ByAbby Slutsky
>The Journal Gazette
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Allen County police found more than 6,000 pounds of marijuana in a Harlan home early Thursday morning.
Matthew McChesney, 29, who rented the home at 22633 Antwerp Road, was arrested after police stopped him for speeding in the area of State Boulevard and Reed Street at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
When officers searched McChesney’s car, police said, they found more than 10 pounds of marijuana.
Police then served a search warrant at the home in Harlan shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday and found about 6,700 pounds of marijuana spread throughout the house, police said.
Officers also served search warrants at three other homes, all in Fort Wayne, that McChesney is believed to either own or be connected to but did not find a significant amount of drugs in them, Allen County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Stone said.
McChesney was taken to the Allen County Lockup where he is being held without bail, Stone said. He will most likely be facing federal charges.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Marijuana Legislation Dies in KS Senate Committee
Marijuana Legislation Dies in KS Senate Committee
Posted by CN Staff on March 03, 2008 at 04:39:22 PT
By Adrianne DeWeese
Source: Kansas State Collegian
Kansas -- A proposed bill in a Kansas Senate committee that would establish a medical marijuana defense act failed to advance further nearly three weeks after its introduction.
After testimony from supporters and opponents on Feb. 11, the Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies members chose to not advance the proposed bill to a stage of committee debate. The legislation is now considered "dead" for the 2007 Kansas legislative session, but those in favor and against the issue continue their debate and stances.
The Proposed Legislation
Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies vice chairman Pete Brungardt, R-Salina, said the proposed legislation died in committee Friday because of today's Kansas legislative session turnaround.
The legislature now is in the second year of its biennium, which means all proposed bills in either the Kansas House or Senate had to leave the Senate on or before Friday. An exception to the rule takes place if proposed legislation is introduced in the Ways or Means Committee or Federal State of Affairs, in which case the bill would have until the end of the legislative session, Brungardt said.
Health Strategies committee members had a general consent that more medically effective and legal drugs exist, Brungardt said, and the proposed legislation received no further debate or discussion in committee.
"The impression you get with casual talk from members is that it was not supported," Brungardt said.
The proposed Senate bill would be known as the Medical Marijuana Defense Act, according to the proposed legislation. The proposed bill defined what constitutes a "debilitating medical condition" and "written certification" from a physician.
According to the proposed Senate bill, "debilitating medical condition" might include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following:
* Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, agitation of Alzheimer's disease or the treatment of these conditions; or
* A chronic or debilitating disease or its treatment that produces one or more of the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe pain; severe nausea; seizures, including, but not those limited to, those characteristic of epilepsy; bladder spasticity or inflammation or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including, but not limited to, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
"Written certification" from a physician means a physician-signed document who also is in good standing with the state board of healing arts, according to the proposed Senate bill.
A Collaborative Effort
With Former Kansas Attorney Gen. Robert Stephan as their legal consultant, the Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition testified before the Kansas Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies on Feb. 11 in support of the proposed legislation.
The Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition has existed for about a year-and-a-half, said Laura Green, coalition director. The coalition has about 850 members, including cancer patients, their family members, doctors, nurses and caregivers.
Stephan's press conference about medicinal marijuana at the State Capitol in August 2007 developed an interest about the proposed legislation, Green said.
"With his involvement, we were able to bring it to the legislature," Green said. "I don't think we would have been able to advance our bill without his support, especially in an election year."
Stephan, who served as Kansas attorney general from 1979-95, said in a telephone interview that he supports only the medicinal uses for marijuana. He said under the proposed legislation, patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes could still be charged with a crime. However, if a judge finds that the marijuana had been recommended for medical purposes, Stephan said the person in possession of marijuana would have a defense for it.
Stephan has supported medicinal marijuana for 25 years and the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule II drug. Schedule I drugs have a high potential for abuse and have no currently accepted medicinal use in treatment in the U.S. Schedule II drugs have a high potential for abuse along with a currently accepted medical use treatment in the U.S. or currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions, according to the DEA's Web site.
