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Daily Archives: September 14, 2012

The Russ Belville Show #57 – Preview of HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup Seattle

David Bienenstock, HIGH TIMES’ West Coast Editor, on this weekend’s Seattle Medical Cannabis Cup; A Rant and Behind the Headlines on two different drug testing stories; music from Truckfighters.

The Russ Belville Show #57 – Preview of HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup Seattle

David Bienenstock, HIGH TIMES’ West Coast Editor, on this weekend’s Seattle Medical Cannabis Cup; A Rant and Behind the Headlines on two different drug testing stories; music from Truckfighters.

MI City Attorney Asks City Commissioners to Pass Decriminalization Ordinance

Kalamazoo Michigan’s city attorney has asked the city commissioners to pass an ordinance to decriminalize marijuana possession in the city.

Arkansas Supreme Court Rejects Oral Arguments Against Medical Marijuana Initiative

A conservative coalition of groups in Arkansas have lost their bid with the Arkansas Supreme Court to deliver oral arguments against the ballot measure seeking to legalize medical marijuana in the state.

Square Grouper Find Gets Florida Man in Hot Water

This morning, several bricks of soggy marijuana washed up on a Florida beach. Witnesses watched an early morning beach comber pick up one of the bricks, and then watched him leave the beach area very quickly on foot.

Fla. welfare drug test suit: $1,000 per positive, much abuse

When we cover these stories, we often see comments along the lines of “well, if we have to take a drug test to get a job, they should have to take a drug test to get welfare!” The solution to the injustice of workplace drug testing is not to spread that injustice to our school children and our needy citizens.

Surprise! Drug testers support drug testing your kids

So, when your non-addict adolescent engages in a behavior for which there are no consequences, you need to violate his trust to manufacture a consequence? The marijuana smoking by itself is something so benign you can’t dissuade your kid from trying it based on its own harms so you have to make some up?

GW Pharma to test marijuana’s CBDV molecule on epilepsy

CBDV, unlike the best-known cannabinoid THC, is not psychoactive. It was found in lab tests to not only be helpful in treating seizures when used alone, it also seems to work well in combination with currently-used anti-seizure medications.

Uruguay proposes 1oz/month marijuana rations from the government

The South American country of Uruguay, which has already decriminalized the personal possession of marijuana, may soon sell to its citizens up to one ounce of government marijuana per month.

Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo, Michigan, pols endorse marijuana decriminalization

The State of Michigan, which passed medical marijuana in 2008 in every county and with more votes than President Obama, is seeing a surge in support for marijuana decriminalization at the municipal level.

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