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September 24, 2012
09/24/2012
Medical Marijuana Advocates Protest Obama’s Broken Promises

Medical Marijuana Advocates Protest Obama’s Broken Promises

On Thursday, as scheduled, protests took place all over the nation. Medical marijuana patients and advocates demanded that President Obama keep his promises to respect state law...
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September 20, 2012
09/20/2012
Action Today: Remind Obama Patients Are People Who Vote!

Action Today: Remind Obama Patients Are People Who Vote!

Americans for Safe Access, the leading organization of medical marijuana patients, has organized a nationwide protest for today (Thursday, September 20). It’s happening all across the United...
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September 17, 2012
09/17/2012
Dallas Star Larry Hagman Used Medical Marijuana After Cancer

Dallas Star Larry Hagman Used Medical Marijuana After Cancer

Larry Hagman, the 80-year-old star of both the original Dallas TV series and its reboot, was treated for throat cancer last year. Hagman turned to medical marijuana in order to get his appetite back after losing a great deal of weight due to his bout with chemotherapy.

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September 14, 2012
09/14/2012
Political Think Tank Looks At Legal Marijuana Revenue

Political Think Tank Looks At Legal Marijuana Revenue

The well-respected, non-partisan Pew Charitable Trusts wrote a fairly balanced article in their newsletter about the possible consequences of legal marijuana, based on pending initiatives in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado this year. They looked at the subjects of Federal preemption, driver testing, safety, and revenue. And refreshingly… didn’t shoot the whole idea down as a “pipe dream” or make any stoner jokes!

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September 14, 2012
09/14/2012
Little-Known Cannabinoid May Treat Epileptic Seizures

Little-Known Cannabinoid May Treat Epileptic Seizures

Epilepsy is a serious medical condition noted chiefly for recurrent brain seizures, affecting many millions of people across the world. Typical pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, often...
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September 11, 2012
09/11/2012
Mainstreaming Medical Marijuana With Pot for Parents

Mainstreaming Medical Marijuana With Pot for Parents

A recent NY Times opinion piece waxed rhapsodically on the benefits of medical marijuana for transforming a  stressed-out father into a calmer, more medicated daddy of toddlers. The breezy delivery,...
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September 7, 2012
09/07/2012
Annotated Transcript of Old Hippie Interview with Barack Obama

Annotated Transcript of Old Hippie Interview with Barack Obama

OH: Hi, I’m Old Hippie, and I’m here to have a talk with Barack Obama, president of the United States. Mr. President, back in 2008 when you...
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September 6, 2012
09/06/2012
Old Hippie Asks Obama Some Hard Questions About Marijuana

Old Hippie Asks Obama Some Hard Questions About Marijuana

Everybody talks about President Obama and his broken promises about marijuana, but nobody has gotten him to talk about it. We tried on Reddit. We tried with...
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