During his testimony before the Senate Committee on Health Care Strategies, Stephan said he visited cancer patients for 15 years in Topeka and Wichita hospitals. He said some patients told him they resorted to marijuana as a last resort to relieve their nausea.
"I hope these people who oppose medicinal marijuana never have to suffer like the people I have seen and talked with and the people who use it as a last resort," Stephan said a telephone interview. "If I was a researcher, I'd probably say, 'May God have mercy on their souls.'"
Stephan said he will continue to advocate medicinal marijuana use and proposed legislation in its support.
On May 15, 2007, DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner submitted her recommendation to the DEA's deputy administrator that stated she found it is "in the public interest" to end the federal monopoly on the marijuana supply that could be used in FDA-approved research.
"If we can get enough states, its passage will send a message to the DEA and federal government to reclassify it and allow for further research," Stephan said. "Even the opponents say further research is needed, but they know darn well that adequate marijuana cannot be produced for research, so they're talking through both sides of their mouths."
Green said coalition members plan to reintroduce the bill during the 2009 Kansas legislative session.
"That's very disappointing for us that they wouldn't take the vote in the committee to advance the bill," she said. "We'll hope that whatever committee it goes through next year that they'll have the political willpower to at least hold a vote in the committee."
A Medical Perspective
Dr. Eric Voth, a medical director at Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka, is the chairman of The Institute on Global Drug Policy. Voth has more than 30 years of experience as an authority on drug use. He said medicinal marijuana is bad medicine because of its THC ranges.
THC levels in available marijuana range from 2 percent to 30 percent, Voth said. Because of this range, Voth said marijuana has a very narrow therapeutic window for pain relief - lower levels have no effect on pain while THC levels above a certain point intensifies pain, he said.
According to a recommendation from National Academy Press in 1999, clinical trials of marijuana for medical purposes should be conducted under limited circumstances, including the following: trails should involve only short-term marijuana use of less than six months; be conducted in patients with conditions for which there is a reasonable expectation of efficacy; be approved by institutional review boards; and collect data about efficacy.
Voth said the FDA should take precedent in its establishment of drug policies instead of the legislative process.
"There's a tremendous amount of emotion with marijuana that's making people not think clearly," he said.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice Web site, a pharmaceutical product called Marinol is widely available through prescription as a pill. Marinol's active ingredient is synthetic THC, which has been found to relieve nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy with cancer patients and loss of appetite with AIDS patients, according to the department's Web site.
Other States' Policies
Laws that effectively remove state-level criminal penalties for growing or possessing medical marijuana now exist in 12 states, including New Mexico. A bill in support of medicinal marijuana passed the New Mexico state legislature and received Gov. Bill Richardson's support in spring 2007.
New Mexico Rep. John Heaton, D-Carlsbad, said he "vehemently opposes" the legislation. Heaton, a pharmacist, said marijuana is a weak painkiller and anti-nauseant. He also said the issue supersedes the FDA and its drug-approval process.
"Legalizing one more drug in our society is now what we need to be doing as policy-makers; we should be doing just the opposite," Heaton said. "We have a national organization that approves or disapproves drugs, and that national organization has not approved marijuana for inhalation. The day it is, it will be legal in the United States, but today it's not legal."
Complete Title: Medicinal Marijuana Legislation Dies in KS Senate Committee
Source: Kansas State Collegian (KS Edu)
Author: Adrianne DeWeese
Published: March 3, 2008
Copyright: 2008 Kansas State Collegian
Contact: News@spub.ksu.edu
Website: http://kstatecollegian.com/
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The cool thing is it updates during the day. Pretty cool.
At present, xplanet is a command line program only. Mario Franzbonenkamp has written a graphical front end to Xplanet version 1.0 and above called XPlanetControl.
Another option is to use winXPlanetBG (by Markus Koerner) which sits in the system tray and is very easy to configure and run.
WinXPlanet is what I use I found it to be very configurable.
Xplanet will render an image of the earth (or any other planet from the solar system) directly on your systems desktop.
