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Marijuana News You May have Missed (+) Hemp for Victory – Filmed in 1942 by the US Government!

February 1, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments
Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

From The Liberty Crier 9/1/2012

10) MARIJUANA USE HAS NO EFFECT ON MORTALITY: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. Sidney, S et al. Marijuana Use and Mortality. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 87 No. 4, April 1997. p. 585-590. Sept. 2002. . . . Complete List

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California marijuana dispensary owner gets 10 years on federal charges

From Salon BY 

Photo: Blackberry medical cannabis SOURCE: Wikimedia/Mjpression.jpg

TUESDAY, JAN 8, 2013 11:12 AM EST

Aaron Sandusky’s case shows what can happen when federal law opposes state marijuana legislation

A federal court Monday sentenced a California man to 10 years in prison for doing something that’s legal in his state. Aaron Sandusky was convicted in October on federal charges of distributing marijuana — he is one of four defendants in the United States who have faced federal prosecutors over medical marijuana dispensaries in states where medical marijuana is legal.

Sandusky, 42, ran three dispensaries in Southern California’s Inland Empire area. Medical marijuana dispensaries have been legal according to California state law since 1996.

According to reports, Sandusky told the courtroom Monday, “I want to apologize to those with me and their families who have been victimized by the federal government who has not recognized the voters of this state.” . . . Read Complete Report

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Are we on the verge of an American hemp renaissance?

From Salon  by BY , ALTERNET

MONDAY, JAN 14, 2013 04:53 PM EST

Advocates for hemp legalization are gaining momentum, with Kentucky lawmakers making the biggest push

Kentucky was America’s leading hemp producer in the early 19th century.  Now, 200 years later, after a historic election for drug policy has led to a shift for marijuana policy reform in America, Kentucky lawmakers are taking steps to revive the crop.

marijuana Stamp SOURCE Himp For Victory videoWhile advocates for hemp legalization say the plant could bring a wealth of green jobs to Kentucky, deep-rooted drug stigma and conflict with federal law have made passing the legislation unlikely. Nonetheless, two state bills are in the works, while a federal proposal aims to clear the way for state legalization. Lawmakers suggest the bills could at least open up the conversation about hemp, and clear up misconceptions about its use. . . . Read Complete Report

Hemp For Victory (1942)

from youtube uploaded by GreenLibraryFilms

Published on Dec 31, 2012

 – Full Official Movie – Great Quality Film 🙂

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Washington D.C.: Feds Plan No Action on Eve of Pot Legalization Coming to Town

January 25, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

From Cannabis News

Author: Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Staff Reporter

EXCERPTS

“A strange gap year in Washington’s grand experiment with marijuana legalization begins Thursday, when personal possession of pot becomes legal, but criminal laws banning marijuana growing and sales remain in effect.” . . .

“Jenny Durkan, the U.S. Attorney for Western Washington, sent out a statement Wednesday” . . ….”The Statement:

“The Department of Justice is reviewing the legalization initiatives recently passed in Colorado and Washington state. The Department’s responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged. Neither States nor the Executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress. In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance.

“Regardless of any changes in state law, including the change that will go into effect on December 6th in Washington state, growing, selling or possessing any amount of marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Members of the public are also advised to remember that it remains against federal law to bring any amount of marijuana onto federal property, including all federal buildings, national parks and forests, military installations, and courthouses. . . . Read Complete Report

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Parts of Colorado’s pot legalization strategy exported to other states

January 16, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

From Denver Post

Posted:   12/29/2012 12:01:00 AM MST
Updated:   01/04/2013 12:16:15 PM MST

By John Ingold
The Denver Post

Just days after guidinga Colorado marijuana-legalization initiativeto an unprecedented victory, longtime Denver marijuana activist Mason Tvert scored another win: a new job.

Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group that is the parent organization for Tvert’s SAFER Colorado and was the main funder for Colorado’s Amendment 64. . . . Read Complete Report

 

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Want Cannabis Reform? Be Vocal (+) DC’s First Marijuana Dispensaries 3 Miles From FBI Headquarters

December 27, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from Toke of the Town

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Culture

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 9:43 am
By Anthony Martinelli

Communications Director
One thing that’s easily noticed when working in the cannabis reform movement is that there’s an embedded fear in many individuals when it comes to standing up for supporting legalization, and working publicly to get it done. On one hand, it’s hard to blame these people: Cannabis prohibition is a very real, very dangerous beast. The government has spent a lot of time, and resources, to put this fear into the public.

