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CBIS,, LOL, The pennies are
built on hype & insanity lol
No margin acct,,
No
day trading..
I think your shares are locked 3 days w/o margin acct..
May want to check
RIGH
AEGY,, LOL relax a bit, its
a holiday. Try de-caf too
btw,, you do understand that this is not a
dow or a naz stock,, right?
Ex-DEA agent jumps jobs to join marijuana investment firm,,
http://news.yahoo.com/u-ex-dea-agent-unlikely-role-pot-investment-120446978--finance.html
SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon - before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.
In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.
As managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, Moen has added his name to a small but growing list of individuals with unlikely backgrounds who have joined or thrown their support behind state-sanctioned marijuana enterprises.
In Oregon, another former Portland-based DEA agent, Paul Schmidt, who retired from the agency in 2010, recently set up shop as a consultant to medical cannabis businesses after working as a state inspector of medical pot dispensaries in Colorado.
Last year, former Mexican president Vicente Fox visited Seattle to trumpet support for a pot firm fronted by former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively. The Seattle police department is weighing whether to allow officers to moonlight as security guards at pot shops slated to open later this year.
View gallery
Former DEA agent Moen, now managing director of compliance …
Former DEA agent Patrick Moen, now managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Privateer …
Moen, whose jump has been criticized by his former boss at the DEA, said that even as his profile within the agency rose, he nursed a growing sense that the marijuana cases he worked, and the laws underpinning them, were wrongheaded.
Moen says he is working to foster a reputable pot industry that will hasten an end to the drug's prohibition and allow the DEA to sharpen its focus on drugs that are truly harmful.
"I saw this as an amazing opportunity to be a part of the team that's helping to create this industry, " Moen, 36, told Reuters. "I don't really feel like it's the other side."
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, some 20 states and Washington, D.C., allow for its medical use. In 2012, voters in Washington state and Colorado became the first to legalize adult recreational use of the drug.
Colorado and Washington state have fed the momentum for pot liberalization efforts elsewhere, with a legalization measure likely to go before Alaska voters in August and activists in Oregon collecting signatures to get a similar initiative on that state's November ballot.
View gallery
Legalization of marijuana
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Den …
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in August it wouldn't interfere with state efforts to regulate and tax marijuana provided they're able to meet a set of requirements that include keeping it away from children and restricting its flow into other states.
EVOLVING VIEWS
Over the summer, Moen arranged to meet Privateer Chief Executive Officer Brendan Kennedy in a Portland coffee shop, where he gave Kennedy his DEA business card before passing him an envelope. Kennedy feared it contained a subpoena but was relieved to instead find enclosed a copy of Moen's resume, the CEO said.
Colorado this month allowed stores to begin selling weed, a step that is months away in Washington state. These developments, coupled with Moen's own evolving views, made a once unfathomable career shift a possibility, he said.
Among his current assignments, Moen is helping Privateer avoid legal pitfalls as it pushes into the cultivation of medical weed in Canada - a significant leap for a firm that has until recently invested solely in enterprises on the fringes of the marijuana trade.
View gallery
Prospectors seek fortune in legal pot
This combination of November 2013 photos in Washington state shows, top row from left, pastry chef M …
The pay and benefits of his new job are "close to a wash" with his previous position, Moen says, but include stock options in a company aiming to become an industry cornerstone.
Moen's value to Privateer likely will come in guiding the company on how to steer clear of activities that raise red flags with federal authorities, said Hilary Bricken, a Seattle-based marijuana business lawyer.
"It's extremely ironic," she said. "You go from cracking skulls to supporting the very effort that you once vowed to entirely destroy."
Seattle-based DEA Special Agent in Charge Matthew G. Barnes, the top-ranking DEA official in the Pacific Northwest, called Moen's career change an act of abandonment.
"It is disappointing when law enforcement officers, sworn to uphold the laws of the United States with honor, courage and integrity, abandon their commitment to work in an industry involved in trafficking marijuana," Barnes told Reuters in a statement.
Underscoring the divide between the DEA and an emerging pot industry sanctioned by states, the agency's chief of operations, James Capra, on Wednesday denounced the movement toward ending pot prohibition at a U.S. Senate hearing as "reckless and irresponsible."
