• SF’s Civic Center Plaza to be awash in cannabis Saturday

    SF’s Civic Center Plaza to be awash in cannabis Saturday

      The movement is coming home. San Francisco is widely seen as the cradle of America’s medical cannabis industry, which has grown far and wide since the days when Dennis Peron opened the first cannabis club (illegally) in the late 1980s in the Castro district to help gay men dying of AIDS. On Saturday, homage
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  • Another Latin American country mulls letting its people grow pot

    Another Latin American country mulls letting its people grow pot

    Not what the army trained him for. Reuters/Stringer Mexico It’s been barely a month since Uruguay moved closer to legalizing marijuana, and now another Latin American country appears to be following suit. Mexico City’s council is mulling legislation (Spanish link) that would allow citizens to cultivate up to three cannabis plants each, and permit a system of marijuana growing co-operatives,
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  • What should federal role be in regulating pot? #tellusatoday

    What should federal role be in regulating pot? #tellusatoday

    We asked our followers on Twitter what role the federal government should have in regulating marijuana. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar: The U.S. government should turn the marijuana issue over to the states. They have the most to gain or lose from it. — @RadioEPTL Federal government should tax legal marijuana sales to fund
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  • Smoke it if you got it

    Smoke it if you got it

    The Obama administration has acquiesced to movements across the country seeking legalized marijuana. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement last week that he’ll ignore federal law and not step in the way of states that have legalized marijuana, for medical purposes or otherwise, is another unmistakable sign of the strength of the pro-marijuana movement. Although
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  • Puerto Rico to debate medical use of marijuana

    Puerto Rico to debate medical use of marijuana

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in Puerto Rico are preparing to debate a bill that would allow people to use marijuana for medicinal purposes in this conservative US territory, officials said Thursday. The measure would create a system to legally produce the substance and allow state health officials to regulate it, said Rep.
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  • Is Monsanto Ready to Enter The Medical Marijuana War?

    Is Monsanto Ready to Enter The Medical Marijuana War?

    As legally allowed medical marijuana becomes more widespread, it is no surprise that many are realizing there is legal money to be made off of this traditionally illegal cash crop. Even Illinois has adapted medical marijuana laws, and soon it will be legal to buy weed in Chicago as long as you have a prescription. With
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  • Gulf Cartel Boss Arrested in Southeast Mexico

    Gulf Cartel Boss Arrested in Southeast Mexico

    CANCUN, Mexico – The suspected leader of the Gulf cartel in the resort cities of Cancun and Playa del Carmen was arrested by police and Mexican army troops, the Quintana Roo state Attorney General’s Office said Thursday. Jose Roberto Diaz Cornelio was captured Wednesday in Merida and taken to Cancun, Quintana Roo Attorney General Gaspar
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  • Mexico City Mulls Legal Marijuana Clubs

    Mexico City Mulls Legal Marijuana Clubs

    The Mexico City council is considering the legalization of cannabis plants and the creation of private marijuana smoking “clubs” as it mulls controversial legislation to liberalize consumption, lawmakers said. The capital hosted a three-day forum on drug policy amid a growing debate in Latin America over the course of the region’s deadly struggle against narcotrafficking,
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  • Drug Use Drops for America’s Youth, Rises in the Over 50 Crowd

    Drug Use Drops for America’s Youth, Rises in the Over 50 Crowd

    Drug use among America’s youth is dropping, but it’s booming among people over 50, a U.S. government survey released Wednesday shows. Last year, the rate of illicit drug use among children and teenagers 12 to 17 years old dropped to 9.5 percent, down from 11.6 percent a decade earlier, according to the Substance Abuse and
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  • Legal marijuana likely available next June

    Legal marijuana likely available next June

    OLYMPIA — Anyone waiting to legally buy recreational marijuana in Washington will have to wait about nine months longer. Revised regulations given tentative approval Wednesday for a system to license, inspect and track the drug would probably get the first lawfully grown and processed marijuana into state-licensed stores by June 1, some 20 months after voters
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  • Pot group goes after NFL drug policy

