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Idaho authorities bust a dozen head shops
Idaho has some of the toughest statutes in the nation regarding paraphernalia and simple pot smoking. Merely being in a place where people smoke pot is a misdemeanor worth 3 months in jail. If you are found to be stoned in public, you can get 6 months in jail. Being caught with a pot pipe (with no pot) can get you a year in prison. If you’re caught with some pot, there’s another year in prison. If you do any of this around a child, the crimes rise to a felony with 5 years in prison. Selling pipes, bongs, grinders, and kief boxes in Idaho is a felony worthy of nine years in prison and a $30,000 fine.
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NORML SHOW LIVE #907 – Where’d I Put My Softball Mitt
Mitt Romney thinks medical marijuana isn’t “significant”, is “state issue”; Terry Nelson from LEAP on Mexican Drug War; A look at Oregon’s dispensaries; music by The Effinays.
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Mitt Romney says medical marijuana, gay marriage are “state issues, right, aren’t they, really?”
Mitt Romney was interviewing with a reporter from Colorado who asked a series of questions, including his opinions on civil unions or marriage equality for gay people, in-state tuition for children of undocumented immigrants, and Colorado’s state recognition of medical marijuana. Frustrated by the questions not leading to his preferred talking points, Gov. Romney, exasperated, asks “Aren’t there issues of significance you’d like to talk about? The economy?…”
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Full C-SPAN Coverage of House Debate to Defund DEA Raids in Medical Marijuana States
Debate from sponsors and opponents of an amendment to ban funding of the DEA’s raids into medical marijuana states
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NORML SHOW LIVE #906 – The Truth About Pot and Lungs
BREAKING NEWS coverage of House Floor debate on amendment to defund the DEA from raiding medical marijuana states; Lanny Swerdlow interview of Dr. Donald Tashkin; music by Pistol Packin’ Mamas
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Colorado per se DUID bill killed by opponents of gay civil unions
A bill proposed and passed by ignorant people who are intolerant of marijuana consumers was left to die because ignorant people who are intolerant of homosexuality had to kill a bill to recognize even a second-class marriage right for gay people.
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The Oregonian: Medical Marijuana is Big Business
Yet whether you grow two plants hydroponically under a single 600W lamp in Portland, or you grow 24 plants under massive indoor soil grows with thousands of watts of lights in Eugene, or you grow 96 plants outdoors in the ideal weather of Medford, somehow everybody’s expense reimbursements with no labor costs always tally up to $10 / gram and $200 / ounce. And nobody bothers to check any grower’s power or water bills or garden supply receipts. Weird, huh?
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NORML SHOW LIVE #905 – Cheerio to the New NORML UK
More coverage of the Global Cannabis March from Dallas, Texas, and Portland, Oregon; music by Bum Lucky.
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Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
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Will Obama’s medical marijuana crackdown lose him swing state electoral votes?
The timing is also curious given the upcoming November election. Colorado’s nine electoral college votes are up for grabs, and Obama’s path to reelection gets very steep without the state in his corner. The legalization amendment on the ballot in November could drive otherwise complacent voters to the polls, but they may not end up backing Obama. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is not ashamed to tout his support of pot legalization, threatening to syphon protest votes that otherwise would have gone to Obama.
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- Australia Coalition of Sports removes marijuana from their list of performance-enhancing drugs
- The Roots of Mexican Marijuana Prohibition and the word “marihuana”
- From Conan O’Brien: Brian Posehn’s Portland Marijuana Encounter with NORML SHOW LIVE’s Ganja Jon
- ESPN exposé discovers shocking truth: University of Oregon football players smoke marijuana!
- While NFL cracks down on marijuana, players are using as much as “a thousand Vicodins a month”
- California State Athletic Association passes amendment to allow medical marijuana
- Man in marijuana costume ejected from Toronto Blue Jays game
- Medical marijuana found in 4,200-year-old Dutch grave
- Official HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cookbook: Green Leafy Kale Salad with Brown Cannabutter Vinaigrette
- Military weed? Unacceptable. Military speed? Encouraged!
