Tag: marijuana
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Food Stamps at Pot Shops Banned Under Colorado Bill
from abcnews.go.com: Food stamps for a pot brownie? It’s an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen. A bill proposed this week by several Republicans would add marijuana dispensaries to liquor stores, gun shops and casinos as places where recipients of public assistance payments and food stamps can’t…
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Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Marijuana Buyers
from nytimes.com: Customers began lining up before dawn on Wednesday to take part in what they called a historic departure from drug laws focused on punishment and prohibition. Many had flown in or driven hours specifically to buy a bag of marijuana. At the Medicine Man dispensary in Denver, which claims it is the closest…
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Uruguay OKs First National Marketplace for Marijuana
from usatoday.com: Uruguay’s Senate gave final congressional approval Tuesday to create the world’s first national marketplace for legal marijuana, an audacious experiment that will have the government oversee production, sales and consumption of a drug illegal almost everywhere else. The vote was 16 to 13, with the governing Broad Front majority united in favor. The…
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Video: Bogus Drug War – Inside Canada’s Weed Business
from brasschecktv.com: $20 billion a year (at least) in tax free cash. A bigger market for Canada than wheat and produces more exports than fishing. It employs more people that mining and forestry combined. Canadians are discovering their “green thumbs.” In one town in British Columbia, Grand Forks, it’s believed one house in ten is…
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Police Use ‘Nose Telescope’ for Cannabis Odor Mapping
Denver has passed a new “odour ordinance” with a potential $2,000 (£1,247) fine for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere.
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Poll: For First Time, Majority Favor Marijuana Legalization
from gallup.com: For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. And now for the first time, a clear majority of Americans (58%) say the drug should be legalized. This is in sharp contrast to the…
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Armored SWAT Raids Farm After Mistaking Tomatoes for Marijuana
from StoryLeak.com: In a powerful display of the war on drugs, armored SWAT members have reportedly ‘destroyed’ a farm during a marijuana raid that was the result of one officer mistaking tomato plants for a marijuana growing operation. But perhaps the most important part of this story is the method as to which the raid…
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Video: Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Inside Man’ On Medical Marijuana
from CNN.com: The premiere episode presents an inside look into the medical marijuana industry as Morgan Spurlock works in a medical marijuana dispensary in California.
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Video – WEED: A Dr. Sanjay Gupta Special
Also check out Dr. Gupta’s interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan here
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode147 – Fukushima Anniversary, UN Narcotics, Lobbying For Labeling
Story #1: Two Year Anniversary of Fukushima – The Accident Is NOT Contained // Story #2: United Nations Says Colorado, Washington Legal Pot Violates Drug Treaties // Story #3: Whole Foods Announces Mandatory GMO Labeling By 2018
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New World Next Week: Episode135 – War Crimes Wishlist, Wyden Taps Out, Obama v. Pot
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode135 – War Crimes Wishlist, Wyden Taps Out, Obama v. Pot Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes…
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Warning To All Pot Smokers In Colorado, Washington
Inhale while you can, my brothers and sisters, because Obama is already plotting how to re-criminalize your swag and nullify states’ rights.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode131 – Hopenosis Hangover, Fiscal Cliffs, Chinese Transfers
https://archive.org/download/20121108NewWorldNextWeek131/20121108_NewWorldNextWeek131-b.mp4 Download MP4 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Obamessiah Gets Four More Years of Fronting For The Empire Prop. 37 Narrowly Defeated By Corporate Millions, Deceptive Ads…
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Three Michigan Cities Quietly Decriminalize Marijuana Too
After a monumental Election Day that saw two states, Colorado and Washington, legalize marijuana, few people paid attention to similar measure that passed in three large Michigan cities.
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Colorado, Washington First States to Legalize Recreational Pot
Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday in defiance of federal law, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the Obama administration.