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Medical Marijuana Lawyers Challenge Feds to Bust All Pot Dispensaries or Bust None

It’s rarer these days, but you can still find some medical marijuana purveyors fond of saying how much they welcome the federal government throwing them in prison for decades.blogs.sfweekly.com

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State Must Abide by Vote, According to Pot Lawsuit

Would-be marijuana dispensary owners and their lawyers filed lawsuits today in an attempt to reverse Governor Jan Brewer’s attack on a voter-approved law. Will the people win out over the power and get what they legally deserve?blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Willie Nelson’s Sentence: Sing ‘Blue Eyes’ In Court

Readers will recall that Willie Nelson, red bandana and all, was stopped last November and arrested on charges of marijuana possession. We wrote a little something about it. Let’s try to forget that arresting Willie on possession charges of what offici…

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Vet Petitions CO Health Board to Allow Medical Pot for PTSD

At 11 a.m. on wednesday July 7th, vets, lawyers and activists hope to present a petition to Ned Calonge, Colorado’s chief medical officer, asking that post-traumatic stress disorder be added to a list of conditions that can be treated by medical mariju…

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Drug Courts Confront Relaxed Attitudes Toward Pot : NPR

Medical marijuana is legal in 14 states, and advocates would like to expand that or legalize pot altogether. But the judges, lawyers and therapists who work in drug courts say changing attitudes make it harder to convince people that marijuana is a pro…

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Lawyers Say Marijuana’s Drug Status Should Change

The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial by two law professors arguing that the federal government should change to a less restrictive status for marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act.

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Marijuana Mamas! Is pot the new pilates?

A new wave of reefer madness is sweeping suburbia — but it’s not just teenagers who are lighting up. Middle-aged, middle-class soccer moms are smoking pot … a lot. These women aren’t stoners: they’re teachers, lawyers, and, perhaps, even your neighbor who prefers puffing a joint to sipping chardonnay.

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Marijuana Mamas! Soccer Moms Are Smoking Pot

A new wave of reefer madness is sweeping suburbia — but it’s not just teenagers who are lighting up. Middle-aged, middle-class soccer moms are smoking pot … a lot. These women aren’t stoners: they’re teachers, lawyers, and, perhaps, even your neighbor who prefers puffing a joint to sipping chardonnay.

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