Federal Government Strikes Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Again
Now medical marijuana patients won't have the option of using credit cards...
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3 Accounting Tricks the Obama Administration Uses to Hide the Cost of the Drug War
Check out Mike Rigg’s detailed article at Reason on how the Obama administration finds clever ways to cook the drug war books, including funding the attack on industrial hemp which isn’t a…
Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 07:04pm, (Issue #742) Ocean City, Maryland, is a popular East Coast beach vacation destination, but it’s also the scene of a major push for marijuana arrests,…
Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 06:00pm, (Issue #742) Nueces County, Texas (pop. 340,000), sits on the Gulf Coast halfway between Houston and the Mexican border, astride drug trafficking corridors headed from…
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 04:51pm, (Issue #742) Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org) Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state’s Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if…
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Credit Card Transactions Canceled at California Medical Pot Dispensaries
The Feds have informed credit card merchant service providers that they must no longer process medical marijuana transactions or risk losing their relationship with Visa and Mastercard forever. Read more about it…
Oregon Expecting to Vote On Recreational Legalization of Marijuana in November
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act will be on the November ballot in Oregon, according to its backers who say they have 165,000 signatures...
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by Phillip Smith, July 04, 2012, 02:57pm A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble…
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17 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
Check out the cool slideshow at Esquire Magazine called “The Best Reasons to Legalize Marijuana.” It lists 17 reasons with gems such as “about half of the 1.64 million people who are…
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War On Drugs is "The Worst Bad Solution"
Don Winslow writes a wonderfully stinging piece on the utter failure that is the War on Drugs in America with its destructive and checkered history. Check out the “The Worst Bad Solution”…
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Group File Petitions for November Ballot
Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted 11,000 pages worth of petitions yesterday to put legalizing medical marijuana on the Arkansas November ballot. The group says they have 67,885 signatures for The Arkansas Medical…
Prohibition, Black Markets, and What is Best for Our Children
One of the most prevalent scare tactics from prohibitionists is how a sensible taxation and regulation policy for marijuana will turn our children into...
Video Interview with Adam Scorgie, Marijuana Documentary Film Maker
Urban Rush interviews Adam Scorgie, who made the amazing 2007 marijuana documentary “ The Union: The Business Behind Getting High ” which really helped changed the perspective of many prohibitionists. They discuss…
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Kentucky Senator Clark unveils Gatewood Galbraith Medical Marijuana Memorial Act
Kentucky Senator Perry Clark held a press conference today to unveil his Gatewood Galbraith Medical Marijuana Memorial Act, which would move marijuana to Schedule II in KY allowing for doctors to legally…
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Raw Story: The ‘Gateway Drug’ is Alcohol, not Marijuana
If you are a weedist, you already know cannabis is not a gateway drug. Guess what is, and is 100% legal…alcohol says a The Journal of School Health study. Stephen Webster at…
Industrial Hemp Uses
You've probably heard quotes from the United States Presidents about how important industrial hemp was to the fledgling US economy:
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Officers Seize 207 Grams of Marijuana at Wisconsin Phish Concert
Walworth County Today reports that drug enforcement officers issued185 citations for possession of marijuana and seized 207 grams at the Phish concert at Alpine Valley Music Theatre near East Troy, WI. What…
Medical Marijuana Update
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 4, 2012: