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Brian Bergeron: Report from Massachusetts HB 2929 Legalization hearing
My Report From The Massachusetts Committee on Revenue Hearing for HB2929 (Cannabis Taxation and Regulation) on October 14, 2009 By Brian Bergeron I just returned home from the meeting at the statehouse. It kicked off at 10am and lasted until close to 1. Though there were other bills on the docket, HB2929 received by far [...]
Richard Evans: Legalize It
(The Herald-News) The question in 2009 is whether we keep the prohibition laws in place or repeal them, replacing them with a system of regulation and taxation, with controls over cultivation, purity, distribution and sales, and age limits on purchases. There’s a big problem with that suggestion, however, and it’s not that it’s a radical [...]
Stash for Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines PayPal dumps California NORML, “We have made the business decision to not be involved with this type of business.” Mendocino county sheriff ordered to return hash to patients Dr. Bronner among those arrested for planting hemp at DEA HQ Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music [...]
Boston: 30,000 smoke pot, celebrate decrim
Boston: 30,000 smoke pot, celebrate decrim 9/20/2009 - Chris Goldstein An estimated 30,000 people were crowded onto the Boston Common at the peak moment of the 20th annual Boston Freedom Rally on September 19th 2009. That moment was 4:20PM ET. The thousands celebrated freely under a landmark victory for cannabis prohibition reform. In 2008 Massachusetts [...]
2007 Boston Freedom Rally – The Stash
Included that day was an exclusive interview with NORML’s Founder Keith Stroup and Associate Publisher at High Times Magazine Rick Cusick … just after their arrest for a minor marijuana violation on the Boston Common. Play 9-17-07 AudioStash MP3 Also included: Speeches from the Freedom Rally Stage from Keith Saunders of MASSCANN/NORML, Danny Danko of [...]
What a fabulous Freedom Rally! Now in Washington DC.
There’s a certain surreal part of this job. I’m typing this post from Keith Stroup’s place in Virginia, watching the San Diego Chargers play the Baltimore Ravens. Ten feet away he’s catching up on email and I’m snapping pics of his framed pictures on the wall. One is a signed personal pic photo of Hunter [...]
NORML SHOW LIVE today from Boston Freedom Rally – Special Time 3pm ET / Noon PT
Hey, Stashers, just getting ready to head out to the Boston Freedom Rally. I’m rescheduling NORML SHOW LIVE to fit the time frame; they only run Freedom Rally from Noon to 6pm out here, and then from 9pm on there is a special invite-only party I have to go to that won’t be conducive to [...]
Stash for Tue, Sep 8, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines Arizona Supreme Court: Drug laws trump religious use of marijuana LA Times: The Racism of Marijuana Prohibition Sin tax the rolling papers? Why not tax the pot instead? Daily Toker Tunes by Marijuana Music Awards . com Urban – ‘Welcome to Holland’ by Lionart California [...]
Stash for Thu, Aug 20, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines Massachusetts’ decriminalization law’s huge loophole leading to local recriminalization of marijuana 9th Circuit Court rules possessing gun while growing marijuana is a crime The Taliban’s cure for marijuana “addiction” Another former Hempfest speaker trashing Hempfest: Eric Sterling Southern California Scene with Tere Joyce Rosalea Manzo [...]
Massachusetts’ decriminalization law’s huge loophole leading to local recriminalization of marijuana
The Republican reported earlier this week that at a meeting packed by police officers there to defend their Quinn Bill money the West Springfield City Council voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that will allow police the arbitrary power to enforce public pot consumption violations with either criminal or non-criminal disposition. The criminal offense will bring [...]