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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
RAND Withdraws Questionable Marijuana Study That Claimed Crime Goes Down Around L.A. Pot Shops
When the respected Santa Monica think tank RAND released a study last month claiming that crime went up in neighborhoods where marijuana dispensaries had closed in L.A., it just didn’t smell right to us.blogs.laweekly.com
Legalize Marijuana Across The Land Via Constitutional Amendment? Yeah, Right …
A group of pro-pot advocates has launched a petition, but with a HUGE twist: They want Obama to consider the idea of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would end marijuana’s status as a federal outlaw drug and stop prosecution of users.blogs.la…
Ex-marijuana dispensary owner charged with beating, torturing pot thief
Lazarus Pino was once a medical marijuana rebel fighting against a move to shut down his dispensary. Now, however, he’s accused of being a common (or maybe uncommon) goon. Along with members of his family, including his mom, Pino has been charged with …
An Obama Call For Marijuana Legalization Would Cinch His Reelection
The President, citing economic benefits and erasing the costly prohibition of pot, could finally make a bold and gusty proposal that would meet favor with a majority of Americans. He could even flip Southern states, in Tobacco Country, which would bene…
Rural Oregon traffic stop leads trooper to surprising find: Federal government supplies pot
For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around as part of a little-known program that grew out of a 1976 court settlement.www.koinlocal6.com
Commissioner Directs NYPD To Stop Improper Marijuana Arrests
Could the NYPD finally be onboard with pot decrim, 34 years later? Responding to Public Pressure, Police Ordered To Not Arrest People if Marijuana Not in Plain View. Advocates Applaud New Directive, Which Could End Tens of Thousands of Illegal Arrestsw…
Study: LA pot clinics shut down, crime went up
Report says crime increased near closed marijuana dispensaries, challenging claims that the storefronts are magnets for crimewww.cbsnews.com
Drug Arrests Totaled 1.6 Million in U.S. in 2010: Nearly Half of Those Were Simply For Having …
Pro-pot forces say an FBI report released today indicating 8 out of 10 drug arrests in 2010 were for…blogs.laweekly.com
Attending the University of Hypocrisy: Pot’s bad, but party hard on booze
This libertarian attitude seems laudable for acknowledging the fact that kids will party regardless of prohibitionist rules. However, it is counterproductive in the context of the school’s no-tolerance posture toward marijuana — a substance that has b…
The 5 Kindest Medibles
Steve Elliott, world’s greatets pot columnist and author of the new
“Little Black Book of Marijuana”, shares his picks for the top 5
tastiest medibles. Please do not try them all at once.blogs.seattleweekly.com
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