DAILY TOKER TUNES
- Electric Tuesday: See-I – “Soul Hit Man (The Funk Hunters Remix)”
- Groovin’ Thursday: Kokane – “Comin’ From”
- Electric Tuesday: Mind Movie – “Sofisticatted”
- Electric Tuesday: Synaptic Soul – “Rolling Stone”
- Roots Monday: Stanley Jordan – “Capital J”
- Electric Tuesday: Bassotronics – “Bass Buttons Activated”
- Electric Tuesday: Daniel Ahearn & The Jones – “High Life”
- Rockin’ Friday: Lionize – “Superczar”
- Electric Tuesday: Da Blaknix – “Raise it Up, Blaze it Up”
- Roots Monday: Bessie Smith – “Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)”
ECONOMICS
- Berkeley Patients Group closes its doors for good
- Federal crackdown hitting the marijuana education business hard
- Berkeley Patients Group shuts down, Haag blames danger to kids that she created
- Chicago going nowhere on pot ticket reform while spending millions
- Rolling Stone examines Obama’s War on Marijuana
- San Francisco Resumes Licensing of Collectives
- Is pharmaceutical lobbying power squashing liberalization of marijuana laws?
- Colorado Banking Bill Would Ease Banking Difficulties for Dispensaries
- Proposed Vermont dispensary regs would cap patient registry at 1,000
- Obama tops in Big Pharma campaign dollars for 2012
ENTERTAINMENT
- Toker Talk Radio available by subscription podcast… really!
- Toker Talk Radio Subscription Podcast Now Available
- Announcing The NORML Network Spring Lineup
- Discovery Channel cancels “Weed Wars”
- The Walking Dead – Even Zombies Can’t Escape 420!
- Texas NORML’s Josh Schimberg comments on legalization, Pat Robertson, for Austin FOX affiliate (VIDEO)
- The NORML Network / HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup “4:20 Somewhere” Raffles
- Get your NORML Network Podcasts via iTunes and XML
- The NORML Network provides 24-hour stream of marijuana news, education, and entertainment
- DeAngelo on CNN: “I don’t believe [anybody uses] cannabis for recreation”
FAMILIES
- Tamar Todd: I want my children going to school near a medical marijuana dispensary!
- Anti- drug lobbyists with new survey results
- DEA forgets locked up 4/20 marijuana smoker for five days with no food and water but with meth!
- Wisconsin teen wins $265,000 settlement over public strip-search case
- Drug seizure money and drug testing – the growth industries of the 2010′s
- Some baby wash products may turn up positive for THC on drug tests
- 11-year-old won’t pee test to join school orchestra, ACLU sues
- What About the Children?!? (by Wayne Reiss)
- Underage kids get beer from bars easier than marijuana from dispensaries
- “Radical” Russ debunks the idea that second-hand pot smoke could cause a DUID
GOVERNMENT
- Oregon Attorney General Race has some heat
- New Hampshire Rejects Decriminalization Bill
- TIME quotes federal officials confirming the Box Canyon theory of medical marijuana
- New Hampshire cops: Only good medical marijuana bill has no marijuana in it
- Thank you, Jimmy Kimmel, for confronting President Obama on the marijuana crackdown
- Obama’s Slippery Double-Speak on Medical Marijuana, Part II
- President Obama’s Slippery Double Speak on Medical Marijuana
- White House releases 2012 National Drug Control Strategy
- Oregon Attorney General Race besieged by medical marijuana questions
- Former Latin American presidents agree: Legalize marijuana!
