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WOW Weed . Thnx 4 the link .. I sent it to everyone I know and Tweeted it 2.
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We gotta educate everybody about MMJ or those who benefit the most from keeping drugs illegal* keep prices so high and out of the hands of otherwise Law Abiding citizens, folks with geniune medical needs and even folks with mere recreational desires, will continue to suffer at the hands of the greedy and all to often dangerous drug cartels and law enforcement agencies.
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I compare some of government abuses to the long-standing practices of Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board. The state takes tax dollars and buys liquor, selling it back to consumers in state owned/operated retail stores. Then, when folks drink too much, they may get arrested for drinking what the state sold them [with their own tax dollars]. This makes little sense to me.
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*Since 1937, here in the Good Ol' USA, marijuana has been illegal. Read whatever you like regarding, How the Drug War is going.
To me, it seems that new construction prescription drugstores are popping up all over the place. In all my years, I have never seen so many. These often dangerous drugs are free to anybody tall enough to get into a medicine cabinet.
**It's been widely known and reported by the US Federal Gov't., that folks are Huffing household chemicals found on our grocery store shelves yet, none of these products have been placed under lock and key. Anyone can buy it for a few dollars and go get some brain-damage or kill themselves anytime.
I do not agree with a lot of what presidental candidate, US Congressman Ron Paul says but, he does say, he believes The Drug War is a failure. He will tell you, that tobacco and alcohol are deadly poisons that have killed millions more than marijuana.
He will tell you that we have spent a trillion dollars in the past fourty years alone, fighting The Drug War.
How about we go back to basics and allow folks to have legal taxed and regulated access to marijuana.
Law Enforcement should stop chasing and jailing pot-heads. There are more than enough violent criminals to keep them working forever.
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** Huffing:
http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs07/708/index.htm
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http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/weed-wars/
I cringe each and every time main stream media takes hold of this issue.
They show bulk of people with Tiedye, long hair and disheveled appearances. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe this Industry IS about a certain lack nonstandard self awareness in promoting "mainstream" acceptance?
My interest lies with States rights issue, and individual rights and liberties. Simply, Federal involvement is only about Federal Jobs and influence commercially.
I'm not sure the proponents are really using sound technical representation. No one wants or expects "small business" to look like high order corporations, but, imo, if the media is allowed to bias the the exposure as it is literally invited to do/cooperated with, the opposite appearance will continue to plague.
Discovery Channel Website Has Weed Wars Page Up
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/weed-wars/
This show will help break up the negative stigma. Need to spread this show as much as possible.
Lot's going on in the sector. PPS's are flat at best. Looking for the sector to heat up again after the new year.
Learn more by following @CopsSayLegalize on Tweeter
Nebula1, Thnx, I tweeted the Weed Wars Discovery announcement to a bunch of followers
COIND news Converted Organics Announces Clarification to Medical Marijuana Inc. Option Agreement | Marijuana .. http://bit.ly/vzkkRf
Washington State Legalization Efforts Update...
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Wash-effort-to-legalize-pot-faces-legal-pitfalls-2279162.php
The DUI piece in the legislation is cause for concern
Missouri Approves Cannabis Initiative To Legalize
http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-st-louis/cannabis-initiative-approved-for-circulation-missouri
Would also let some folks out of incarceration for nonviolent cannabis offenses.
Business Week Takes Closer Look at Colo MMJ Industry
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/colorados-marijuana-green-rush-11172011.html
CBS Poll Shows New Support Numbers
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57327004-503544/poll-public-supports-medical-marijuana-but-not-full-pot-legalization/
51% - Remain illegal
40% - Support Legalization
77% - Support Medical Marijuana
Further breakdowns in the link
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Repost: Two-year-old Cash Hyde, who battled a brain tumor at age 1, is one of Montana's youngest medical marijuana patients.
Thanks for the list! What I love is seeing a stock like GWP that is listed for a hundred bucks per share, and knowing that such a company is intimately involved in the expansion of medical cannabis around the world.
Only a matter of time before the US is forced to jump on the bandwagon!
