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New Hampshire Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization
January 9, 2018
Under the bill, which now moves to the state Senate, people over 21 years of age would be allowed to legally possess three-quarters of an ounce of marijuana and grow up to three mature cannabis plants at home.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2018/01/09/new-hampshire-lawmakers-approve-marijuana-legalization/#25d223002a42
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What Jeff Sessions' Latest Attack Means for the Future of Legal Marijuana
Monday, January 08, 2018
Pro-legalization lawmakers say the blowback against Sessions also puts new momentum behind a bill that would bar the Justice Department from interfering with state marijuana regulation for good. Other bills would legalize weed outright, although they've had a harder time attracting Republican co-sponsors. However, Republicans would be wise to make marijuana reform a priority; otherwise, Democrats could use the issue to peel moderate GOP voters away from Republican candidates who refuse to stand up to Sessions in the midterms.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43154-what-jeff-sessions-latest-attack-means-for-the-future-of-legal-marijuana
Yw SOG, great chart comparison! Repost #msg-137492661
Looks like the market likes what is happening with the stock to date, A lot more peeps are coming on board every day realizing the potential here.
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$PDXP I love chart comparisons. What SOG is pointing out for those of you that don't look at charts very often is a chart indicator called the OBV.
It's called "On Balance Volume" and it charts the money flow of the stock through volume. If it goes down then money is being sucked out of the stock, if it goes up, then money is going into the stock. What SOG is pointing out in his chart lineup is that previously in a sub-penny play, the same chart indicators were doing the same thing "Before" it took a huge slingshot up the charts. Interestingly enough, is that company is a Cannabis play as well.
"On Balance Volume (OBV) is a simple indicator that uses volume and price to measure buying pressure and selling pressure. Buying pressure is evident when positive volume exceeds negative volume and the OBV line rises. Selling pressure is present when negative volume exceeds positive volume and the OBV line falls. Chartists can use OBV to confirm the underlying trend or look for divergences that may foreshadow a price change".
http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:on_balance_volume_obv
[This stock charts link is doing something weird, just click on the bottom "Go to last page" and it will get you there]
https://twitter.com/Analyze4dollars/status/950169908880465920
Morning Wildherb77, Ok, Np, and no need to apologize about anything, I probably just took it the wrong way, it happens:))
Have a great day!
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Welcome Aboard ws4000, fundamentals and technicals are both looking real good here. DD_dempsey is putting together another DD package as we speak.
Have a great day!
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$PDXP
Gonna bust a move kissing .01 here soon enough:))
Exactly, a lot of room to move with the current RSI. Looks like it's just about ready to hit the power zone, just above 50 right now.
Good Morning $PDXP
Good morning DD_dempsey, most Xlent, I love your DD packages and am looking forward to it. A picture speaks a thousand words, more pictures, we need more PICTURES!!!!!! lol
Again, I'm not arguing over the legislation in your state. I'm just posting the legislative progress as I find it in the media.
You can argue the merits of it with someone else.
Correct, that's exactly what the article stipulates. And I never stated that it was in effect, I've just been posting articles on Vermont's legalization progress, not arguing over their merits.
Vermont House Passes Marijuana Legislation
Xlent work SOG keeping up with the numbers, shares are being soaked up and she's trading like the float is tight.
https://www.otcmarkets.com/financialReportViewer?symbol=PDXP&id=182530
These Lawmakers Are Going Head-to-Head With Jeff Sessions Over Weed.
The fight for cannabis legalization isn’t over just yet.
January 8, 2018
https://hightimes.com/news/politics/lawmakers-going-head-head-jeff-sessions-weed/
Vermont, New Jersey, Michigan? Here are some of the states looking to legalize marijuana in 2018
The marijuana movement is charging ahead.
To date eight states — California, Colorado, Nevada to name a few — have legalized weed for recreational use since 2012. And the trend continues.
