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Up in Smoke: Photos From HempCon 2010
Posted by admin in Travel & Places on February 23, 2010
For the first time in the United States, a three day event for the celebration and education of medicinal marijuana took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on 2/19-2/21. Hundreds of vendors from all over the country hawked everything from growing techniques to water pipes and vaporizors for medicinal use at HempCon.
Prescription drug abuse is out of control
Abuse of controlled prescription drugs is becoming a growing problem in the United States and our region. Unintentional deaths involving abuse of prescription pain relievers have increased 114 percent. Street gangs and dealers of marijuana and cocaine are now also trafficking in controlled prescription drugs. Criminals are also going high-tech…
U.S. will save $20 billion annually with legalized marijuana
Posted by admin in Political News on February 10, 2010
How much could the U.S. save annually if marijuana were to be legalized for adults? According to this graphic, drawn from 2005 data on marijuana smokers, at least $20 billion. Could legal marijuana solve the United States’ economic woes?
Feds Won’t Study Pot’s Benefits, Only Negative Consequences
One federal agency controls all the marijuana research done in the United States. And that agency has just admitted that it won’t fund research into the benefits of marijuana — only the supposed “negative consequences.”
Oregon: Bradbury Backs Industrial Hemp and Medical Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on January 9, 2010
False facts offered to Americans in the first half of the 20th Century were accepted by an otherwise ignorant public, and guided by an industrial desire to rid the United States of the strongest natural fiber known to man.
Bradbury Backs Industrial Hemp and Medical Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political News on January 6, 2010
False facts offered to Americans in the first half of the 20th Century were accepted by an otherwise ignorant public, and guided by an industrial desire to rid the United States of the strongest natural fiber known to man.
Breckenridge City Legalizes Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political News on December 30, 2009
Breckenridge, Colorado became “the Amsterdam of the Rockies” after a law was passed removing any criminal or civil penalties for anyone carrying up to an ounce of marijuana or the paraphernalia that are being used to consume the drug. The law takes effect on New Year’s Day of 2010.
The city is the second in the United States to dec…
Colorado’s Green Rush: Medical marijuana
Driving down Broadway, it’s easy to forget you are in the United States. Amid the antique stores, bars and fast-food joints occupying nearly every block are some of Denver’s newest businesses: medical marijuana dispensaries.
According to new poll, majority of Americans support marijua
Posted by admin in Political News on December 11, 2009
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Many adults in the United States are willing to legalize marijuana, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 53 percent support legalizing marijuana
U.S. may take new look at `war on drugs’
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on December 10, 2009
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER: If you had asked me 10 years ago whether the United States will ever change its interdiction-focused counternarcotics policies — and perhaps even decriminalize marijuana consumption at home — I would have told you, “never”. Today, I say, “perhaps”.
Decriminalize marijuana now | desmoinesregister.com
Posted by admin in World News on November 26, 2009
The drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers. In 2008, there were 847,863 marijuana arrests in the United States, almost 90 percent for possession.
State and local governments are laying off police, firefighters and teachers, this country continues to spend enormous public resources criminalizing Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis…
First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland | CodeBlueHacks
Posted by admin in World News on November 18, 2009
The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
First U.S. Marijuana Cafe Opens in Oregon – iWantMuzik
First U.S. Marijuana Cafe Opens in Oregon Saturday, November 14, 2009 – Reuters PORTLAND, Oregon � The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on
First marijuana cafe in U.S. opens in Portland
Posted by admin in World News on November 14, 2009
The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug. The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the…
First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
Posted by admin in World News on November 14, 2009
The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug. The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the…
Push to Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California – NYTi
Posted by admin in Political News on October 28, 2009
State lawmakers are holding a hearing on the effects of a bill that would legalize, tax and regulate the drug — in what would be the first such law in the United States.
If it’s on the shelves, it’s off the streets
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 24, 2009
The results are telling. In America, 37 percent of adults have tried marijuana; in the Netherlands the figure is 17 percent. Heroin usage rates are three times higher in the United States than in the Netherlands. Crystal meth, so destructive here, is almost nonexistent there. By any standard … America has lost the war on drugs.
Homegrown American Marijuana Threatens Mexican Cartels
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on October 8, 2009
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
Canadian ‘Pot Prince’ In Custody, Awaiting Extradition To US
Posted by admin in Arts & Culture on October 1, 2009
Longtime Canadian cannabis activist and publisher Marc Emery was taken into custody this week to await extradition to the United States on charges of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.
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