HSBC Bank Admits Cartel Money Laundering
Banking entity HSBC Group has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion & pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money for Mexican drug cartels.
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Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Could Be Banned in Pittsburg California
The Pittsburg, California Planning Commission will consider a staff recommendation to ban medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Marijuana Shot Over Border Fence With Cannon Seized
US Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside soup cans inside of larger cans and sealed on the ends. Drug smugglers were using a cannon to fire...
Gallup: Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Butt Out of State Marijuana Laws
Sixty-four percent of Americans oppose the federal government interfering in state laws that allow for the legal use of the substance by adults...
6-year-old California Boy’s Violent Seizures Dramatically Subside With Help of Liquid Marijuana
Child’s father said seizures were a daily nightmare for Jayden David before the medical marijuana treatment. But medical experts question risks of treating children with the drug.
Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption
The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, "On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans."
LA Medical Cannabis Advocates Submit 70,000 Initiative Signatures
A coalition of LA medical cannabis patients, providers, & organized labor submitted 70k signatures on Fri to qualify a voter initiative for the May ballot.
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AG Eric Holder Says Administration Will Announce Marijuana Policy Soon
US Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing cannabis
Breaking the Taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo
Breaking the Taboo is a must-see documentary arguing to end the failed War on Drugs (#BreakTheTaboo)
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Austin Lawmaker Says Timing Right for Medical Marijuana Bill
State Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) has tried to pass legislation concerning medical marijuana in the past and plans on submitting a new bill in the...
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media
A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, "Obama's Pot Problem," missed the mark on the federal preemption question on marijuana legalization...
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Washington State Bar Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up
Washington state residents can legally smoke marijuana in the privacy of their living rooms as of Thursday. Bar owner Frank Schnarr suggests, area stoners have another option: grab a booth at Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill in Olympia and toke up there.
Feds Say City of Oakland Can't Stop Medical Pot Crackdown
The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary...
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End the War on Marijuana, NYPD
In New York City, NYPD marijuana arrests have persistently outnumbered arrests for any other crime in recent years.
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Washington Could Become Pot Source for Neighbors
As Washington state sets up a cannabis supply system (barring the Feds stepping in), it could become a greater source of pot for users in...
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New York Times: A Big Business in Getting High
New York Times: "Glorifying marijuana has arguably turned out to be shrewd public relations moves" for under-30 female singers Rihanna, Lady Gaga and...
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Pot Prices - November 2012
Pot Prices from High Times: While the US Price and Kind indices essentially held steady in Nov, the Mids Index experienced a jump in average price of $25.
Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top
Almost 25,000 of our fellow citizens have signed a White House petition asking President Obama to pardon Montana medical cannabis provider Chris Williams...