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For First Time, Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana
Support surged 10 percentage points in past year, to 58%
by Art Swift
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 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 time Gallup first asked the question in 1969, when only 12% favored legalization.
Public support for legalization more than doubled in the 1970s, growing to 28%. It then plateaued during the 1980s and 1990s before inching steadily higher since 2000, reaching 50% in 2011.
A sizable percentage of Americans (38%) this year admitted to having tried the drug, which may be a contributing factor to greater acceptance.
Success at the ballot box in the past year in Colorado and Washington may have increased Americans' tolerance for marijuana legalization. Support for legalization has jumped 10 percentage points since last November and the legal momentum shows no sign of abating. Last week, California's second-highest elected official, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, said that pot should be legal in the Golden State, and advocates of legalization are poised to introduce a statewide referendum in 2014 to legalize the drug.
The Obama administration has also been flexible on the matter. Despite maintaining the government's firm opposition to legalizing marijuana under federal law, in late August Deputy Attorney General James Cole announced the Justice Department would not challenge the legality of Colorado's and Washington's successful referendums, provided that those states maintain strict rules regarding the drug's sale and distribution.
The movement to legalize marijuana mirrors the relatively recent success of the movement to legalize gay marriage, which voters have also approved now in 14 states. Public support for gay marriage, which Americans also overwhelmingly opposed in the past, has increased dramatically, reaching majority support in the last two years.
Independents Fueling Growth in Acceptance of Legalizing Marijuana
Independents' growing support for legalization has mostly driven the jump in Americans' overall support. Sixty-two percent of independents now favor legalization, up 12 points from November 2012. Support for legalization among Democrats and Republicans saw little change. Yet there is a marked divide between Republicans, who still oppose legalizing marijuana, and Democrats and independents.
Young Adults More Likely to Support Legalization
Americans 65 and older are the only age group that still opposes legalizing marijuana. Still, support among this group has jumped 14 percentage points since 2011.
In contrast, 67% of Americans aged 18 to 29 back legalization. Clear majorities of Americans aged 30 to 64 also favor legalization.
Bottom Line
It has been a long path toward majority acceptance of marijuana over the past 44 years, but Americans' support for legalization accelerated as the new millennium began. This acceptance of a substance that most people might have considered forbidden in the late 1960s and 1970s may be attributed to changing social mores and growing social acceptance. The increasing prevalence of medical marijuana as a socially acceptable way to alleviate symptoms of diseases such as arthritis, and as a way to mitigate side effects of chemotherapy, may have also contributed to Americans' growing support.
Whatever the reasons for Americans' greater acceptance of marijuana, it is likely that this momentum will spur further legalization efforts across the United States. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing and regulating the drug could be financially beneficial to states and municipalities nationwide. But detractors such as law enforcement and substance abuse professionals have cited health risks including an increased heart rate, and respiratory and memory problems.
With Americans' support for legalization quadrupling since 1969, and localities on the East Coast such as Portland, Maine, considering a symbolic referendum to legalize marijuana, it is clear that interest in this drug and these issues will remain elevated in the foreseeable future.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165539/first-time-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx
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Can you imagine the day when we can buy marijuana on Craig's List or eBay?
Leaders Meet to Discuss How to Legalize Pot
May 24, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia--Last Monday, Bill Keller asked in the New York Times "How to Legalize Pot." Ironically, that very weekend 50 state leaders and others met in Atlanta to work on that very problem, with a focus on preventing legalization from increasing use by youth. With inspiration from a keynote address by President Jimmy Carter and supported by leading academic experts, those assembled produced some answers, but at least as many questions.
Sponsored by National Families in Action, the workshop aimed to help Colorado and Washington leaders, whose voters fully legalized marijuana last November, conceptualize ways to prevent a commercial marijuana industry from targeting children, like the alcohol and tobacco industries do (although they vehemently deny it). The workshop also sought to help leaders from other states find alternative policies that neither legalize the drug nor criminalize possession.
