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Hemp Headlines

1. California’s EPA rules cannabis smoke is a carcinogen
2. Gun battle over marijuana plants leaves grower dead, two police wounded
3. Garden Grove, Calif. spends a quarter million dollars over eight grams of medical marijuana

Celebstoner Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom

• Report on MPP Party at the Playboy Mansion, the Los Angeles THC Expo, and a Santonio Holmes update

Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards

• It’s a Rap Friday – ‘Toke’ by Prophecy

Cannabis Conversations

• Exclusive interview with Corina Amato of Baltimore, Maryland, victim of a police terror raid where her dog was murdered in her bedroom and her entire home was demolished.  No marijuana was found, but police were told there would be some by a snitch, and a judge signed off on the warrant.

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Who doesn’t love a good dog story?

SEATTLE – It could be said that Jack, an 11-year-old black Lab mix, has learned to say no to drugs. “He was just… stoned,” said owner Jen Nestor Waddell.

Jack ran off the main trail during a visit May 12 to Seward Park on the southeast end of Lake Washington, said Nestor Waddell, but he came back in about 3 minutes. About 3 hours later at home, Jack started exhibiting, well, strange symptoms.

“His eyes were kind of glossed over, very out of touch, I mean, he didn’t seem to recognize me at first,” Nestor Waddell said. “When he was trying to walk, he was looking at his paw, and then looking at the ground and then trying to get his paw to reach the ground, but was unsuccessful.” Concern for Jack turned to relief when she heard the vet’s diagnosis: Jack had swallowed a large amount of dried, harvested marijuana.

Some medication to induce vomiting, charcoal to absorb the chemicals, and a night of rest had Jack back to normal.

“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else’s dog, because it’s scary and expensive – or a child? – so we did call the police,” said Nestor Waddell, who joked: “I was going to tell the cops that they could borrow him, if they pay my vet bill, to find the marijuana, but they weren’t that into chatting with me about it.”

That vet bill, they said, also turned out to be a $1500 lesson in keeping their dog on-leash while walking in the park, something they say the plan to do from now on.

Roscotelli "Smelly Felly" "Semicolon Puckerbutt" "Nutstomper" "Boobsquisher" Sanchez-Gomez-Rodriguez-Ramirez Coltrane (a.k.a. "Roscoe P. Coltrane"), official dog of the Stash

For those stashers who have K9 friends, Marijuana can be toxic to dogs. Our furry friends don’t metabolize the chemicals in Marijuana like humans and it can be toxic. I’ve spoken with various organizations and veterinarians over the years and there hasn’t been a threshold level established due to the various potency levels of Marijuana, and the different types and sizes of dogs. Some appear to have more of a tolerance than others, but this is certainly a field that needs to be studied more.

Just remember, what’s good for you, isn’t necessarily good for your dog.

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“You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963

Today our nation honors what would’ve been this week the eightieth birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of these United States.  I was sixty-four days old when an assassin’s bullet cut down Dr. King in the prime of his life.  Today I am six-hundred forty days older than Dr. King when he was killed.  Tomorrow I will see something few people my age and older thought we’d ever see, yet something Dr. King had dreamed from the start.

There remains a grave injustice to be battled, the most unjust of laws to be disobeyed, a law that by its definition is not rooted in eternal law and natural law: the man made code that declares nature itself to be illegal, the prohibition on cannabis.  Yet when I mention marijuana law reform in the context of the great civil rights struggles in America, so many are quick to dismiss me with snickers of derision.  ”You just want pot legal so you can get high!” is a common refrain.

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