This year, several states all across the country are looking to legalize and, in turn, rake in millions of dollars in tax revenue.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-marijuana-legalization-2018-htmlstory.html
Bigtime deal for a sub-penny: #msg-137435633
$PDXP
$PDXP how longs feel today...
$PDXP how longs feel today pic.twitter.com/fNytpipp5l
— John Kent (@KentsBrokerage) January 8, 2018
Experts Predict 4 Surprising Ways Jeff Sessions' Reefer Madness Pot Decision Could Shake Out in 2018
A backlash against the new war on weed could tip the scales to favor federal legalization.
Colorado’s Republican Senator Cory Gardner(R), chair of NRSC, put an ultimatum out to Sessions in response to his pot decision:
Correct DD_dempsey.Think of preferred shares as an investment in the company that gives them automatic dividends on their investment. The longer the preferred shares are held, then the more money they make. The whole reason not to demand common shares from the outset, is the conviction that the company they are holding preferred shares in is going to increase in value, thus providing more equity for the holder in the long run.
Preferred shares are restricted for a limited time period, but there is no hard and fast rule that they are to be converted. The holder can keep them for as long as they want, if they are convinced that they will increase in value over time, and provide a steady revenue source that is more secure than common shares.
These types of agreements on preferred share allocation are usually reserved for the big board stocks, because they are more stable and have a proven track record.
If this deal follows through, it will be kind of unheard of for a sub-penny stock, to have what is in essence, an intuitional investor.
Convertible Preferred Stock for Beginners
Understanding What Makes Convertible Preferred Stock Different
https://www.thebalance.com/convertible-preferred-stock-for-beginners-357976
$PDXP I love chart comparisons. What SOG is pointing out for those of you that don't look at charts very often is a chart indicator called the OBV.
It's called "On Balance Volume" and it charts the money flow of the stock through volume. If it goes down then money is being sucked out of the stock, if it goes up, then money is going into the stock. What SOG is pointing out in his chart lineup is that previously in a sub-penny play, the same chart indicators were doing the same thing "Before" it took a huge slingshot up the charts. Interestingly enough, is that company is a Cannabis play as well.
"On Balance Volume (OBV) is a simple indicator that uses volume and price to measure buying pressure and selling pressure. Buying pressure is evident when positive volume exceeds negative volume and the OBV line rises. Selling pressure is present when negative volume exceeds positive volume and the OBV line falls. Chartists can use OBV to confirm the underlying trend or look for divergences that may foreshadow a price change".
http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:on_balance_volume_obv
[This stock charts link is doing something weird, just click on the bottom "Go to last page" and it will get you there]
https://twitter.com/Analyze4dollars/status/950169908880465920
On many fronts, this could just be a political distraction away from something else. Bottom line is he just threw a huge rock into a hornets nest, and it's backfiring on him, and his department in a big way.
Marijuana advocates across the country are all up in arms over this apparent 180 in policy. It's lighting a political fire storm in Congress due in part because of the massive amounts of money involved for the states, we're talking huge amounts.
But guess what, the Fed is getting none of that into their coffers.
It would have been an exorbitant amount of tax dollars, if the Fed legalized Marijuana, and then stuffed it into the new tax bill.
Money talks and bs walks, if for no other reason other than a majority of Americans want it legalized, they will do it for the federal dollars it will bring in.
I'm sure they are already salivating at the mouth over it, lol.
You can't stop a moving train, Sessions is already roasted and toasted baked and flaked.
He just united a bipartisan effort to actually pass legislation through Congress. We'll see where it goes, but one thing is for certain, all this hoopla is just a red herring. US Attorneys don't have the backing of the states, where it is most popular.
$PDXP Weekly Chart [Twitter]
https://twitter.com/Veloce_Capital/status/950130233440653312
Why Jeff Sessions’s marijuana crackdown is going to make legalization more likely
By Paul Waldman
“I don’t think so,” said Tamar Todd, senior director of the Office of Legal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, whom I spoke to this morning. “There’s plenty of drug law to enforce when it comes to the illicit market, she noted, and federal prosecutors rely on cooperation with state authorities in much of their prosecutions of drug cases".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/05/why-jeff-sessions-marijuana-crackdown-is-going-to-make-legalization-more-likely/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.b77453622ab4
Not bad at all, I once saw a guy roll one up with one hand, and did a pretty decent job of it at that.