When it appeared that California voters would be the first to legalize recreational pot in 2010, National Families in Action created But What about the Children and invited experts in preventing underage use to answer this question: "Knowing what you know now, had you been able to write the tobacco control law when cigarettes were first introduced or the law that repealed Prohibition, how would you have prevented these industries from targeting kids?" Their answers led to 12 Provisions that any law legalizing marijuana should consider including:
1. a complete ban on advertising
2. a penalty fee on the marijuana industry for every underage user
3. automatic repeal of legalization if underage use exceeds 2012 levels (but a tax break if it dips below them)
4. no marijuana product placements, sponsorships, point-of-purchase marketing, or depictions in entertainment venues
5. an industry-financed fund to pay for treating marijuana addiction, injuries, and health problems, so taxpayers won't have to pick up the tab
6. a state agency to tax and regulate the marijuana industry, including marijuana purity and potency
7. licensed growers, distributors, and retail stores that sell only marijuana and nothing else
8. until science establishes a level indicating marijuana impairment, a ban on driving with any marijuana in the systems of drivers or passengers
9. a ban on people coming to work or school with marijuana in their systems
10. no marijuana smoking where tobacco smoking is banned
11. marijuana controlled by the Food and Drug Administration like tobacco is now, and
12. a Surgeon General's report on the impact of marijuana on health and well-being.
President Carter, who supports all 12 provisions, stressed two in his remarks. "I hope that Colorado and Washington, as you authorize the use of marijuana, will set up very strict experiments to ascertain how we can avoid the use of marijuana. . . There should be no advertising for marijuana in any circumstances and no driving under the influence."
He said he believes these experiments will fail in Colorado and Washington and that he hopes other states will not legalize the drug. "I do not favor legalization," President Carter said. "We must do everything we can to discourage marijuana use, as we do now with tobacco and excessive drinking. We have to prevent making marijuana smoking from becoming attractive to young people, which is, I'm sure, what the producers of marijuana....are going to try and do."
Neuroscientists from Wake Forest University and Duke University medical schools explained why it is crucial to prevent young people from using pot. "Adolescence is a critical period of brain development," said Wake Forest's David Friedman, Ph.D., "and marijuana use has profound effects on brain development. Chronic use impairs short-term memory, attention, executive function, decision-making, learning, and in vulnerable individuals can produce psychosis, including schizophrenia," he added. "Duke's Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Ph.D., cited a number of recent studies reporting that adults who start smoking pot before age 18 are significantly more likely to have cognitive problems (including a drop in IQ), anxiety and psychotic disorders, and testicular cancer."
Tom McLellan, Ph.D., founder/director of the Treatment Research Institute and former deputy director of the Obama Administration's White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said 23 million Americans are addicted to alcohol or other drugs, while 40 million engage in harmful use and are defined as having a substance abuse disorder (SUD). He pointed out that the treatment system for drug addiction is built on a false model (you become addicted, you get treated, you're "cured"). But addiction is a chronic condition like diabetes or hypertension and must be medically managed long term. The Affordable Health Care Act is changing the way addiction and SUDs are dealt with in recognition of this, he said.
Epidemiological research shows the younger children are when they initiate use, the more likely they'll become addicted--and lifetime customers. David Jernigan, Ph.D., associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, cited eight lessons learned from alcohol that can be applied to marijuana:
1. Understand that marijuana is no ordinary commodity
2. Don't let governments get drunk on revenues
3. Build a control system based on the three "best buys" of economic availability via high taxes, social availability via constraints on marketing, and physical availability via licensure or monopoly systems
4. Control the size and power of the industry
5. Ban marketing
6. Create and safeguard state-run monopolies
7. Fund a robust policy research portfolio on the marijuana experiments
8. Support a social/popular movement for marijuana control.
University of Virginia Law School professor Richard Bonnie, L.L.B., stressed that "promoting marijuana is contrary to public policy. Do NOT concede that the First Amendment ties your hands unless and until the Supreme Court says so." Other speakers pointed to the aggressive efforts both tobacco and alcohol have made to market to children and how successful those efforts are: some 60 percent of new smokers and more than 80 percent of new drinkers every year are under age 18 and 21, respectively.
These industries target other vulnerable populations as well, noted Adewale Troutman, M.D., president of the American Public Health Association. "Like President Carter, our association also opposes the legalization of marijuana," he told participants. He said he worries that a commercial marijuana industry will saturate poor and minority communities with advertising the same way alcohol and tobacco companies saturate them.
Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College professor Jonathan Caulkins, Ph.D., and lead author of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, offered predictions about the uncertain future of legal marijuana: consumption will be concentrated among daily or near-daily users; production costs will fall sharply; taxes cannot offset the decline in price; the "exports" market could be 50 times greater than in-state sales; state and local police make more than 90 percent of marijuana sales arrests but there are not enough federal law enforcement officers to fill in for them; more states will legalize; and time will prove at least some of his predictions wrong.
President Carter pointed out that while he opposes legalization, he doesn't want people, especially young people, to be imprisoned for low-level marijuana offenses. That's why he called for decriminalization 35 years ago when he was president. He said he "opposes permanent records for people with marijuana use" but believes a marijuana arrest should have consequences.
Patrick Kennedy, former Congressman, and Kevin Sabet, Ph.D., former Obama administration drug policy senior advisor to the director, presented Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana). SAM maps out a middle road between marijuana legalization and incarceration, and President Carter endorsed it.
Seven times more Americans age 12 and older use alcohol than marijuana. If legalization states don't draw up regulations that are tougher than those regulating alcohol and tobacco, we can expect to see huge increases in marijuana use, especially among children. They have a daunting task.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-rusche/leaders-meet-to-discuss-h_b_3333586.html
Is Marijuana Booming Among Boomers?
Like many of her peers, Zoe Helene, 48, smoked marijuana in her early 20s but gave it up as her career in the digital world took off in the 1990s. Today the multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist lives in Amherst, Mass., and is building a global network of trailblazers called Cosmic Sister. Since she married an ethnobotanist in 2007, she has returned to using cannabis occasionally — “as a tool for evolving and expanding my psyche.”
Helene is among a group of women that Marie Claire magazine has dubbed “Stiletto Stoners — card-carrying, type-A workaholics who just happen to prefer kicking back with a blunt instead of a bottle.” She’s also one of a growing legion of boomers who are returning to marijuana now that the stigma and judgment (and laws) surrounding its use are becoming more lax.
Massachusetts, which decriminalized pot in 2008, became the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana, last year. In the 2012 presidential election, which New York Times columnist Timothy Egan called America’s “cannabis spring,” Colorado and Washington voters legalized recreational use, launching weed into the national spotlight and spawning a flurry of marijuana initiatives. Since then, decriminalization bills have been introduced in 10 additional states, and legalization is being considered in 11 states and Puerto Rico.
This trend, along with decriminalization in cities like Chicago, Boston, New York and Denver, has removed a major “barrier to entry” for law-abiding citizens who would use cannabis as medicine or a substitute for alcohol. No longer worried about breaking the law or having their kids discovering their “dirty little secret,” many boomers are returning to a substance they once enjoyed. Others, who never stopped smoking, are coming out of the closet (or the garage) about their use.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/05/16/is-marijuana-booming-among-boomers/
There Is No Mistaking The Evidence; Cannabis Cures Cancer
Sunday, May 12, 2013 13:50
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/there-is-no-mistaking-the-evidence-cannabis-cures-cancer-2645398.html
The Super Clap: The Sex Superbug Spreads
Posted by Rayshell Clapper in Health, Lifestyle
The Daily Mail online reported that a super version of gonorrhea (also
known as the clap—yeah, I hated that in high school) has surfaced in
Japan, Hawaii, California, and Norway.
The super clap is known as H041, and was first discovered in Japan in
2011, but has made its way across oceans. And doctors say that it has
the potential to be worse than AIDS in the short run, because the
H041 gonorrhea bacteria is more aggressive than AIDS and will affect
more people more quickly.
http://blogs.redorbit.com/the-super-clap-the-sex-superbug-spreads/
Sex ‘Superbug’ Worse Than AIDS Can Kill In Days
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 13:25
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/04/sex-superbug-worse-than-aids-can-kill-in-days-2484454.html
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
Apr. 17, 2007
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
Pharmaceutical Giants Killing Cancer Patients – Report
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:10
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/04/pharmaceutical-giants-killing-cancer-patients-report-2484450.html
Roundup Linked To Diabetes, Autism, Obesity, Heart Disease, Cancer And More -
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/04/roundup-linked-to-diabetes-autism-obesity-heart-disease-cancer-and-more-2630722.html
The History of the Pharma-Cartel -
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/history_of_the_pharma_cartel.html
Anyone who thinks they can excuse themselves from the judgment of God
is wrong.