Xplanet description
"Xplanetwill render an image of the earth (or any other planet from the solar system) directly on your systems desktop
Xplanet was inspired by Xearth and is a program that will render an image of the earth (or any other planet from the solar system) directly on your systems desktop.
All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, similar to the Solar System Simulator.
A number of different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, and rectangular. "
HTP Online Victory #2
Thats Right I am the HPT champ. thats 2 out of 3 and I beat RakeFeeder Heads up again.
Byron went out on the bubble. I was lucky I was allin 3 way for like 800 and won. and managed to scratch and claw lucky for me 1 of the players who had been very aggro all night became very passive 3 ways and since he was to my left and rakefeeder to my right it was a perfect setup for me. I really since i was the short stack i tried to jam the suddenly tight stack to my left almost every time.
I donked out of the Mookie early tonight. Flopped top pair but my opponent turned a set.
51 more to go.
Tonights Tourneys
This is a Massachusetts Home game that we have moved online every other week. You must play in the HPT home games to play.
I wonder how many Donks will show up for this one. 100? 150?. I think the BBT3 is going to kill us all. I mean we have seen record fields for every event so far.
Congratulations go out to corron10 to won last nights "Skillz series" I think it should be renamed to the NO SKILLZ SERIES with all the Retarded play I saw last night in the Limit Stud event.
So up to now I am 0-3 for the points in the BBT3. Maybe tonight will be the night when i can crack the points and the TOC. Yes i fully intend to win one of these events and then claim my Main event WSOP seat.
Yeah I know stop smoking crack. but I am dead serious. I figure I have a better shot than either Hoyazo or Waffles tonight.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Bodog Blogger game And Skills game, BBT3 Rampages on
Tournament: Blogger Skills Series
Where/when: Full Tilt, Tuesday 21:30ET
Game: Rotation between non-NLHE games
Buyin: $12+1
Password: skillz
Tournament: The BoDonkey
Where/when: BoDog Poker, Tuesday 21:05ET
Game: NLHE
Buyin: $10+1 (with T$ overlays)
Password: bodogblogger
Monday, March 03, 2008
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Tim DiPiero, the agent for Randy Moss, detailed the contract with the Patriots in an email to reporters:
"I am pleased to confirm that Randy Moss has signed a three year contract with the New England Patriots. The contract calls for a total payout of $27 million with $15 million guaranteed, $12 million of which is in the form of a signing bonus. Randy is grateful to Mr. Kraft, Coach Belichick and Scott Pioli for agreeing to the terms of this contract. Randy was serious about wanting to stay. Because of Randy's record-breaking year, the interest in him was very high. Randy took less than he could have to rejoin his teammates."
I don't know why everyone was worrying. If he was going to have signed with another team it would have happened right away. Since most teams like to tamper and contact players and their agents before Free agency actually opens. How else do you explain players signing contracts at 5 minutes past midinight.
Does anyone really believe that teams and players can negotiate a multi year contract in 5 min?
So maybe the commishoner should look into ALL this CHEATING going on around the league. I Know how Hoyazo wants everything to be on the Up and Up. So I will expect an investiagtion by the commisioners office any day now.
Fischman Donks up a win in BBT3 opener. By All accounts Scott Fischman Donked it up Mightly Last night in the Big game. Calling all sort of bets with Any 2 cards and catching all night long. If I was a conspiracy theorist I might say that it was rigged But it wasn't so I won't but I can see where some of the crazies might get some ideas.
Tonight is the MATH.
.I see scott fischman aka Super Donk is already signed up. If I can win a token I will donate.