But Moen said not all his former colleagues have reacted negatively to his move.
"I've gotten a lot of support from former colleagues," Moen said. "I wasn't sure how guys were going to react and it's been really great."
ERBB,, Ex-DEA agent jumps jobs to join marijuana investment firm
SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon - before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.
In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.
As managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, Moen has added his name to a small but growing list of individuals with unlikely backgrounds who have joined or thrown their support behind state-sanctioned marijuana enterprises.
In Oregon, another former Portland-based DEA agent, Paul Schmidt, who retired from the agency in 2010, recently set up shop as a consultant to medical cannabis businesses after working as a state inspector of medical pot dispensaries in Colorado.
Last year, former Mexican president Vicente Fox visited Seattle to trumpet support for a pot firm fronted by former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively. The Seattle police department is weighing whether to allow officers to moonlight as security guards at pot shops slated to open later this year.
View gallery
Former DEA agent Moen, now managing director of compliance …
Former DEA agent Patrick Moen, now managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Privateer …
Moen, whose jump has been criticized by his former boss at the DEA, said that even as his profile within the agency rose, he nursed a growing sense that the marijuana cases he worked, and the laws underpinning them, were wrongheaded.
Moen says he is working to foster a reputable pot industry that will hasten an end to the drug's prohibition and allow the DEA to sharpen its focus on drugs that are truly harmful.
"I saw this as an amazing opportunity to be a part of the team that's helping to create this industry, " Moen, 36, told Reuters. "I don't really feel like it's the other side."
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, some 20 states and Washington, D.C., allow for its medical use. In 2012, voters in Washington state and Colorado became the first to legalize adult recreational use of the drug.
Colorado and Washington state have fed the momentum for pot liberalization efforts elsewhere, with a legalization measure likely to go before Alaska voters in August and activists in Oregon collecting signatures to get a similar initiative on that state's November ballot.
View gallery
Legalization of marijuana
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Den …
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in August it wouldn't interfere with state efforts to regulate and tax marijuana provided they're able to meet a set of requirements that include keeping it away from children and restricting its flow into other states.
EVOLVING VIEWS
Over the summer, Moen arranged to meet Privateer Chief Executive Officer Brendan Kennedy in a Portland coffee shop, where he gave Kennedy his DEA business card before passing him an envelope. Kennedy feared it contained a subpoena but was relieved to instead find enclosed a copy of Moen's resume, the CEO said.
Colorado this month allowed stores to begin selling weed, a step that is months away in Washington state. These developments, coupled with Moen's own evolving views, made a once unfathomable career shift a possibility, he said.
Among his current assignments, Moen is helping Privateer avoid legal pitfalls as it pushes into the cultivation of medical weed in Canada - a significant leap for a firm that has until recently invested solely in enterprises on the fringes of the marijuana trade.
View gallery
Prospectors seek fortune in legal pot
This combination of November 2013 photos in Washington state shows, top row from left, pastry chef M …
The pay and benefits of his new job are "close to a wash" with his previous position, Moen says, but include stock options in a company aiming to become an industry cornerstone.
Moen's value to Privateer likely will come in guiding the company on how to steer clear of activities that raise red flags with federal authorities, said Hilary Bricken, a Seattle-based marijuana business lawyer.
"It's extremely ironic," she said. "You go from cracking skulls to supporting the very effort that you once vowed to entirely destroy."
Seattle-based DEA Special Agent in Charge Matthew G. Barnes, the top-ranking DEA official in the Pacific Northwest, called Moen's career change an act of abandonment.
"It is disappointing when law enforcement officers, sworn to uphold the laws of the United States with honor, courage and integrity, abandon their commitment to work in an industry involved in trafficking marijuana," Barnes told Reuters in a statement.
Underscoring the divide between the DEA and an emerging pot industry sanctioned by states, the agency's chief of operations, James Capra, on Wednesday denounced the movement toward ending pot prohibition at a U.S. Senate hearing as "reckless and irresponsible."
But Moen said not all his former colleagues have reacted negatively to his move.
