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The best cannabis posts from around the web

August 8, 2012
08/08/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.07)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.07)

07:02pm It never stops, does it? Here’s another seven bad apples. Let’s get to it: In Los Angeles, an LA County sheriff’s deputy was charged last Tuesday with...
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Crystal Lake Illinois Eyes Softer Marijuana Policy

Crystal Lake Illinois Eyes Softer Marijuana Policy

The Crystal Lake Illinois Police Department is recommending changes to the city’s marijuana policy that would effectively decriminalize possession of small amounts of the drug.
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Banned Olympian: “A Good 50 Olympic Athletes” Use Marijuana Regularly

Banned Olympian: “A Good 50 Olympic Athletes” Use Marijuana Regularly

CraveOnline talks with American wrestler Stephany Lee who was banned from the 2012 London Olympics for marijuana use. Unlike Nicholas Delpolo, however, Lee fully admits to using the drug...
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
North Dakota Medical Marijuana Proposal Likely to Be Debated

North Dakota Medical Marijuana Proposal Likely to Be Debated

North Dakota voters are likely to have a chance this fall to decide whether marijuana may be used legally as a pain reliever, an option the Legislature...
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Private Prisons and Politicians: Destroying Our Nation for $

Private Prisons and Politicians: Destroying Our Nation for $

Private prisons and politicians have turned the United States into a prison nation, simply for greed. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur covers the story of Pedro...
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
British Man Spends Over 57,000 Dollars Per Year on Cannabis

British Man Spends Over 57,000 Dollars Per Year on Cannabis

A British man, Lee Maddison, 27 of Carlisle, England has told a court he now spends up to £100 a day on cannabis. Based on present exchange...
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Marijuana Legalization Proponents in Washington Unveil First TV Ad

Marijuana Legalization Proponents in Washington Unveil First TV Ad

The campaign behind I-502, a ballot measure that would end cannabis prohibition in Washington State this fall, unveiled their first TV advertisement in support of the initiative....
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Colorado’s MMJ Enforcement Division Has More Vehicles Than Enforcers

Colorado’s MMJ Enforcement Division Has More Vehicles Than Enforcers

It seems as if  Colorado’s MMJ Enforcement Division took too many bong hits when they made their “Things we Need to Enforce”  list, because now they have more fancy vehicles than...
By: Lateralus
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August 7, 2012
08/07/2012
Olympic Athlete’s Expulsion for Marijuana Raises Questions

Olympic Athlete’s Expulsion for Marijuana Raises Questions

05:23pm An American Olympic judo contender, Nick Delpopolo, was expelled from the London 2012 Olympic Games Monday after he tested positive for marijuana, and that has...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
Hope For Industrial Hemp? Group Of Senators Seeking Legislative Sanity

Hope For Industrial Hemp? Group Of Senators Seeking Legislative Sanity

According to Washington, D.C. Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill, a group of bipartisan Senators, led by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D), have filed legislation seeking to exempt...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
Medical Marijuana: Arizona To Hold Prescription Marijuana Lottery

Medical Marijuana: Arizona To Hold Prescription Marijuana Lottery

Arizona will hold a prescription marijuana lottery tomorrow to pick medical marijuana dispensaries. Though prescription pot is legal in Arizona, the Department of Health Services received 486 applications...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
AZ SWAT Team Kills Man in Drug Raid Shoot-Out

AZ SWAT Team Kills Man in Drug Raid Shoot-Out

03:20pm A Phoenix-area SWAT team shot and killed one man during a “dynamic entry” (break the door down) drug raid early Thursday morning after the raiders...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
Obama’s War on Marijuana Turns to Public Employees

Obama’s War on Marijuana Turns to Public Employees

Obama’s war on marijuana escalates as an ACLU letter called on US Attorney Duffy to retract a recent statement in which she seemed to indicate that local...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
Governor Chris Christie Still Stonewalling On Medical Pot

Governor Chris Christie Still Stonewalling On Medical Pot

A NJ.com blogger states “Governor Chris Christie recently proclaimed that the “war on drugs” isn’t working. Yet he continues to wage his own personal and costly battle on...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

What is the real cost of the war on drugs? How long do you fight a war that cannot be won? Lawrence O’Donnell (The Last Word, NBC News)...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012

Springfield (MO) Marijuana Decriminalization Initiative Certified

05:14pm An effort to decriminalize pot possession in the southwest Missouri city of Springfield passed a key hurdle Thursday when the city clerk announced that initiative petitions...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
1,100 Marijuana Plants Found in Idaho Corn Field

1,100 Marijuana Plants Found in Idaho Corn Field

Idaho State Police investigators uprooted about 1,100 marijuana plants growing in a corn field with an estimated street value of $2.2 million. Read more at The Sacramento Bee.
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Honolulu Police Officer Faces Five Years for Growing Pot

Honolulu Police Officer Faces Five Years for Growing Pot

Michael Steven Chu, a Honolulu police officer has pleaded guilty and faces up to five years in prison for conspiring to cultivate 48 plants and to possess with...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses

Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses

Washington, D.C. — Late yesterday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and seven initial co-sponsors introduced HR 6335, the States’ Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act, in an attempt...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Asking NORML’s Paul Kuhn: Is it finally time to legalize marijuana?

Asking NORML’s Paul Kuhn: Is it finally time to legalize marijuana?

The Washington Times interviews NORML’s Paul Kuhn to discuss prohibition, the misinformation that still exists and the recent surge in voter support.
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