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By Harry Harris and William Brand, Staff Writers
Article Last Updated: 07/24/2008 02:49:11 PM PDThttp://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9983491
OAKLAND _ Police broke up one of the largest marijuana growing operations they've seen in recent years, raiding three homes Wednesday night and seizing more than $225,000 cash, arresting four people and confiscating $60,000 worth of marijuana.
It was a bust that extended to Mendocino County where some of the marijuana was grown. Police said the suspected ringleader, Theodore Christos, 29. grew marijuana on property he owns in Mendocino County and at a house in the Oakland hills where 151 young plants were seized at a house Christos owns in the 500 block of Crestmont Drive.
Oakland Police Sgt. Oritz said all the marijuana transactions were made at a house in the 1000 block of 56th Street in North Oakland. Christos kept records of his sales at his home in the 3500 block of Harrison St.
Sgt. Ortiz, who supervises Problem-Solving Officer Unit 2, said the investigation started a few months ago, based on information developed by the unit's Officers Ercivan Martin and Marcel Patterson. They discovered that Christos was distributing huge amounts of marijuana. Surveillance led to the raids Wednesday night at the three Oakland sites.
Ortiz said Christos was arrested at the 56th Street residence as he sold 15 pounds of harvested marijuana to a man who turned out to be wanted on criminal charges in Florida. He was identified as Daniel Bradien, 32.
Police also arrested two men at the grow site on Crestmont. Their names were not immediately released. Police also found a revolver at the Crestmont house.
Police believe Christos was selling the marijuana for at least $2,000 a pound.
Sgt. Ortiz said Christos had been "rolling underneath the radar" for some time. Christos was arrested on suspicion of cultivation of marijuana, possession for sale and for sales of marijuana.
Oakland police have also contacted the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. That agency is expected to take over the case.
The grow site on Crestmont was very sophisticated, with the latest watering and lighting technology. But the plants were basically seedlings, police said.. Ortiz believes the pot being sold was grown in Mendocino. Authorities in Mendocino have also been contacted.
Cops return medical-marijuana files taken in raid — but not the pot
Seattle police returned hundreds of patient files and a computer hard drive to Martin Martinez Thursday evening, two days after they raided his University District storefront where he runs a collective and outreach group for medical-marijuana patients.
By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times staff reporter
Martin Martinez won't be charged. Related Unjust Bust
Seattle police returned hundreds of patient files and a computer hard drive to Martin Martinez Thursday evening, two days after they raided his University District storefront where he runs a collective and outreach group for medical-marijuana patients.
Prosecutors have told Martinez he won't face any charges and the investigation is now closed.
"Nothing is going to happen. It's done," said Douglas Hiatt, Martinez's lawyer, who went to the Seattle Police Department Thursday to pick up the files and other belongings.
But police have so far refused to return about 12 ounces of marijuana and two bongs seized during Tuesday's bust, Hiatt said.
According to Hiatt, a police-department attorney has promised that the drugs and water pipes won't be destroyed until Hiatt can raise the issue with King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg or take the matter to court.
"It's really the principle — if you have the legal right to have something, the police shouldn't be able to take it away from you and not give it back," Hiatt said.
Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for Satterberg, confirmed the files' return and that Martinez would not face criminal charges but referred questions about the seized marijuana to Seattle police, who couldn't be reached Thursday.
In a written statement, Satterberg said police "acted appropriately" and were right to seize items from Martinez because "they reasonably believed that they showed an effort to distribute marijuana in violation of state law."
But the statement also acknowledges that Martinez, who suffered severe neurological damage in a motorcycle accident in 1986, "is authorized to possess marijuana for medical purposes," and that the amount of pot seized by police was arguably within the 60-day supply limit the state medical-marijuana law provides.
Seattle police searched Martinez's office on Northeast 50th Street after neighbors complained of a strong odor of pot in the building. After obtaining a search warrant, they carted off the pot and the files, which included detailed medical histories and medical-marijuana prescriptions. They also broke down part of a wall in search of marijuana plants. They didn't find any.
Lawyer Wants Troopers to Prove Pot-Sniffing Abilities
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
AP Newswire
CALHOUN, Ga. — The lawyer for a man accused of having 10 pounds of marijuana said something about the arrest smells. He wants two Georgia State Patrol troopers to prove they can sniff out pot tied up in a trash bag inside a car trunk.
If troopers Jeff Adamson and Kevin Turner are unable to repeat the feat with a random car in the Gordon County courthouse parking lot, attorney David West says the evidence against Jarmane Vernon Knox should be suppressed for lack of probable cause for a search.
West says: "If these officers really think they are human drug dogs, let's put them to the test."
Knox and passenger Derrick Mikes were stopped on Interstate 75, initially because the license plate tag light was out.
NORCO - You may not be able to dispense medical marijuana here, but you can learn about it.
"Marijuana: Compassion and Common Sense," a local cable show, began airing in Norco and Riverside in June.
"We're trying to tell the people about the benefits of the medical marijuana," said host and medical-marijuana advocate Lanny Swerdlow. "Humans have been using marijuana for over 5,000 years, and it was always seen as a medicine. But 70 years ago, suddenly, this became this dirty drug."
Swerdlow said the show's purpose is educational.
In September, Norco's City Council amended its zoning code by a 3-1 vote to prohibit medical-marijuana dispensaries. Claremont and Chino have taken similar actions.
Ken Andersen of Corona, who operated the medical-marijuana dispensary Collective Solution before it was banned by Norco, said he was glad the show was airing locally.
"Anything to put the eye of medical marijuana out to the world, anything that can further awareness is good," Andersen said.
