From American Public Media's Marketplace Money:"In some Los Angeles neighborhoods, there are more medical marijuana dispensaries than there are Starbucks or McDonald's. Most sell more varieties of weed than Baskin-Robbins has ice cream flavors."
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More Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Than Starbucks
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Gizmodo - Taking the $670 Volcano Vaporizer for a Test Drive
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The rich even have their own, paraphernalia, utterly inaccessible to the commoner. On the other hand, if volume of sales brings prices down to $99, what does that further say about The Almighty Market's opinion about retarded marijuana laws?When it comes to smoking, you can settle for a pipe or rolling papers. Or you can drop $670 on a Volcano Vaporizer, the king of all paraphernalia. We took one for a test run.
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Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy?
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By Alison Stateman / Los Angeles Friday, Mar. 13, 2009"Could marijuana be the answer to the economic misery facing California? Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano thinks so. Ammiano introduced legislation last month that would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale — a move that could mean billions of dollars for the cash-strapped state. Pot is, after all, California's biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion a year in sales, dwarfing the state's second largest agricultural commodity — milk and cream — which brings in $7.3 billion a year, according to the most recent USDA statistics.""Ammiano may be right. A few days after he introduced the bill, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that states should be able to make their own rules for medical marijuana and that federal raids on pot dispensaries in California would cease. The move signaled a softening of the hard-line approach to medicinal pot use previous Administrations have taken. The nomination of Gil Kerlikowske as the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy may also signal a softer federal line on marijuana. If he is confirmed as the so-called drug czar, Kerlikowske will take with him experience as police chief of Seattle, where he made it clear that going after people for possessing marijuana was not a priority for his force."Related articles by ZemantaDebating the Decriminalization of Marijuana (laist.com)Kerlikowske to Drug Czar -- And What is the Drug Czar's Job, Anyway? (druglaw.typepad.com)Likely New Drug Czar Favors Intervention Over Arrests (alan.com)California measure to legalize and tax pot (boingboing.net)Legalizing Marijuana in California Could Be Good for the Environment (treehugger.com)Is California About To Legalize Marijuana? (dvorak.org)
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San Francisco Cannabis Freedom Day, May 2, 2009
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San Francisco Cannabis Freedom DaySaturday, May 2, 2009, 12:00 noonJoseph Alioto Civic Center Plaza - across from SF City HallVendor reservations and volunteer sign ups or call 415.456.4313Live music from 1 pm to 6:30 pm featuring: Nick Gravenites and Animal Mind,The Mermen, The Pyrx Band, Bluesetta Band, The Miles Schon Band, special guestsSpeakers include Ed Rosenthal, Dr. Michael and Michelle Aldrich, Lynnette ShawView Larger Map
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Are the raids completely over?
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I want to believe it, but after nearly 40 years fighting this battle and a lifetime of lies from the powers that be, I'm still skeptical. It's great news, if it's really true this time. I'd like to see some previously convicted dispensary owners RELEASED to really validate this and make it real.February 26, 2009 Huffington Post:Attorney General Eric Holder said at a press conference Wednesday that the Justice Department will no longer raid medical marijuana clubs that are established legally under state law. His declaration is a fulfillment of a campaign promise by President Barack Obama, and marks a major shift from the previous administration.After the inauguration, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continued to carry out such raids, despite Obama's promise. Holder was asked if those raids represented American policy going forward."No," he said. "What the president said during the campaign, you'll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we'll be doing in law enforcement. He was my boss during the campaign. He is formally and technically and by law my boss now. What he said during the campaign is now American policy."March 9, 2009 LA Times:The federal switch on raiding medical marijuana dispensaries is a good first step, but a more comprehensive policy is needed.More news research:Google NewsYahoo NewsCANorml Coverage
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Fed Raids Could End Soon, California Revenue Would Benefit $1 Billion or More
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Please send your representative this letter of support for California AB 390, right now.Right Now on KQED: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 -- 9:00 AM Legalizing Marijuana?A California lawmaker last week introduced a bill to "tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol." Later in the week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder indicated that the Obama administration may end raids on pot dispensaries in California. Is this the beginning of a sea change in drug policy both in California and the nation?Host: Michael KrasnyGuests:Judge Jim Gray: PRO LEGALIZATION!John Lovell, lobbyist for California Peace Officers' AssociationStephen Gutwillig, California state director of Drug Policy Alliance
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Rasmussen, CBS, and Zogby polls all approach 50% PRO Legalization
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According to three of the leading mainstream polling organizations, yes, Americans are Growing Kinder to Bud.The political and statistical web site, FiveThirtyEight.com, which correctly forecasted the results of the last presidential election in 49 of 50 and home of Nate Silver, innovator of the PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), has "compiled a database of every past poll I could find on this subject, including a series of Gallup polls and results from the General Social Survey, and could never before find more than 36 percent of the population (Gallup in October, 2005) stating a position in favor of legalization."While somewhat sobering in terms of timeframes for complete Federal Legalization, the results are tremendously encouraging for HR5843 as near term positive step toward that eventuality. And yeah, you can thank your mom and dad, because it's WE who constitute the demographic tipping point over the past 40 years of activism:The pro-legalization position may have some generational momentum as well. According to an AARP poll conducted several years ago, while just 8 percent of Americans aged 70 or older had ever tried pot, lifetime usage rates grow to 58 percent among 45-49 year olds.As always, we invite you to obey the law as it is no matter how stupid, so that you can put all that righteous energy to work for The Revolution. We need your help, we can't take it the last ten yards over the goal line without you.Nulle Bastardo Carborundum.