Instead we pray against all evil especially Narco-evil -
Traditional Catholic Prayers: World War III and the False Peace:
Prayer against 666 nwo evil -
in this prayer against evil including against "pharmakeia" refers
to against all drugs and they are all DAMNED -
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God Bless
Legalization of marijuana paying off
The good things that should happen after marijuana is legalized are happening in Colorado. In November, voters in Colorado — and Washington state — legalized pot for recreational use. (Many states allow medical use of marijuana.)
What are the good things?
For starters, money, money, money for the state coffers. As of last week, lawmakers in Denver were still tussling over how heavily to tax marijuana sales. A leading plan centers on excise and sales taxes totaling 30 percent. The tax can’t go so high that it encourages a black market.
The first $40 million collected from the excise tax would go to schools. And revenues from a 15 percent sales tax on pot plus the 2.9 percent ordinary state sales tax would be sent to local governments and cover the cost of enforcing the new marijuana regulations.
Meanwhile, the state would save money it now spends on arresting, prosecuting and jailing citizens caught smoking the stuff. As one small example, Washington state no longer trains new police dogs to sniff out marijuana.
Some lawmakers say they want “safeguards” in place to ensure that marijuana doesn’t end up in the hands of kids, criminals and cartels — like it’s not happening already.
Speaking of which, turning pot producers and vendors into legitimate businesses is perhaps the most welcome outcome of marijuana legalization.
As Elliott Klug, head of Pink House Blooms, a $3-million-a-year marijuana business in Denver, told The Wall Street Journal: “We were the bad guys. Now we are still the bad guys, but we pay taxes.”
What he means is that while the new marijuana operations can operate in the open, they are not being treated as leniently as other farming ventures. The state is regulating them with a heavy hand, to the point of doing background checks on the growers’ tattoos.
As more people pile into marijuana merchandizing, prices fall. (Pot prices in Denver are already down a third from their levels in 2011.)
Taking the big money out of a formerly illegal but popular product dismantles the criminal cartels’ business model. That means less violence on the streets, less smuggling at the Mexican border. It means ordinary citizens can hike in national forests without fear of tripping upon some gang-run marijuana operation.
Unfortunately, while Colorado and Washington state are doing their bit to end the insanity, the federal government has not. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal substance.
This means that legitimate pot growers can’t borrow money. (Banks will not lend to businesses the feds do not consider legal.) If a grower develops an especially high-quality plant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will not register it.
Marijuana has been a $1.3 billion-a-year business in this country, a business largely closed to the law-abiding. And there’s a collateral lost opportunity caused by our crazy prohibition on hemp farming.
Hemp is an industrial product with many uses. Though it lacks the psychoactive properties of marijuana, hemp is a cousin of marijuana bearing some family resemblance. That’s the only reason American farmers are banned from growing it. Across the northern border in Canada, hemp waves on thousands of acres.
Sadly, the Obama administration has lacked the courage to boldly move forward on changing the national marijuana laws. Last winter, President Obama took the baby step of saying the administration wouldn’t spend much time on recreational users.
The U.S. Department of Justice is currently scratching its head over what to do about Colorado and Washington state. Eventually, the feds will come around, but how much money must be wasted on prosecution and how much tax revenues lost before that happens?
To find out more about Froma Harrop, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.
http://www.robesonian.com/view/full_story/22415880/article-Legalization-of-marijuana-paying-off?
no more arguments over marijuana stocks this is not what the plant intended
great point!
It appals me that someone would bring a gun to a pot rally.
totally agree.
tragic what's unfolding in society today (and really in the world at-large). End prohibition, regulate and restructure, educate and teach children to do no harm. More action needs to be done at a community level so these atrocities don't happen anymore.
Dare I cliche, "Can't we all get along?"
-happy thoughts-
Nothing is sacred anymore...
From the Boston Marathon to a 420 rally.
Some people disgust me.
Same to you brother!! I would be honored!
Marijuana?
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
I just don't keep up with any of the MMJ stocks enough to know them.
I stopped liking any of them(MMJ stocks) a long time ago. They're still up to their shenanigans today. Except it's ten times worse.
Tripp Keber (MJNA) and Rob Melameade (CBIS)
It could be, don't remember...its 4/20
Is this a trick question?
