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California Democrats Back Marijuana Legalization In Party Platform

March 10, 2014 at 8:18 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

California Democrats have approved a party platform including a plank calling for marijuana legalization, marking a major shift for the state party. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, state party delegates moved Sunday to adopt a platform that includes support for “the legalization, regulation and taxation of pot in a manner similar to that of tobacco or alcohol.” The platform was adopted by a near-unanimous voice vote. California Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, formerly the mayor of San Francisco, made the case for the position change during [...]

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Michigan State Board Says PTSD Patients Should Be Able to Use Medical Marijuana

March 8, 2014 at 8:39 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Dakota Serna served in the Marines during the Iraq War. He says memories of seeing friends and children killed left him suicidal after he came home. Serna says the only thing that has helped him get his life back on track is using marijuana. But that puts him on the wrong side of the law as it is currently written. “Somebody on paper can say that I’m a criminal,” said Serna. “Somebody can come to my house and try to [...]

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Ganja Mothers, Ganja Babies

March 7, 2014 at 3:35 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Our last issue featured an interview with Dr Melanie Dreher, a highly-respected academician and researcher who is probably the world’s foremost authority on ganja use in Jamaica. That interview contained a general overview of Dreher’s 25 years of Jamaican research, while this article will explore what she found out about uses of ganja by Jamaican women and children. Dreher’s research is interesting and relevant because it challenges the prevailing notion that all drug use during pregnancy is bad for children. Ironically, [...]

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Texas Pot Grower Who Killed Deputy Set Free

March 1, 2014 at 1:47 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Over zealous law enforcement officers may want to heed this warning: search warrants are not bullet proof, and even suspected drug dealers have the right to protect themselves against intruders. At least that is the ruling of one Texas jury, who earlier last week, declined to indict alleged marijuana grower Henry Goedrich Magee in the shooting death of a Burleson County sheriff’s deputy that entered his home with a search warrant. Sergeant Adam Sowders and a team of investigators showed up at [...]

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R.I. Governor Chafee Open to Exploring Pot Legalization for Recreational Use

February 28, 2014 at 6:17 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

It appears that Governor Chafee may be warming to the concept of legalizing and regulating marijuana in Rhode Island as a potential source of tax revenue. Over the weekend, Chafee, a Democrat, attended the National Governors Association’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C., and listened to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, also a Democrat, talk about the legalization of marijuana in his state that is expected to generate more than $100 million in taxes and regulatory fees this year. Hickenlooper had been [...]

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Harvard Researchers Explain How Cannabinoids Protect Brain From HIV

February 26, 2014 at 5:53 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

About 40% of HIV infections lead to some sort of brain impairment, such as HIV-1 associated cognitive impairment (HAND) and dementia, according to a team at the school’s Division of Experimental Medicine. “HIV goes to the brain in an early stage during the HIV infection and causes mostly mild HAND disease,” explains Hava Avraham, Ph.D, who co-authored the new study. “Although there are quite effective HIV drugs, standard antiretroviral therapy, to treat this stage, many of these drugs cannot cross [...]

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Marijuana in the Post Prohibition World [VIDEO]

February 22, 2014 at 7:52 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

While the Canadian government is taking a major step backwards for its citizens’ freedoms by restricting the rights of medicinal marijuana users, Colorado and Washington State have legalized marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use and so Dan Dicks of Press For Truth went to Seattle to investigate! Marijuana in the Post Prohibition World Article via Press for Truth

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For Mexico, Legalization is Freedom

February 21, 2014 at 4:23 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Jim Pattison, one of Canada’s most powerful and influential business people. While sitting in his office overlooking Burrard Inlet and the mountains of Vancouver, Mr. Pattison asked me a most timely and intriguing question. “President Fox, I have read recently that you are in favour of the legalization of marijuana. Is that true?” With Justin Bieber making headlines worldwide, I believe it’s a timely issue. The question essentially revolves around the issue [...]

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Is President Obama Bullied By The United Nations To Not Decriminalize Marijuana?

February 20, 2014 at 5:55 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have recently been receiving a lot of pressure from lawmakers to remove marijuana from its classification as a dangerous narcotic. In a letter signed by 18 members of Congress last week, the President was encouraged to instruct Holder to “delist or classify marijuana in a more appropriate way, at the very least eliminating it from Schedule I or II.” In this video taped in 2004, President Obama said publicly that he believed [...]

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