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• How Many Joints Would It Take To Smoke A Year’s Supply Of Medical Marijuana?

  November 12, 2013 at 7:20 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Because of California’s convoluted medical marijuana laws, some growers technically aren’t subject to plant limits, allowing individuals to grow up to 99 plants without much fear of federal intervention. On a recent episode of “TakePart Live,” host Jacob Soboroff joined Lt. Rick Ko of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department to see just how much pot 99 plants really provides. And when they did the math, something smelled a bit skunky. When Soboroff and Ko crunched the numbers, they found that [...]

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  Families Migrate to Colorado for Marijuana Miracle

  November 11, 2013 at 11:10 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Piper rolls back and forth across a large blanket on the living room floor, windmilling her arms and kicking her legs. “Who’s a happy girl?” asks her mom, Annie Koozer, kneeling over the 2-year-old with a small, oil-filled syringe. Piper fusses as Annie squirts a tiny amount into the side of her mouth. “What do you think about that? That’s not too bad, especially if it makes you feel better,” says Annie. It could take days or weeks before Annie [...]

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  What is the Risk to Your Lungs if You Smoke Marijuana?

  November 8, 2013 at 6:13 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

  Researchers and advocates of public health can often come across as “The People Who Say, Don’t!” Then, knowing human nature, they’ll add with a headshake: “But if you have to, then for goodness sake protect yourself.” And you can’t blame them. When you look at big numbers, broad statistics, the individual gets lost in what can be dire, expensive and preventable public health disasters: overeating, STDs, problems related to alcohol consumption … and one of the worst habits causing the most headshaking: [...]

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  Police Subject Man to 8 Anal Searches After Minor Traffic Violation

  November 7, 2013 at 5:12 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics

  A New Mexico man has filed a federal lawsuit over a traffic stop gone horribly wrong. The New Mexico-based news outlet KOB 4 investigates the story of David Eckert, who was forced to go through invasive and repeated searches of his anus by police and doctors, despite the fact that he had no drugs on him. The nightmare began on January 2, 2013. New Mexico resident Eckert was driving out of a WalMart parking lot when he didn’t make a complete [...]

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  Maine: Portland Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization With Landslide Vote

  November 6, 2013 at 7:47 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Portland, Maine on Tuesday became the first city on the East Coast to legalize marijuana, with voters overwhelmingly approving ballot Question 1, an ordinance removing all penalties for adult possession of small amounts of cannabis. Unofficial totals showed the proposal passing with 67 percent of the vote, 9,921 to 4,823, reports Randy Billings at the Portland Press Herald. The city ordinance allows people 21 and older to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana, and is seen by many activists [...]

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  Tapping Medical Marijuana’s Potential

  November 6, 2013 at 5:15 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

  Marijuana has been used medically, recreationally and spiritually for about 5,000 years. Known botanically as cannabis, it has been called a “crude drug”: marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals from 18 chemical families. More than 2,000 compounds are released when it is smoked, and as with tobacco, there are dangers in smoking it. Medical marijuana clinics operate in 20 states and the District of Columbia, and its recreational use is now legal in Colorado and Washington. A Gallup poll conducted [...]

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  DC Ready to OK Pot Possession

  November 4, 2013 at 4:21 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  It took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the nation’s capital is on the fast track. The D.C. Council is poised to approve a bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot, and Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray announced last month that he supports it. He could sign the bill into law as early as January. Some activists [...]

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  U.S., Canadian Weed Finds Export Market in Asia

  November 2, 2013 at 9:27 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  For the young Vietnamese dope smokers rolling up outside a smart Hanoi cafe, local cannabis is just not good enough. As with their Adidas caps, iPhones and Sanskrit tattoos, so with their choice of bud: Only foreign will do. Potent marijuana grown indoors in Canada and the United States is easy to buy in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, say regular smokers, and it sells for up to 10 times the price of locally grown weed. That’s perhaps surprising [...]

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