You up for a Mod position? Ain't much to Mod but....
RIGHT ON BROW!!
It's still 420 to me until I go to bed. LOL.
I'm sure it'll still be 420 when I wake up too. Hehe
Happy 420 neo!!!!!!
I'm ready to add some mods here, you interested?
Doc?
Medman?
Anybody else?
You too but it is 4/21 by me now.
Happy 420 medman!!
CHANGES TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW KICK IN TODAY
LANSING, Mich. ( AP ) - Some of the first significant changes to Michigan's medical-marijuana law kick in Monday, including extending the one-year registry cards to two years and setting rules for the doctor patient relationship for medical-marijuana users.
Voters endorsed the use of medical marijuana in 2008 to alleviate side effects of certain illnesses, such as cancer or chronic pain. But lawmakers said the law left too much open to interpretation and pushed through bipartisan measures at the end of last session designed to clarify the act. One of the biggest changes defines the type of doctor-patient relationship needed before medical marijuana use can be certified.
Democratic Rep. Phil Cavanagh of Redford Township in Wayne County, who sponsored one of the bills, said lawmakers had concerns that the certificates were given out too liberally, like over the phone or Internet.
But starting Monday, doctors must complete face-to-face medical evaluations of patients, review their relevant medical records, and assess their medical condition and history. The amendments also require follow-up with patients after providing the certification to see whether the use of medical marijuana to treat the illness is working.
Cavanagh said this prevents "some out-of-state doctor from coming in, renting a hotel room, writing these things and then leaving town."
"Now we are saying: 'What's behind that card? Where did you get certified? Who was your doctor?"' said Michael Komorn, a Michigan attorney who specializes in medical-marijuana law. He said the new standards will benefit patients and doctors by outlining what is expected throughout the certification process.
Among other changes that begin Monday - after the bills received the 75 percent approval in December needed to amend voter-approved laws - is that stateissued cards given to people who have a doctor's endorsement will be good for two years instead of one. Applicants also must show proof of residence, like a driver's license or state ID, to get the $100 cards.
There are more than 131,000 registered medical-marijuana patients in the state. Another 27,000 are caregivers, or people who can grow marijuana for up to five people, according to the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
Another significant - and contentious - change is that caregivers will now be disqualified if they have committed a felony within the last 10 years or have ever committed an assault. Previously, the only requirement was that caregivers could not have been previously convicted of a drug felony, Komorn said.
Komorn said some patients will lose their caregiver and be forced to find a new one.
"Many patients who have developed relationships over the last four years with caregivers are going to lose their safe access to cannabis," he said. For example, a husband who is a caregiver for his wife - but also has a felony charge - will no longer be able to grow medical marijuana for her, he said.
One of the amendments approved by lawmakers has already gone into effect. Medical-marijuana users must now store their pot in a case in the trunk while riding in a motor vehicle. Marijuana must be in a case that's not easily accessible if the vehicle doesn't have a trunk.
Despite these changes, significant questions face the state's medical-marijuana system. The state Supreme Court ruled in January that so-called medical-marijuana dispensaries are not allowed under the 2008 law.
But last month Republican Rep. Mike Callton of Nashville introduced a bill to legalize the shops, which could mean more changes to the medical marijuana law are on the way. That bill has not yet been debated by lawmakers.
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Source: Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
Copyright: 2013 Morning Sun
Contact: news@michigannewspapers.com
Website: http://www.themorningsun.com/
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Hmmmm...
GREEDY BASTARD !!!....
MAN SECRETLY OWNED 9 POT STORES
John Melvin Walker is expected to plead guilty to drug and tax evasion charges.
The marijuana shops evoked health and homeopathic care, with names like Dana Point Safe Harbor Collective, Belmont Shore Natural Care, Alternative Herbal Care and Costa Mesa Patients Assn.
Nine dispensaries in all, they appeared to be run by different owners around Orange and Los Angeles counties, little different than any of the hundreds of dispensaries that have popped up in the last five years.
But they were secretly owned and operated by a 56 year-old convicted drug dealer from San Clemente, who used the stores to make millions.
Federal drug agents say John Melvin Walker, who was arrested in October, was one of the biggest players they have prosecuted in Southern California's medical marijuana trade. They could recall only one similar case, a man who used the proceeds of his seven dispensaries to buy land in Costa Rica.
