December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
6-year-old California Boy’s Violent Seizures Dramatically Subside With Help of Liquid Marijuana

6-year-old California Boy’s Violent Seizures Dramatically Subside With Help of Liquid Marijuana

Child’s father said seizures were a daily nightmare for Jayden David before the medical marijuana treatment. But medical experts question risks of treating children with the drug.
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

06:02pm The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, “On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans.” The author of...
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
LA Medical Cannabis Advocates Submit 70,000 Initiative Signatures

LA Medical Cannabis Advocates Submit 70,000 Initiative Signatures

A coalition of medical cannabis patients, providers, and organized labor submitted 70,000 signatures on Friday to qualify a voter initiative for the May ballot in Los Angeles. The Committee...
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012

AG Eric Holder Says Administration Will Announce Marijuana Policy Soon

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing the use of marijuana as “there is a...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Breaking the Taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo

Breaking the Taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo

Breaking the Taboo, narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo Breaking the Taboo is a must-see documentary arguing to end the failed War on Drugs (#BreakTheTaboo). Produced by Sam...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Austin Lawmaker Says Timing Right for Medical Marijuana Bill

Austin Lawmaker Says Timing Right for Medical Marijuana Bill

State Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) has tried to pass legislation concerning medical marijuana in the past and plans on submitting a new bill in the upcoming 83rd...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

02:54pm A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, “Obama’s Pot Problem,” missed the mark on the federal preemption question — can the feds shut...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Washington State Bar Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up

Washington State Bar Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up

Washington state residents can legally smoke marijuana in the privacy of their living rooms as of Thursday. Bar owner Frank Schnarr suggests, area stoners have another option:...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Feds Say City of Oakland Can’t Stop Medical Pot Crackdown

Feds Say City of Oakland Can’t Stop Medical Pot Crackdown

The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary. Harborside Health...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
End the War on Marijuana, NYPD

End the War on Marijuana, NYPD

In New York City, NYPD marijuana arrests have persistently outnumbered arrests for any other crime in recent years.
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012

Medical Marijuana Moving in Czech Republic

11:21am The Czech Republic took a big step last week toward becoming the next European country to approve the use of medical marijuana. Last Friday, the...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Colorado Amendment 64 Signed Today by Governor Hickenlooper

Colorado Amendment 64 Signed Today by Governor Hickenlooper

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has quietly signed Amendment 64 into law today. Governor Hickenlooper has been unclear about when he will sign Amendment 64 into law, which...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Washington Could Become Pot Source for Neighbors

Washington Could Become Pot Source for Neighbors

As Washington state sets up a cannabis supply system (barring the Feds stepping in), it could become a greater source of pot for users in Oregon and...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
New York Times: A Big Business in Getting High

New York Times: A Big Business in Getting High

New York Times: “Glorifying marijuana has arguably turned out to be shrewd public relations moves” for under-30 female singers Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey in light of the...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Marijuana Language: Part 4

Marijuana Language: Part 4

I spent my time living in either Chicago or Northwest Washington during the years I started smoking. As such, the marijuana slang I picked up is a...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Pot Prices – November 2012

Pot Prices – November 2012

High Times reports while the US Price and Kind indices essentially held steady in November, the Mids Index experienced a jump in average price (+$25). This increase indicates...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top

Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top

At the dawn of the cannabis legalization epoch that was ushered in on election night when the commonsense-minded voters of both Colorado and Washington elected to end...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Obama’s Pot Problem

Obama’s Pot Problem

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed, or tell the DEA and DOJ...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Majority Says Feds Should Stay Out of Marijuana Legalization States

Majority Says Feds Should Stay Out of Marijuana Legalization States

10:42pm A slight majority of adults say the federal government should not attempt to enforce federal marijuana laws in states which have voted to legalize it,...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Piece of the Week | Spine Pipes and Bongs

Piece of the Week | Spine Pipes and Bongs

Using medical marijuana for your back pain? Medical advances may someday allow you to replace your spine, but until then you can remind yourself exactly why you...
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