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• Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Andrew Grande died after being tasered and choking on a bag of marijuana he attempted to swallow. Proof that our drug laws are much more dangerous than the drug itself.

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• Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A man in New Mexico is sharing the love and teaching others how to grow their own medicine. He has a school like atmosphere where students are given homework and are graded on their pot plants.

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• Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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• Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

Wow. These guys sure got all their ducks in a row. lol. Well, looks like there’s an opening for a new skunk importer in the UK. Wonder if anyone is up for the job. lol. This bust means nothing but the fact that the police can once again jump in front of cameras and act as if they’ve done something. Whoooooa hoooo look at me. I just seized 8.5 billion (street value) pounds of marijuana. Give me a break. These bozos have done nothing but waste billions in tax payers dollars to try and play James Bond with a a bunch of crates full of weed. You gotta love how the reporter in this video refers to the lorry drivers, and forklift guys as “gang members”. God forbid they turn up behind your terrace at night. A crate of dutch weed in their hands, just waiting, waiting to clobber you over the head with it. Pwnd BIooooooootch

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• Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

Marijuana mom’s are a certainly not a new phenomenon. Lord knows how long middle aged women (just as everyone else) have used marijuana. But with the availability of medical marijuana a new demographic of marijuana users is emerging. Middle aged women, especially moms. Now to all of us who smoke the herb I can’t see why a mom wouldn’t want to relax with a joint because of all the stress and pressures they must endure. And everyone loves moms :)

The second half of the story is unfortunately tragic. A man who was using medical marijuana to treat his chronic back pain had his daughter taken away from him. This is the dark side of the drug war, one that tears families in legal red tape. Marijuana use has skyrocketed among older users, and there isn’t any studies so no one really knows the true numbers of older people who smoke. Generally marijuana usage statistics come from teenagers. Older professionals are less likely to tell the truth about their cannabis use as they jeopardize losing their careers. End the Drug War and you’ll End the Federal War Against America’s own Citizens and Families.

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• Monday, March 08th, 2010

The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Jorge Castaneda, in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, said marijuana “should be legalized in both countries,” and said it is ridiculous for Mexico to try to stop marijuana from entering the United States when it’s legally sold for medical purposes in California.
“The Drug Enforcement Administration says that 60 percent of the Mexican (drug) cartels’ profits come from marijuana. If we start with that, it’s a big chunk,” he added.
“We can’t do everything overnight … and we can’t do it in Mexico if the U.S. doesn’t do it at the same time.”
Video: Mexico drug war debate

Castaneda strongly criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon for declaring war against the drug cartels, a war that has cost as many as 17,000 lives since he took office in December 2006.
In the past month alone, 900 people were killed — a new monthly record, he said. Sixteen students died in what’s thought to be a drug-related massacre in the border city of Juarez over the weekend.
“It’s hard for me quite honestly — and I think for many Mexicans — to accept that the more deaths we have, the more successful the strategy is,” he added.
“I think President Calderon rushed into this, and now we’re paying the consequences.”
Mexico’s consul general in New York, Ruben Beltran, who also served in the U.S. border states of California and Arizona, strongly disagreed with Castaneda’s assessment.
“Are we going to raise the white flag? Are we going to surrender? Are we going to surrender the ability of the government to look for the rule of law and secure the rule of law?” he asked.
“I don’t think there’s an alternative,” he said. “The monopoly of force — use of force — pertains to the state, and the state is the one who should use the force to secure the stability of the country.”
Calderon has sent 45,000 troops to help overstretched police departments fight the drug cartels.
“What we’re witnessing right now is maybe the peak of that violence,” Beltran said. “Let me assure you that the Mexican government is not going to relinquish its duty to confront organized crime, and that’s what’s happening right now.”
Castaneda, however, said Mexico is paying an enormously high price because of the aggressive approach of the Calderon government. He said the administration should be seeking to contain drug cartels, not destroy them.
“It’s not different from what 100,000 American troops are doing in Afghanistan with heroin. Not one of those troops is combating the heroin traffic from Afghanistan. They’re containing it because they have other priorities,” he said.
Beltran conceded it’s going to take more than one administration in Mexico City to defeat the drug cartels. He also called on the United States to provide more help: “In order for Mexico to be successful in this war, we need increased cooperation with the United States to stem the flow of cash, weapons, and ammo from the United States to Mexico.”
Castaneda, however, said that on a recent trip across the border from San Diego, California, to Tijuana, in the Mexican state of Baja California, there was not the slightest inspection of any car crossing from north to south, on either the U.S. or Mexican side of the border.
“They can’t do it. It’s too expensive,” he said. “The local communities don’t want it. It backs up queues tens of miles north, the same way as in the south. They’re not going to do it.”
Castaneda’s observation puts in question a promise by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in March last year, when she said, “We’re sending technology to the border that will allow us to scan or do non-invasive X-rays to see whether cars are carrying assault weapons, other kinds of weapons, that are flowing into Mexico to fuel these drug cartels.”

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• Monday, March 08th, 2010

More and more older people are turning to marijuana for medicinal purposes and urging legislators to legalize pot use for patients. In North Carolina, a bill to do just that is working its way through the General Assembly. (Feb. 22)

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• Monday, March 08th, 2010

DENVER - A prominent Denver couple active in the restaurant and political communities is at the center of what could be a precedent setting medical marijuana case after police raided a suburban business park and confiscated hundreds of marijuana plants.
Scott Durraw and Wanda James own the popular Eight Rivers restaurants, and she’s a political activist that worked on Obama’s Colorado finance committee. They say that not only is the pot legit, it is all being grown for their medical marijuana dispensary business.

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• Monday, March 08th, 2010

Head propagandist in chief sit down to talk with cheech marin and tommy chong.

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• Sunday, March 07th, 2010

Barack Obama has since switched his position on marijuana after getting elected. It should be noted that during the campaign Obama’s website Change.Gov ran an online question system which worked similarly to Digg.Com where anyone could pose a question and visitors to the site would then vote up the posts which they found the most pertinent. Overwhelmingly the legalization of marijuana and ending the drug war were both in the top ten (with legalizing marijuana being the top question submitted). Obama previously stated that he favored decriminalizing marijuana but now wants to play politics. In the video above you can notice where he sayds “we don’t want people setting up mom and pop shops because that will make it difficult to regulate” well, here’s the newsflash, there are already loads of mom and pop shops selling marijuana. it’s called California. So now, the only way to “regulate” it would be to legalize it and put in the necessary provisions which would assure the supply is safe (we currently have these for alcohol and tobacco) Obama now must decide if he will continue to use the DEA and the arm of the federal government to persecute those who are openly abiding by state laws.

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