"I've gotten a lot of support from former colleagues," Moen said. "I wasn't sure how guys were going to react and it's been really great."
http://news.yahoo.com/u-ex-dea-agent-unlikely-role-pot-investment-120446978--finance.html
RIGH,, Ex-DEA agent jumps jobs to join marijuana investment firm
SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon - before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.
In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.
As managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, Moen has added his name to a small but growing list of individuals with unlikely backgrounds who have joined or thrown their support behind state-sanctioned marijuana enterprises.
In Oregon, another former Portland-based DEA agent, Paul Schmidt, who retired from the agency in 2010, recently set up shop as a consultant to medical cannabis businesses after working as a state inspector of medical pot dispensaries in Colorado.
Last year, former Mexican president Vicente Fox visited Seattle to trumpet support for a pot firm fronted by former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively. The Seattle police department is weighing whether to allow officers to moonlight as security guards at pot shops slated to open later this year.
View gallery
Former DEA agent Moen, now managing director of compliance …
Former DEA agent Patrick Moen, now managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Privateer …
Moen, whose jump has been criticized by his former boss at the DEA, said that even as his profile within the agency rose, he nursed a growing sense that the marijuana cases he worked, and the laws underpinning them, were wrongheaded.
Moen says he is working to foster a reputable pot industry that will hasten an end to the drug's prohibition and allow the DEA to sharpen its focus on drugs that are truly harmful.
"I saw this as an amazing opportunity to be a part of the team that's helping to create this industry, " Moen, 36, told Reuters. "I don't really feel like it's the other side."
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, some 20 states and Washington, D.C., allow for its medical use. In 2012, voters in Washington state and Colorado became the first to legalize adult recreational use of the drug.
Colorado and Washington state have fed the momentum for pot liberalization efforts elsewhere, with a legalization measure likely to go before Alaska voters in August and activists in Oregon collecting signatures to get a similar initiative on that state's November ballot.
View gallery
Legalization of marijuana
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Den …
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in August it wouldn't interfere with state efforts to regulate and tax marijuana provided they're able to meet a set of requirements that include keeping it away from children and restricting its flow into other states.
EVOLVING VIEWS
Over the summer, Moen arranged to meet Privateer Chief Executive Officer Brendan Kennedy in a Portland coffee shop, where he gave Kennedy his DEA business card before passing him an envelope. Kennedy feared it contained a subpoena but was relieved to instead find enclosed a copy of Moen's resume, the CEO said.
Colorado this month allowed stores to begin selling weed, a step that is months away in Washington state. These developments, coupled with Moen's own evolving views, made a once unfathomable career shift a possibility, he said.
Among his current assignments, Moen is helping Privateer avoid legal pitfalls as it pushes into the cultivation of medical weed in Canada - a significant leap for a firm that has until recently invested solely in enterprises on the fringes of the marijuana trade.
View gallery
Prospectors seek fortune in legal pot
This combination of November 2013 photos in Washington state shows, top row from left, pastry chef M …
The pay and benefits of his new job are "close to a wash" with his previous position, Moen says, but include stock options in a company aiming to become an industry cornerstone.
Moen's value to Privateer likely will come in guiding the company on how to steer clear of activities that raise red flags with federal authorities, said Hilary Bricken, a Seattle-based marijuana business lawyer.
"It's extremely ironic," she said. "You go from cracking skulls to supporting the very effort that you once vowed to entirely destroy."
Seattle-based DEA Special Agent in Charge Matthew G. Barnes, the top-ranking DEA official in the Pacific Northwest, called Moen's career change an act of abandonment.
"It is disappointing when law enforcement officers, sworn to uphold the laws of the United States with honor, courage and integrity, abandon their commitment to work in an industry involved in trafficking marijuana," Barnes told Reuters in a statement.
Underscoring the divide between the DEA and an emerging pot industry sanctioned by states, the agency's chief of operations, James Capra, on Wednesday denounced the movement toward ending pot prohibition at a U.S. Senate hearing as "reckless and irresponsible."
But Moen said not all his former colleagues have reacted negatively to his move.
"I've gotten a lot of support from former colleagues," Moen said. "I wasn't sure how guys were going to react and it's been really great."
http://news.yahoo.com/u-ex-dea-agent-unlikely-role-pot-investment-120446978--finance.html
AEGY,, Ex-DEA agent jumps jobs to join marijuana investment
firm
SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon - before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.
