Showing 6 results for cannabis
Free the Evil Weed? When I was a young court reporter here in the early 1960s, I covered a trial where a middle-aged man was accused of (gasp!) possessing half a joint. His old lady ratted him out and cops-North County, as I recall-found a half-smoked marijuana cigarette in his robe. The jury found him guilty and the judge sent him to prison.
Mollie gets hyped about Election Day and how Measure P, the initiative aimed at making marijuana the lowest priority for the cops, might affect Isla Vista life.
Thu., June 8
Surf to Pink Floyd: S.B. Maritime Museum screens Crystal Voyager, by local surf pioneer George Greenough. 7pm. 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 190. Call 962-8404.
Sat., June 10
Ocean Advocates: Channelkeeper trains volunteers to help monitor local watersheds. 9-11am. Watershed Resource Center, Arroyo Burro Beach. RSVP Ben@sbck.org.
Physician David Bearman filed suit against the California Medical Board last month for attorney’s fees and pain and suffering stemming from a marijuana prescription case the board brought against him two years ago.
Halos have long adorned the heads of saints, but in the case of the late Robert Randall – the compassionate angel anointed by bad luck and good timing to launch the modern medical marijuana movement – the halos hovered in his eyes. Due to a rare type of glaucoma that began in his youth, Bob couldn’t see very well, particularly at night, when streetlights would be surrounded by halos. Halos are the common symptom of severe though painless pressure on the optic nerve, which is what glaucoma – nicknamed the “sneak thief of sight” – victims experience until blindness sets in.
Twenty years ago, the notion that hundreds of doctors, nurses, patients, lawyers, and curious citizens would gather in a drab conference room to see scientists present research papers and hear physicians discuss the therapeutic benefits of marijuana was little more than a stoner’s fantasy. But in 2006, 10 years after Californians started a national trend by voting to allow sick people to smoke, eat, or otherwise imbibe marijuana to ease their pains, this notion is a reality-and it’s happening this April here in Santa Barbara.
