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The best cannabis posts from around the web

January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Indonesia Court Gives British Grandma Death for Drugs

Indonesia Court Gives British Grandma Death for Drugs

An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a British woman to death for trying to smuggle about 10 pounds of cocaine into the resort island of Bali, the anti-death...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Erie, Broomfield Approve Moratorium on Marijuana Businesses

Erie, Broomfield Approve Moratorium on Marijuana Businesses

Erie, CO just approved a moratorium on the licensing of marijuana businesses until Oct. 1, which would prevent businesses from opening before all the A64 regulations are...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Louisiana Deputy Sheriff Scott Sigur Fired for Selling Synthetic Marijuana

Louisiana Deputy Sheriff Scott Sigur Fired for Selling Synthetic Marijuana

Scott Sigur, a Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy was fired last week when a Sheriff’s Office investigation determined that he had been selling synthetic marijuana online after it was outlawed in...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Denver City Council May Ban Amendment 64 Businesses

Denver City Council May Ban Amendment 64 Businesses

Denver’s City Council is divided over Amendment 64. Councilman Chris Herndon said voters in his district told him, “Don’t you dare put a commercial establishment in my...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
NORML Women’s Alliance Celebrates 3 Year Anniversary

NORML Women’s Alliance Celebrates 3 Year Anniversary

In January 2010, NORML launched what would become one of the most successful programs in the history of the organization.  The NORML Women’s Alliance also became the first nationwide...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Medical Marijuana Supplier, Matt Davies, Speaks out on Federal Charges

Medical Marijuana Supplier, Matt Davies, Speaks out on Federal Charges

Matt Davies, the 34-year-old father of two is caught between state law that permits medical marijuana and federal law that declares all marijuana illegal. He talks to...
January 24, 2013
01/24/2013
Colombia’s FARC Wants Legal Coca Cultivation

Colombia’s FARC Wants Legal Coca Cultivation

In peace talks in Havana Tuesday, Colombia’s FARC guerrillas called on the Colombian government to consider legalizing coca cultivation. The proposal was part of the FARC’s broader proposal...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
National Medical Marijuana Company’s Revenue is up 1,100%

National Medical Marijuana Company’s Revenue is up 1,100%

Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA), is a national medical marijuana company that has products available in many states that have medical marijuana. The company’s net income was $3.39M...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Colorado Marijuana Task Force Organizing for Amendment 64

Colorado Marijuana Task Force Organizing for Amendment 64

The 24-member Amendment 64 Marijuana Task Force, created by Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper on Dec. 10th, is dividing into 5 working groups. They must develop their implementation recommendations by Feb. 28th. All rules and...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Bills Filed in Oklahoma for Medical Marijuana and Penalty Reduction

Bills Filed in Oklahoma for Medical Marijuana and Penalty Reduction

State Sen. Constance Johnson has filed separate bills to establish a medical marijuana program in Oklahoma and to reduce the penalties for possession of small amounts of...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
War on Marijuana – Protecting Teens? Hasn’t Worked

War on Marijuana – Protecting Teens? Hasn’t Worked

Steve Chapman explains the failures of existing drug laws to protect minors. He cites the fact that while alcohol and tobacco use have decreased in teens over...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Oklahoma Woman Seeks Medical Treatment, Is Jailed Instead, Dies

Oklahoma Woman Seeks Medical Treatment, Is Jailed Instead, Dies

A pregnant Oklahoma woman who went to a hospital seeking treatment for extreme pain was instead jailed after police found pain pills on her and died in...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Excellent Infographic – National Marijuana Prices

Excellent Infographic – National Marijuana Prices

This excellent infographic describes the varying prices of marijuana. Made by floatingsheep.org using data from the anonymous feedback site PriceOfWeed.com, this map describes the low prices of...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Support Rises from Both Parties to Legalize Medical Marijuana in Iowa

Support Rises from Both Parties to Legalize Medical Marijuana in Iowa

The Iowa debate about medical marijuana is growing, with both support and opposition from all sides of the political spectrum.
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013

Federal Court Denies Petition to Reschedule Marijuana

In a 28-page decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied petitioners’ request to overturn the July 2011 denial by the...
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Austin, Texas Lawmaker, Elliott Naishtat, Files Medical Marijuana Bill

Austin, Texas Lawmaker, Elliott Naishtat, Files Medical Marijuana Bill

Representative Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, has filed a bill that stops well short of legalizing marijuana, but still provides a medical excuse to avoid punishment.
January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
City Attorney Refuses Mayor’s Request to Drop Cases

City Attorney Refuses Mayor’s Request to Drop Cases

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith dashed off a letter to litigants in medical marijuana dispensary cases indicating he is not answerable to his client the Mayor and manufacturing...
January 22, 2013
01/22/2013
David Bowie’s Son, Duncan Jones, Supports Medical Marijuana

David Bowie’s Son, Duncan Jones, Supports Medical Marijuana

David Bowie’s son, film director Duncan Jones, has revealed that his wife Rodene has been suffering from cancer. He says that she benefits from “a world of...
January 22, 2013
01/22/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.21)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.21)

There’s something fishy in a Virginia evidence room, a Louisiana deputy gets in trouble for peddling fake weed, three suburban Chicago cops were running a dirty racket,...
January 22, 2013
01/22/2013
Man Who Worked on Marijuana Farm as Teenager Gets 5 Years

Man Who Worked on Marijuana Farm as Teenager Gets 5 Years

Nathaniel Harshman, now only 20 years old, has been sentenced to 5 years for working on a 477-plant marijuana grow operation in Alaska in 2011. This is...