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Vermont decriminalizes marijuana possession
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed into law a measure that replaces criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana with civil fines.
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How a Doctor Came to Believe in Medical Marijuana
A California M.D. says it’s time to repeal marijuana-prohibition laws. ‘At long last and practically against my will, I am doing the right thing,’ writes Daniela Drake.
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Pastor: God Doesn't Care If You Smoke Weed
A network of pastors is speaking out against the so-called "war on drugs" and the devastating effect it has had, particularly on the black community.
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Tech Giants Are Giving Quiet Aid To Pot Activists
Cancer patients who Google the words "chemotherapy nausea" today get a host of advertisements for treatment, including pills, skin patches and folk remedies used to prevent vomiting. Next month, however, the same search will turn up an ad for something a bit more controversial: medical marijuana.
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Pot heads lazy? Long-term use linked to less dopamine
New research discovers long-term cannabis users tend to produce less dopamine, a chemical in the brain linked to motivation.
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Weed makes you unmotivated?
False.
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Zach Galifianakis Smokes Weed On National Television "Bill Maher's Show"!
Zach Galifianakis (From The Movie "The Hangover) Smokes Weed On National Television "Bill Maher's Show"! (Audience Could Smell It).
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You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
Ohhh yeaaah!
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How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy
Abby Martin takes a look at the real reason why hemp is illegal in the US, the truth might surprise you.
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Weed War: Marijuana Plants Sprout across German City
The German university city of Göttingen is being taken over by marijuana plants. Behind the phenomenon is a group of pro-pot activists who planted seeds around town to stir debate over the plant's illegal status. City authorities are not amused.
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Washington D.C. to consider legalizing marijuana
A bill has been introduced that would virtually eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenses in Washington D.C.
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How marijuana could find its way into farmers markets
One day, Colorado residents could be buying weed along with their organic produce, if Justin Hartfield successfully convinces the Boulder County Farmers Market to include a marijuana booth. Hartfield, the California founder of WeedMaps.com, got his inspiration from Seattle's NW Cannabis Farmers Market, which is made up of 20 to 30 growers that sell medical marijuana.
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Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president Vicente Fox
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said on Friday.
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The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana'
The drug has been intertwined with race and ethnicity since well before the word "marijuana" was coined. Turns out there's an awful lot we don't know for sure about the recent history of the cannabis plant.
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Feds Raid Pot Dispensaries in Washington, Where the Drug is Legal.
As state laws decriminalizing marijuana begin to take effect (and grow in number), proponents of access to the drug have been holding their breaths to see how the feds would react. And in Washington State, it looks like several medical marijuana dispensaries found out the answer today as the Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed a series of raids in the Seattle area.
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Legal Weed is Hurting San Francisco's Hippies
Seated on a blanket in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Kenny describes how the park has changed during his ten year absence spent growing weed in the California wilderness. “The hippy kids used to be able to sell their weed real easy at high prices,” he tells us.
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Teen allegedly held in box on pot farm
The criminal complaint against the two men -- Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 24 -- outlines the allegations of a 15-year-old girl's ordeal of being held in a coffin-like box for hours on end at a marijuana-growing "farm" where she worked trimming plants.
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Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana.
Uruguay's lower house of parliament set a global first last night by voting to give the state control of marijuana production, distribution, and sales.
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Uruguay to Become First Nation to Fully Legalize Marijuana: Blow to Ruinous US War on Drugs
Given the passage of a sweeping new law legalizing marijuana in the entire nation of Uruguay by their Congress on August 2 (with the apparent inevitable passage by the Uruguayan Senate this fall), the South American nation is likely to become the first nation to set the dominoes of a ruinous US drug war policy tumbling down.
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Mile high city: Inside Denver's billion-dollar marijuana industry
The grow room is modest – maybe 600 sq ft – but it’s one of many at this marijuana farming facility on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Apart from a narrow path to let the grower get to his crop, every inch of floor-space is filled with plants. I can’t tell my indicas from my sativas, but I know cannabis well enough from the clichés: the thick, earthy scent; the unmistakably-shaped leaves.
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