Cannabis News on 2nd November, 2005

• Blair warned over cannabis law change
  Michael Howie, The Scotsman
  

  THE world’s leading advocate for drugs reform last night urged Tony Blair to resist toughening the law on cannabis.

• Lords won't hear my cannabis bid
  Carl Butler, The North Wales Daily Post
  

  NORTH Wales cannabis campaigner Jeffrey Ditchfield yesterday said law lords were refusing to hear his final appeal.

• Pass the weed, Dad
  Marni Jackson, Macleans - Toronto
  

  Parents are smoking dope with their kids. What are they thinking?

• Pot Measure Wafts To Victory
  Alan Gathright, Rocky Mountain News
  

  A measure that would legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana in Denver was approved by voters Tuesday, following a heated campaign that saw pot backers accused of exploiting residents’ fear of crime.

• Medical Marijuana Up in Smoke
  Caelan MacTavish, The Daily Vanguard
  

  As if the U.S. “war on drugs” was not absurd enough, a lawsuit filed in September has now proclaimed its first marijuana-related casualty. Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic, was sentenced in 2004 to a 10-day jail sentence in Washington, DC for possession of one joint. He died four days into his sentence.

• Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year
  U.S. Newswire, Press Release
  

  As scores of leading American companies that make and sell a wide variety of consumer and manufacturing components made from hemp seed, oil and fiber meet in San Francisco November 3-4, new market research shows that many of these companies are experiencing strong growth in sales.