GL,
Neo
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It wasn't even the Prez responding....... read 'em and weep ..... https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/what-we-have-say-about-legalizing-marijuana
I guess they shot down all the petitions....... Next November is going to be a wild ride IMO. Here's a good thread about it......
http://www.drugwarrant.com/2011/10/white-house-answers-pot-petitions-leap-responds/
Obama Met With San Francisco Medical Marijuana Protest [FEATURE]
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by Phillip Smith, October 26, 2011, 10:40am, (Issue #706)
Posted in: Budgets/Taxes/Economics,
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Hundreds of angry medical marijuana patients and supporters gathered in San Francisco's South of Market Tuesday to greet President Obama as he appeared at a $5,000 a head fundraiser at the W Hotel. They were joined by hundreds of other protestors, mainly Occupy San Francisco members and environmentalists upset with the Keystone pipeline.
Boisterous crowds tried to send the president a message in San Francisco (Image: Phil Smith)
The president never saw the demonstrators -- he entered the building through a back entrance a block away from where protestors had gathered -- but boisterous chants of "DEA, Go Away!" and "Whose State? Our State! Whose Medicine? Our medicine!" echoed through the streets as police watched impassively.
It was the second straight day of medical marijuana protests aimed at the president. He got similar treatment Monday in Los Angeles.
The California medical marijuana community is upset with the president over what it sees as a multi-pronged attack on medical marijuana production and distribution by agencies of the federal government (sometimes in cahoots with recalcitrant local officials). Despite Obama's campaign pledges and the Department of Justice's October 2009 memo directing federal prosecutors to back off from medical marijuana businesses operating in compliance with state law, the pace of DEA raids has only accelerated since he took office in January 2009.
It's not just the DEA. The Department of the Treasury has been going after financial institutions that do business with the medical marijuana industry, forcing banks to submit to onerous record-keeping of their dealings and persuading some of them to drop their medical marijuana customers. Similarly, the IRS has joined the attack, refusing to allow dispensaries to deduct standard business expenses and hitting them with whopping past due tax bills.
Most recently, the four US Attorneys who cover California held a much ballyhooed press conference in Sacramento announcing that they were going after what they described as an industry out of control. They announced a campaign aimed at dispensary and grow operations landlords, sending out a wave of letters threatening property owners with asset forfeiture and even stiff criminal charges if they don't throw out their clients.
But while the feds say they are targeting people who abuse the system for profit, they have recently gone after some of the most respected, regulated and compliant operations in the state. Steve De Angelo's Harborside Health Center in Oakland is the biggest target of the IRS and was recently handed a $2 million tax bill after its expenses were disallowed; Lynette Shaw's Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana is the longest-licensed dispensary in the state and enjoys impeccable relations with local officials, but its landlord was hit with a threat letter; and Matt Cohen's Northstone Organics Cooperative is the first licensed grow -- with every plant tagged -- under Mendocino County's cutting edge regulatory scheme, but was raided by the DEA earlier this month.
Occupy San Francisco makes an appearance. (Image: Phil Smith)
The effects of the renewed federal campaign of raids and intimidation couldn't be any clearer than the message that now greets visitors to Northstone's web page. "We are closed due to a federal raid on our farm," the message reads. "The entire crop was eradicated. We are closed until further notice. We will be sending out an e-letter informing memberships of what they can do as well as upcoming protests. We apologize for the inconvenience."
"Contrary to DOJ claims that they are targeting abusive profiteers, their list of targets includes some of the most respected and best regulated facilities in the state," said California NORML director Dale Gieringer.
Federal prosecutors are also targeting a trio of San Francisco dispensaries for being within a thousand feet of a school or playground, citing a federal drug-free school zone statute that enhances penalties for drug crimes committed within that forbidden zone. But California law allows dispensaries within 600 feet of schools and playgrounds.
In the case of the two Mission area dispensaries within a thousand feet of a school, the dispensaries operated there before the school arrived, and the school has made it known that it has no problems with them. In the case of the dispensary located near a playground, advocates point out that several bars and sex clubs nearby are in closer proximity to the kids.
"The DOJ's complaints represent a frivolous and cynical attack on land use decisions that properly belong to local government," said Gieringer. "This is a blatant example of federal government over-regulation run amok."
"It feels a little Kafkaesque," said medical marijuana and legalization proponent state Rep. Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) at a press conference preceding the protest. "We've been sandbagged by US Attorneys acting like thugs. I almost expect a drone to come down on a dispensary in Fresno one of these days," he said, barely cracking a smile.
