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United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Jonathan Michael Chapman, 32, of Bakersfield, today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
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CANNABIS CULTURE - Listen up: Cannabis Culture editors Jodie Emery and Jeremiah Vandermeer joined radio host Casper Leitch on his syndicated show TIME 4 HEMP yesterday to discuss Marc Emery and the fight for marijuana legalization in Canada.
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A decade ago, Canadians were a lot happier: Their government seemed to be on the brink of decriminalizing marijuana, and it was also instituting a nationwide program to meet the needs of med-pot patients. But that progress has become mired in bureaucracy and political grandstanding.

As journalists filmed Mexican soldiers burning a record-breaking 300-acre (120 hectare) field of marijuana earlier this month, they learned the old lesson of these public displays: You don't actually get high from all the smoke. The plants have to be more mature and fully dried out to release their active psychedelic properties, and all the fumes waft straight up to the clouds rather than into your lungs.

A new study in mice has found that activating a receptor affected by marijuana can dramatically reduce cocaine consumption. The research suggests that new anti-addiction drugs might be developed using synthetic versions of cannabidiol (CBD), the marijuana component that activates the receptor—or even by using the purified natural compound itself.

Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before.
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In case working at Goldman Sachs or McKinsey doesn’t work out, MBAs are welcome to take their management and business skills and head west, to the burgeoning market of… marijuana dispensaries.
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