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California Stepping Up Campaign to End Prohibition
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Click to PUSH FOR ONE MILLION DIGGS on this important breakthrough! We're starting with less than 10,000; but with a goal and the POWER OF THE TWEEPLE ... Yes We Can! So crack open a new case of your favorite Energy Drink and go RT ballistic all day and all night! Let's make it happen!California State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will announce legislation on Monday to legalize marijuana and earn perhaps $1 billion annually by taxing it.
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Cardoso, Gaviria, Zedillo Urge Obama to Decriminalize Marijuana
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Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Former presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia said the U.S.-led war on drugs has failed and urged President Barack Obama to consider new policies, including decriminalizing marijuana, and to treat drug use as a public health problem.Among the group’s proposals ahead of a special United Nations ministerial meeting in Vienna to evaluate global drug policy is a call to decriminalize the possession of cannabis for personal use. “We need to break the taboo that’s blocking an honest debate,” Cardoso said at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro to present the report. “Numerous scientific studies show that the damage caused by marijuana is similar to that of alcohol or tobacco.” Read the entire article and pass it on!
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Do not let the media bury HR5843 legislation!
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How can this be possible? Click the search link and you'll find NOT ONE SINGLE NEWS STORY in all of Google News about HR5843.Really???How can that be possible. Yes, there are new items about "decriminalize marijuana" but why do NONE OF THEM reference the Current Active Legislation that can and will End Prohibition THIS YEAR, if we demand it?And why wasn't this $10 Billion per year REVENUE included in the Economic Stimulus bill? Why do our elected officials continue to throw that money away? Worse, they are giving it away to criminals, instead of putting the money to use educating the public and treating those with addictive personalities or genetics?Don't let the mainstream media get away with this cheap trick of keeping the public in the dark. Link to, or repost this blog post everywhere you possibly can.
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What Michael Phelps Should have Said
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From The Agitator:Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his ass off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.READ THE WHOLE LETTER, IT'S WAY WORTH THE 4-5 MINS!Related articles by ZemanCannabis use (news.bbc.co.uk)American Drug War Economics: Vol. 1 (milkandcookies.com)Sue Blackmore: The reclassification of cannabis is illogical and unworkable (guardian.co.uk)
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Facebook and CurrentTV Communities Enjoin Kellogg's Boycott
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In support of HR 5843 IH, Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults (Introduced in House), Marijuana Reform Activists of all ages, professions, and personal histories have enjoined a Global Boycott of Kellogg's Brands as an overwhelming tide of support the the decriminalization of hemp in the U.S. Join this viral movement for meaningful social progress and help spread the word by any or all of the following:Join the Friends of Phelps Facebook group, right now.Join and Support NORML for the long haul.Support the community of Current TV viewers and spread the word.See Seth's "Really?" SNL segment on Hulu.Follow @HR5843 on Twitter for up to the minute legislative alerts and updates
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Friendfeed Fires up a Big Phatty for Phelps
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Join the great debate in response to GeekAndaHalf's:Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. says it will not renew its sponsorhip contract with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps because he has acknowledged smoking marijuana last fall. The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company said Thursday that Phelps's behavior — caught on camera and published Sunday — is "not consistent with the image of Kellogg.
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Hypocrisy of Olympic Proportion
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John V. Santore, campaign organizer, and former congressional speechwriter writes:While marijuana laws have changed over time, and while past administrations have attempted to show that the situation isn't as dire as it appears to be, drug policy in the United States is immensely hypocritical and destructive. Today, public figures justify past drug use as "youthful indiscretions" and the matter is dropped. But huge numbers of ordinary Americans are introduced to the jail system because of minor drug offenses, and as the records show, the overwhelmingly disproportionate nature of drug arrests creates a justified perception of injustice and both economic and racial bias.Will Michael Phelps have to go to court for his actions? No. (Nor should he have to.) Will any law enforcement jurisdiction in America conduct a systematic raid of a college dorm at a prominent university with the goal of arresting everyone in possession of marijuana? Of course not. If such an action was taken on a broad scale, the arrests would likely be in the thousands. At the same time, will poor Americans, overwhelmingly minority in ethnicity, continue to be arrested by local police for the possession of small amounts of pot? Absolutely.
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Now Is The Time To Decriminalize Weed
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From CNBC's Cliff Mason:The war on drugs does two things: it makes the business of drugs more profitable and more violent, and it sends lots and lots of people to prison.Wouldn't it be better if we could bring this business out into the open, slap some taxes on it, and keep people from shooting each other? Of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in this country, more than half are in prison for drug-related offenses. That's unconscionable, and I believe future generations will see this fact, more than the pseudo-legalization of torture under the Bush Administration, as the great moral failing of our time. As the late, great Milton Friedman, an opponent of the War on Drugs from the very beginning when Nixon initiated hostilities, put it, "there is no light at the end of that tunnel. How many of our citizens do we want to turn into criminals before we yell "enough?"No one believes that illegal drugs are anything but harmful, but Americans, or at least our leaders, use that fact to stop any discussion of a rational policy to deal with the problem.We've tried [war] for over 30 years, and the only thing the policy succeeds at is ruining lives. What kills me is that nobody seems to care, not about the human cost, or even about the financial cost.
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