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Kym Krocza: Fox Lake Teacher Allegedly Paid Students For Housework With Zoloft, Marijuana, Alcohol

Chicago Sun-Times | Dan Rozek | Posted 09.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Math Teacher, School, Marijuana, Teacher, Alcohol, Housework, Chicago, Fox Lake, Students, Crime, Kym Krocza, Zoloft, Chicago News

A teacher at a Fox Lake high school recruited two teenage girls to do chores around her home -- then paid the 14-year-olds for their work with marijua...

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Pot Arrests for Year 2008 Second Highest Total Ever Reported

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cannabis, Arrests, Marijuana, Norml, Drug Enforcement Administration, Thc, Obama, Uniform Crime Report, Fbi, Politics News

NORML Director Allen St. Pierre: Present enforcement policies are costing American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and having no impact on marijuana availability or use.

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Forest Service Apologizes For Profiling Hispanic Campers As Pot Growers

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Forest Service Marijauna, Forest Service Hispanics, Marijuana, Forest Service, Green News

DENVER — The U.S. Forest Service has apologized for suggesting that campers who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music may be a...

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Andrew Sullivan's "Special" Treatment Should Be Standard

Mason Tvert | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pot, Andrew Sullivan, Legalization, Marijuana, Weed, Prohibition, Alcohol, Politics News

Sullivan may have received special treatment, but he received the appropriate treatment. Now, we need to change our marijuana laws so that this appropriate treatment is the rule, not the exception.

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Man Tells Cops Pot Plants Were For His Dog

Joliet Herald News | JOE HOSEY | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dog Marijuana, Marijuana, Pot for Dogs, Pot Bust, Chicago News

The cops found a pair of large pot plants growing in the back yard of a Twin Falls Drive residence last week, but the man of the house explained he wa...

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Marijuana Use By The Numbers

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

By age 25, 54 percent of the population has admittedly used marijuana. Does anyone still believe that marijuana prohibition is working -- or that all of these people deserve to be behind bars?

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U.S. Forest Service Warns Hikers To Beware Of Campers Drinking Tecate Beer, Eating Tortillas and Playing Spanish Music

Think Progress | Posted 09.09.2009 | Green

Read More: National Forests, Hikers, Marijuana Growers, Marijuana, U.S. Forest Service, Campers, Green News

The US Forest Service issued and then retracted a Labor Day warning advising hikers to "beware of campers in national forests drinking Tecate beer, ea...

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Police Seize Rocket Launcher, TNT In Raid

STNG | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Explosives, Rocket Launcher, Marijuana, Guns, Cocaine, Antioch Police, Chicago Crime, Chicago News

Explosives, one live rocket launcher, a cache of guns, marijuana and cocaine were confiscated Wednesday from a home in unincorporated Antioch, and a f...

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Blind, Diabetic, Double-Amputee Dies After Being Evicted for Medical Marijuana Use

Anthony Papa | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Drug War, Marijuana, Politics News

Marijuana is an indispensable medicine that helps mitigate chronic pain and stimulates appetite. Patients suffering from cancer, AIDS and other forms of disease greatly benefit from access to marijuana.

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Colorado Should Toughen Stance On Illegal Immigrants: GOP Lawmaker

The Denver Daily News | Gene Davis | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Marijuana, Colorado Immigration, Drug Cartels, Colorado GOP, Colorado State Legislature, Colorado, Dave Schultheis, Bill Ritter, Illegal Immgration, Denver News

Following this month's bust of 14,500 marijuana plants that allegedly were in part being grown by Mexican migrant workers, a Colorado Springs senator ...

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Colorado Attorney General: State Should Investigate Top Pot-Subscribing Doctors

The Denver Post | John Ingold | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: John Suthers, Medical Marijuana, Rob Corry, Marijuana Doctors, Marijuana, Colorado Board of Medical Examiners, Colorado, Denver News

Two doctors account for more than a third of the patients on Colorado's medical-marijuana registry, and five doctors account for more than 50 percent ...

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Mexico and Argentina Move to Decriminalize Marijuana and Other Drugs

Tony Newman | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Latin America, Mexico Drug War, Ethan Nadelmann, Marijuana, Argentina, Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Heroin, Legalization, Mexico Drug Wars, Cocaine, World News

In the last week both Mexico and Argentina made international news by passing a law and making a major Supreme Court ruling calling for low-level drug offenders to receive treatment instead of jail.

