Category: Marijuana News

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General marijuana news and commentary

October 30, 2012
10/30/2012
Marijuana Measure Divides Detroiters

Marijuana Measure Divides Detroiters

A proposal to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in Detroit has residents deeply divided over how it would affect a city struggling with high crime and shrinking...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
If Voters OK Hemp, Unclear if Farmers Would Grow It

If Voters OK Hemp, Unclear if Farmers Would Grow It

Farmers may not be in a rush to grow hemp if cannabis legalization passes in Washington, Oregon and Colorado. Farmers who say they have enough to worry about...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Women Needed to Legalize Pot

Women Needed to Legalize Pot

Colorado, and the multi-state effort to legalize marijuana in November needs you now more than ever.  In Colorado especially, polls are showing an encouraging growth in support...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Toni Braxton Admits Grammy Award-Winning Song Was About Marijuana

Toni Braxton Admits Grammy Award-Winning Song Was About Marijuana

In a new interview for an upcoming VH1 Behind The Music expose, Toni Braxton reveals her 1996 Grammy Award-winning tune You’re Making Me High is all about the...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Dumanis Continues Raiding in San Diego, While Court of Appeals Tells Her She is Wrong

Dumanis Continues Raiding in San Diego, While Court of Appeals Tells Her She is Wrong

On Wednesday, October 24, a dozen armed, masked NTF agents stormed Next Generation, a legal medical marijuana collective located on San Ysidro Blvd. in San Diego. The raid came just...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Benjamin’s Edibles in Hot Water with Feds Over Slim Jammin’ Jerky

Benjamin’s Edibles in Hot Water with Feds Over Slim Jammin’ Jerky

Last week, a vendor who sells a variety of edibles to the dispensary where I work informed me of a rumor he had heard regarding Benjamin Edibles‘...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Colorado Marijuana Measure Hits 53 Percent in New Poll

Colorado Marijuana Measure Hits 53 Percent in New Poll

03:53pm In a poll conducted between Tuesday and Thursday, Public Policy Polling has Colorado’s Amendment 64 marijuana legalization initiative winning, with 53% of respondents saying they would vote...
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October 29, 2012
10/29/2012
Suit Before Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Seeks To Halt Federal Actions Against CA Medical Cannabis

Suit Before Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Seeks To Halt Federal Actions Against CA Medical Cannabis

On Wednesday, October 24, a group of California dispensary operators, medical cannabis providers, and patients, as Plaintiffs, filed their Opening Brief before the Ninth Circuit Court of...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
A Big Win for ASA in San Diego

A Big Win for ASA in San Diego

California’s 4th District Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of San Diego medical cannabis provider Jovan Jackson today. The decision in People v. Jackson recognizes the right of medical cannabis dispensaries to...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Study: Over 200,000 Marijuana Arrests in Colorado Over Past 25 Years

Study: Over 200,000 Marijuana Arrests in Colorado Over Past 25 Years

In the 25 years from 1986 to 2010, police and sheriffs’ departments in Colorado made 210,000 arrests for the crime of possessing small amounts of marijuana, according...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Traces of Cocaine and Marijuana Found in Air of Eight Italian Cities

Traces of Cocaine and Marijuana Found in Air of Eight Italian Cities

The answer to the question “Did you inhale?” may be yes, even if you’re only guilty of breathing the air in Rome. That’s because a new study...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Latest Polling Shows an Uphill Battle for Arkansas’ Medical Marijuana Initiative, Issue 5

Latest Polling Shows an Uphill Battle for Arkansas’ Medical Marijuana Initiative, Issue 5

The latest polling data coming out of Arkansas shows a rough fight ahead for their ballot initiative to legalize the medical use of marijuana. A poll conducted Thursday,...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Mathieu, Jefferson, 2 Other Former LSU Football Players Charged With Marijuana Possession

Mathieu, Jefferson, 2 Other Former LSU Football Players Charged With Marijuana Possession

Police say they arrested four former LSU football players, including one-time Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu, after finding them with marijuana at Mathieu’s apartment.
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Medical Marijuana Advocates Launch New Election-Based Website: VoteMedicalMarijuana.org

Medical Marijuana Advocates Launch New Election-Based Website: VoteMedicalMarijuana.org

The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) launched a new website today — VoteMedicalMarijuana.org — that provides patients and their supporters with the tools they need...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
Forbes’ Top 2012 Tax Cases: #10, The IRS Wages War on Medical Marijuana

Forbes’ Top 2012 Tax Cases: #10, The IRS Wages War on Medical Marijuana

The medical marijuana industry, which is “blessed by state law, but persecuted by the IRS,” has made Forbes’ Top 10 Tax Cases of 2012 given the havoc...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
59% of All Americans Want Marijuana to Be Legalized

59% of All Americans Want Marijuana to Be Legalized

A new poll, conducted by Huffington Post and YouGov, has support for marijuana legalization at an astounding 59% amongst all Americans – the largest support yet recorded...
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October 26, 2012
10/26/2012
World Series Highlights Importance of Medical Marijuana Reciprocity

World Series Highlights Importance of Medical Marijuana Reciprocity

When the San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers face off in Game One of the World Series tonight, it will be the first time two teams from...
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October 25, 2012
10/25/2012
Initiative Watch (2012.10.24)

Initiative Watch (2012.10.24)

07:29pm We’re getting down to the final days, and the action around drug reform initiatives is hot and heavy. Let’s get to it: National On Sunday, the...
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October 25, 2012
10/25/2012
Bruce Springsteen Works ‘Marijuana’ Into Obama Campaign Song

Bruce Springsteen Works ‘Marijuana’ Into Obama Campaign Song

Bruce Springsteen has been campaigning for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Check out the 2:57 mark below where towards the end of his pro-Obama ditty “Forward and Away We...
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October 25, 2012
10/25/2012
Montclair Pot Dispensary: New Jersey’s First Marijuana Storefront Lands Pot License

Montclair Pot Dispensary: New Jersey’s First Marijuana Storefront Lands Pot License

Across New Jersey, most communities approached about hosting one of the state’s first legal medical marijuana dispensaries in out-of-the-way industrial zones have just said no, after outpourings...
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