On the other hand, free speech is a constitutional right, and standing up for what we believe in should be a core principle of being an active citizen of our great, yet ever-progressing country. It’s easy to forget that in relative terms, we’re a young nation, and we have a lot to improve upon — we can’t let complacency be an enemy. . . . Read Complete Report
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DC’s First Marijuana Dispensaries 3 Miles From FBI Headquarters

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Dispensaries, Growing, News

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm
The District of Columbia’s long-awaited medical marijuana program took a big step forward this week when officials issued occupancy permits for DC’s first marijuana cultivation center and dispensary. Both locations are less than three miles from the J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The step was widely viewed as one of the last hurdles to a working medical marijuana program that almost 70 percent of DC voters approved in a referendum 14 years ago, reports In The Capital. Congress spent years blocking funding for the program before finally getting out of the way after President Obama was elected. Then a tortuous three-year regulatory process began, which has only recently been completed. . . . Read Complete Report

 

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News found in the Weeds Beside The Road to Pot Legalization ~ 12/5/12

December 5, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / 6 comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from Toke of the Town

Marijuana Advocates Urge County To Fight Federal Subpoena

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Dispensaries, Medical, News
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 9:00 am
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and County Counsel hold closed-door meeting Tuesday after 9 a.m. public comment period.
The Mendocino Board of Supervisors and County Counsel Thomas Parker met in a closed-door session Tuesday to discuss a pending federal subpoena for records held by the Sheriff’s now-defunct medical marijuana cultivation program, County Code 9.31, in which registrants were allowed to grow collectively up to 99 plants and were sold zip ties for $25 per plant to show they were being cultivated in compliance with state law. . . .  Read Complete Report
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Hello, Denver! Toke Hits Town In February For Medicated Chef Contest

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in Culture, Products

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:52 pm
We at Toke of the Town certainly couldn’t think of anyplace more appropriate to visit than the Mile High City — and Denver, here we come, for the Medicated Chef Contest in February. It’s for sure that authoring aSeattle Weekly “Voracious” food blog column, “Incredible Medibles,” has certainly nourished our keen interest in and enjoyment of cannabis-infused cooking. . . . Read Complete Report
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Strategy, Timing Key To States’ Pot Legalization

In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug “Just Say No” campaign, a man calling himself “Jerry” appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws.

An esteemed businessman, he hid his identity because he didn’t want to offend customers who — like so many in those days — viewed marijuana as a villain in the ever-raging “war on drugs.”

Now, a quarter century later, “Jerry” is one of the main forces behind Washington state’s successful initiative to legalize pot for adults over 21. And he no longer fears putting his name to the cause: He’s Rick Steves, the travel guru known for his popular guidebooks.

“It’s amazing where we’ve come,” says Steves of the legalization measures Washington and Colorado voters approved last month. “It’s almost counterculture to oppose us.” . . . Read Complete Report

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from Seattle PI

Arizona judge upholds medical marijuana law

By PAUL DAVENPORT, Associated Press

Updated 4:06 p.m., Tuesday, December 4, 2012

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s medical marijuana law is constitutional and federal drug laws don’t stand in the way of public officials implementing it, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling that sets the stage for the opening of the state’s first pot dispensary.

“This court will not rule that Arizona, having sided with the ever-growing minority of states and having limited it to medical use, has violated public policy,” wrote Judge Michael Gordon of Maricopa County Superior Court.

The case started over a dispute over whether Maricopa County had to approve zoning for a dispensary in Sun City. It grew to include the larger legal question of whether federal drug laws pre-empt Arizona’s medical marijuana law. Read Complete Report

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This has been around for several years, but I decided it was worth posting again. If this guy isn’t the Cop Poster Child for keeping the “Killer Weed” off the streets then there ain’t one. . . . Editor 
THEI SELECTED SHORT SUBJECT

from youtube

Cop Eats Pot Brownies, Calls 911

posted by zsandmann

Uploaded on May 14, 2007

So this story comes out of the “Ignorance Undenied” folder. A cop takes marijuana from evidence and makes brownies with his wife. Then in his paranoia that he is dying, he calls 911. Hilarity ensues. As far as I can find he was not charged, and stepped down from the force as a result of this incident.

