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Pot Patient Sues Over Marijuana Stolen in Home Invasion

In what is being reported as the first case of its kind in the state of California, a Sonoma County medical marijuana patient will be allowed to seek financial restitution from four convicted robbers who stole six pounds of medi-pot from him in 2009. (Sonoma County is the northernmost and the largest of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties). 
 
Dressed as police officers, the four thugs broke into the Healdsburg home of Michael Steffens in October 2009 and subsequently beat …More
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National pot protester sues Nashua police for using excessive force

National pot protester sues Nashua police for using excessive force
CONCORD – The head of a national libertarian group has sued Nashua Police as a result of her arrest during pro-marijuana demonstrations in Nashua last spring. Catherine Bleish, director of the Liberty Restoration Project, filed suit Monday against the department, the city and several officers, charging police with wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution and excessive force. She alleged that the …
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U.S. pot insurance has Canadian growers green with envy
VANCOUVER – The growing medicinal marijuana business in the United States despite the drug’s illegal status has many insurance firms seeing green — as in money.
Read more on The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News