Every episode of the show includes discussion of recent issues medical-marijuana issues and interviews with local advocates and politicians.
Aside from producing and hosting the show, Swerdlow runs the Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project, a support group for medical-marijuana patients that holds monthly meetings throughout the Inland Empire. He also hosts a radio show every week on the same topic.
The cable show started three years ago in the Coachella Valley.
Swerdlow said he hopes to expand to more cities in the Inland Empire. The half-hour show airs Tuesday nights at 8 on Channel 32 in Norco.
Newsom Officially Explores Run For Calif. Governor
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SAN FRANCISCO
(CBS 5 / AP) ― San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is ending the speculation over whether he is considering a run for governor in 2010.
Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage early in his first term, filed papers Tuesday afternoon to form an exploratory committee so he can start raising money and conducting polls for a possible gubernatorial campaign.
If he ends up entering the race, one of the 40-year-old Newsom's opponents for the Democratic nomination could be a man 30 years his senior. Attorney General Jerry Brown, previously served as the state's governor from 1975 to 1983, has said he is contemplating trying to reclaim the job.
On the Republican side expect Steve Poizner, Insurance Commissioner and perhaps outgoing eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
June 24, 2008
A compound in marijuana may be a potent anti-inflammatory agent that won't get people high, scientists say.
The finding could be a boon to sufferers of arthritis, cirrhosis, and other diseases. Existing drugs can be less effective for some people and can carry side effects, from stomach ulcers to increased risk of heart attacks.
Marijuana supporters have long argued that the plant's active ingredients, known as cannabinoids, are safe and effective treatments for pain, nausea, and other ailments.
The most active cannabinoid—delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC—is known to have anti-inflammatory properties. But it is also responsible for the plant's psychotropic effects.
Now researchers say that another cannabinoid, called beta-caryophyllene, or (E)-BCP, helps combat inflammation without affecting the brain.
(E)-BCP is already part of many people's daily diets, the researchers note. Foods that are particularly high in the compound include black pepper, oregano, basil, lime, cinnamon, carrots, and celery.
Seems the rumors are true. Busts all over the area, here's a couple reports. The FBI and DEA it seems are raiding and performing knock and talks. More info coming in.
Salmon Creek
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The bulk of the action seems to be down there.
Kym K has a photo of agents in Salmon Creek. Eric Kirk is monitoring KMUD. Busts in Redway, including one witnessed by Eric himself. Also there’s apparently a good deal of action out near Whale Gulch.
What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You
By: Paul Armentano
Posted June 24, 2008
04:20 PM (EST) Discussion in the forums
Senator Ted Kennedy is putting forward a brave face following his recent surgery but the sad reality remains. Even with successful surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, gliomas -- a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that strikes approximately 10,000 Americans annually -- tragically claim the lives of 75 percent of its victims within two years and virtually all within five years.
But what if there was an alternative treatment for gliomas that could selectively target the cancer while leaving healthy cells intact? And what if federal bureaucrats were aware of this treatment, but deliberately withheld this information from the public?
Sadly, the questions posed above are not entirely hypothetical. Let me explain.
In 2007, I reviewed over 150 published preclinical and clinical studies assessing the therapeutic potential of marijuana and several of its active compounds, known as cannabinoids. I summarized these numerous studies in a book, now in its third edition, entitled Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Review of the Scientific Literature. (NORML Foundation, 2008) One chapter in this book, which summarized the findings of more than 30 separate trials and literature reviews, was dedicated to the use of cannabinoids as potential anti-cancer agents, particularly in the treatment of gliomas.
Not familiar with this scientific research? Your government is.
In fact, the first experiment documenting pot's potent anti-cancer effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest federal bureaucrats. The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's primary psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
Despite these favorable preliminary findings (eventually published the following year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute), U.S. government officials refused to authorize any follow-up research until conducting a similar -- though secret -- preclinical trial in the mid-1990s. That study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to the tune of $2 million, concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long periods had greater protection against malignant tumors than untreated controls.
However, rather than publicize their findings, the U.S. government shelved the results, which only became public after a draft copy of its findings were leaked to the medical journal AIDS Treatment News, which in turn forwarded the story to the national media.
In the years since the completion of the National Toxicology trial, the U.S. government has yet to authorize a single additional study examining the drug's potential anti-cancer properties. (Federal permission is necessary in order to conduct clinical research on marijuana because of its illegal status as a schedule I controlled substance.)
Fortunately, in the past 10 years scientists overseas have generously picked up where U.S. researchers so abruptly left off, reporting that cannabinoids can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells -- including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and brain cancer. (An excellent paper summarizing much of this research, "Cannabinoids for Cancer Treatment: Progress and Promise," appears in the January 2008 edition of the journal Cancer Research.) A 2006 patient trial published in the British Journal of Cancer even reported that the intracranial administration of THC was associated with reduced tumor cell proliferation in humans with advanced glioblastoma.
Writing earlier this year in the scientific journal Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Italian researchers reiterated, "(C)annabinoids have displayed a great potency in reducing glioma tumor growth. (They) appear to be selective antitumoral agents as they kill glioma cells without affecting the viability of nontransformed counterparts." Not one mainstream media outlet reported their findings. Perhaps now they'll pay better attention.
What possible advancements in the treatment of cancer may have been achieved over the past 34 years had U.S. government officials chosen to advance -- rather than suppress -- clinical research into the anti-cancer effects of cannabis? It's a shame we have to speculate; it's even more tragic that the families of Senator Kennedy and thousands of others must suffer while we do.
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