// // The President of the United States of America is NOT your beer buddy, nor should he be. After bringing national attention to an event that happens all the time, to marijuana users, our President Obama invited Vice President Biden to join Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cambr[...]
Archive for July, 2009
July 31st, 2009 - 12:32 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–The President of the United States of America is NOT Your Beer Buddy
July 27th, 2009 - 5:45 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS—Judge Disallows Medical Marijuana Defense to Multiple Sclerosis Patient
// // Multiple Sclerosis sufferer John Wilson of New Jersey is facing 20 years in prison for growing weed in his backyard. He’s accused of first-degree maintaining or operating a drug production facility, second-degree manufacturing and third-degree drug possession. And, to make matters [...]
July 22nd, 2009 - 2:25 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–California Initiative to Legalize Marijuana Planned
Get ready Californians…we’ll all soon be able to vote on the legalization of marijuana. Plans are in the works, says Oaksterdam University’s Richard Lee, to submit an initiative to the secretary of state to legalize the recreational use and taxation of pot statewide. “WeR[...]
July 22nd, 2009 - 8:43 am § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–Voters Approve Landmark Cannabis Tax In Oakland
We did it! Oakland residents voted Tuesday and overwhelmingly approved a first-of-its kind tax on medical marijuana! So far preliminary results show that Measure F passed with 80% of the vote, says the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Measure F is scheduled to take effect at Oakland’s four [...]
July 21st, 2009 - 8:12 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–Voting Ends in Oakland on Increasing Marijuana Tax
// // Today marks the close of mail-in voting for Oakland’s Measure F, a new ordinance that’ll impose a special tax on the sale of medical cannabis in the city’s four dispensaries. If given the green light the measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States[...]
July 21st, 2009 - 9:27 am § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–Rhode Island Senate Commission to Study Legalization of Marijuana
// // Wondering just how much they’ll cash in if they were to make all sales of marijuana legal and impose a “sin tax” of $35 per ounce, the state of Rhode Island has created a “Special Senate Commission to Study the Prohibition of Marijuana,” says Senator, Joshua Mil[...]
July 20th, 2009 - 10:19 am § in BREAKING NEWS
Want to Score Some Marijuana? There’s an App for That
Dude, there’s an app for everything. You want to find not only weed but a doctor to recommend it to ya? There’s an app for that. Or let’s say you need a weed-wise attorney or you’re feeling like getting up on a soap box and letting lose about pot politics and need to find the[...]
July 15th, 2009 - 2:10 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
Sotomayor Admits to Not Being an Expert in Marijuana Growing
As the judiciary hearings continue… a clearly bored Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) discusses the constitutional right to privacy with Sonia Sotomayor who admits that she’s ” not an expert in marijuana growing.” [...]
July 15th, 2009 - 9:36 am § in BREAKING NEWS
US Border Patrol Seizes Record Amount of Weed
Over the past 9 1/2 months U.S. Border Patrollers in Tuscon have seized a record 1 million pounds of marijuana! That’s an estimated street value of $800 million! And, none of it will find it’s way into our country’s struggling economy. What’s even more sad is that one milli[...]
July 13th, 2009 - 2:55 pm § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–Escondido CA Bans Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
The City Council in Escondido California voted 4-0 to adopt an urgency ordinance that places a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries effectively keeping medicine out of the hands of those who need it. To further stand in the way of progress the council can extend the moratorium up to a[...]
July 12th, 2009 - 11:25 am § in BREAKING NEWS
Breaking News–New Hampshire Veto Medical Marijuana Bill
New Hampshire Democratic Governor John Lynch just vetoed new legislation that would have made NH the 14th state to legalize marijuana. Apparently, Lynch has been bagging on the legislation for quite a while and even forced a rewrite, saying the bill had too many defects. “I understand and empathiz[...]
July 10th, 2009 - 10:00 am § in BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS–CA Cannabis Clubs Offer to Raise Taxes
Governor Schwarzenegger declared a statewide fiscal emergency in California last week since legislators failed to agree on a budget. To pitch in and help poor California dig ourselves out of a staggering $24 billion deficit dispensaries over in Oakland have a radical idea…they’re offerin[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 10:25 am § in BREAKING NEWS
Breaking News–Pro-Marijuana Ad to Air on TV
So the cool cats over at the Marijuana Policy Project have paid for and launched a 30-second television commercial that supports the legalization of marijuana (check it out below). The ad will begin airing today and features a retired 58-year-old state worker who says state leaders “are igno[...]
