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		<title>Americans Get Pot From US Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country's first legal pot smoker.www.aol.com]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon to a City Near You: the Walmart of Weed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubbed by NPR as the "Walmart of Weed," the "Home Depot of High Times," the "Best Buy of Buds," "Target of Trees," the shelves of the 10,000-square-foot weGrow marijuana emporium are stocked with products for legal pot growers.www.brobible.com]]></description>
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		<title>The 8 Most Absurd Excuses for Trying to Defeat Legal Pot.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As California gets set to vote on Prop 19 – an initiative to legalize marijuana statewide – some people’s minds are being completely blown, man.  But it’s not the people smoking the stuff, it’s the people trying to keep it banned.www.alternet...]]></description>
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		<title>The 8 Most Absurd Excuses for Trying to Defeat Legal Pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As California gets set to vote on Prop 19 – an initiative to legalize marijuana statewide – some people’s minds are being completely blown, man!  But it’s not the people smoking the stuff, it’s the people trying to keep it banned.....www.alte...]]></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>
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		<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>Wal-Mart worker, fired for legal pot smoking, sues.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Michigan man has sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc for firing him after he tested positive for medical marijuana he was using legally to treat pain from an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer.www.reuters.com]]></description>
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		<title>Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In Calif.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 18:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://laptop-buzz.com/thumbnails/21260293_thumb.jpg" width="80" height="80" /><span style="float: left;margin: -98px 0 0 105px">Legal pot, under the guise of the California's medical marijuana laws, has spurred a rush of new competition. As a result, the wholesale price of pot grown in California is plunging, worrying growers and dealers. "There's a tremendous amount of concern, borderlining on fear," says a former underground grower who now cultivates medical marijuana.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>Ahead of state-wide vote, Calif. legal pot battle heats up</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/03/ahead-of-state-wide-vote-calif-legal-pot-battle-heats-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://laptop-buzz.com/thumbnails/20230102_thumb.jpg" width="80" height="80" /><span style="float: left;margin: -98px 0 0 105px">Far from being a war between hippies and police, the fight to legalize marijuana in California centers on whether decriminalizing and taxing cannabis can help fill the state's fiscal hole.</span>]]></description>
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		<title>Planting the Seed for Legal Pot</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2010/01/planting-the-seed-for-legal-pot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers will vote on Assembly Bill 390 -- legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The assembly's Public Safety Committee is expected to vote after a hearing that begins at 9 a.m. hearing.]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Stores Outnumber Starbucks In Denver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling legal pot is a booming business. Denver now has more medical-marijuana shops than Starbucks locations.]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot Drive for Legal Pot in California</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/09/ballot-drive-for-legal-pot-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to our friends at NORML, there are now 13 states who are openly resisting federal laws on medical marijuana. And now my home state of California is on the verge of taking it to the next level - full legalization.
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		<title>Nullification: Ballot Drive for Legal Pot in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to our friends at NORML, there are now 13 states who are openly resisting federal laws on medical marijuana. And now my home state of California is on the verge of taking it to the next level – full legalization.]]></description>
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		<title>Medical marijuana&#8217;s high society</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/09/medical-marijuanas-high-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pictorial essay on the growers, sellers and users of legal pot. Photographs by Robyn Twomey]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland to tax marijuana to fill budget shortfall</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/07/oakland-to-tax-marijuana-to-fill-budget-shortfall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal pot club owners see plan as a way to legitimize their businesses.]]></description>
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		<title>California tax board: Legal pot could generate $1.4 billion</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/07/california-tax-board-legal-pot-could-generate-1-4-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California could see a nearly $1.4 billion per year increase in state revenues were it to legalize marijuana, the state Board of Equalization says in an analysis of pending legislation to to do that.]]></description>
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		<title>California tax officials estimate marijuana legalization wou</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calif. tax officials: Legal pot would bring $1.4BSAN FRANCISCO â�� A bill to tax and regulate marijuana in California like alcohol would generate nearly $1.4 billion in revenue for the cash-strapped state, according to an official analysis released Wednesday by tax officials.]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Pot Would Bring in $1.4B for California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California bill to legalize marijuana like alcohol would generate $1.4 billion in revenue alone for the cash-strapped state, according to an official analysis released Wednesday. The State Board of Equalization estimates retail sales would bring $990 million from a $50-per-ounce fee and $392 million in sales taxes, plus add'l enforcement savings.]]></description>
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		<title>Calif tax officials: Legal pot would rake in $1.4B</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California tax officials say a state proposal to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol would generate nearly $1.4 billion in revenue.

A State Board of Equalization report released Wednesday estimates marijuana retail sales would bring $990 million from a $50-per-ounce fee and $392 million in sales taxes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Legal pot could generate $1.4 bil in revenue, tax board says</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/07/legal-pot-could-generate-1-4-bil-in-revenue-tax-board-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California could see a nearly $1.4 billion per year increase in state revenues were it to legalize marijuana, the state Board of Equalization says in an analysis of pending legislation to to do that.]]></description>
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		<title>Tight Laws Keep Police Unaware Of Legal Pot</title>
		<link>http://themarijuana.info/2009/06/tight-laws-keep-police-unaware-of-legal-pot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to tight privacy regulations built into Colorado law, few people know the names of medical marijuana caregivers or how many people are certified to provide the drug in the state. In fact, the law makes it so difficult to identify the people who can legally provide marijuana that the Boulder County Drug Task Force doesn’t know who they are.]]></description>
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