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Who Is To Blame For The DEA’s Medical Marijuana Raids?

The Medical Marijuana Magazine of Southern California. Find a dispensary or collective and a physician. Maps of local dispensaries, collectives and caregivers.the420times.com

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Marijuana Law Reform Is a Civil Rights Issue

It is time to end the failed war on drugs by decriminalizing and regulating marijuana to save our communities and improve our Civil Rights.www.alternet.org

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Marijuana legalization: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s opposition t

Her opposition to California’s pot legalization ballot initiative ignores the public safety provisions written into the proposed law. Apparently Feinstein believes that California’s present pot prohibition, which was initially enacted in 1913 yet has d…

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Holding Politicians Accountable Key To Changing Marijuana La

If we want marijuana laws to change, we have to start forcing politicians to make their official stance towards both medical and non marijuana law reform….www.theweedblog.com

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Decriminalize Marijuana: It’s Far Less Harmful than Alcohol

By Larry A. Bedard, MD, past president of the American College of Emergency Medicine. “In my 35-plus years as an emergency physician in busy ERs in Northern California, I have never needed to admit a patient due to an adverse reaction or medical proble…

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Is Legalization Finally On The March?

The Medical Marijuana Magazine of Southern California. Find a dispensary or collective and a physician. Maps of local dispensaries, collectives and caregivers.the420times.com

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Opinion: America’s Dopey Approach to Marijuana

(July 12) — The entertainment world was rocked last month when Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford was arrested in Texas for possessing an unlit joint, and could face six months in the clink. Yet over in California, the green stuff is virtually legal, and…

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DEA Flouts Med. Marijuana Ordinance By Raiding 1st Applicant

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has flouted Mendocino County, California’s newly enacted medical marijuana ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff’s cultivation permit program. A multi-agency federal task f…

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Can Marijuana Save the Democrats in November?

As many as six states will be voting in November on measures to loosen laws banning marijuana use, with California going so far to propose decriminalizing (and taxing) the drug for all adults. That might help Democrats since legalizing marijuana is pop…

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Nullification Should Be Taken Seriously, Not Caricatured

No doubt scholars who disagree with Woods will have important and substantive criticisms. Nullification is at the forefront of debates about the relationship between the states and the federal government with respect to immigration and medical marijuan…

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For Law Enforcement, Marijuana is ‘Where the Money Is’

People often wonder why local law enforcement agencies will spend so many resources cracking down on marijuana. As this weekend’s superbly reported front-page piece in the Wall Street Journal explains, it really all comes down to money.blog.mpp.org

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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger.

For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.www.alternet.org

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Pot Versus Alcohol: What Do the Experts Say?

For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.www.alternet.org

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Proposition 19: Legalize Marijuana in California

In November 2010, Californians will get to vote “yes” on Proposition 19 to legalize possession, transportation, and cultivation of cannabis for personal use. Prop 19 will also enable counties and cities to regulate and tax cannabis sales and commercial…

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Move it, bud, L.A. pot outlets are told

More than five years after the City Council began discussing medical marijuana dispensaries, Los Angeles Ordinance No. 181069 takes effect. The ordinance seeks to rewind the Wild West period in which 600 dispensaries opened. The ordinance shuts down mo…

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Fox News Doesn’t Like Tax Cannabis CA 2010

The Medical Marijuana Magazine of Southern California. Find a dispensary or collective and a physician. Maps of local dispensaries, collectives and caregivers.the420times.com

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Medical Marijuana Proponents Don’t Want Medicine Burned

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The Top Ten Reasons Marijuana Should Be Legal

Prohibition hasn’t stopped the use and domestic production of marijuana — it’s time everyone faced this.www.alternet.org

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Reader Poll: Legalize All Drugs Or Just Marijuana?

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Surprising Pro-Marijuana Legalization Debate On Fox News?!??

Surprisingly Awesome one hour pro-marijuana legalization piece from Fox News. Traditionally Fox News is not known for being liberal on any topics but maybe they are coming to their senses on this one. They share great facts and make prohibition look …

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