$PDXP
Legalizing marijuana is risky, but not for the reasons Jeff Sessions says
If Sessions wants to declare a war on marijuana, he should find a better argument.
Nicole Karlis 01.07.2018•
States that have legalized marijuana have been aware of how legalizing a drug would affect crime, or enable criminals. California, for example, has used legalization as an opportunity to try and reform marijuana criminal justice. Prop. 64, the California proposition that legalized marijuana, gives those who are incarcerated or on probation a chance to petition their sentences. According to the ACLU, half of the drug arrests made in the U.S. are marijuana arrests. The same report also revealed that many marijuana arrests are racially biased. Black people are 3.73 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana. Another reason why fewer people getting arrested for marijuana-related offenses is positive is that American prisons and jails are struggling. There have been ongoing reports about how state prisons are underfunded, understaffed and overcrowded.
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/07/legalizing-marijuana-is-risky-but-not-for-the-reasons-jeff-sessions-says/
California’s Cannabis Crowd Isn’t Afraid of the Big Bad Attorney General
Sweeping changes in federal enforcement are unlikely, experts say.
Brandon E. PattersonJan. 6, 2018
But such a strategy could draw major political blowback. Sessions is already facing some. Cory Gardner, a Republican senator from Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2014, said he would block Sessions’ DOJ nominations unless he reverses course on marijuana prosecutions. The mayor of Seattle said yesterday that the Seattle Police Department would not help the feds with any enforcement activity against legal weed businesses. Kleiman expects other jurisdictions will take a similar stance.
Targeting legal weed is also bad public policy, Forman says, because shutting down state-regulated drug markets would simply push consumers back into the illicit market. And more black market customers means more black market violence, Kleiman says—an outcome contrary to Sessions’ expressed goal of fighting violent crime. “From a rational point of view it makes no sense,” he says. “We’d be much better off with national legalization under tight regulation, than under the system that’s now developing.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/the-cannabis-crowd-isnt-afraid-of-the-big-bad-attorney-general/
A marijuana edible and a cup of coffee? That soon could happen in this Colorado city.
On a recent gelid afternoon, Tsalyuk sat at a high-top wooden table inside the Coffee Joint, her soon-to-open shop that will allow patrons to consume pot edibles and use marijuana vape pens. Next door is her recreational dispensary, 1136 Yuma, tucked in an industrial neighborhood lined with lumber and scrap metal yards.
“I think this is a natural step in the legalization movement,” Tsalyuk said, adding that she has the support of the local neighborhood association. “People want to use pot and have a nice social experience. … I want to provide that.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-denver-public-use-marijuana-20180107-story.html
Did Jeff Sessions Just Increase the Odds Congress Will Make Marijuana Legal?
The attorney general has created intolerable uncertainty for a growing industry that is now demanding legal protections from Congress. And lawmakers are listening.
By JAMES HIGDON January 06, 2018
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/06/jeff-sessions-marijuana-legalization-congress-216251
The fact that marijuana has now risen to the height of top-tier budget negotiations is a sign that the pro-marijuana coalition is no longer merely a menagerie of loud-mouth hippies, stoners, and felons, as the pro-pot crowd has been characterized in the past. The community of Americans who now rely on legal medical marijuana, estimated to be 2.6 million people in 2016, includes a variety of mainstream constituency groups like veterans, senior citizens, cancer survivors, and parents of epileptic children. "The American Legion, a conservative veterans organization by any measure, has voted twice in favor of resolutions to expand research and safe access for its members".
