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Conservative Group Begins Pushing for Medical Marijuana in Texas

May 12, 2014 at 6:37 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A conservative group says it will begin pushing hard for the legalization of marijuana for medical use in Texas, 1200 WOAI’s Berit Mason reports. Mothers Advocating Medical Marijuana for Autism, or MAMMA, says the group will be urging lawmakers in the sessions that begins in January to push for revisions in state law to allow marijuana to be used as a treatment, especially for sick children who suffer from the seizures associated with autism. “Some of the parents are giving [...]

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Full Story Behind Why Marijuana Is Illegal & Classified As A Schedule I Drug

May 11, 2014 at 7:31 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

Last night we got together and discussed the censorship of medical marijuana knowledge. Despite the multitude of studies supporting the medicinal benefits of cannabis, nothing is changing and the plant remains illegal. To help us understand why this news isn’t getting covered, let’s go over the history of the prohibition of cannabis. This might provide some insight as to why news editors are killing stories about curing cancer with cannabis, and why the government is still handing out lifetime jail [...]

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Colorado Collects More Than $20 Million From Marijuana Sales

May 10, 2014 at 6:20 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Colorado has raked in nearly $22 million from marijuana taxes, licenses and fees this fiscal year, according to state Department of Revenue data released Thursday. During the first three months of recreational marijuana sales, Colorado’s cumulative revenue from tax and licensing fees for both medical and recreational marijuana has reached $12.6 million. The state has reaped $7.3 million from recreational marijuana taxes alone in the first three months since the first legal sales began on Jan.1. Sales of recreational marijuana were nearly $19 [...]

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Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels

May 9, 2014 at 10:33 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Marijuana has accounted for nearly half of all total drug arrests in the US for the past 20 years, according to the FBI’s crime statistics. And according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), a large portion of the US illegal drug market is controlled directly by Mexican cartels. The DOJ’s National Drug Intelligence Center, which has since been shut down, found in 2011 that the top cartels controlled the majority of drug trade in marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine in over 1,000 US cities. Now, [...]

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Minnesota Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Medical Marijuana Bill

May 8, 2014 at 5:12 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music

“For God’s sake, if people are suffering and we have the ability to provide a way to alleviate the pain, let’s hear their concern, let’s hear their prayer,” said Sen. Charles Wiger, DFL-Maplewood, before the measure passed 48-18. During the hourslong debate, medical marijuana supporters looked on from the Senate gallery, many holding aloft pictures of children they’d like to receive the drug to reduce seizures brought on byepilepsy. The Senate proposal would allow up to 55 medical marijuana dispensaries [...]

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Obama Administration Puts in an Order for 1,430 Pounds of Marijuana

May 7, 2014 at 6:14 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The Obama Administration needs hundreds and hundreds of pounds of marijuana this year, more than 30 times the amount of pot it originally ordered for 2014. But don’t get any funny ideas. The pot is medicinal, and it’s needed for research purposes. The Drug Enforcement Administration put out a rule on Monday that adjusts the annual production quota of medical marijuana for the U.S. government. That pot, produced by the University of Mississippi, is used by the National Institutes on [...]

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Meet the First Food Truck That Can Legally Get You Stoned

May 6, 2014 at 8:56 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Some weeks ago, Slate declared food trucks awesome and pitched ideas for other things that should be made into trucks. That list didn’t include a truck that dispenses food infused with weed, but MagicalButter, a company that pulls nutrients from plants and puts them into butter and cooking oils, has created one anyway. According to a press release, the Samich Truck—otherwise known as simply the Food Truck—will offer its customers “four-star-quality food items infused with 30 to 100 mg of THC” in [...]

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Medical Marijuana has Profound Effect on Pain Relief

May 5, 2014 at 1:21 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Before buying cannabis at South Jersey’s only medical marijuana dispensary, patients must circle one of six animated faces that stare out from a clipboard. The row of smiling, wincing, frowning, and sobbing cartoon faces is being used to rank the degree of pain that patients experience due to cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and several other conditions the state deems treatable by cannabis. When the patients return to the Compassionate Care Foundation dispensary in Egg Harbor [...]

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TSA Finds 81 Pounds of Marijuana in Checked Luggage

May 4, 2014 at 12:43 am / Cannabis News

(CNN) – Pot isn’t at the top of the Transportation Security Administration’s most-wanted list. They’re more interested in keeping explosives off airplanes. But if you pack your suitcases with 81 pounds of marijuana, TSA officers screening your checked baggage are very likely to notice. On Friday, a 26-year-old woman was arrested at Oakland International Airport after the TSA allegedly discovered marijuana in her three checked bags, according to the TSA. The Jackson, Mississippi, resident was attempting to fly from Oakland [...]

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