In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.
As managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, Moen has added his name to a small but growing list of individuals with unlikely backgrounds who have joined or thrown their support behind state-sanctioned marijuana enterprises.
In Oregon, another former Portland-based DEA agent, Paul Schmidt, who retired from the agency in 2010, recently set up shop as a consultant to medical cannabis businesses after working as a state inspector of medical pot dispensaries in Colorado.
Last year, former Mexican president Vicente Fox visited Seattle to trumpet support for a pot firm fronted by former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively. The Seattle police department is weighing whether to allow officers to moonlight as security guards at pot shops slated to open later this year.
View gallery
Former DEA agent Moen, now managing director of compliance …
Former DEA agent Patrick Moen, now managing director of compliance and senior counsel for Privateer …
Moen, whose jump has been criticized by his former boss at the DEA, said that even as his profile within the agency rose, he nursed a growing sense that the marijuana cases he worked, and the laws underpinning them, were wrongheaded.
Moen says he is working to foster a reputable pot industry that will hasten an end to the drug's prohibition and allow the DEA to sharpen its focus on drugs that are truly harmful.
"I saw this as an amazing opportunity to be a part of the team that's helping to create this industry, " Moen, 36, told Reuters. "I don't really feel like it's the other side."
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, some 20 states and Washington, D.C., allow for its medical use. In 2012, voters in Washington state and Colorado became the first to legalize adult recreational use of the drug.
Colorado and Washington state have fed the momentum for pot liberalization efforts elsewhere, with a legalization measure likely to go before Alaska voters in August and activists in Oregon collecting signatures to get a similar initiative on that state's November ballot.
View gallery
Legalization of marijuana
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Den …
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in August it wouldn't interfere with state efforts to regulate and tax marijuana provided they're able to meet a set of requirements that include keeping it away from children and restricting its flow into other states.
EVOLVING VIEWS
Over the summer, Moen arranged to meet Privateer Chief Executive Officer Brendan Kennedy in a Portland coffee shop, where he gave Kennedy his DEA business card before passing him an envelope. Kennedy feared it contained a subpoena but was relieved to instead find enclosed a copy of Moen's resume, the CEO said.
Colorado this month allowed stores to begin selling weed, a step that is months away in Washington state. These developments, coupled with Moen's own evolving views, made a once unfathomable career shift a possibility, he said.
Among his current assignments, Moen is helping Privateer avoid legal pitfalls as it pushes into the cultivation of medical weed in Canada - a significant leap for a firm that has until recently invested solely in enterprises on the fringes of the marijuana trade.
View gallery
Prospectors seek fortune in legal pot
This combination of November 2013 photos in Washington state shows, top row from left, pastry chef M …
The pay and benefits of his new job are "close to a wash" with his previous position, Moen says, but include stock options in a company aiming to become an industry cornerstone.
Moen's value to Privateer likely will come in guiding the company on how to steer clear of activities that raise red flags with federal authorities, said Hilary Bricken, a Seattle-based marijuana business lawyer.
"It's extremely ironic," she said. "You go from cracking skulls to supporting the very effort that you once vowed to entirely destroy."
Seattle-based DEA Special Agent in Charge Matthew G. Barnes, the top-ranking DEA official in the Pacific Northwest, called Moen's career change an act of abandonment.
"It is disappointing when law enforcement officers, sworn to uphold the laws of the United States with honor, courage and integrity, abandon their commitment to work in an industry involved in trafficking marijuana," Barnes told Reuters in a statement.
Underscoring the divide between the DEA and an emerging pot industry sanctioned by states, the agency's chief of operations, James Capra, on Wednesday denounced the movement toward ending pot prohibition at a U.S. Senate hearing as "reckless and irresponsible."
But Moen said not all his former colleagues have reacted negatively to his move.