29 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC
Laws, Fees, and Possession Limits
https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881
Great Marijuana Debate: 420 Conference
https://vimeopro.com/user14416067/mjic/video/159465117
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Is Marijuana Unhealthy? An In-Depth Look at the Research
NORML Chapters Energized and Organized for 2018 Lobby Days
by Kevin Mahmalji, NORML Outreach Coordinator
As support for marijuana legalization in America reaches an all-time high, NORML chapters are hoping to tap into the energy and enthusiasm of their most ardent supporters for their 2018 lobby days. According to the most recent nationwide polling data compiled by Gallup, Sixty-four percent of US adults support the legalization of adult-use marijuana. That’s why NORML chapters are gearing up for an aggressive push to advance marijuana law reforms in states across the country.
Looking Back
As the year comes to an close, NORML chapters have certainly earned the right to celebrate their hard work and a very productive year. With a record number of state-level lobby days, the passage of several decriminalization measures and a strong presence at congressional town hall meetings, and legislative offices, NORML chapters had an undeniable impact on marijuana policy in 2017.
To kick things off earlier this year, NORML chapters around the country organized more than two dozen lobby days, where legislative victories ranged from an effort by Virginia NORML to end automatic driver’s license suspension for marijuana possession, to a push by Delaware NORML that resulted in the passage of a marijuana legalization bill out of committee. A first for the Delaware legislature.
After wrapping up state legislative sessions, NORML chapters continued their work well into the summer months, but shifted their focus to local efforts. While some chapters dedicated their time to collecting signatures for statewide marijuana law reform initiatives and others to community outreach projects, NORML KC, Peachtree NORML, Madison NORML and Ohio NORML set their sights on decriminalization. Each chapter was successful in reducing the penalties for personal possession of marijuana in their community from a criminal infraction to a simple fine or no fine at all.
Following a busy summer filled with local activism and congressional town hall meetings, chapter leadership from around the country gathered in our nation’s capital for NORML’s 2017 Conference and Lobby in Washington DC. With the help of NORML’s political team led by Justin Strekal, NORML coordinated more than 150 meetings with congressional offices, and to the surprise of many, a face-to-face meeting with Senator Cory Booker, who recently introduced The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017.
Looking Ahead
With the new year quickly approaching, NORML Chapters around the country are busy mobilizing supporters in advance of their 2018 lobby days. NORML activists will be meeting with state representatives where they’ll help educate them about the advantages of ending marijuana prohibition and encourage support for dozens of statewide reform bills. To date, Virginia NORML, NORML KC, NORML of Florida, Lehigh Valley NORML, NORML Women of Washington, Pittsburgh NORML, Ohio NORML, Missouri NORML, Illinois NORML, Delaware NORML, Kentucky NORML, Maryland NORML, New Mexico NORML, Wyoming NORML and Greater St. Louis NORML have scheduled the first round of NORML lobby days for the new year.
In Pennsylvania, Jeff Reidy, executive director of Lehigh Valley NORML will be in Harrisburg with a broad coalition consisting of marijuana activists from the Keystone Cannabis Coalition and several other NORML chapters for what’s expected to be one of the largest grassroots marijuana-centric lobby days in the state’s history. With Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana patients now receiving their state registration cards and the expected opening of dispensaries in early 2018, the coalition will be pushing for statewide decriminalization.
“Marijuana activism begins with NORML. Being a member of this organization implies a desire to push our agenda, while engaging policy makers,” said Reidy. “Lobbying our elected officials is the simplest way to deliver the voice of the people to our politicians. We only win when we engage, speak out, endure, and fight for our freedoms. It’s time to Lobby!”
In Washington State, where medical and adult-use marijuana is already legal, Danica Noble, executive director of NORML Women of Washington and her colleagues with Washington NORML will be focused on protecting progress and expanding the rights of marijuana consumers by addressing issues like home cultivation and workplace discrimination.
“In Washington State, our top legislative priorities will be on legalizing homegrows, expunging felony convictions for simple possession, and establishing workplace protections for marijuana consumers, said Noble. “In addition to not having the legal right to grow our own marijuana, marijuana consumers in Washington are being denied employment opportunities and still carry the burden of a felony conviction for simple possession. This has to change.”
