FEATURING DR. ROBERT MELAMEDE AND RICHARD COWANDECRIMINALIZE POT, COMMONS COMMITTEE ARGUESSeveral members on the House of Commons committee said in interviews that they favour eliminating a law that can saddle people with a criminal record for smoking marijuana.

Cannabis Victory Garden Nears CompletionDEA DEFENDS MEDPOT RAIDSSan Diego DEA Chief complains to local paper: "The DEA is viewed by proponents of Proposition 215 as non-compassionate people who target ill patients for investigation. This could not be further from the truth. In fact, the men and women of the DEA are very compassionate people who…make our communities a safer place to live."

DEA Publicly Refuses to Recognize State Medpot LawsOTTAWA WILL CONSIDER DECRIMA spokesman for B.C. Marijuana Party president Marc Emery described the Throne Speech reference as "positive," but noted that the party advocates full-scale legalization as opposed to decriminalization.

FEATURING VIDEO OF BRIAN EPIS DEMONSTRATIONSISTER SOMAYAH RAIDED/SNATCHEDInglewood, CA Sept 26- Sister Somayah Kambui of the Hemp is Hep Project, a self-help center for sickle cell patients in Inglewood was arrested by undercover narks in unmarked SUVs, later identified as LAPD.

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." --H.L. MenckenMARIJUANA PARTY LEADER GETS 6 YEARS

Steph Sherer and others arrested protesting DEA raids.PROTESTERS RALLY FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA USEOver 1,200 Californians locked arm-in-arm at their state capitol to support medical marijuana -- more activists and sick people arrested.

NATIONAL OUTRAGE OVER DEA/WAMM RAIDSACRAMENTO BEE BLASTS DEA RAIDSEditorial asserts DEA medical pot raids help drug traffickers.MEDICAL MARIJUANA ARMAGEDDON"It's Armageddon time for medical marijuana in California," said Dale Gieringer, head of California NORML Thursday evening. "This may take years to play out, but the battle lines are drawn."

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OUTRAGE OVER WAMM RAID CONTINUES!UK GUARDIAN SUPPORTS WAMMThe U.S. government "has adopted an aggressive policy towards medical marijuana projects, diverting agents from work on crack cocaine and heroin."USA TODAY SIDES WITH WAMM AGAINST DEA"The raid is the latest, perhaps most controversial collision of federal law and the nation's growing medical marijuana movement."

Pot war heats up while Lockyer fiddlesS.F. VOTERS WANT CITY TO GROW MEDPOTA San Francisco ballot measure to have the city consider growing and distributing medical marijuana has enormous support, a new poll shows. The idea -- on the city's November ballot as Proposition S -- could inspire other cities to do the same.