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Cannabis Cup Scheduled for First Time on U.S. Soil in 2013

January 17, 2013 at 2:27 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

High Times is bringing its Cannabis Cup competition for recreational marijuana to Denver April 20-21, the first time the event has been held in the United States. For the past 25 years, it’s taken place in pot-friendly Amsterdam, where coffee shop owners and seed manufacturers compete for the title of Best Bud in The Netherlands. But Colorado is now more liberal about marijuana than even Amsterdam — where it’s illegal to grow pot in the Netherlands, it’s a constitutional right in [...]

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“Suffering” by Rebelution

January 13, 2013 at 10:43 pm / Cannabis News, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

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10 Cannabis Studies the U.S. Government Wished it Never Funded

January 13, 2013 at 10:20 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

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. 9) HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AS A YOUNG ADULT WON’T RUIN YOUR LIFE: Veterans Affairs scientists looked [...]

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Congress Moves To Stop DEA Funding To Attack Medical Marijuana

January 13, 2013 at 8:43 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

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Oaksterdam University

January 12, 2013 at 9:53 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

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California Medical Marijuana Patient to Get Weed Back from Arizona Cops

January 12, 2013 at 1:43 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

Valerie Ann Okun, a Southern California woman, is getting her medicinal marijuana back from the Arizona cops who seized it. But now the weed is nearly two years old. Okun seems to be the winner in a case that started in 2011 when cops found cannabis on her when she stopped her vehicle at a checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona: An Arizona state appeals court ruled yesterday that Okun, who’s from the North County San Diego beach community of Encinitas, could [...]

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San Diego Mayor Declares End to City’s War on Medical Marijuana

January 11, 2013 at 12:25 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner, declared an end on Thursday to the city’s legal war on medical pot with a letter to city authorities ordering civil prosecutors to “stop the crackdown on marijuana dispensaries.” Filner, a Democrat who was sworn in Dec. 1, said in the letter sent to the police chief, city attorney and the city’s Neighborhood Code Compliance Department that such shops could still be scrutinized for other code violations like any other business. “Until we have [...]

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Everything Petroleum Does, Hemp Does Better

January 8, 2013 at 10:40 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

We are in an economic crisis. But don’t panic, there are always good things that come out of crises. It’s all a matter of being aware, being ready, and being educated.Our economy, put simply, really sucks right now. But the United States is not alone. Other countries are facing the same pain. There are several factors that have had a hand in the decline. Here is a simplified example: A country has good currency and a strong economy. It sees [...]

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187,000 Pounds of Marijuana Annually? Legal Pot Business to Bloom in Washington

January 8, 2013 at 9:40 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Voters in Colorado and Washington recently approved the legalization of marijuana for recreational—not “medical”—purposes. But this hardly means that the business of growing and dispensing of pot will be all fun and games. A big Seattle Times story reveals what Washington residents and entrepreneurs intrigued with the business aspects of legal marijuana can expect, largely based on what’s been taking place for years in Colorado’s medicinal marijuana industry. “This is not your father’s marijuana,” the story quotes Colorado Governor John [...]

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