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WAVY News 10 at 5 p.m., 1-18-2010

This past week or so, a story about Rep.  Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, introducing legislation to legalize marijuana appeared in newspapers.  The movement to legalize marijuana isn’t new, and I can’t say I’m surprised.  But I was surprised to hear our local radio station running a survey on the legislative proposal to legalize marijuana.  [...]

Colorado — Gov. Bill Ritter, in his last State of the State address on Thursday, urged lawmakers to regulate medical marijuana, which is legal in Colorado. This was met with profane resistance from a pro-pot lawyer — saying lawmakers should, in essence, be kissing the pot advocates` cheeks, and not the ones on their faces. [...]

Medical Marijuana bill introduced for the first time in decades.

By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER – The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed the federal government appeal, which means Insite, the Vancouver supervised injection site that was the first of its kind in the country, will remain open. The federal government is expected to appeal today’s ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada. Insite [...]

Seattle, WA — Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing all marijuana-possession cases, starting with those that were already under way under the old city attorney. City Attorney Pete Holmes, who beat incumbent Tom Carr in November, said he dismissed two marijuana-related cases in his first day on the job, and several others are about to [...]

Police Pot Raids Generate Complaints From Residents “Ambiguous” wording in Hawaii County’s so-called “Peaceful Sky” law needs rectifying because it’s hampering the Police Commission’s work, says the panel’s chairman. The voter-approved initiative that took effect in November 2008 requires police to give the lowest enforcement priority to people at least 21 years old who grow, [...]

A retired academic who once called for cannabis to be legalised was appointed yesterday as the Government’s new adviser on the harm caused by drugs. Les Iversen, a former pharmacology professor at the University of Oxford, was made interim chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of [...]