While the legislative priorities of each NORML chapter can vary, the goals of protecting the rights of marijuana consumers and ending marijuana prohibition are shared by all.
Empowerment Resources
To support these grassroots lobbying efforts, we recently updated NORML’s Citizen Lobby Guide. This comprehensive guide will assist NORML activists in the planning and execution of a successful lobby day and also provides organizational checklists and a legislative questionnaire. So regardless of the state or legal status of marijuana, NORML activists will be fully prepared to discuss meaningful marijuana law reforms and effectively communicate NORML’s message of ending the prohibition of marijuana on the local, state and federal level.
NORML Lobby Guide: http://norml.org/pdf_files/NORML_CitizenLobbyGuide.pdf
NORML’s Action Center
In addition to offering support through NORML’s Citizen Lobby Guide, we have created more than a dozen action alerts targeting lawmakers across the country urging their support for marijuana law reform legislation being considered in their state. To join the conversation, simply click on the link below, find the action alert for your state and enter your information!
NORML Action Center: http://norml.org/act
For more information about a NORML’s 2018 Chapter Lobby Days, please email Chapters@NORML.org or visit http://norml.org/about/chapter-calendar for list of upcoming chapter lobby days and meetings.
http://blog.norml.org/2017/12/31/norml-chapters-energized-and-organized-for-2018-lobby-days/
2017: A NORML Year in America
by Justin Strekal, NORML Political Director
In the wake of landmark cannabis victories in 2016, there was much momentum to build upon when state legislatures opened up at the beginning of 2017. With NORML chapters in nearly all 50 states, activists took the fight to the halls of state capitals and city councils from Florida to Washington State and everywhere in between. In all, lawmakers in 26 states have passed legislation to advance cannabis reform.
Victories include: Nevada expediting the implementation of adult distribution of legal marijuana, becoming the first of the newly legal states to respect the will of their voters and come online in 2017; New Hampshire becoming the 22nd state to decriminalize marijuana, making it so that an individual can be in any state in New England without fear of being arrested for a simple possession charge; West Virginia becoming the 30th state to pass a medical marijuana program, which will soon serve patients suffering from a range of conditions including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and chronic pain; In Ohio, the Athens Cannabis Ordinance (aptly named TACO) passed to completely de-penalize marijuana possession; among many other advancements and legislative tweaks around the country.
Federal: Bill Introduced To End Federal Marijuana Prohibition
Representatives Tom Garrett (R-VA) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced comprehensive marijuana reform legislation, the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act.
The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017, HR 1227, eliminates federal criminal penalties for possessing and growing marijuana. This legislation gives states the power and flexibility to establish their own marijuana policies free from federal interference.
Democrats and Republicans Reject Recent Action by AG Sessions
by Kevin Mahmalji, NORML Outreach Coordinator
January 5, 2018
Reject AG Sessions’ Efforts to Revert to the Failed Criminal Policies of the ‘Just Say No’ Era
Following yesterday’s announcement by the DOJ that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had rescinded the Cole Memo, an Obama-era memorandum issued by Attorney General James Cole in 2013, federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle quickly denounced the decision.
http://blog.norml.org/2018/01/05/democrats-and-republicans-reject-recent-action-by-ag-sessions/
[Video on Senate floor]Senator Cory Booker on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' marijuana policy change Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' marijuana policy change: "We've heard already from the other Cory in the Senate, Republican Senator Cory Gardner, that he had a commitment from the Attorney General that before his confirmation that this is not what he would do. And so this is an attack on our most sacred ideals."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4702926/senator-cory-booker-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-marijuana-policy-change
Rep. Earl Blumenauer speaks after report of Sessions' plan to rescind pot policy
Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer spoke to the press on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2017 following reports that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will rescind policy that allowed marijuana sales to flourish in Oregon and other states where it has been legalized.
GOP senator rips Sessions over marijuana policy
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) threatened to block all Justice Department nominees after Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end Obama-era policies that limited federal interference in state marijuana laws.