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2 states legalize pot, but don’t ‘break out the Cheetos’ yet (+) R.I.P: Marijuana Prohibition (w/Video)

November 7, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Finally!

Prohibition of alcohol was finally overturned, not by the FEDS making it legal, but by legalizing alcohol state by state, thereby ignoring the 18th Amendment.  

First the State of New York legalized it while it was still illegal  under Federal law.  Then other states started to legalize until it reached the point that the FEDs didn’t have enough officers to enforce the law.  Then, and only then, did the FEDS join in by passing The 21st Amendment which repealed the 18th Amendment,the prohibition of alcohol. Amendment 21 repeals Amendment 18. This is the same plan being used for the legalization of marijuana.  Looks like we’re on the right track.  Smoke um if you got um!!!. . . EDITOR

from CNN News

2 states legalize pot, but don’t ‘break out the Cheetos’ yet
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 12:17 PM EST, Wed November 7, 2012

Los Angeles (CNN) — Pro-pot groups cheered passage of referendums legalizing recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as the “light at the end of the tunnel” in their 50-year campaign to make the drug legal nationwide.

“Yesterday’s elections have forever changed the playing field regarding cannabis prohibition laws in America (and probably in large parts of the world too),” Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML — the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws — wrote in a celebratory blog Wednesday.

But Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper warned it’s too soon to “break out the Cheetos” since his state must still navigate federal laws before citizens can legally buy and sell cannabis. . . . Read Complete Report

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from NORML

R.I.P: Marijuana Prohibition

by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director

November 7, 2012

The beginning of the end…has begun.

Yesterday’s elections have forever changed the playing field regarding cannabis prohibition laws in America (and probably in large parts of the world too)

The citizens of Colorado, Washington and Massachusetts delivered game changing victories last night for the nearly fifty year-old cannabis law reform Movement. Massachusetts becomes the eighteenth state to pass legal protections for qualified medical patients who’ve cannabis recommended to them by a physician. Colorado and Washington become the first places in the world, ever, where citizens have cast votes to reject cannabis prohibition, and replace the failed public policy with alternatives like tax-n-regulate models (similar to the control and taxation models widely accepted for alcohol and tobacco product use by adults). . . . Read Complete Report

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from youtube

 First Announcement of Marijuana Legalization EVER in World History 

Published on Nov 6, 2012

November 7, 2012, was a historic day. For the first time since Marijuana was criminalized worldwide with UN’s “Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs” in 1961, a state has legalized marijuana!

from youtube

posted by MOXNEWSd0tC0M

Legalization Of Marijuana In Washington Leaves Many Unanswered Questions

Published on Nov 7, 2012

November 06, 2012 CBC News
http://MOXNews.com

from youtube

FBI director gets schooled on marijuana legalization

Uploaded on May 21, 2009

Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen takes FBI Director Robert Mueller to task on marijuana legalization and the “gateway theory.”

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Colorado marijuana initiative gets NAACP endorsement

August 27, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from Denver Post.com

By John Ingold
The Denver Post

Posted:   08/23/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT
Updated:   08/23/2012 09:09:07 AM MDT

A Colorado ballot initiative to legalize limited possession of marijuana for adults is set to pick up an endorsement from a civil rights organization Thursday.

At a morning press event, the head of the Colorado, Wyoming and Montana conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is expected to announce the conference’s support for the initiative, Amendment 64. The conference’s president, Rosemary Harris Lytle, said Wednesday the endorsement comes not out of an interest in marijuana use but instead from a concern over the lopsided numbers of African-Americans arrested for marijuana offenses. . . . Read Complete Report

from CBS Denver

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Legal marijuana backers raise $3 million in two US states (w/videos)

August 26, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

 

 

 

 

Photo: Hemp products for sale in Amsterdam. CREDIT: Petr Kratochvil SOURCE: publicdomainpictures.net

from Reuters

By Alex Dobuzinskis

Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:41pm IST

Aug 25 (Reuters) – Campaigns to become the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Washington and Colorado have raised $3 million ahead of a November vote, far outpacing the opposition.