Ammiano wants a meeting with Department of Justice officials on the issue, he said. "Why don't they lean on the banks for the foreclosures, instead of medical marijuana?" he asked. "I'll be damned if I know what Justice, IRS, and the rest are thinking right now."
What a difference a couple of years makes. (Image: Phil Smith)
Lynette Shaw, whose Marin Alliance dispensary is being threatened, called out the president. "After we helped put Obama in office, I thought we were in the clear," she said. "Obama, you have the power to issue an executive order and stop this," she challenged.
"The US Attorneys said they were going after the criminals, but that's not true," said Harborside's DeAngelo. "Northstone Organics, the Marin Alliance, and Harborside are all 100% compliant. The targeting by US Attorneys suggests they either need to learn how to aim or to learn how to tell the truth," he said.
It's not just about patients and dispensaries, but also about jobs and the economy, said several speakers. "If the federal government closes down the dispensaries, thousands of hard-working Californians stand to lose their jobs," said United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 Cannabis Division Coordinator Mike Witemeyer, whose union has organized dispensary workers. "We stand with the patients."
"With the federal budget on empty, the economy in disarray, our prisons overflowing, and prohibition-related violence raging across the border, it's an outrageous misuse of federal resources to wage war on medical marijuana," said California NORML's Gieringer. "Federal anti-drug bureaucrats are afraid because the dispensaries are proving that it's possible for marijuana to become a safe, legal, tax-paying industry and so expose their own last-century policies as bankrupt and obsolete."
It's unclear what the Obama administration thinks it is gaining with its ever more hostile policies toward medical marijuana production and distribution in California. What is clear is that it is alienating many people in California who voted for Obama in 2008.
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This Petition got its 5000 signatures. It's a good petition and will be very difficult for the White House to respond to.
@marijuanapolicy URGENT: This petition only needs 235 more signatures by the end of the day or it will fail. Please sign & share! http://bit.ly/nJv8tt
"We're pushing them back," said Stephen DeAngelo, founder of Harborside Health Center in Oakland. The medical cannabis club has started a legal defense fund to fight a recent $2.5 million IRS bill. "We're already beginning to regain momentum from this outrageous travesty of a federal assault."
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n630/a08.html?1042
Gallup Poll Shows 50% Support Legalizing Marijuana
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizing-Marijuana.aspx
@BarackObamaUSA @RT_com @denverwestword Medical marijuana: RAND Corp. pulls study showing dispensaries reduce crime http://bit.ly/oPrOBS
Support MMJ by investing in @marijuanastocks and Easy-to-write your congressmen at http://www.congress.org/communicate
California’s Medical Marijuana Industry Getting Stoned
Oct 13, 2011
Medical marijuana dispenser Lynnette Shaw discusses the recent push by the federal government to shut down the industry.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1216996123001/californias-medical-marijuana-industry-getting-stoned
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While watching my MMJ stocks, like RFMK I find peace listening to my favorite Internet Radio station, Medical Mary Jane at www.pandora.com
I agree Obama is in trouble now and rightfully so. What he is doing or allowing to be done is terrible. The only thing we can hope is that the discussion gets louder and people begin to understand the truth behind the veil of lies.
I doubt Mitt Romney helps us the industry any better.
What would be best is for the cannabis community to give Ron Paul a bigger bump.
Obama's gonna learn a harsh lesson. His "Nixon" Political self dealing interests, displayed by wishy washy performance, Paranoid delusions ... are going to alienate his supporters. R. Paul would eat his lunch, in an even debate, at this point. And considering Paul presentation style, that's saying alot.
"If I had some remedy"-(black crowes)
chortle.....
President Obama Now Worst President For MMJ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kampia/obama-from-first-to-worst_b_1001781.html
May want to contact your Rep. This is an ill wind blowing for civil rights in general.
U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html
Now planning, something legal elsewhere, is illegal act here. Next will planning to indulge here.. will be a Federal Crime? What is the intention as far as the owner of a "shop"? Will he have been part of a crime, will he be subject to prosecution if entering the U.S.?
I hear Goosesteps. What happened to actually did do, or did not actually do. This means intent is all that is nessesary. There are multiple x's more "intents" to create a crime, than are followed thru on. You do realize folks, this is Germany WWII, or Russian socialism at its finest.
My God, I hear Goosesteps.
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