"I've gotten a lot of support from former colleagues," Moen said. "I wasn't sure how guys were going to react and it's been really great."
http://news.yahoo.com/u-ex-dea-agent-unlikely-role-pot-investment-120446978--finance.html
RIGH,, ,Obama says marijuana
‘no more dangerous than alcohol’
Posted by
CNN White House Producer Kevin Liptak
Washington (CNN) – Marijuana, which is still placed in the same category as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms by the federal government, is no more dangerous than alcohol, President Barack Obama said in an interview published Sunday.
Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Obama said he still viewed pot smoking negatively – but that on the whole, the drug wasn’t the social ill that it’s been viewed as in the past.
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama told the weekly magazine.
The president said pot was actually less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
“It’s not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” he said.
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized recreational marijuana use. Another 18, along with the District of Columbia, allow some legal pot use, primarily for medicinal purposes. But when it comes to federal law, marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance - a drug with high potential for abuse but no accepted medical use - and the White House has said that Obama doesn’t support changing that status.
Instead, Obama said in the New Yorker interview that he’s focused on making laws that treat users fairly.
“We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing,” he told Remnick.
In August, Obama’s Justice Department announced it would not challenge legalization in Colorado and Washington, and instead focus federal enforcement on trafficking cases and preventing pot from getting in the hands of kids. Prosecutors are now required to focus on distinct enforcement priorities that also include preventing driving while high and forbidding the cultivation of marijuana on public lands.
In the New Yorker, Obama said Colorado and Washington’s laws were “important” since they decriminalized a commonly used substance. But he also said the laws could raise questions for other illegal substances.
“If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that?” Obama wondered. “If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?”
Filed under: Obama administration
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/
AEGY,,Obama says marijuana
‘no more dangerous than alcohol’
Posted by
CNN White House Producer Kevin Liptak
Washington (CNN) – Marijuana, which is still placed in the same category as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms by the federal government, is no more dangerous than alcohol, President Barack Obama said in an interview published Sunday.
Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Obama said he still viewed pot smoking negatively – but that on the whole, the drug wasn’t the social ill that it’s been viewed as in the past.
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama told the weekly magazine.
The president said pot was actually less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
“It’s not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” he said.
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized recreational marijuana use. Another 18, along with the District of Columbia, allow some legal pot use, primarily for medicinal purposes. But when it comes to federal law, marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance - a drug with high potential for abuse but no accepted medical use - and the White House has said that Obama doesn’t support changing that status.
Instead, Obama said in the New Yorker interview that he’s focused on making laws that treat users fairly.
“We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing,” he told Remnick.
In August, Obama’s Justice Department announced it would not challenge legalization in Colorado and Washington, and instead focus federal enforcement on trafficking cases and preventing pot from getting in the hands of kids. Prosecutors are now required to focus on distinct enforcement priorities that also include preventing driving while high and forbidding the cultivation of marijuana on public lands.
In the New Yorker, Obama said Colorado and Washington’s laws were “important” since they decriminalized a commonly used substance. But he also said the laws could raise questions for other illegal substances.
“If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that?” Obama wondered. “If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?”
Filed under: Obama administration
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/
ERBB,, Obama says marijuana
‘no more dangerous than alcohol’
Posted by
CNN White House Producer Kevin Liptak
Washington (CNN) – Marijuana, which is still placed in the same category as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms by the federal government, is no more dangerous than alcohol, President Barack Obama said in an interview published Sunday.
Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Obama said he still viewed pot smoking negatively – but that on the whole, the drug wasn’t the social ill that it’s been viewed as in the past.
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama told the weekly magazine.
The president said pot was actually less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
“It’s not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” he said.
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized recreational marijuana use. Another 18, along with the District of Columbia, allow some legal pot use, primarily for medicinal purposes. But when it comes to federal law, marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance - a drug with high potential for abuse but no accepted medical use - and the White House has said that Obama doesn’t support changing that status.
Instead, Obama said in the New Yorker interview that he’s focused on making laws that treat users fairly.
“We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing,” he told Remnick.
In August, Obama’s Justice Department announced it would not challenge legalization in Colorado and Washington, and instead focus federal enforcement on trafficking cases and preventing pot from getting in the hands of kids. Prosecutors are now required to focus on distinct enforcement priorities that also include preventing driving while high and forbidding the cultivation of marijuana on public lands.
