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Here Is Your Chance to Help End the Failed War on Drugs

Anthony Papa | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Reform, New Mexico, Marijuana, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Treatment, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Ondcp, Cocaine, Politics News

Our nation's drug policy should be based on reason, compassion, health and human rights, but to do so will take a great deal of strategizing and organizing.

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Stiletto Stoners -- Making the Safer Choice

Mason Tvert | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Working Women, The Today Show, Women's Health, Marie Claire, Marijuana, Alcohol, Living News

If we are going to change marijuana laws in this country, we need the public to see marijuana for what it is: a benign intoxicant that millions of Americans use instead of alcohol for recreation and relaxation.

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Stiletto Stoners: Successful Career Women Who Unwind With Pot (VIDEO, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Women Marijuana, Marijuana, Health, Personal Health, Stiletto Stoners, Women's Health, Poll, Style News

In their latest issue, Marie Claire puts the spotlight on 'stiletto stoners,'--educated and successful women who smoke marijuana to relax at the end o...

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National Guard Air Lifts Marijuana During Another Major Bust

Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Drug Bust, Growing Operation, Jefferson County, Canabis, Marijuana, Slideshow, Golden Gate State Park, Colorado, Denver, Denver News

Colorado authorities have harvested yet another marijuana growing operation on state land, after hunters stumbled upon pot growing on Division of Wild...

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Marijuana Found Growing In Jefferson County State Park

The Denver Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Marijuana, Growing Operation, Colorado, Golden Gate State Park, Jefferson County, Denver, West Metro Drug Task Force, Denver News

The West Metro Drug Task Force seized $500,000 worth of marijuana from what's being described as "an elaborate grow operation" in Golden Gate State Pa...

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Marijuana in America: More Mainstream Than Ever, More Arrests Than Ever!

Tony Newman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance, The Today Show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Drug War, Marijuana, Alcohol, Legalize Marijuana, Marie Claire, Racial Profiling, Prohibition, Living News

Need more evidence that marijuana has gone mainstream in America? This morning on The Today Show, Matt Lauer chatted up a piece on so-called "Stiletto Stoners:" educated, professional women who favor marijuana as their intoxicant of choice -- and are increasingly comfortable admitting it.

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Bupe: Drug Researcher Carrie John Dies Of Apparent Overdose, Boyfriend Faces Drug Charges

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

BALTIMORE — A neuroscientist who studied the effects of drugs on the brain is dead of an apparent overdose and her live-in boyfriend, who did si...

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Pot Wars: A Bipartisan Failure

Jessica Corry | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Tom Tancredo, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Regulation, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Policy, Hillary Clinton, Colorado, Prohibition, Denver News

Democrats calculate they will have nothing to gain by legalizing. Republicans fear angering a socially conservative base of voters all too eager to forget its beer-bonging college days.

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Criminalizing Smoking Is Not the Answer: Bans on Cloves and Outdoor Smoking Will Backfire!

Tony Newman | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Drug Policy Alliance, Mayor Bloomberg, Cigarettes, Drug War, Banning Menthol Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cloves, Smoking-Banned-in-Public-Places, Fda, New York City, Living News

While I support many restrictions on public smoking, such as at restaurants and workplaces, I believe the outdoor smoking ban and prohibition of cloves will lead to harmful and unintended consequences.

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Medical Marijuana: Law Week Colorado Previews Tuesday's Landmark Decision

Colorado Law Review | Kate Klein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Boulder County, Stacy Clendenin, Colorado Court of Appeals, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Boulder Colorado, Marijuana Colorado, Robert Corry, Colorado 420 Coalition, Denver News

DENVER -- The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear a critical case regarding medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday. People v. Clendenin originated in ...

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Despite Decriminalization Law Attendees Get Ticketed At Boston Pro-Pot Rally

The Boston Globe | September 19, 2009 06:19 PM | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana Decriminalization, Boston, Pro-Pot Rally, Marijuana, Police, Protest, Decriminalization, Massachusetts, Legalize Marijuana, Politics News

The new law decriminalizes possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. But that did not stop police from handing out handfuls of $100 tickets when ...

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Free the 'Prince of Pot?' You Be the Judge...

Mason Tvert | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marc Emery, Drugs, Canada, War on Drugs, Pot, Legalization, Marijuana, Politics News

Emery operated his seed business entirely in Canada with no American branches or employees and he conducted business openly in Canada without ever facing charges of manufacturing or distributing marijuana.

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

Chicago Sun-Times | Dan Rozek | Posted 11.16.2009 | 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 11.15.2009 | 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 11.15.2009 | 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 11.14.2009 | 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 11.14.2009 | 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 11.10.2009 | 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 11.09.2009 | 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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