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Marijuana Salesman Discovers Door-to-Door Sales is Risky Business

11-18-2009 • Ginn

A door-to-door marijuana salesman gets busted. A few tips for aspiring doobie venders. #1 would be: avoid calling on off-duty cops at their homes.

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Smokers quickly find tax loophole

11-17-2009 • AP

Tobacco for roll-your-own cigarettes saw a disproportionate leap, from $1.10 to $24.78 per pound. Some predicted the tax would kill the roll-your-own industry, which had offered a cheaper alternative to packaged cigarettes. But....

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Government Drug Teleconference Punked by Stoners

11-15-2009 • Denver Westworld

What happens when the state decides to hold a last-minute meeting on a controversial topic like medical marijuana, then tries to hold it via a conference call using technology that apparently no one knows how to work? Comic genius.

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Portland Opens First Medical Marijuana Cafe at Former Erotic Club Rumpspankers

11-14-2009 • Ginn

Portland opened its first medical marijuana cafe in a building with a colorful history.

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American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status

11-14-2009 • norml.org via Rense.com

American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status.

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Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski Town

11-13-2009 • NY Times

High-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years. Even before last week’s town vote here that decriminalized the possession of small amounts

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Cocaine Vaccine

11-13-2009 • arclein

But one trial participant says he does know. He left Daytop after receiving all three shots and immediately started injecting megahits of cocaine with a lady friend over the course of a weekend—to no avail. This report is, of course, what scientists

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FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs

11-08-2009 • AP

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online. The agency sent letters this week to more than a dozen Web-based companies saying they are violatin

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Congressman Frank was present during 2007 marijuana bust

11-08-2009 • Rawstory

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was at the home of his partner when police arrested and charged him with marijuana cultivation, possession and paraphernalia. Charges were dropped after he admitted to possession and paid a fine.

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Shhhhh.....On the "Q.T.," the US is legalizing marijuana

11-03-2009 • Times of London

Does that mean I get my life and career back? Not likely, methinks.

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Sacked – for Telling the Truth About Drugs (UK)

11-01-2009 • Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com

The (UK) Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.

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Push to Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California

10-28-2009 • NY Times

These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana.

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Bill would give leverage to federal medical marijuana defendants

10-28-2009 • Rawstory

The "Truth in Trials Act," "enables individuals facing federal prosecution for marijuana-related offenses to provide evidence during trial that the activities they were engaged in were performed in compliance with their state’s duly-enacted medical m

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Drug-War Assassinations

10-28-2009 • FFF / Jacob Hornberger

The Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan. No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.

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One backpack at a time, smuggling ring packed thousands of pounds of marijuana through Tohono O’odha

10/28/2009 • The Sierra Vista Herald

Local and federal law enforcement officers said they have broken up a drug transportation ring that was bringing 60,000 pounds of marijuana into Arizona one backpack at a time. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the operation came to light with a r

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Bong water is an illegal drug, Minn. Supreme Court rules

10-22-2009 • City Pages via digg

Time to dump your bong water in case the feds show up at your door. They might think you actually plan to drink it later

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Gallup poll finds record support for legalizing marijuana

10-20-2009 • Digital Journal

A new study by Gallup shows almost half of Americans -- a record number -- are in support of legalizing and taxing marijuana for recreational use by adults.

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LA's Top Prosecutor Vows to Target Pot Shops

10-19-2009 • AP

He wasn't expecting the phone call one August day when a voice said the police were outside and he needed to open up or they would bust down the door. His first thought, that it was a joke, turned to terror when he opened the door. Heavily armed o

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New medical marijuana policy issued

10-18-2009 • AP

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors, who will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest

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Will Mexican violence spill over border?

10-15-2009 • ABC

So will it spill further into Texas? Absolutely, says the drug smuggler. "It will in the future. It will escalate, escalate and continue to escalate," he said. What does he think about us reporting from Juarez? "You might as well write your last will

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Marijuana Phone Poll Confuses Many

10-15-2009 • showmethefacts.org

I got a call from California this morning asking me to make a phone call to help legalize marijuana in that state. Here is what I found out - Ed.

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Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn (VIDEO)

10-14-2009 • HuffPo

A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. David Bronner, the president of Dr.

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Hemp activists plant seeds at DEA Headquarters lawn

10-13-2009 • Washington Post

You want to dig a garden, you need a shovel. You want to dig a guerrilla garden of illegal hemp on the front lawn of Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters and get arrested for the cameras, you need a symbol.

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Woman calls police to report theft of pot plants

10-13-2009 • Breitbart

There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men ha

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US Pot Growers Pose Threat to Mexican Cartels

10-12-2009 • Brisbane Times via Rense.com

Drug gang bosses are responding to a boom in production triggered by medical marijuana laws, write Steve Fainaru and William Booth.

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Money Squandered on the Drug War

10-12-2009 • War on Drugs Clock

The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars. Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy State an

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Justice officials won’t take oath before briefing

10-09-2009 • AP

A House intelligence committee meeting was abruptly terminated when Justice Department officials refused to be sworn in before briefing the lawmakers. They were to brief the committee on the 2001 shootdown of a plane over Peru that was carrying Ameri