FEDS CONTINUE BATTLE AGAINST POT GURU
Still licking their wounds, federal prosecutors have fired another shot at freed grass guru Ed Rosenthal, appealing the light sentence that let the convicted medical pot grower walk away a free man last month.
"The U.S. Attorney('s ofice) got its marching orders from Washington, as a matter of course," he said. "(Attorney General John) Ashcroft is very idealistic on the subject of marijuana and medical marijuana and wants the U.S. Attorney to emphasize the fact that they don't like it."
(SF Examiner, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

ALABAMA DUI LAWS CALLED RICKETY
In 1997, the Legislature amended Alabama's DUI law to make a fourth DUI conviction a felony. But technical flaws quickly became evident, prompting numerous appeals court challenges as judges and lawyers tried to grope through how various questions should be handled. And a big new problem, saying that out-of-state convictions don't count toward the stiffer penalties, was opened by the Alabama Supreme Court this spring "
(Mobile Register, unearthed by W. Anderson Ward)

VOTE CANADIAN
Canada's government will sell marijuana and seeds to sick people and their suppliers to fulfill a court order for it to provide medical cannabis by Wednesday.
(KC Star, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

STAND OFF
This is the transcription of the ACTUAL radio conversation between the British and the Irish off the coast of Kerry, October 1998.
Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-98.

IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.
IRISH: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: This is the Captain of a British Navy Ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
IRISH: Negative. I say again, you will have to divert YOUR course.
BRITISH: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. I SAY AGAIN, THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
IRISH: We are a lighthouse ................ Your Call.

(Source, except as indicated above, unknpwn. Unearthed by Joel Sogol)