Although the memo begins, "Questions have been raised about the processing of certain marihuana arrests," a spokesman for the Police Department said that the order was not in response to any particular incident and that it did not represent any change in policy.
The memo says, "A crime will not be charged to an individual who is requested or compelled to engage in the behavior that results in the public display of marihuana".
The police statement also says that that he was "found to possess a small amount of marihuana [sic]".
Some conservative politicians in the southwest are calling for decriminalizing pot — the article, in the Texas Monthly, digs up congressional legend Sam Rayburn's reaction to one of the first marijuana bans: "It has something to do with a thing called marihuana.
When the Assembly passed a bill last week that legalized the "medical use of marihuana," copy editors across the state did a double take.
For instance, a standardized cannabis product known as CanniMed was developed for medical use in Canada under Health Canada's Medical Marihuana Access Regulations (MMAR), which were enacted in 2001.
Later, I find myself sucked back to 1972 in the Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum on frenetic Oudezijds Achterburgwal, on the edge of Amsterdam's red-light district.
(Or "marihuana," as the federal drug bureaucracy still insisted on spelling it).
Those "field notes" gathered at the strip clubs and night spots helped inspire a seminal paper of 1953, "Becoming a Marihuana User," in the American Journal of Sociology.
This was the first shop in Britain where it was possible to buy City Lights publications and peculiar magazines with titles such as the Marihuana Review and Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts.
In Canada, on July 30 2001, the Narcotic Control Regulations were amended and the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations came into force.
