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A Judge’s Plea for Pot
By GUSTIN L. REICHBACH THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be Stage 3pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months. Today I am in that rare coterie of people who have survived this [...]
Read more.Prominent Milwaukee couple proposes legalizing marijuana
By Colleen Henry MILWAUKEE – One prominent Milwaukee couple is making a pitch in a documentary to not only legalize marijuana but to turn it into a cash crop grown in Milwaukee. Their argument: America has spawned a criminal class by prosecuting pot users, creating a hopeless cycle of poverty. They believe legalizing marijuana [...]
Read more.Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Another Anti-Medical Marijuana Candidate Bites the Dust
Steph Sherer Last night, the medical cannabis advocate community defeated a second anti-medical marijuana candidate in a state Attorney General race. In Oregon, Dwight Holton, a former US attorney, lost in a landslide after medical cannabis became a campaign issue. In 2010, we defeated Steve Cooley in a very close race for California Attorney General. And these are [...]
Read more.Medical Marijuana Laws For States Supported By More Than Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Poll Finds
Lucia Graves lucia@huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — Nearly three-quarters of Americans and more than two-thirds of Republicans believe federal officials should respect state laws on medical marijuana, a new Mason-Dixon survey of 1,000 likely 2012 general election voters found. “What the results of this survey show is that there is absolutely no political justification for what [...]
Read more.Great news! Rosenblum defeats Holton in Democratic primary for Oregon attorney general
PORTLAND, Ore. — Former Oregon Court of Appeals judge Ellen Rosenblum has won the Democratic primary for attorney general. Rosenblum’s victory Tuesday came with the help of marijuana activists who flexed their political muscles in a state with 55,000 registered pot users. She defeated former interim U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton, who has criticized Oregon‘s medical marijuana law. [...]
Read more.Marijuana DUI standard dies a 3rd time in Colorado
By Kristen Wyatt DENVER—A marijuana blood limit for drivers was rejected Tuesday for a third time in Colorado, as lawmakers from both parties argued about how to fairly gauge whether someone is too stoned to get behind the wheel. The bill would have made Colorado the third state in the nation with a blood-level [...]
Read more.War On Drugs
Critic says arrest numbers don’t reflect user truth NNPA COLUMNIST Gary L. Flowers Contrary to public opinion, white people in the U.S. account for more arrests for drug use than do people of color. Yet, the widely-held and erroneous belief that 1) most drug crimes are committed by people of color, and 2) most people [...]
Read more.Jim Crow, Old Crow, Al Capone, and Richard Nixon
By George Lundberg, MD, Editor-at-Large, MedPage Today When President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1971, he was merely placing a new administrative emphasis on the American prohibition of many psychoactive substances that began in 1914 — 41 years later, it isn’t even surprising for this columnist to agree with many others, including noted [...]
Read more.Hemp – In search of natural solutions at JEC show
Biocomposites also came under the spotlight at JEC as the European Flax and Hemp Confederation launched the book ‘Flax and Hemp: a natural solution for the composite industry’. The authors claim the book is the first scientific publication on flax and hemp reinforcements as it examines the mechanical properties of flax and hemp used in [...]
Read more.Stop war on medical pot
As an educated, conservative housewife and writer with fibromyalgia, I may not seem a likely medical marijuana candidate. Yet, 15 months ago I went from debilitating pain, migraines, panic attacks, memory issues, depression and exhaustion, to fully functioning in just days. But Riverside County has been cracking down on dispensaries (“Medical marijuana dispensary raided,” April 4). For a month, I lacked access to medication, reverting to [...]
Read more.Hemp Can Save the Planet
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- A Judge’s Plea for Pot
- Prominent Milwaukee couple proposes legalizing marijuana
- Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Another Anti-Medical Marijuana Candidate Bites the Dust
- Medical Marijuana Laws For States Supported By More Than Two-Thirds Of Republicans, Poll Finds
- Great news! Rosenblum defeats Holton in Democratic primary for Oregon attorney general