Major League Baseball Needs To Rethink Marijuana Rules
Hypocrisy in America’s Favorite Pastime? By Bob Humphreys On May 5, the Orioles’ 2006 first round draft pick, Billy Rowell, tested positive for marijuana and received a 50-game suspension. Following the suspension, Billy called Major League Baseball “hypocritical” for their treatment of him. While that may not be the most appropriate [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Washington Town Committee Votes To Ban All Safe Access In City Limits
Help Keep Safe Access In Kent, Washington A Kent, WA committee has recently voted to ban all safe access points to medical cannabis within city limits. The full council will vote to finalize this on June 5th. Let your voice be heard, and let them know about you feel about this; e-mail councilmembers@kentwa.gov. [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Ellen Rosenblum’s Victory Ushers In A New Era In Marijuana Politics
All Political Parties Need To Be Aware That The Marijuana Community Is A Force Ellen Rosenblum’s victory yesterday in the Oregon Democratic Primary will go down in history as a major turning point in marijuana reform. Ellen Rosenblum ran on a pro-marijuana platform and won convincingly. Dwight Holton and the [Click Here To Continue Reading]
MPP Poll Shows 74% Of Americans Fully Support State Medical Marijuana Laws
In a just-released poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, three quarters of American voters (74%) want the Obama administration to respect individual state medical marijuana laws. The nationwide poll of 1000 registered likely voters was conducted May 7 to 11, 2012, and commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project. The [Click Here To Continue Reading]
New York Police Continue Racially Motivated Marijuana Policy According To Latest Data
by Scott Morgan The latest data on stop and frisks in New York City is nothing short of horrifying. Kristen Gwynne at AlterNet reports. For the NYPD’s stats to add up, they’d have to have stopped every young, black man living in the city once–and then some. Both marijuana arrests and [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Proposed Marijuana DUI Bill Fails Again In Colorado
By Steve Elliott of Toke of the Town A marijuana DUI bill early Tuesday afternoon failed again to clear the Colorado Senate, once again being voted down. The DUI bill has been a rollercoaster for the past two years, reports Michael Roberts at Denver Westword, perhaps due at least partially [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Why Regulated Dispensaries Should Be Welcomed In DC And throughout The Nation
by Mike Liszewski Last week, two Washington, D.C. Area Neighborhood Commissions (ANC) voted unanimously in support of dispensary permit applicants who received provisionally sufficient scores by the District Department of Health to operate in their neighborhoods. Two additional medical cannabis dispensary applicants will have their applications considered at ANC meetings later in [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Anti-Marijuana Candidate Dwight Holton Loses Election To Ellen Rosenblum
Ellen Rosenblum Defeats Anti-Marijuana Candidate Dwight Holton To Become Next Oregon Attorney General It wasn’t that long ago that the 2012 Oregon attorney general race was still in it’s infancy. Dwight Holton and Ellen Rosenblum had announced their candidacies for the Democratic Primary, and yet again the Oregon GOP failed [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Colorado House Set To Vote On THC/DUI Bill…Again
By Steve Elliott of Toke of the Town Like a bad penny that just won’t go away, Colorado’s marijuana blood-level limit for drivers is back again, and once again is poised for approval, after two previous failures. The Colorado House gave its initial thumbs-up to a bill setting the cannabis [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Danish Lawmakers Reject Marijuana Legalization
by Phillip Smith There will be no hash bars or cannabis cafes in Copenhagen at any time in the near future. Over the weekend, the Danish government rejected Copenhagen’s request to experiment with legalizing cannabis sales in the city. In a letter to the Copenhagen city council, Social Democratic Justice [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Meet Bill Levin Of Indiana: Registered Cannabis Lobbyist With ‘Re-Legalize Indiana’
By Joe Bryant Those of you that keep up with me know that I have a soft spot in my heart for those brave ninjas on the front lines in the war for legalization of our favorite flower. That being said, it should come as no surprise that I am [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Drug Czar Dodges Question About Marijuana And Alcohol Regulations
Drug Czar Being Disingenuous and Evasive. No Kidding. By Bob Humphreys At the Center for American Progress on May 1, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske answered a question from MPP’s Steve Fox regarding marijuana prohibition. Or did he? What Steve essentially asked is that if a great many Americans use both marijuana [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Rhode Island Lawmakers Agree To Compromise Allowing Dispensaries To Open
by Philly Buds Though states may vote in favor of beginning medical marijuana, the actual process to get dispensaries up and running is often long and full of delays, sometimes taking years before medical marijuana is actually available for legal sale in the state. That has been the case in [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Arizona Accepts First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications
