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By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 13, 2012
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.
Posted in FAMILIES, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged bong, head shop, Idaho, paraphernalia
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 10, 2012
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.
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 10, 2012
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?…”
Posted in GOVERNMENT | Tagged Election 2012, medical marijuana, Mitt Romney, POTUS, president
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 10, 2012
Debate from sponsors and opponents of an amendment to ban funding of the DEA’s raids into medical marijuana states
Posted in LEGISLATION | Tagged C-SPAN, medical marijuana, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Barney Frank, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Frank Wolf, Rep. Jared Polis, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, Rep. Sam Farr, Rep. Steve Cohen, video
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 9, 2012
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
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Attorney General, California, Cannabis Science, Colorado, DPA, Dr. Donald Tashkin, Dr. Mitch Earleywine, Ellen Rosenblum, Irie Wednesday, Lanny Swerdlow, New Hampshire, NORML SHOW LIVE
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 9, 2012
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.
Posted in LEGISLATION, SOCIETY | Tagged civil unions, Colorado, gays, LGBT, per se DUID
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 9, 2012
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?
Posted in ECONOMICS | Tagged dispensaries, medical marijuana, Oregon, Oregonian
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 9, 2012
More coverage of the Global Cannabis March from Dallas, Texas, and Portland, Oregon; music by Bum Lucky.
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Connecticut, Dallas, DFW NORML, Electric Tuesday, Grassroots Activism, John Lucy IV, Moms 4 Marijuana, Montana, NORML Legal Committee, Portland, Serra Frank, Todd Armstrong
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 8, 2012
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.
Posted in SCIENCE | Tagged All Use is Medical, Austria, belgium, Big Pharma, british, Canada, cannabidiol, CBD, Czech Republic, Denmark, Europe, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Marinol, medical marijuana, multiple sclerosis, netherlands, New Zealand, pharmaceuticals, Poland, Portugal, Sativex, Spain, sweden, synthetic THC, The Netherlands, UK, Wellness
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 8, 2012
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.
Posted in GOVERNMENT | Tagged 2012 election, Colorado, medical marijuana, obama
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