Forbes Magazine notes that as majorities continue to support changes in marijuana law, employers must confront the fact their so-called “drug-free workplace” may need to be modified to accord with new state law.
Forbes Magazine notes that as majorities continue to support changes in marijuana law, employers must confront the fact their so-called “drug-free workplace” may need to be modified to accord with new state law.
Given what I have read from Dr. King, given his pursuit of equality and justice, and given the recent support of the NAACP, I feel confident proclaiming that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be on the side of ending this futile and cruel prohibition of marijuana.
Charges have been dropped against the driver for vehicular manslaughter after he hits and kills a careless pedestrian who stepped into traffic in the middle of the road in Vancouver, Washington.
The massive failure of the Justice Department to prosecute bankers who laundered billions for drug cartels make medical marijuana raids even more disgusting; The Top Five Stupid Prohibition Stories of 2012; How does legalization affect hemp?; music by Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Per se DUID is not going away and it will eventually pass. Give them something we like now or wait til the first big freeway wreck that can be tied to someone’s newly-legal recreational use and watch a standard we really hate get rammed through the legislature.
Colorado governor signs marijuana legalization into law; Paul Armentano from NORML opines on federal response to legalization efforts; Washington bar opens up to pot smokers; music by Louis Armstrong; Benny Goodman with Gene Krupa
The Russ Belville Show live remote from the Mediterranean Inn near the Space Needle in Seattle on the first day marijuana is legal in Washington State.
I’m very excited that this photo from the Associated Press is being seen far and wide, from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Mail (UK), The Vancouver Sun (Canada), WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia, Greenwich Time in Connecticut, and so many more!
Around the 18 second mark of this video you can see me smoking my pipe after midnight below the Space Needle in Seattle.
A crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the base of the iconic Seattle Space Needle to openly smoke marijuana at 12:00am this morning. The revelers had come to celebrate the moment marijuana possession became legal in Washington State, thanks to last month’s passage of Initiative 502.
As we spend our last Irie Wednesday when marijuana is illegal in all fifty states, we bring you the great Peter Tosh with encouragement for the other 48.
“Radical” Russ’s latest article in HIGH TIMES Magazine, “Beware the Border Patrol”, plus more stats from Truth-out.org; State Dept. offering $10 billion to supply its Drug War Air Force; music by MelodySheep.
Legalization debunking video from FOX News-contributor / comedian Steve Crowder, with response from “Radical” Russ; Mendo zip-tie program records headed to feds; music by Psychefunkapus.
“Steven Crowder destroys pretty much every pro-marijuana argument” and that “Stoners lie. Or they’re just too stupid to know the truth.”
The Box Canyon isn’t just that medical marijuana gets stricter and that we’re driving our issue into the hands of Big Pharma. It’s also that we’ve intentionally divided our political base and created an interest group vested in keeping us in the medical marijuana canyon.
MPP’s top ten lessons of Colorado legalization suggest Oregon should wait for 2016; Mainstream media notices kids and medical marijuana; HuffPo calls out Washington Stoners Against (This) Legalization; music by Hoodie Monks ft. Gomyo.
Oregon activists can’t wait four years and thousands of marijuana arrests later to legalize and there are now more deep pockets than just Peter Lewis who want in on the legal marijuana game.
Thurlow Weed from iBake-TV explains the new Medicated Chef contest; Drug Czar’s marijuana legalization FAQ fears cheap and expensive marijuana; UK media report certainty of cannabis / schizophrenia link; music by Billie Holiday.
According to the Drug Czar, if we legalize marijuana, pot smokers who didn’t smoke pot before because it was illegal and expensive will bypass the less-expensive, taxed, inspected, potent weed of multiple varieties sold in a professional, secure, legal store and buy it instead from a criminal with a limited supply who’ll give them a few bucks off the store price.
Despite claims that smoking “skunk” gives one 8x greater chance of schizophrenia, rates in England appear unlikely to have changed markedly since at least 1950.
