July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
70% of Recent Major US Drug Seizures Are Marijuana Related

70% of Recent Major US Drug Seizures Are Marijuana Related

In an excellent article on The Daily Chronic, Scott Gacek examines a study which found over 70% of US drug seizures big enough to make the news...
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July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Army Veteran Denied Gun Due to High School Marijuana Charges

Army Veteran Denied Gun Due to High School Marijuana Charges

A retired Army veteran in Texas was recently barred from purchasing a gun after a background check turned up a misdemeanor marijuana conviction from 1971. Ron Kelly, who served...
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July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed....
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July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Legislation Introduced to Ease Banking for Marijuana Business

Legislation Introduced to Ease Banking for Marijuana Business

For medical marijuana dispensary owners and the patients who rely on them for access to their medicine, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s (D) bill is common sense. Perlmutter introduced legislation...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Piece of the Week | B$ – Worked Mini Tubes

Piece of the Week | B$ – Worked Mini Tubes

B$ – Worked Mini Tubes Just in time for 710, it is with privilege and pleasure that I present a Piece of the Week from a decade-strong...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Portable Vaporizer Pen Review: Atmos Bullet

Portable Vaporizer Pen Review: Atmos Bullet

It’s not hard to imagine why portable vaporizer pens have become such a popular option recently. Now that you can vaporize just about anything on the go,...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Katie Couric: Should Moms Smoke Marijuana?

Katie Couric: Should Moms Smoke Marijuana?

Katie Couric asks the question: “Do you think parents should smoke marijuana? We want to hear from you! Vote in our poll and share your answers.”
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Robert Sharpe: Combat Synthetics with Marijuana Legalization

Robert Sharpe: Combat Synthetics with Marijuana Legalization

Robert Sharpe of Common Sense for Drug Policy states that the use of so-called synthetic marijuana is an effect of marijuana prohibition. He points out the fact...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
The Atlantic: If Marijuana is Legalized, Who Will Start Using More of It?

The Atlantic: If Marijuana is Legalized, Who Will Start Using More of It?

Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, doesn’t think kids and teens are going to start using marijuana more frequently if the...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
BC Decriminalization Petition Approved, Signatures Needed

BC Decriminalization Petition Approved, Signatures Needed

Cannabis reform activist Dana Larson has been granted approval by Elections BC to begin collecting signatures for a cannabis decriminalization petition. The “Sensible Policing Act” would forbid...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Chronicle Book Review: Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

Chronicle Book Review: Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer (2013, The New Press, 111 pp., $17.95 PB Amazon) Marc Mauer, the executive director of the The...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
First Large Study of Medical Marijuana Use in Young Adults

First Large Study of Medical Marijuana Use in Young Adults

The National Institutes of Health has granted $3.3 million to Drexel University for a five-year study of medical marijuana’s impact on drug use and health in young adults....
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.10)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.10)

A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor’s desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
My Favorite Strains: Dawgstar’s Headband BHO (Dabs)

My Favorite Strains: Dawgstar’s Headband BHO (Dabs)

Diablo Dabs… Dawgstar’s/Headband Strain: Dawgstar’s Headband Concentrate: BHO (Butane Hash Oil) Consistency: Shatter Dominant: Sativa Cooperative:  Kured Collective Seattle, WA kuredseattle.com Solvent:  N-Tane (Lab purged guaranteed 99.9% solvent...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
Weed for Weight Loss

Weed for Weight Loss

Munchies are pretty much always synonymous with smoking marijuana. I have had my share of nights downing a whole pint of Haagen Dazs and an entire bag...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
Australian Expert Urges Legalization to Curb Binge Drinking

Australian Expert Urges Legalization to Curb Binge Drinking

Robin Room, the director of Australia’s leading alcohol research center, has released a statement calling for the legalization of marijuana for adults. His support is based on...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
US Approves Marc Emery’s Transfer Home to Canada

US Approves Marc Emery’s Transfer Home to Canada

The US government has approved a prisoner transfer application for Marc Emery, the Canadian marijuana activist serving a five year sentence in the US for selling marijuana...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
Taking the Human-Cannabis Relationship Seriously in Health Science & Public Policy

Taking the Human-Cannabis Relationship Seriously in Health Science & Public Policy

Here is the full text of my planned comments during Friday, The Science of Medical Cannabis panel at ASA’s National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, 2/22-25/13, Washington, D.C. now published in Frontiers in...
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July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
Free Slurpee Day at 711 for 711

Free Slurpee Day at 711 for 711

Free Munchies! Holy smokes, I don’t know about you, but my throat’s a bit tender after 7/10. With all the uncertainty surrounding my beloved errl, this was...
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