On Monday, Walker is expected to appear at the U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana to plead guilty to two felony counts: conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and tax evasion. He must forfeit more than $25 million in assets, cash and business interests - including his Tuscan manor high above the Pacific in San Clemente, two homes in Long Beach and four mobile homes in Mammoth - and possibly pay $4.3 million in tax restitution.
He faces 10 years to life in prison, but prosecutors say sentencing guidelines call for 21 years to 27 years.
The Orange County Sheriff 's Department started the investigation with the help of federal agents.
They took the case to the U.S. attorney because federal penalties are more severe and federal law is clear - all marijuana possession is illegal - avoiding the ambiguity of California's medical cannabis laws, which do not directly address whether commercial sales of pot are legal.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Christine Bautista said it was common for "drug-traffickers like [Walker] to hide behind the facade of medical marijuana laws and compassionate care, to make millions of dollars and conceal their identities as the true owners/operators of a string of marijuana stores."
She didn't know of any other cases involving so many stores.
"It appeared from evidence that he ran a tight ship," she said. "He instituted regular procedures at all nine shops. He regularly visited to observe. He required managers to report midday and end-of-day figures to him to show cash on hand."
At the Dana Point shop, detectives found spreadsheets showing sales over 10 months totaled $3.17 million, with $2.47 million cash on hand, according to an affidavit.
When Orange County sheriff 's detectives first conducted searches of properties owned by Walker and his cohorts, they were staggered by the cash. At a Walker rental in Long Beach, they found $390,160.00 in four grocery bags in his garage, along with a shotgun, a Beretta handgun and a Chinese AK-47 with a bayonet. At a house in San Clemente, they found stacks of bills stuffed in furniture, in an Igloo cooler and on an ironing board, totaling about $700,000.
In February 2012, 14 people, including Walker - also known as "Pops" - - were indicted on 14 counts and arrested.
The indictment alleged that Walker failed to report any income from the shops to the IRS and that he told his bookkeeper "to destroy all records pertaining to income generated at the marijuana dispensaries shortly after they were generated and not to create records that fully identified Walker's connection to the marijuana dispensaries."
According to his plea agreement, he might have to forfeit his properties, $535,291 in currency and give up any benefits he got from a $700,000 loan he made to a Charles Westlund and Silent Strippers LLC, and whatever interests he had in six businesses.
Walker's attorney, Kate T. Corrigan, said Walker is a "devoted family man, a very active parent" to young children. She declined to say how many.
"He is completely devastated that he is going to be separated from his children, and they'll be separated from him," Corrigan said. "They're going to be growing up fatherless."
ALRIGHT NOW!
Won't you listen?
When I first met you, didn't realize
I can't forget you, for your surprise
you introduced me, to my mind
And left me wanting, you and your kind
I love you, Oh you know it
My life was empty, forever on a down
Until you took me, showed me around
My life is free now, my life is clear
I love you sweet leaf, though you can't hear
Come on now, try it out
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They put you down and shut you out
you gave to me a new belief
and soon the world will love you sweet leaf
Agreed Rich. Marijuana should have been legal since the beginning of the U.S.A gaining its independence from the blokes over in England!
Honestly... I don't keep up on them. Make some money and move on.
I think everybody should enjoy some Marijuana though.
Especially those on antidepressants. Ever read the side affects?
Why in the world would someone take a medication that increases the chance that they are going to do what they REALLY trying to depress?
Eat it, drink it, vaporize it, or smoke it... just enjoy it!!!
Anyone checking out MEDT.. They have some recent news and some MMJ sector related news as well.. quite a buzz going around.. up 180% friday.
Monday may be FUNday.
Hi Rich, speaking of Funyuns.. whats your take on all the new Marijuana stocks suddenly appearing out of thin air & do you think any of them are legit?
government's 666 illegal drug trafficking.
Here is a recent video of Dr. Ron Paul in ...
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/War%20on%20Drugs%20Scam/there_is_no_war_on_drugs.htm
Spirit of Liberty Lives -
2013 Ron Paul -
How about one of these too ? With a quadruple blind taste test please !!!!
CHEERS !!!
http://www.drinkcannacola.com/where-to-buy/
Tough call....Hahaha
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