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Former Michigan Attorney General: I Smoked Pot, But Let’s Not Legalize
Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox admitted on Friday that he smoked marijuana in high school during the 1970s. (Hey, what a coincidence, so did I!) But during a symposium on marijuana reform, Cox said there are problems with legalizing cannabis…
Celebrity pot busts put tiny Texas county on map
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 28, 2012
Nestled among the few remaining businesses that dot a rundown highway in this dusty West Texas town stands what’s become a surprise destination for marijuana-toting celebrities: the Hudspeth County Jail.www.foxnews.com
Polish Politician Puffs on Pot in Parliament
As a form of protest to the idiocracy of outlawing marijuana and imposing penalties for its use, Janusz Palikot, lit up a marijuana joint in the middle of parliament. He further noted that the contents of the joint were a legal amount of cannabis.www.c…
Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative Gathers 20,000 Signatures
The last few months of 2011 weren’t exactly fun for advocates of medical marijuana in California. The federal government threatened to seize properties being used for illegally cultivating or dispensing marijuana, media organizations including this one…
Police Seize Pot From High Schoolers on SWAT Snowboarding Trip
Teens on a bus trip to Utah for what would be three whole days of parent-free debauchery in the snow were busted by cops this week for having a massive stash of marijuana. Party foul.blogs.ocweekly.com
Surprise, Surprise: Black Market Cashes In On Pot Crackdown
In a development that should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone with even a passing familiarity with drug policy and its effects, black-market marijuana growers and dealers are profiting greatly from the federal crackdown on legal medicinal canna…
Did Pot Conviction Fuel Switch From Bachmann To Paul?
People are talking about rats abandoning sinking ships. Michelle Bachmann’s Iowa Presidential campaign chairman has switched to rival Ron Paul’s camp — and the switch could be due to his conviction on a marijuana charge back when he was 20 years old…..
Marijuana Use Is on the Rise … Among Dogs and Cats
Like their humans, animals are known to consume marijuana. In fact, many have long known that pot producers in the northern counties deer-proof their marijuana plants, else docile does and bucks will chew on the buds and leaves. This author once knew a…
Marijuana Dispensary Trades Pot for Food to Feed the Hungry
Medical marijuana users are accustomed to the munchies sending them on a hunt for food. Now they have a place where giving their food away can score them some pot.abcnews.go.com
Med. marijuana patients pulled over by cops talking their way into jail?
You’re a medical marijuana patient, and a police officer pulls you over and says he smells pot. So you immediately show him your ID card and talk about how long it’s been since you’ve medicated. Smart move? Not according to ex-judge Leonard Frieling, w…
Weed, the People: Marijuana Goes Mainstream
Record numbers of Americans support legalizing marijuana, and a growing number of states now allow using pot for medical purposes.winfographics.com
Obama’s Reefer Madness : Obama and Marijuana Policy
Why does his administration take UFO spotters more seriously than it does those who want to legalize pot?…Here’s some change you can believe in: …The Obama administration is more interested in breaking bread with UFO spotters than with people who u…
Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Magnets For Robbers, Violence, Organized Crime — Report
Only weeks after RAND took a controversial study of marijuana dispensary crime off the shelf following questions about its validity, a Fox 11 News report gives at least anecdotal evidence that some pot shops are dangerous places (especially for people …
Marijuana Preferred Over Doctors’ Prescriptions, Says California Survey
Do medical marijuana patients self-prescribe pot in place of the pharmacy drugs that doctors tell them they should take? If you’re to believe a new California report, yes.blogs.laweekly.com
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
Florida Man Kept Nephew Chained to Bed in Mobile Home Full of Marijuana
Baker County authorities thought they were making a routine grow house bust on Wednesday. What they found inside the mobile home was far more disturbing. Troy Howell, 29, had chained his 18-year-old nephew to a bed to try and stop him from alerting oth…
Teen dies after smoking synthetic pot
A 13-year-old in the U.S. who became ill after smoking synthetic marijuana and had a double lung transplant has died.www.msnbc.msn.com
Inside the Medical Marijuana Industry
Northern California is the pot growing capital of the world, and it’s not exactly a secret. However, getting someone to go on the record about working in an industry that’s still federally illegal is still difficult. What follows is the first of a …
Record High Support: Are Americans Ready to Legalize Pot?
Legalize it? Support for marijuana legalization now outweighs opposition, for the first time since Gallup began polling the issue 42 years ago. Fifty percent of Americans say pot use should be legal, while 46% say it should be prohibited.theweek.com
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