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		<title>Repealing Medical Marijuana Law Would Hurt Montana&#8217;s Economy</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2011/02/repealing-medical-marijuana-law-would-hurt-montanas-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of jobs could be lost, cities would lost revenue from business taxes, and many more people would be relying on food stamps if repeal passes, according to Dave Stephens, owner of Better Life Montana in Missoula.www.tokeofthetown.com]]></description>
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		<title>The Petition to End Drug Prohibition</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/08/the-petition-to-end-drug-prohibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our drug laws aren't working. High school students find it easier to get marijuana than alcohol or prescription drugs.  With our economy struggling, we can't afford to waste billions of dollars every year on a policy that has failed. Legalize and regul...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: &quot;The Flower&quot; What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/watch-the-flower-what-a-legal-pot-economy-would-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/watch-the-flower-what-a-legal-pot-economy-would-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A short animated parable from award winning artist Haik Hoisington  "The Flower" contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The...]]></description>
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		<title>Morocco: Marijuana economy goes up in smoke.</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/morocco-marijuana-economy-goes-up-in-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/morocco-marijuana-economy-goes-up-in-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For generations this remote mountainous town has been the heart of Morocco's cannabis-growing area, where growers earned a reasonable living from cultivating marijuana. But now farmers are angry that they are being forced to pay bribes to local police ...]]></description>
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		<title>America On It’s Way To Legalization Of Cannabis!</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/america-on-it%e2%80%99s-way-to-legalization-of-cannabis/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/07/america-on-it%e2%80%99s-way-to-legalization-of-cannabis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many states are looking to legalize marijuana and tax it. Ethan Nadlemann is honest about the facts. We would not save the economy, but it would create Billions of dollars in tax revenue, and alsowww.howgrowweed.com]]></description>
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		<title>Legalizing Marijuana to Balance the Budget Deficit</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/06/legalizing-marijuana-to-balance-the-budget-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/06/legalizing-marijuana-to-balance-the-budget-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first bipartisan movement under Obama is now trying to legalize and tax marijuana to balance the budget deficit. Great to see both sides trying to fix the economy together. watchingamerica.com]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Marijuana as a Force for Individual Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/06/medical-marijuana-as-a-force-for-individual-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/06/medical-marijuana-as-a-force-for-individual-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://laptop-buzz.com/thumbnails/21788684_thumb.jpg" width="80" height="80" /><span style="float: left;margin: -98px 0 0 105px">As the country continues to battle the Great Repression in hopes of reinvigorating the economy, the most enlightening recovery efforts could come in very unexpected forms.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>What is True Cost of Marijuana Legalization?</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/03/what-is-true-cost-of-marijuana-legalization/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2010/03/what-is-true-cost-of-marijuana-legalization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business & Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://laptop-buzz.com/thumbnails/20243507_thumb.jpg" width="80" height="80" /><span style="float: left;margin: -98px 0 0 105px">Marijuana is by some estimates California's largest cash crop, bringing in more than twice the revenue of vegetables, yet we don't tax this green. Legalizing and taxing pot could provide $1.3 billion to help our hemorrhaging economy, but it might also lead to additional problems and undermine anti-drug efforts.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>The True Cost of Legalizing Marijuana [VIDEO]</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/the-true-cost-of-legalizing-marijuana-video/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/the-true-cost-of-legalizing-marijuana-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Political Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legalizing and taxing pot could provide $1.3 billion to help our hemorrhaging economy, but it might also lead to additional problems and undermine anti-drug efforts. Is this crop just cash waiting to be reaped, or is it more complicated? Hear what advocates on both sides say about the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Legislator Moves To Legalize Marijuana!</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/washington-legislator-moves-to-legalize-marijuana/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/washington-legislator-moves-to-legalize-marijuana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Dickerson wants it taxed and regulated like Alcohol. Makes sense to me. End prohibition and give the economy a much needed boost. A whole new green industry, plus the money saved on investigation, enforcement, and incarceration.]]></description>
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		<title>The Marijuana Re-legalization Policy Project (MRPP)</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/the-marijuana-re-legalization-policy-project-mrpp/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/the-marijuana-re-legalization-policy-project-mrpp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demand that Obama Implement MERP immediately as a matter of National Security.  This is the only policy that is guaranteed to destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels immediately and without another dime of American "Blood or Treasure" wasted on this senseless War on Marijuana Consumers.  It might just transform the US Economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana&#8217;s Multiplier Effect</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuanas-multiplier-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuanas-multiplier-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When It Comes to the Local Economy, Pot Is Potent. Were you wondering why your favorite supermarket was totally out of Reynolds Turkey-Size Oven Bags–in October? Or why every single pair of those handy little spring-loaded Fiskars shears were gone all of a sudden at your neighborhood crafts store? Here’s a clue: marijuana harvest season.]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana: Safe and Effective Medicine for the Economy</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuana-safe-and-effective-medicine-for-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuana-safe-and-effective-medicine-for-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The potential for job creation and economic growth in legal marijuana sales is massive. With a simple policy change we could create a new industry, rivaling the size of Philip Morris or MillerCoors domestically, but with a product that’s safer in every measurable way.]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Sales Boost Northern California County</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuana-sales-boost-northern-california-county/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/12/marijuana-sales-boost-northern-california-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's boom times for the marijuana trade in Northern California. Rural Humboldt County's economy depends on both the legal and illegal sales of pot, as growers to trimmers to entrepreneurs aim to land quick cash. But some citizens, and the mayor of Arcata, are trying to "rope back in" the business.]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Prison for Growing Marijuana?</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/11/life-in-prison-for-growing-marijuana/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/11/life-in-prison-for-growing-marijuana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time of heightened national security post-911, a near-depression economy and state government budgets bleeding red coast to coast, what is the moral and economic imperative that compels some in law enforcement to seek lifetime sentences for small-time cannabis growers?]]></description>
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		<title>Jocelyn&#8217;s Corner: Keep marijuana illegal!</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/11/jocelyns-corner-keep-marijuana-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://themarijuana.info/2009/11/jocelyns-corner-keep-marijuana-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For one thing, my cousins are prison guards. Their job security depends on constant prison overcrowding. They also make good money supplying marijuana to certain prisoners. And it's understood that most drug convicts make excellent prison bitches for the truly violent offenders. Simply put, legalization would put our nation's fragile prison economy]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Economics: California&#8217;s Largest Cash Crop</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/10/marijuana-economics-californias-largest-cash-crop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marijuana is by some estimates California's largest cash crop, bringing in more than twice the revenue of vegetables, yet we don't tax this green. Legalizing and taxing pot could provide $1.3 billion to help our hemorrhaging economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Weed Is Recession Proof, One More Reason To Legalize It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.
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		<title>Marijuana farming rebounds in economic hard times</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/09/marijuana-farming-rebounds-in-economic-hard-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana&#8217;s new high life</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/08/marijuanas-new-high-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, an estimated 25,000 people attended the inaugural THC Expo hemp and art show in downtown Los Angeles, an event that pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local economy -- including a $22,400 payment directly to the city of Los Angeles for use of its convention center....]]></description>
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