In the New Yorker, Obama said Colorado and Washington’s laws were “important” since they decriminalized a commonly used substance. But he also said the laws could raise questions for other illegal substances.
“If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that?” Obama wondered. “If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?”
Filed under: Obama administration
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/
EXMT,, Obama says marijuana
‘no more dangerous than alcohol’
Posted by
CNN White House Producer Kevin Liptak
Washington (CNN) – Marijuana, which is still placed in the same category as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms by the federal government, is no more dangerous than alcohol, President Barack Obama said in an interview published Sunday.
Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Obama said he still viewed pot smoking negatively – but that on the whole, the drug wasn’t the social ill that it’s been viewed as in the past.
“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama told the weekly magazine.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/
The president said pot was actually less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
“It’s not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” he said.
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized recreational marijuana use. Another 18, along with the District of Columbia, allow some legal pot use, primarily for medicinal purposes. But when it comes to federal law, marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance - a drug with high potential for abuse but no accepted medical use - and the White House has said that Obama doesn’t support changing that status.
Instead, Obama said in the New Yorker interview that he’s focused on making laws that treat users fairly.
“We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing,” he told Remnick.
In August, Obama’s Justice Department announced it would not challenge legalization in Colorado and Washington, and instead focus federal enforcement on trafficking cases and preventing pot from getting in the hands of kids. Prosecutors are now required to focus on distinct enforcement priorities that also include preventing driving while high and forbidding the cultivation of marijuana on public lands.
In the New Yorker, Obama said Colorado and Washington’s laws were “important” since they decriminalized a commonly used substance. But he also said the laws could raise questions for other illegal substances.
“If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that?” Obama wondered. “If somebody says, We’ve got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we O.K. with that?”
Filed under: Obama administration
EXMT,, Mine too.. Flying blind lol
EXMT,, imo as soon as the MMs
put the gap up on L-2
ball was in their court
Their game plan was in & 0n
And it was a full moon lol
I believe you`re correct,, Much
higher..
Gaps have to get filled
And I hate gaps unless I`m selling
Added @ 29 3 & 31
At the Ask..
Best of trading to you
EXMT
LOL,, I disagree Big time,,
panic sellers {lol} flippers and
serious MM manipulation
NO doom & gloom here on EXMT
EXMT,, ME TOO
EXMT,, LOL Thanks for the Cheapies
Loaded at 29 & 30
Gap had to fill
Lets head North
EXMT
AEGY,, (from the Mexican Spanish marihuana
EXMT,, Richard Wilson CEO of Anything Technologies Media Inc., added, "This is the deal we have been waiting for to elevate the status of our company and IMD Companies Inc., to compete with the majors in the Medical and Recreational Marijuana Sector, we could not be happier. "
EXMT
IMD Companies, Inc., and Anything Technologies Media Inc., Jointly Acquire Green Linx Inc., an Innovative Internet based Business for the Sale of Marijuana Related Products and Positions both Companies as Major Players in the Marijuana Marketplace
TAMPA, FL, Jan. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - IMD Companies, Inc. (OTC: ICBU) and Anything Technologies Media Inc (OTC: EXMT) are pleased to announce that they have jointly acquired Green Linx Inc., and will split revenue on a 50/50 basis. Green Linx Inc. is a social media company, which owns a series of Marijuana themed domains including www.Legalpot4sale.com. The business strategy of Green Linx Inc. is to appeal to buyers of legal Marijuana who want access to reliable Marijuana information on products and services, which can be accessed on their devices including tablets and phones.
"We are very excited to bring our team's efforts into the burgeoning Marijuana marketplace", said Raffi Achkarian; owner of Green Linx Inc. Furthermore; Mr. Achkarian Stated; "The development of these platforms is very timely given the recent changes in the Marijuana laws in Colorado. The market for legal Marijuana in the US is estimated to be worth $2.34 Billion in 2014. It is time for us to make our mark and create a trusted resource for the Marijuana consumer. Marijuana consumers are tech savvy and often purchase items on impulse. Our intent is to create a robust platform where marijuana users can comment on their purchases. The online endorsement by consumers can be evaluated and reviewed by everyone who visits our sites. Added feature to our sites will include an instant deals component meant to give our users the best possible deal on marijuana, vaporizers and e-cigarettes. We want to do for the marijuana industry what Yelp Inc. (YELP) and Livedeal Inc. (LIVE) have done for the restaurant business. This strategy has long term potential given that it can be rolled out throughout 2014 and 2015 as marijuana becomes legal in other states. We fully expect to capture a major share of the pie and become a major player in our space. Shareholders can expect to hear more of us in the coming weeks and months."