Raq Live at The Station
Donkey Show
Internet Archive: Details: Raq Live at The Station on 2007-11-10
Raq Live at The Station on 2007-11-10
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Raq Live at The Station on 2007-11-10
(November 10, 2007)
Collection: Raq
Band/Artist: Raq
Date: November 10, 2007 (check for other copies)
Venue: The Station
Location: Portland, Maine
Source: FOB Schoeps MK41's ORTF>KC5>CMC6>722
Lineage: 722>Adobe Audition
Taped by: Ned Struzziero
Transferred by: Ned Struzziero
Keywords: RAQ; Portland;
Description
RAQ
11.10.07
The Station
Portland, ME
Source:
FOB Schoeps MK41's ORTF>KC5>CMC6>Audio Magic Xtremes>Sound Devices 722 @24/48
Dead center 25' from stage, 7' High
Recorded By:
Ned Struzziero & Jim Ratner
Set I
1. I Am The Slime*->
2. Led Boots^
3. Botz->
4. I Wanna Be Sedated%
5. Welcome To The Donkey Show
6. Papasta->
7. Push Th' Little Daisies$->
8. Moserine#
9. Merge
10.Cult Of Personality@
11.Mollie's Cule->
12.Tumbling Down
Set II
1. Quick & Painless->
2. Ventriloquist->
3. Wax
4. Back To The Head->
5. Mean Street&->
6. Crazy Tonie
7. Sweet Cream Butter+->
8. Simple Man**->
9. Botz
Encore:
10.BBC~
11.Whipping Post=
* Frank Zappa
^ Jeff Beck
% The Ramones
$ WEEN
# Finished from 11.02.07 Raleigh, NC
@ Living Colour
& Van Halen
+ unfinished
** Lynyrd Skynyrd
~ Ming Tea (First Time Played)
= Allman Brothers Band
Raq Live at The Station on 2007-11-10 (November 10, 2007) embedding and help Collection: Raq Band/Artist: Raq Date: November 10, 2007 (check for other copies) Venue: The Station Location: Portland, Maine Source: FOB Schoeps MK41's ORTF>KC5>CMC6>722 Lineage: 722>Adobe Audition Taped by: Ned Struzziero Transferred by: Ned Struzziero Keywords: RAQ; Portland; Description RAQ 11.10.07 The Station Portland, ME Source: FOB Schoeps MK41's ORTF>KC5>CMC6>Audio Magic Xtremes>Sound Devices 722 @24/48 Dead center 25' from stage, 7' High Recorded By: Ned Struzziero & Jim Ratner Set I 1. I Am The Slime*-> 2. Led Boots^ 3. Botz-> 4. I Wanna Be Sedated% 5. Welcome To The Donkey Show 6. Papasta-> 7. Push Th' Little Daisies$-> 8. Moserine# 9. Merge 10.Cult Of Personality@ 11.Mollie's Cule-> 12.Tumbling Down Set II 1. Quick & Painless-> 2. Ventriloquist-> 3. Wax 4. Back To The Head-> 5. Mean Street&-> 6. Crazy Tonie 7. Sweet Cream Butter+-> 8. Simple Man**-> 9. Botz Encore: 10.BBC~ 11.Whipping Post= * Frank Zappa ^ Jeff Beck % The Ramones $ WEEN # Finished from 11.02.07 Raleigh, NC @ Living Colour & Van Halen + unfinished ** Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Ming Tea (First Time Played) = Allman Brothers Band
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Big Game Update
Made it too the 2nd Break with 8500. below average but 27th of 59. Scott Fischmann a Red named Pro is playing tonight. He was on the ropes but went on a massive rush and he is now up to 19k.
11:48 up to 10,970 with 53 left
12:01 Just got knocked out with this hand. All in preflop.
BBT3 kicks off tonight at 9:30
Tonight is the start of the BBT3 with the Big Game kicking off the whole shebang. 46 peeps signed up as of 5:18 est. Wonder if we will hit 60? this should be intersting 55 tourneys with 2 Main event WSOP seats and 7 2k seats up for grab. It should be interesting to see who make the TOC and Who doesn't.
With all the Over Inflated Ego's things are sure to get testy. I have stated this in the comments of Al's blog But I think 25% for the Points is too tight a range. some of these tourneys are marathons and getting to play for 3 hours only to miss the points sucks.
Yes this is a minor thing but it might lessen some of the bitching that goes on. Wait I forgot some of us think they are always right.
Well I hope everyone enjoys the BBT3 and all that AL has managed to do. I am sure this is not easy to get setup and run.
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