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posted on June 20, 2013 by
US NM: MDC Officer Lost His Job Over Medical Marijuana
Albuquerque Journal, 17 Jun 2013 – Oh, the stories Augustine Stanley could tell. Awful, harrowing stories from his nearly yearlong deployment in 2004 to Iraq as an Army Reserve convoy security specialist for the 644th Transportation Company. Awful, harrowing stories from his 13 years as a corrections officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque. He doesn’t pick the easy jobs. But the story Stanley tells these days is how his experience with the former indirectly affected the latter and how it all went up in smoke.
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US NM: Justices: Chopper Raid Not Coercive
Albuquerque Journal, 19 Jun 2013 – State Supreme Court Upholds Seizure of 14 Pot Plants in Taos Area An Army helicopter hovering overhead, officers armed with semiautomatic weapons and a fleet of law enforcement vehicles didn’t constitute illegal coercion when a 72-year-old man gave permission for a search of his Taos County home, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
posted on June 15, 2013 by
US NM: State’s Cannabis Program Continues To Grow
Cibola County Beacon, 14 Jun 2013 – The State of New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program (MCP) was started in 2007 to provide patients suffering from certain specific health issues another option for treating the effects of those health conditions and the adverse effects of pharmaceutical treatments. Being only the 12th state to pass legislation approving the use of medical marijuana, there was much initial skepticism regarding the program, yet it continues to grow. As of April 30, it had served 9,090 patients across the state.
