Medical-Marijuana Firms Hold High Hopes for Fund Raising
In what was once a pipe dream, medical-marijuana companies are courting private investors and even planning public stock sales.
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US Congressman to File Marijuana Legalization Bill This Year
America is on the cusp of majority support for marijuana legalization, but legalization is not inevitable and it's up to activists and the multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry to start throwing their weight around to make it happen, US Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) told an overflow crowd during the keynote address at NORML's 40th annual conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Denver Saturday afternoon.
Drug-Bashing RI Republican Charged With Drug Use
Robert Watson, a high-ranking Republican state legislator in Rhode Island, is in hot water after being charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Drug charges alone would be bad enough for a public official, but Watson, Rhode Island's House minority leader, is still remembered for his controversial anti-drug, anti-gay and anti-immigrant remarks.
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Oklahoma Lawmakers Authorize Life Prison Sentence For Converting Marijuana To Hash
Converting marijuana to hashish could land Oklahomans a life prison sentence under a bill approved in the Oklahoma Senate.
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Two Medical Marijuana Patients to Surrender May 2nd for 5-Year Federal Prison Sentences
Rallies will occur on May 2nd at Sacramento federal courthouse & the Justice Department in Washington, DC
Media Loves 4/20 Marijuana Celebrations
CANNABIS CULTURE - The media loves a sensational story - and what could be more sensational than hundreds of thousands of marijuana smokers lighting up simultaneously across the globe?
4/20: Time to Have Fun – and to End Marijuana Prohibition!
We Need YOU to Help End Marijuana Prohibition.
Why Are the Feds Still Meddling With States’ Medical Marijuana Laws?
It was just three years ago when President Obama (then candidate Obama) famously pledged to no longer use federal "Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws" regulating the physician authorized use of medical cannabis. And it was in the fall of 2009 that the administration issued the Ogden memorandum to federal prosecutors directing them to not "focus federal resources ...
Drug Czar Doesn’t Want to be Drug Czar Anymore
It's hard to imagine a worse job than defending the drug war every single day, and it looks as though Gil Kerlikowske has had about all he can take.
Extravaganja Draws Large Crowd, Marijuana Advocates to Amherst
Chilly temperatures and gray skies did not discourage attendance at this year's annual Extravaganja held on the Amherst common Saturday.
