Tag: marijuana
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Food Bubble, Government Weed, Competing Currencies
Story#1: Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starves Millions & Gets Away With It // Story#2: Oakland Marijuana Law Passes; ‘Pot Factories’ Coming to Bay Area // Story#3: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Michigan
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Oakland Marijuana Law Passes; ‘Pot Factories’ Coming to Bay Area
Oakland approves marijuana farms // How legalized pot could hurt Mexico’s cartels // Ecstasy as a viable treatment for trauma victims?
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Marijuana Workers Join Union In California
A California union made up largely of grocery store and retail clerks has reached out to employees of local marijuana clubs, looking to the day when legal recreational use of cannabis could mean thousands of new workers to organize.
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5/27 newspurge: wake up the nation
9/11 updates: former cia officials admit to faking bin laden video* top construction firm: wtc destroyed by controlled demolition* gop: US can’t afford to fund health ‘entitlement program’ for 9/11 rescue workers* study finds more male babies miscarried in 9/11 aftermath* drugwar: plummeting marijuana prices create a panic in california* 100s of ‘pot plants’ seized…
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5/13 Newspurge: One Dose Of Truth
9/11 Updates: Hillary: Pakistan officials ‘harboring’ bin Laden* Some Pak officials know where Osama is* 9/11 families oppose Holder proposal to modify Miranda* Drugwar: Militarized swat drug raids on the rise* California cops prepare to waste more money ‘eradicating’ pot* Govt deals heroin, terrorizes for pot* Video: Pelosi says treating drugs cheaper than stopping drugs*…
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4/29 Newspurge: Let The Poison Spill
Homeland security probing blast that sank oil rig // Big Brother to track your medication compliance with electronic transmitters in pills // Proliferation experts worry bioattacks being ignored // Coca cultivation rises in Colombia ‘despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program’
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Drugwars: Sterilization, Scandals & Truth
“Don’t let a pregnancy get in the way of your crack habit”: Why drug addicts are getting sterilized for cash // San Fran crime lab at center of growing scandal // Let’s tell the truth about marijuana // Another drug record for Afghanistan
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Legalizing Marijuana: The Golden State’s Pot of Gold?
This week, a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana possession by adults qualified for the California ballot. The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 is coming up for a vote.
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3/25 Newspurge: Greenwash, Guidestones & Oregon Oddities
Green consumers smugness leads to lying & cheating // FDA asks why GSK vaccine has a pig virus called ‘porcine circovirus 1’ // ‘Undercover Boss’ running cover for corporate America // Pope ‘failed to act’ on US sex abuse claims // Oregon lawsuit claims Boy Scouts coverup of sex abuse – Possible release of ‘perversion…
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Bio/Drugwar Updates: Contamination, Collapse & Fighting Back
New research from Natl Academy of Sciences: Atrazine, common weedkiller, turns male frogs into females // Georgia has glut of swine flu vaccine // Chinese fluoride is a Homeland Security matter // Glaxo pays out $1B in birth defect cases with 600 lawsuits to go
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‘how weed won the west’: new doc exposes the drugwar
from infowars: In the follow-up to his ground-breaking documentary ‘American Drug War,’ filmmaker Kevin Booth traces the fight against Federal drug regulation in the State of California. A public majority has spoken and said yes to states rights, allowing for the use of medicinal marijuana and opening up a new front in controversial medicinal ‘dispensaries.’…
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US waves white flag in disastrous ‘war on drugs’
after 40yrs, washington is quietly giving up on a futile battle that has spread corruption & destroyed thousands of lives from independent: After 40 years of defeat and failure, America’s “war on drugs” is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being…
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more media/memes on legalizing & taxing marijuana
from abcnews: Not there yet, but the roundtable seemed to think that the legalization of marijuana is coming. John Podesta even suggested (in jest?) taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. The times they are a-changin’. flashback: feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
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feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
from ap: Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department. Under the policy spelled out in a three-page legal memo, federal prosecutors are being told it is not a good…
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10/15 newspurge
drugwar: los angeles district atty says ‘about 100%’ of medical marijuana dispensaries are illegal*fake bus part of $1.7m pot bust* envirohealth:pacific ocean ‘dead zone’ in northwest may be irreversible*children exposed to harmful radiation from unnecessary ct scans*haarp: scientists create ‘artificial ionosphere’ using radio waves*feds: ‘giant invading snakes’ will soon rule US*video: an inconvenient question: al…