Tag: women

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May 31, 2013
05/31/2013
Cannabis Laws Take Another Victim – Yanira Maldonado

Cannabis Laws Take Another Victim – Yanira Maldonado

Yanira Maldonado had no idea when she got on the bus to come back home that she would be charged with smuggling nearly 12 pounds of cannabis...
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May 31, 2013
05/31/2013
Marijuana Prohibition Puts Industry Women at Risk

Marijuana Prohibition Puts Industry Women at Risk

by Sabrina Fendrick, Director of Women’s Outreach, May 30, 2013 As more women are drawn to Humboldt County’s marijuana trade and off-grid lifestyle, a local battered-women’s shelter...
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May 13, 2013
05/13/2013
Weedist Women: Lauren Vazquez

Weedist Women: Lauren Vazquez

Weedists: Meet Lauren Vazquez “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Lauren Vazquez is the Fired Up Lawyer,...
By: Anna Diaz
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May 2, 2013
05/02/2013
Fox News Poll: Nationwide Support for Medical Marijuana Legalization at All-Time High

Fox News Poll: Nationwide Support for Medical Marijuana Legalization at All-Time High

Nearly nine out of ten Americans — including 80 percent of self-identified Republicans — now say that marijuana should be legal if its use is permitted by...
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April 30, 2013
04/30/2013
Smokies Toke Couture: Cannabis Accessories for Women

Smokies Toke Couture: Cannabis Accessories for Women

Smokies Toke Couture was founded in 2012 by artist Pilar Erika Johnson. She was looking for cannabis accessories and found that there was not much selection. Johnson...
By: Anna Diaz
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March 27, 2013
03/27/2013
NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation: A Dream Comes True

NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation: A Dream Comes True

After three years, the NORML Women’s Alliance has created the NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation as a separate entity to promote education and outreach to women. In January...
By: Anna Diaz
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March 15, 2013
03/15/2013
Roadie Complains of Pot Smoke on Band Bus

Roadie Complains of Pot Smoke on Band Bus

A long-time roadie sued Chris Isaak, claiming the bandleader fired him for protesting the mistreatment of women and the choking clouds of marijuana smoke on the tour...
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January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
NORML Women’s Alliance Celebrates 3 Year Anniversary

NORML Women’s Alliance Celebrates 3 Year Anniversary

In January 2010, NORML launched what would become one of the most successful programs in the history of the organization.  The NORML Women’s Alliance also became the first nationwide...
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January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Weedist Women: Madeline Martinez

Weedist Women: Madeline Martinez

  Weedists: Meet Madeline Martinez “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” I met Madeline Martinez when I...
By: Anna Diaz
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Over a Dozen NYC Maternity Wards Regularly Test New Mothers for Marijuana

Over a Dozen NYC Maternity Wards Regularly Test New Mothers for Marijuana

Over a dozen NYC maternity wards regularly test new mothers for drugs, then hand the results over to child-protection authorities if they test positive for marijuana. Surprise…...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Medical marijuana patients are overwhelmingly male in Arizona (73%) and Colorado (68%), the only states to provide patient data by gender. According to the annual National Survey on...
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December 3, 2012
12/03/2012
Spottedcrow Flies Free

Spottedcrow Flies Free

by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, November 30, 2012 Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with...
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November 8, 2012
11/08/2012
Weedist Women: Diane Fornbacher

Weedist Women: Diane Fornbacher

Weedists: Meet Diane Fornbacher “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Diane Fornbacher has been a cannabis activist...
By: Anna Diaz
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October 31, 2012
10/31/2012
Oregon Marijuana Measure Still Trails in Late Poll

Oregon Marijuana Measure Still Trails in Late Poll

04:57pm Measure 80, Oregon’s marijuana legalization initiative, continues to trail in the polls as the clock ticks ever closer to election day. According to a new poll...
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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
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 18, 2012
10/18/2012
Women Rally for Measure 80 With Moms for Marijuana

Women Rally for Measure 80 With Moms for Marijuana

About 100 Oregonians rallied on the steps of the Capitol Building in Salem to support Measure 80 and the Moms for Marijuana First Cannabis Quilt Regional Conference...
By: Anna Diaz
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Got PMS? Get MMJ!

Got PMS? Get MMJ!

For women with premenstrual syndrome, medical marijuana may be just what they need to alleviate their symptoms. Queen Victoria knew it. It’s no secret that millions of women suffer...
By: Lateralus
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September 25, 2012
09/25/2012
Women of The High Times Medical Marijuana Cannabis Cup

Women of The High Times Medical Marijuana Cannabis Cup

The first images that come to mind when considering High Times is, of course, the luscious centerfold flowers. The secondary images associated with the magazine are sexy...
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September 19, 2012
09/19/2012
Oregon Marijuana Initiative Trailing Slightly in Poll

Oregon Marijuana Initiative Trailing Slightly in Poll

02:40pm The campaign behind an initiative that would legalize marijuana in Oregon has an uphill battle ahead, according to a new SurveyUSA poll. That poll has the...
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