Richard Wilson CEO of Anything Technologies Media Inc., added, "This is the deal we have been waiting for to elevate the status of our company and IMD Companies Inc., to compete with the majors in the Medical and Recreational Marijuana Sector, we could not be happier. "
About R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc.,
R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc., is a Hardware and Software Manufacturing Company with its headquarters in Placerville, California. R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc. has developed the new Environmental Master Controller EMC-5000 system, which is able to provide constant management for grow room facilities for indoor gardens. The EMC-5000 was developed so that growers can rest easy with the confidence that their crop is in excellent hands. The EMC-5000 is able to regulate and control all aspects of an indoor grow system, including Light cycles to optimize growth, Fans, Nutrient pumps, and CO2 level controls to help manage grow rooms. To see more information on the EMC-5000 go to www.r-questhydro.com.
About IMD Companies, Inc.
IMD Companies, Inc., (OTC MARKETS:ICBU) is a Florida corporation, engaged in the medical diagnostics and health and fitness industries. The company is currently positioned to be a holding company for major acquisitions in the medical, and marijuana industry. Its primary products and services lie in the health and fitness and medical diagnostics services markets. The company delivers its medical diagnostic services on-site at participating medical clinics and physician offices and company sponsored health fairs.
ABOUT ANYTHING TECHNOLOGIES MEDIA INC.
Anything Technologies Media Inc., www.anythingtechnologiesmedia.com is a Multi-Media Digital applications, production and marketing Company. ATM will be the parent company of subsidiary Corporations, and is also focused on partnerships and acquisitions in the medical marijuana sector. The company and partners each have their own professional management team with extensive backgrounds in finance, new technologies, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. ATM's goal is to combine the expertise of our team members to create a cohesive force, which will carry the company forward in the marketplace to a preeminent position through revenue sharing and acquisitions.
Safe Harbor Statement:
Certain statements made in this press release constitute forward-looking statements that are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "scheduled," "estimates" and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results and trends may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and the company does not undertake any obligation to update or publicly release any revisions to forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or changes in expectations after the date of this press release.
www.imdcompanies.com
SOURCE Anything Media Inc
Source: PR Newswire (January 16, 2014 - 8:00 AM EST)
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AEGY,, NH Passed
AEGY,, Giddy Up Time
I`m guessing the Shorts.. MDBX I
would bet, burned a lot of them..
ERBB,, LOL agreed
weak hands make good buying opps
ERBB
EXMT,, IMD Companies, Inc., Board Appoints Larry Robertson to CEO of the Company, Readies for next Marijuana Acquisition
TAMPA, FL, Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - IMD Companies, Inc. (OTC: ICBU) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that they have appointed Larry Robertson President of R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc., to CEO of the company. The company just recently announced that it had formed a partnership with Anything Technologies Media Inc., (OTC:EXMT) by acquiring 51% interest in R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc., developer of the environmental master controller for Medical and Recreational Marijuana Hydroponic Gardens. The company expects to announce its second acquisition with another Medical and Recreational Marijuana related business partner by the end of this week. Bruce Collett former CEO of the company has agreed to resign as a director but will remain as a consultant for the company to help manage the Medical diagnostic side of the business.
IMD Companies Inc., new CEO Larry Robertson stated, "I am pleased to be CEO of such a dynamic company as IMD Companies Inc., and feel that I can help lead the company to greater value for its shareholders. The Medical and Recreational Marijuana market has nothing but upside with the new laws that have been passed and the companies that sell supplies to them like us will greatly benefit."
About R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc.
