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The best cannabis posts from around the web

January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Israel: Studying Marijuana and Its Loftier Purpose

Israel: Studying Marijuana and Its Loftier Purpose

In the Galilee hills in northern Israel, strange marijuana strains are growing. One strain is said to have the strongest psychoactive effect of any cannabis in the...
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Medical Marijuana Groups File Brief in Support of Mendocino Legal Battle with Feds

Medical Marijuana Groups File Brief in Support of Mendocino Legal Battle with Feds

Three medical marijuana groups have teamed up to support Mendocino County officials in their effort to fight a sweeping federal subpoena filed in October, seeking “any and...
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
2nd Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Tucson, Arizona

2nd Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Tucson, Arizona

The Green Halo Caregiver Collective opened in Tucson, on Arizona’s south side.  Green Halo currently has about 40 patients.
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Massachusetts’ Medical Cannabis Law Takes Effect

Massachusetts’ Medical Cannabis Law Takes Effect

Question 3, ‘An Initiative Petition for a Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana,’ took effect on Tuesday, January 1. Sixty-three percent of state voters approved the measure...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.01)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.01)

07:38pm Philadelphia keeps on paying for its out-of-control drug squad, and a pair of probation officers have pill-pilfering problems. Let’s get to it: In Philadelphia, the city...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

This is the time of year when I take some time to reflect over the past twelve months and prepare myself for the opportunities that lay ahead...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
World is Gone Mad, According to Fantasia Barrino

World is Gone Mad, According to Fantasia Barrino

Apparently “THE WORLD IS GONE MAD,” according to Fantasia Barrino, the singer who won her fame by winning the third season of American Idol. A recent article...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
Florida Must Pay Attorney Fees in Employee Drug Test Lawsuit

Florida Must Pay Attorney Fees in Employee Drug Test Lawsuit

06:54pm A federal judge has ordered the state of Florida to pay more than $190,000 in attorneys’ fees in a case challenging an executive order ordering...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
THC University in Denver Offers Class On How to Grow Pot

THC University in Denver Offers Class On How to Grow Pot

THC University, “the first professional marijuana cultivation training program in Colorado,” is set to offer its first class on February 9th at the Auraria Campus (downtown Denver). There...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and Republican US Sen. Rand Paul are among those pushing to revive industrial hemp in the state. It’s ironic, Comer said in a...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

05:51pm At least two members-only recreational marijuana clubs opened in Colorado Monday, one in Denver and one in the small southern Colorado town of Del Norte,...
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January 1, 2013
01/01/2013
Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

With Washington and Colorado having passed legal marijuana legislation, it’s only a matter of time before more states follow suit. A recent article at the Huffington Post...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Pot Baker to Be Acquitted, But Leaves Door Open for Canada to Ban Edibles

Pot Baker to Be Acquitted, But Leaves Door Open for Canada to Ban Edibles

Owen Smith, the head baker of the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada, will be acquitted of two outstanding drug offences, but lawyers say the Crown has left the...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Mason Tvert Takes New Role to Focus On National Cannabis Reform

Mason Tvert Takes New Role to Focus On National Cannabis Reform

Mason Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group that is the parent organization for Tvert’s SAFER Colorado and was...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Bill in Texas Seeks to Soften Penalty for Marijuana Possession

Bill in Texas Seeks to Soften Penalty for Marijuana Possession

The Texas state legislature will begin debating House Bill (HB) 184 , which calls for marijuana possession of 1 oz. or less to become a Class C misdemeanor...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Michigan Employers Exempted from Medical Marijuana Expenses for Workplace Injuries

Michigan Employers Exempted from Medical Marijuana Expenses for Workplace Injuries

Michigan employers will not have to reimburse employees for medical marijuana expenses for work-related injuries under a local lawmaker’s bill that Governor Snyder has signed into law.
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

I attended a progressive event with MPP’s Morgan Fox in D.C. last Tuesday, where Congressmen John Conyers (D-MI) and Barney Frank (D-MA) both spoke. Unsolicited — in...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Piece of the Week | Chillum Pipe

Piece of the Week | Chillum Pipe

The chillum pipe is the evolutionary cousin of the steamroller pipe we looked at a few weeks back. A simple tube packed with weed on one end...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
German Court Allows Patients to Grow Own Pot

German Court Allows Patients to Grow Own Pot

A German court has ruled in favor of allowing seriously ill patients to grow their own cannabis for medical treatment. But the ruling, with certain stipulations, could...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Connecticut Gold Coast Slow to Embrace Medical Marijuana Industry

Connecticut Gold Coast Slow to Embrace Medical Marijuana Industry

Champions of the Connecticut medical marijuana movement are wary that municipalities in Fairfield County’s Gold Coast, where Republicans hold most of the top offices, won’t nurture the...
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