Arizonans Will Finally Have Reliable Access To Medical Marijuana After 18 months of waiting, today is finally the day for Arizona medical marijuana. Despite countless lawsuits, sporadic raids, and hurdles thrown up by Governor Jan Brewer, the Arizona Department of Health (ADHS) today accepted the first 14 applications to operate [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Voice Of The Marijuana Nation Gets Silenced
RIP NORML Network: 24/7 network of marijuana shows closes up shop due to lack of funds I am shocked and saddened to report that the NORML Network has been cancelled. How that is even possible is beyond me, considering Russ runs the show with no budget. The show gets roughly [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Hypocrisy in America’s Favorite Pastime? By Bob Humphreys On May 5, the Orioles’ 2006 first round draft pick, Billy Rowell, tested positive for marijuana and received a 50-game suspension. Following the suspension, Billy called Major League Baseball “hypocritical” for their treatment of him. While that may not be the most appropriate [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Help Keep Safe Access In Kent, Washington A Kent, WA committee has recently voted to ban all safe access points to medical cannabis within city limits. The full council will vote to finalize this on June 5th. Let your voice be heard, and let them know about you feel about this; e-mail councilmembers@kentwa.gov. [Click Here To Continue Reading]
All Political Parties Need To Be Aware That The Marijuana Community Is A Force Ellen Rosenblum’s victory yesterday in the Oregon Democratic Primary will go down in history as a major turning point in marijuana reform. Ellen Rosenblum ran on a pro-marijuana platform and won convincingly. Dwight Holton and the [Click Here To Continue Reading]
In a just-released poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, three quarters of American voters (74%) want the Obama administration to respect individual state medical marijuana laws. The nationwide poll of 1000 registered likely voters was conducted May 7 to 11, 2012, and commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project. The [Click Here To Continue Reading]
by Scott Morgan The latest data on stop and frisks in New York City is nothing short of horrifying. Kristen Gwynne at AlterNet reports. For the NYPD’s stats to add up, they’d have to have stopped every young, black man living in the city once–and then some. Both marijuana arrests and [Click Here To Continue Reading]
By Steve Elliott of Toke of the Town A marijuana DUI bill early Tuesday afternoon failed again to clear the Colorado Senate, once again being voted down. The DUI bill has been a rollercoaster for the past two years, reports Michael Roberts at Denver Westword, perhaps due at least partially [Click Here To Continue Reading]
by Mike Liszewski Last week, two Washington, D.C. Area Neighborhood Commissions (ANC) voted unanimously in support of dispensary permit applicants who received provisionally sufficient scores by the District Department of Health to operate in their neighborhoods. Two additional medical cannabis dispensary applicants will have their applications considered at ANC meetings later in [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Jack The Ripper Strain The Jack the Ripper marijuana strain is tied with train wreck for my all time favorite. They grow A LOT of it in Southern Oregon. Trust me I would like to dedicate today’s strain pictures to Dwight Holton, who lost the attorney general race yesterday in [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Ellen Rosenblum Defeats Anti-Marijuana Candidate Dwight Holton To Become Next Oregon Attorney General It wasn’t that long ago that the 2012 Oregon attorney general race was still in it’s infancy. Dwight Holton and Ellen Rosenblum had announced their candidacies for the Democratic Primary, and yet again the Oregon GOP failed [Click Here To Continue Reading]
By Steve Elliott of Toke of the Town Like a bad penny that just won’t go away, Colorado’s marijuana blood-level limit for drivers is back again, and once again is poised for approval, after two previous failures. The Colorado House gave its initial thumbs-up to a bill setting the cannabis [Click Here To Continue Reading]
by Phillip Smith There will be no hash bars or cannabis cafes in Copenhagen at any time in the near future. Over the weekend, the Danish government rejected Copenhagen’s request to experiment with legalizing cannabis sales in the city. In a letter to the Copenhagen city council, Social Democratic Justice [Click Here To Continue Reading]
By Joe Bryant Those of you that keep up with me know that I have a soft spot in my heart for those brave ninjas on the front lines in the war for legalization of our favorite flower. That being said, it should come as no surprise that I am [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Drug Czar Being Disingenuous and Evasive. No Kidding. By Bob Humphreys At the Center for American Progress on May 1, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske answered a question from MPP’s Steve Fox regarding marijuana prohibition. Or did he? What Steve essentially asked is that if a great many Americans use both marijuana [Click Here To Continue Reading]
Chem Dawg Marijuana Strain Chem Dawg is one of the most popular marijuana strains on the planet. I smoked quite a bit of it in my day, and I’ve always been satisfied! Yum, yum. HEMP Cannabis Club
by Philly Buds Though states may vote in favor of beginning medical marijuana, the actual process to get dispensaries up and running is often long and full of delays, sometimes taking years before medical marijuana is actually available for legal sale in the state. That has been the case in [Click Here To Continue Reading]