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September 20, 2012
09/20/2012
Romney Campaign Uses Raids to Swing CO Voters, Insults Everyone’s Intelligence

Romney Campaign Uses Raids to Swing CO Voters, Insults Everyone’s Intelligence

The Romney campaign has finally stooped low enough to try to trick the medical marijuana community into voting Romney into office. In an article titled “Dear Marijuana Reformers:...
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September 20, 2012
09/20/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.09.19)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.09.19)

07:36pm Last issue, we reported that the DEA had taken the week off. Well, they’re back, and so is the push-back. Let’s get to it: National...
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September 20, 2012
09/20/2012
Chronicle Video Review: Lynching Charlie Lynch

Chronicle Video Review: Lynching Charlie Lynch

5:48 PM Lynching Charlie Lynch: A Film by Rick Ray (2012, Rick Rays Films, 1:40, $29.95 DVD) Of all the various fronts of the war on drugs,...
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
Push the Top Shelf: The Decline of Dry Meds in Washington State

Push the Top Shelf: The Decline of Dry Meds in Washington State

Welcome back to high school, where hirsute men with a distaste for hygiene sling indiscriminate grab bags, buying for five and selling for ten. One year ago,...
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September 13, 2012
09/13/2012
ACLU Fights Decision in Cell Phone Tracking Case

ACLU Fights Decision in Cell Phone Tracking Case

12:51pm special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a federal appeals court ruling that it...
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September 11, 2012
09/11/2012
Former DEA Heads Urge Holder to Oppose Marijuana Legalization Measures

Former DEA Heads Urge Holder to Oppose Marijuana Legalization Measures

04:53pm Every former head of the DEA since it was created by Richard Nixon in 1973 has signed onto a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him...
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September 10, 2012
09/10/2012
Cannabis Reform: From Local to Federal, Part 1

Cannabis Reform: From Local to Federal, Part 1

What if we’re going about this all wrong? What if we’re playing into the hands of the federal government and the medical marijuana model is a federally-authorized ruse...
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August 31, 2012
08/31/2012
Montana’s First Medical Marijuana Caregiver Dies in Prison

Montana’s First Medical Marijuana Caregiver Dies in Prison

03:15pm The first person to register as a caregiver under Montana’s now gutted medical marijuana program has died in federal prison. Richard Flor, 68, died at...
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August 30, 2012
08/30/2012
Medical Marijuana Update (2012.08.29)

Medical Marijuana Update (2012.08.29)

04:56pm The battle of Los Angeles continues, Arizona prosecutors don’t like their medical marijuana law, and a bill is pre-filed in Kentucky. There’s also lots more...
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August 30, 2012
08/30/2012
Marijuana Elimination Program Is Smaller but Still Helicoptering in California

Marijuana Elimination Program Is Smaller but Still Helicoptering in California

The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) is dead. CAMP is indeed gone, but the helicopters — and the Drug Enforcement Administration agents, U.S. Forest Service wardens, and other...
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August 30, 2012
08/30/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.29)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.08.29)

03:21am There’s something funny going on in Georgia, the DEA is investigating missing drug evidence in West Virginia, more prison guards get in trouble, and an...
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August 24, 2012
08/24/2012
DEA Sends Warning Letter to 23 Seattle Area Medical Pot Dispensaries

DEA Sends Warning Letter to 23 Seattle Area Medical Pot Dispensaries

Yesterday, the DEA sent letters to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries in the Seattle area determined to be located within “1,000 feet of a school, playground or other...
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August 23, 2012
08/23/2012
Want to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in SF? The DEA Is Onto You

Want to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in SF? The DEA Is Onto You

DEA Special Agent David White in June requested and received the applications, including personal contact information, for all proposed San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries. Nine of the Bay...
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August 22, 2012
08/22/2012
$1 Billion in Marijuana Plants Seized From Public Lands in Western States

$1 Billion in Marijuana Plants Seized From Public Lands in Western States

More than 550,000 marijuana plants seized with an estimated street value of $1 billion during an eight-week crackdown targeting illegal marijuana growing operations on public lands across...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Exclusive Video: Funeral for Shuttered SF Dispensaries

Exclusive Video: Funeral for Shuttered SF Dispensaries

San Francisco, CA – On August 1, 2012, San Francisco weedists rallied with a funeral procession to mourn the shuttering of two medical marijuana dispensaries that have served the...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
DEA’s Cannabis Crop Seizures Fell 35 Percent From Previous Year

DEA’s Cannabis Crop Seizures Fell 35 Percent From Previous Year

Total cannabis crop seizures fell an estimated 35 percent between the years 2010 and 2011, according to statistics provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and...
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July 30, 2012
07/30/2012
Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Lawsuit Moving

Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Lawsuit Moving

03:26pm A decade after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) filed its petition seeking to have marijuana moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the federal courts will...
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July 27, 2012
07/27/2012
Video: DEA Politely Threatens Del Mar City Council Before Medical Marijuana Vote

Video: DEA Politely Threatens Del Mar City Council Before Medical Marijuana Vote

Patrick Kelly, Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the DEA San Diego Field Division and for the San Diego Narcotic(s) Task Force, paid a special visit...
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July 25, 2012
07/25/2012
Video: What We Saw at the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum (ReasonTV)

Video: What We Saw at the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum (ReasonTV)

We found this video today by Reason.com, here’s what they have to say about the DEA museum in Arlington, VA: Since 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has...
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July 18, 2012
07/18/2012
Protest President Obama’s July 23rd Fundraiser in Oakland, CA

Protest President Obama’s July 23rd Fundraiser in Oakland, CA

Harborside Health Center is organizing a protest of President Obama’s July 23rd Fundraiser in Oakland, CA. For those weedists in the San Francisco Bay Area, come out...
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