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Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Drugs, Mexico, Mexico's Drug War, Heroin, Mexico Decriminalizes Drug Possession, Marijuana, Cocaine, Mexico Decriminalize Drugs, Mark Stevenson Drug Possession, Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession, Mexico Decriminalizes, World News

MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday – a move that prosecutors say makes sense eve...

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Nearly $2.5 Million Worth Of Pot Torched By Authorities (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cook County Marijuana, Video, Cook County Forest Preserve, Marijuana, Chicago Pot Bust, Palos Township Marijuana, War on Drugs, Chicago News

Nearly $2.5 million worth of marijuana went up in smoke Wednesday when Cook County Forest Preserve police and DEA agents set fire to a cache of plants...

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A Former Police Chief on New Marijuana Book

Norm Stamper | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Law Enforcement, Marijuana, Alcohol, Violence, Drug War, Marijuana Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

I do not believe drug policy reform should end with the legalization of marijuana. Yet, when asked to contribute a foreword to the new book Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink, I eagerly accepted.

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Save our Forests: Legalize Pot

Paul Korda | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana, Forests, Legalizing Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Politics News

We are witnessing a widening of the War on Drugs. The enemy -- organized crime, particularly the Mexican Drug Cartel -- is following a Scorched Earth Policy, literally.

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Some Baby Boomers Still Get High: Report

AP | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Baby Boomers Pot, Marijuana, Baby Boomers Marijuana, Style News

WASHINGTON — Forty years after Woodstock, some baby boomers haven't let go of one part of the 1960s: getting high on illicit drugs. The percent...

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Task Force Raids LA Marijuana Dispensaries, Shoots Dog (HuffPost Exclusive: Search Warrant)

Anthony Citrano | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raids, California, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Obama Drug Policy, Dea, Los Angeles, Eric Holder, Exclusive, Drug Policy, Politics News

There hasn't been a more confusing legal environment regarding marijuana than there is now in California, as recent multi-agency raids on two L.A. medical marijuana dispensaries demonstrate.

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Nick Rosen: Pot-Smoking Israeli Sold Kidney For $20K In U.S. Black Market

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home

Read More: New York, Marijuana, Nick Rosen, Organs, Black Market Kidney, Hospitals, Nick Rosen Kidney, Organ Donors, Israel, Home News

NEW YORK — In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For...

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Weeds, Episode 11 Recap

Holly Cara Price | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Celia has entered a whole new world; from cosmetic sales to drug dealing and now, dios mio! she's exploring lesbianism. That's how it happens, I've heard.

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If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Norml, Marijuana, Obama, Pot, California, Epa, Cannabis, Lung Cancer, Ucla, Alcohol, Brown University, Thc, Cancer, Legalization, Tashkin, Armentano, Living News

Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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Huge California Wildfire Caused By Marijuana Farm; Suspects At Large In Forest

Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: California Wildfire, Illegla Marijuana, Drugs, California, Marijuana, Pot Farms, Green News

A fire that has burned more than 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County over the last week was started in an illegal marijuana growing area operated by ...

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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll in Redneck Country

Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

Read More: President Nixon, Joan Baez Woodstock, Marijuana, Vietnam War, Acid, Woodstock, Catskill Mountains, Politics of Ecstasy, Pot, Hippies, Timothy Leary, Lsd, Woodstock Anniversary, Joan Baez, New York, Music Festival, Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll, American Music Festivals, New York News

He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.

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Over 2,500 Marijuana Plants Worth $2.5M Burned By Authorities

Daily Herald | Jameel Naqvi | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mchenry County, Marijuana Plants Burned, Marijuana, War on Drugs, Mchenry County Marijuana, Chicago News

McHenry County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday chopped up and burned more than 2,500 marijuana plants found in an unincorporated area near Woodstock....

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Michael Vick: A Bird of Prey Once More

Abe Silk | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Atlanta Falcons, Marijuana, Michael Vick, Roger Goodell, Atlanta Hawks, Dog Flighting, Nfl, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Braves, University of Georgia Bulldogs, Entertainment News

Vick has paid for his transgressions. He was once the highest paid athlete in the NFL, he had lucrative endorsement deals, real estate holdings, and business ventures, all of which are gone.

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