California's 'ganja guru' vows conviction appeal
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California's "ganja guru" will not have to go to jail but still plans to appeal felony marijuana convictions with the aim of renewing a courtroom fight over state and federal laws that are sharply at odds.
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BBC Radio 1 DJ Grooverider has today been jailed for four years in Dubai for possession of cannabis. By John Plunkett and agencies
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Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, the Californian convicted of fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute Lindh&#39;s 20-year prison sentence.
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr.
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Michael Vick tested positive for marijuana Sept 13. and will have his behavior further monitored by the federal court system as he awaits a December sentencing date.
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A security driver who has won his appeal against a robbery conviction says he will keep on fighting if a retrial is ordered.
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A Montana mother who allowed her   18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water   pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should   not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court   ruled on Friday.
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The man convicted of murdering teacher Jane Longhurst is due to hear if his appeal has been successful.
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Medical marijuana advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding California Highway Patrol officers stop confiscating pot from authorized users.
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SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger expects to win legislative approval next week for Nevada-style gambling in the East Bay, clearing the way for one of the world&#39;s largest casinos and the first urban Indian ...
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A grandmother has been convicted of possessing the drug. Should people be allowed to use cannabis for medicinal purposes?
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OAKLAND, Calif. A legal challenge by four Northern California residents over the federal government&#39;s prosecution of medical marijuana patients is scheduled to be heard by the US Supreme Court Monday.
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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - A California man admits he hired a taxi driver to drive him and his concealed stash of more than 100 pounds of marijuana cross-country when they were stopped by a sheriff's deputy in Arkansas last year...
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Prosecutors dropped a marijuana possession charge against Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony on Wednesday, saying it would be tough to get a conviction after a friend claimed the drug was his, not Anthony's.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld an 2002 injunction barring three California marijuana clubs from giving the drug to medical patients with a prescription. The ruling by judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Justice Department, which first sued the dispensaries in 1998 to stop sales of medical marijuana to patients with a doctorâs approval, as allowed under a California law approved by voters in 1996. The law has been at the heart of a series of legal battles over state and federal drug laws, which categorize marijuana as illegal. The ruling was likely the last legal recourse for the clubs. In 2001, the United States Supreme Court heard the case and ruled against the California cooperatives.
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California&#39;s self-described &quot;spokespatient&quot; for medical marijuana watched the Supreme Court debate her case Monday, then pleaded publicly for the justices to allow her and other sick people to continue using the drug.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.  - Oklahoma City bombing  conspirator Terry Nichols will not appeal the 161 murder  convictions and life sentences he received in a state trial for  the 1995 blast, his lawyer said on Thursday.