    Pot group goes after NFL drug policy

    Some Colorado marijuana supporters are using football as a reminder about alternative medicine. “Stop driving players to drink!” a billboard reads. “A safer choice is now legal (here).” The billboard is sponsored by MarijuanaPolicy.org — a website dedicated to marijuana legalization. Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana in the 2012 election, and numerous other states have
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  • State liquor board would allow 3 Kent marijuana retail stores

    State liquor board would allow 3 Kent marijuana retail stores

    The city of Kent would be allowed as many as three recreational marijuana retail stores under the filing of proposed supplemental rules approved Wednesday by the the Washington State Liquor Control Board. The city of Kent, however, bans recreational marijuana stores as well as production or processing facilities. So if someone came to the city for
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  • Wash. to issue 334 licenses for legal pot stores

    Wash. to issue 334 licenses for legal pot stores

    SEATTLE – The Washington State Liquor Control Board released a detailed county-by-county breakdown on the number of retail licenses it will issue for selling marijuana. On Wednesday, the board said to will grant a total of 334 licenses for stores to sell pot in the newest phase in the implementation of I-502, the state ballot
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  • Marijuana Smoke and mirrors

    Marijuana Smoke and mirrors

    Marijuana has been a bit of a media buzzword in recent weeks, with public figures of all stripes from across the country in federal, provincial and municipal politics adding their own confessions to the deluge of admissions into personal pot-smoking histories. Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was first in line, declaring he’d smoked a joint
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  • Legal marijuana: How could it work?

    Legal marijuana: How could it work?

    Interim step of decriminalization not the answer, say advocates for legal pot Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s recent call for legalization and referendum votes in Colorado and Washington in 2012 have opened the door to a discussion on how to legalize marijuana in Canada. (Cliff DesPeaux/Reuters)  While the debate rages for and against legalizing marijuana, there’s
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  • Here Are All The People Who Have Died From A Marijuana Overdose

    Here Are All The People Who Have Died From A Marijuana Overdose

    Yeah, not a single person has ever died from a weed overdose. We don’t have numbers on pandas, but we’re guessing it’s about the same. According to one frequently cited study, a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in a joint in order to be at risk
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  • Marijuana laws done right

    Marijuana laws done right

    By Rob KampiaSeptember 4, 2013 The Justice Department made headlines last week when it announced a new federal policy on marijuana. It should come as welcome news to the majority of Americans who, according to an April Pew Research Center poll, believe marijuana should be made legal for adults. The policy memo issued to U.S. attorneys across
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  • Regulate Pot? Uruguay’s been there, with whisky

    Regulate Pot? Uruguay’s been there, with whisky

    Uruguay is poised to make history as the first government to run a legal marijuana market. Sen. Lucia Topolansky tells The Associated Press they plan to license growers, sellers and users quickly after senate approval in September, protecting smokers from criminal dope dealers. Uruguay has experience monopolizing addictive substances: The government has made Scotch whisky
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  • Saunders: Listen to Gupta: Weed can heal

    Saunders: Listen to Gupta: Weed can heal

    Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Written by Debra Saunders CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta admitted last month that he had been wrong in his opposition to medical marijuana during the rollout for his documentary “Weed.” Gupta reported on research that demonstrated the proven benefits of marijuana in treating neuropathic pain. Medical marijuana was the only
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  • Despite rulings in Colorado, Washington, medical marijuana still a legal risk in Arizona

    Despite rulings in Colorado, Washington, medical marijuana still a legal risk in Arizona

    PHOENIX — A decision Thursday by U.S. Department of Justice not to challenge marijuana legalization by two states does not make Arizona’s own medical marijuana law any more legal or acceptable, key prosecutors said. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he will not drop his bid to have the state’s 2010 voter-approved law declared illegal.
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