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Tonight We End Marijuana Prohibition

Here’s hoping that reason, sanity, and pragmatism prevails. Join us tonight from 4pm Pacific onward for our live coverage of Marijuana Election Night 2012 at radicalruss.com, on Twitter: @RadicalRuss #MJVote

Tonight We End Marijuana Prohibition

Here’s hoping that reason, sanity, and pragmatism prevails. Join us tonight from 4pm Pacific onward for our live coverage of Marijuana Election Night 2012 at radicalruss.com, on Twitter: @RadicalRuss #MJVote

Prohibitionists plagiarizing each other in reefer madness complaints against marijuana legalization

The opponents of Oregon’s Measure 80 to legalize marijuana have taken to plagiarizing each other’s reefer madness essays in local newspapers.

The Russ Belville Show #73 – ASA Attacks the Schedule I Lie

Analysis of the ASA v. DEA lawsuit to force the federal government to remove marijuana from Schedule I; Greg de Hoedt (Cannabis Cure UK) with Across the Pond look at British study on decriminalization; music by Kerri Chandler.

It’s Not Just New York City – Marijuana Arrests Disproportionately Black in Many US Cities

The Russ Belville Show analyzed census data and recent media reports on the arrests of African-Americans for marijuana possession and found that in at least eleven of the top 25 US cities by population, the percentage of marijuana arrests of blacks are 38% to over eight times greater than the percentage of black population in those cities.

You want to legalize marijuana? Think about other people’s perceptions.

It’s not so much that people fear pot legalization; it’s that they don’t want to see what they consider “potheads” all over their neighborhoods or, worse, their children becoming one. It’s not fair or right but it is.

When tending your pot garden, don’t just yell “come in” to anyone who knocks

I shouldn’t have to tell you this: If you are growing marijuana in your home, you always lock the door, you always pull the blinds closed, and you always check the peephole (your door has a peephole, right?) to see who is at the door before you even bother to respond.

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