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Oregon asset forfeiture report shows marijuana reaps biggest windfall for cops
- Feds first prosecution of Oregon medical marijuana reveals shocking details
- Eating your marijuana stash to avoid cops requires some planning
- DEA, IRS, US Marshals raid Oaksterdam University
- Indiana: 10% of marijuana drug test positives were actually drug-free
- Improper NYPD “stop-and-frisk” marijuana arrests increased following police order to stop practice
- Innocent 76-year-old another victim of Drug War Police State
- Ninjas rob medical marijuana delivery man, police shocked to discover there are medical marijuana delivery men
- Alabama bail for drug offenders twice as high as bail for murderers
- Michelle Alexander: Go to trial, crash the justice system
LEGISLATION
- Montana voters can return medical marijuana law to pre-”repeal” language
- Netherlands policy bans tourists from buying marijuana
- Once more into the breach: The lies of the No on I-502 campaign
- Colorado per se DUID bill passes Senate on 18-17 vote
- Colorado Senator’s deciding vote switch for 5ng per se DUID attributed to “abuse” by “medical marijuana industry”
- Drug Testing Fever… yet people still do drugs!
- Arkansas would limit medical marijuana to “intractable” pain, bans home grow near dispensaries
- Thirteen states have marijuana per se DUID statutes (UPDATED)
- Anti I-502 blogger selectively quotes DUID statistics to frighten medical marijuana patients
- Washington AG Rob McKenna: Feds will sweep up medical marijuana patients if I-502 legalization passes
LITIGATION
- Florida Governor’s plan to drug test state workers ruled unconstitutional
- NORML Attorneys file lawsuit over New Jersey’s failed medical marijuana program
- Montana landlord facing more prison time for leasing to medical marijuana providers than serial raping arsonist
- NORML joins suit to reconcile California medical marijuana rulings
- Oregon growers win case; drying marijuana is not usable marijuana
- City of Albuquerue Must Pay for a Woman’s Destroyed Cannabis Plants
- New Jersey Supreme Court Will Not Hear MS Patient Conviction Case
- Montana Judge Rules On States Protection for Providers
- Supreme Court rules cops need warrant to put GPS tracking on your car
- Victory! Right to petition to legalize marijuana in Missouri upheld!
NORML SHOW LIVE
- NORML SHOW LIVE #904 – NORML Protests San Diego DEA
- NORML SHOW LIVE #903 – Hey, Mary, Pass Me Some Stuff
- NORML SHOW LIVE #902 – I See a Bad Moon Risin’
- NORML SHOW LIVE #901 – Medical Marijuana Laws Without the Marijuana?
- NORML SHOW LIVE #900 – A Perfect Series!
- NORML SHOW LIVE #899 – Toughin’ it in Tucson AZ
- NORML SHOW LIVE #898 – From Room #420 to MedCanCup
- NORML SHOW LIVE 4/20 Marijuana Liberation Day Coverage
- NORML SHOW LIVE #897 – This Just In, Oregon Ducks Smoke Pot!
- NORML SHOW LIVE #896 – Obama’s 2012 Drug Control Strategy
SCIENCE
- Day Two from the 7th Patients Out of Time Conference
- Day One from the 7th Patients Out of Time Conference
- North American, British super-majorities agree: No Jail For Marijuana!
- Auto insurance website claims “marijuana users are safe drivers”
- While feds squash medical marijuana, they lament painkiller overdose deaths
- Rasmussen confirms Gallup: More Americans want legalized marijuana than not
- While legislators worry about stoned drivers, sleepy drivers cause 1 in 6 fatal crashes
- Federal recognition of medical marijuana… in 1941!
- While Obama’s DoJ protects the children from medical marijuana, teens are dying from energy drinks
- Over 40 Years of Drug War: Just 10 attempts in 6 states to legalize marijuana
SOCIETY
- George Will: Legalized and marketed drugs would be “a public health disaster”
- Former Colombian President: U.S. “does not want to accept that people consume [drugs]“
- 56% of Denver County Republicans support marijuana legalization
- Play Reefer March Madness with The NORML Network
- The Silver Tour promotes medical marijuana on Florida billboards
- NORML’s Russ Belville vs. former ONDCP’s Dr. Kevin Sabet on Marijuana Legalization at James A. Baker Institute
- Christian Broadcasting Network focuses on War on Drugs contribution to the prison/industrial complex
- Washington DC’s “Washingtonian” Magazine’s “High Society” Special
- 1975 “NORML Man” Comic Ad
- Idaho, please understand: There’s California, then there’s 15 Medical Marijuana States