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New Mexico
New Mexico patient loses rent subsidy for medical marijuana use
A hearing officer on Wednesday will take up the case of a 70-year-old cancer patient who is appealing San Miguel County’s decision to revoke his federal housing subsidy because he uses medical marijuana.
NORML Responds to Religious Cannabis Users: Ending Prohibition Protects ALL of Us
No reasonable person wants to see Roger Christie being held in jail without bond pending trial on these non-violent marijuana charges. None of us want to see him imprisoned for his religious use of marijuana. This debate is about the current state of the law regarding the religious use of marijuana in this country and the best strategy to legalize the religious use of marijuana. It is not a debate about the legitimacy of anyone’s religious beliefs and to make it so misses the opportunity to discuss how we all best spend our time and money bringing an end to marijuana prohibition so we may all enjoy our human rights to cannabis.
NORML CON 2010 – Saturday Plenary Audio
MP3 recordings of the NORML National Conference – Saturday’s Plenary Sessions. Click the Full Story for the RSS Special Events Feed, MP3 download links to individual speakers, and embedded Flash MP3 players to listen online.
Photos from NORML Fundraiser Party
These photos come from all day Friday, first starting at the Governor Hotel downtown, then moving to the Red Lion Skyroom across the river, and ending with the World Famous Oregon NORML Cannabis Café.
Will Marijuana Legalization Voters Help Democrats this November?
Ryan Grim at Huffington Post reports on the notion going round political circles that California’s Prop 19 (and, to a lesser extent, medical marijuana initiatives in Arizona and South Dakota, and dispensaries for medical marijuana in Oregon) will be for the Democrats what anti-Gay Marriage Equality amendments were for Republicans – the turn-out-the-base social wedge issue that helps their candidates on the ballot.
Stash for Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Paul Armentano on latest study of random student drug testing; Radical Rant: You Asked for Medical Marijuana…; music by Detroit Junior.
Aspen Legal Seminar – Day Two Recordings
Click the Full Story to listen to the presentations from the Aspen Legal Seminar.
Medical marijuana’s not getting any better – the time for RE-legalization is NOW!
If one of the West Coast states doesn’t pull off legalization soon, the pendulum is going to swing back the other way on marijuana. The economic incentives may fade if the economy recovers and then the tax & regulate argument fizzles. And if we are going to continue working on medical marijuana, the bills and initiatives need to get better, not worse. The way it’s looking now is that the Northeast and upper Midwest are going to institute chronic conditions-only, 2 oz limit, strict registry, only personal doctor, no home grow, state-run dispensary medical marijuana for $15/gram in the next six years.
Stash for Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Alison Holcomb from ACLU of Washington and Doug Hiatt from NORML/Sensible Washington differ on I-1068 legalization initiative, Eric Brenner interview in Calif. MJ Report; music by Ris Paul Ric.
Stash for Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Tere Joyce & January Thomas from American Hemptress; Dr. Rito Hill from the Berkley Clinic in Hollywood; Melissa Milam, former director of NM medmj program; music by OPM.