4 May 2004 - Talk show host pushes pot for medical relief
Daytime television talk show host Montel Williams threw his support today behind legalizing medical marijuana in New York.
He says smoking pot helped him cope with multiple sclerosis.
Williams was diagnosed with the debilitating neurological disease in 1999. He says he uses cannabis every night before bed to relieve the pain in his legs and feet.
May 13, 2002 - MIAMI, Florida -- Legendary pop singer and "psychic friend" Dionne Warwick was arrested at Miami International Airport Sunday for possession of marijuana, police said.
Baggage screeners at Concourse D of the airport called for police help when they saw a suspicious item inside a carry-on bag belonging to Warwick, 61, a news release from a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department said.
The officers discovered 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes inside a lipstick container. She was charged with possessing marijuana totaling less than five grams, said the spokesman.
May 2002 - Because of his frailty, and epilepsy, Neil was wary of being dominated by drugs. He says he's never shot heroin or dropped acid. He's done his share of cocaine, but unlike Crosby and Stills he wasn't overwhelmed by it. Young says he remains addicted to marijuana, but "I try not to smoke too much. I don't wanna set a bad example for the kids."
Not just an adress in Holland, but the birthplace of a Dutch Phenomena, that is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year, the Dutch Hashcoffeeshop.The first ‘official’ hashoutlet in the world , the Mellow Yellow, was an initiative of Wernard Bruining and his friends, following a period of selling hash from an appartment, and turned out to be the first business in a mind-expanding branche, the cannabis-business.
