement efforts in medical-marijuana-friendly states-but that “100 aggressive, SWAT-style raids on patients, growers, dispensaries and laboratories in California, Colorado, Michigan, Montana and Nevada” have occurred since that very ‘09 memo.

Still, this week, Obama has a chance at redemption: Next Monday, May 2, Dr.  Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, will turn themselves in at downtown’s federal courthouse to serve five years for growing medical marijuana at their home in Cool.

The couple was not allowed to invoke Proposition 215 or California’s medical-cannabis laws during their trial.

Fry and Schafer, who leave behind five children and two grandchildren, are petitioning Obama for clemency, asking that their sentence be commuted.

The couple was arrested seven days after the 9/11 attacks.

Source: Sacramento News & Review (CA)
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Author: Nick Miller

Other Posts of Interest:

  1. Does Obama Support Legal Pot or Not?
  2. If California Legalizes Marijuana, How Will Obama React?
  3. Time for Obama to tackle medicinal marijuana
  4. Steve Kubby: ‘First Obama DEA raid in California: Change?’

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Zune HD Apps Now Available in Canada

April 30, 2011   MP3 News

By: William Devereux on April 30, 2011 9:06 pm

Microsoft officially released the Zune HD in Canada a few months ago. Unfortunately, the App Marketplace was inaccessible to Canadian customers, leaving them without apps for their new device. Not anymore. 

A fan of the Zune Insider podcast brought the issue to the hosts’ attention, prompting Jessica Zahn to talk with the catalog team. On April 26, 2011, they flipped the switch. All forty-four apps are now available for Canadian Zune HD owners.

For the full details on how this happened, check out Zune Insider #114. It’s the very first topic on the show.

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Bear trapped after wandering in Poughkeepsie (KTRK)

April 30, 2011   Odd News

A young black bear is headed back to the wilderness after wandering through
the city streets of Poughkeepsie


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Young Kids’ Prescriptions Not Always on the Mark

April 30, 2011   Drug News

SATURDAY, April 30 — After reviewing more than 50,000 prescriptions for narcotic-containing drugs given to kids up to age 3, researchers found that about 4 percent were given an overdose.

The rate was much higher among the youngest babies, the study found.

“Almost one in 10 of the youngest infants, ages 0 to 2 months, received more than twice the dose that they should have received based on their age, gender and a conservative estimate of their weight,” the study’s lead researcher, Dr. William T. Basco Jr., director of the division of general pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, said in a news release from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“Since we know that parents have difficulty measuring doses of liquid medication accurately,” Basco said, “it is critical to strive for accurate narcotic prescribing by providers and dispensing by pharmacies.”

The researchers analyzed the prescriptions of 19 drugs given to children enrolled in Medicaid from 2000 to 2006. They calculated the proper daily dose of each drug — based on a child’s weight, age and sex — and examined whether they got the correct dose.

The youngest kids were most likely to get an overdose of a drug, Basco said. Among children who were younger than 2 months, about four in 10 received an overdose. The percentage of overdoses was 3 percent in kids older than a year, the study found.

The overdoses were significantly higher than the proper doses — for an average child, for instance, about 42 percent larger than they should have been, the study reported.

Narcotic drugs such as codeine and hydrocodone can be dangerous for infants and children because of their sedative effects, the researchers noted.

The findings were to be presented Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver. Experts note that research presented at a meeting should be considered preliminary because it has not been subjected to the rigorous scrutiny given to research published in medical journals.

More information

The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has more on medication safety for children.

Posted: April 2011

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