R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc., is a Hardware and Software Manufacturing Company with its headquarters in Placerville, California. R-Quest Hydroponics, Inc. has developed the new Environmental Master Controller EMC-5000 system, which is able to provide constant management for grow room facilities for indoor gardens. The EMC-5000 was developed so that growers can rest easy with the confidence that their crop is in excellent hands. The EMC-5000 is able to regulate and control all aspects of an indoor grow system, including Light cycles to optimize growth, Fans, Nutrient pumps, and CO2 level controls to help manage grow rooms. To see more information on the EMC-5000 go to www.r-questhydro.com .
About IMD Companies, Inc.
IMD Companies, Inc., (OTC MARKETS:ICBU) is a Florida corporation, engaged in the medical diagnostics and health and fitness industries. The company is currently positioned to be a holding company for major acquisitions in the medical, and marijuana industry. Its primary products and services lie in the health and fitness and medical diagnostics services markets. The company delivers its medical diagnostic services on-site at participating medical clinics and physician offices and company sponsored health fairs.
About ANYTHING TECHNOLOGIES MEDIA INC.
Anything Technologies Media Inc., www.anythingtechnologiesmedia.com is a Multi-Media Digital applications, production and marketing Company. ATM will be the parent company of subsidiary Corporations, and is also focused on partnerships and acquisitions in the medical marijuana sector. The company and partners each have their own professional management team with extensive backgrounds in finance, new technologies, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. ATM's goal is to combine the expertise of our team members to create a cohesive force, which will carry the company forward in the marketplace to a preeminent position through revenue sharing and acquisitions. www.anythingtechnologiesmedia.com
Safe Harbor Statement:
Certain statements made in this press release constitute forward-looking statements that are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "scheduled," "estimates" and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results and trends may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and the company does not undertake any obligation to update or publicly release any revisions to forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or changes in expectations after the date of this press release.
www.imdcompanies.com
SOURCE Anything Media Inc
Copyright 2014 PR Newswire
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VPER,, The Wall Street Journal
PRESS RELEASE
January 13, 2014, 2:05 a.m. ET
Viper Networks Announces New Agricultural Subsidiary to Offer Fast Grow LED Technology
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140113-900258.html
VPER
Thank You, You forgot 1,,,The Wall Street Journal
PRESS RELEASE
January 13, 2014, 2:05 a.m. ET
Viper Networks Announces New Agricultural Subsidiary to Offer Fast Grow LED Technology
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140113-900258.html
VPER\
MJ Sector is Not going away.. Only going to
get hotter & stronger..
Some will run hard,, others will ride
the coat-tails
Lots of ups & down
Lots of fun
panic sellers need to do better DD
Know what their holding
Also, Lots of these MJ Plays are getting coverage
VPER in wall street journal
along with others
Just a matter of time, & patience
VPER,, Board marks will be
picking up as VPER starts to get noticed..
The WSJ Article was sweet
and will bring in buyers
Betting we break those 9s tomorrow
Got 7s and
MMs were stingy on the 8s lol
But still filled towards close
Best of trading to you
VPER
VPER,, WSJ News will bring
in buyers..
VPER
ERBB,, Smoking
EXMT,, Good, churn lower = Buying Opp
Alternative Energy Partners, Inc. (OTCQB: AEGY) FULL REPORT
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FITX,, LOL & Sorry, I
knew exactly what you are/were saying..
Just funning around.
And I know you`re long FITX
And I agree about the monster moves
I`m Long too so relax lol
Enjoy your Weekend &
Best of trading to you
ERBB,, Crazy like the
dot-com bubble
Bigger moves to come?? Are you kidding?
This is just the Start
Board marks are up too
We`ll be getting exposure and plenty
of it..
MJ & The Sector is here to stay.
MMs are probably in a meeting right now
wondering what the hell to do with these
Pot stocks..
They know its coming
Best of trading to you
FITX,, Thanks again Clay.. Seen
you on about 8 other boards I`m on also.
You stalking me LOL
I appreciate your time as I`m sure
others here do too
Why? feel stupid for
not knowing lol
What was up with that.
Painting the tape??
beats me
were they even trades or mm games
MMs dont play games though, do they LOL
AEGY,, Yep they are
blistering hot..
A lil cool down was expected but
heading North again as soon as the MMs let it lol
Volume was insane past few days
lots of eyes watching
AEGY