Proponents of pot legalization in Washington state have raised nearly $2 million since the initiative qualified for the ballot in January, and about $1 million in Colorado since its measure earned a place on the ballot the following month, according to the most recent state campaign figures. . . . Read Complete Report

from youtube

Legalize Marijuana Ads Hit Washington State Televisions

Published on Aug 7, 2012 by 

August 06, 2012 KOMO 4 News
http://MOXNews.com

 

from youtube
Colorado May Legalize Marijuana with Amendment 64

Published on Mar 19, 2012 by 

READ DESCRIPTION! 2012 is shaping up to be a crazy year in pot reform, as two states are trying to legalize some aspects of Marijuana use which have never been successfully legalized to this extent in the US before. Washington with Initiative 502 and Colorado with Amendment 64. Today we’ll be discussing Colorado’s Initiative, which I feel is closer to outright legalization than Washington’s proposal and we’ll be discussing the odds it will pass.

Amendment 64 Campaign Website: http://regulatemarijuana.org/

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IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENT! This Weekend In Seattle: Earth’s Largest Pro-Marijuana Law Reform Rally

August 17, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

I hope all of you free thinking Americans and Canadians who can make the trip will get out there and support this event. If you live in the Seattle area please attend for me. I live in Florida. But were I closer I would be there. I have been involved in the movement since “Proposition 13” in Southern California back in the day… 1978 I believe.

But i feel, finally, I we have arrived at the beginning of the down hill road. That doesn’t mean we slow down. No sir. It means we speed up. Make more and more of the unknowing aware of the REAL facts. and shout them louder. STOP BLAMING ALL YOUR DRUG PROBLEMS ON THIS PLANT. . . . EDITOR 

from NORML

by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director

August 16, 2012

Seattle, WA: Event organizers are expecting to break attendance records this weekend for the 21st annual Seattle Hempfest, taking place this Friday through Sunday at Myrtle Edwards Park along the downtown Seattle waterfront.

Hempfest has drawn crowds in excesses of 250,000 people over the three day ‘protestival’.

One of the main focuses of this year Hempfest is Washington’s legalization voter initiative, Initiative 502. Washington is one of three states this fall where voters have the opportunity to substantively reform their state’s cannabis laws, effectively ending cannabis prohibition. Oregon and Colorado voters also have legalization ballots this fall.

Over 60 musical acts and over one hundred speakers — including NORML Founder Keith Stroup, I-502 sponsor, NORML Advisory Board member and travel expert Rick Steves, numerous NORML board members and chapter coordinators, members of Seattle’s City Council, former law enforcement officials and dozens of cannabis law reform activists will participate in the event from numerous stages and at the ‘Hemposium’ educational tent.

A list of speakers is found here.

A complete line-up of this year’s scheduled events, musicians, and speakers is available online at:http://www.hempfest.org/.

Seattle Hemp Fest 2012 preview The HEMP Family Adventure on Henry Hemp TV Part One

Uploaded by  on Aug 31, 2011

http://www.HenryHemp.com Seattle Hemp fest adventure with the Hemp’s, Henry Hemp proposed to January last year at Hemp Fest this year they brought there 3 1/2 month old baby “Zeena” was a epic fun adventure and Zeena showed she is a true Hempster and Loved the people for Seatt;e hemmp fest is a Adventure all showed try! see you next year and stay tuned for part 2 on Henry Hemp TV . . . Text posted with video on youtube

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Alcohol Not Marijuana Triggers Drug Abuse in Teenagers

July 22, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / 2 comments

Finally.

 I have been trying to explain this to certain members of my family for years. The problem of course is that they drink and they do not want to admit that their kids, who have drug problems, started with sneaking liquor from their home bar or beer from their refrigerators.  No amount of study and research will ever change their minds, because then they would have to take part of the blame.  Actually the only real gateway drug is mother’s milk. . . . EDITOR

from Cannabis News 

If you want your kids to stay away from drugs, then you might want to keep teenagers off alcohol because a new study says that long term drug abuse is likely to occur due to alcohol, not marijuana, use.

[If they are already into substance abuse, you would also do well to sign them up alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs the soonest possible time. – ad]

The present study included data on more than 14,500 high-school students from 120 schools across U.S. The data was obtained from Monitoring the Future study.

Researchers analyzed the data to find out what substances were being tried by students. They checked for use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, amphetamines, tranquilizers and other narcotics. Alcohol was the first substance to be tried by students, the results showed. . . . Read Complete Report

from youtube

Best marijuana legalization argument movie

Uploaded by  on May 12, 2010

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