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1. Congress considering new law that would criminalize conspiracy to break US drug laws in foreign countries, even if not illegal in those countries
2. Holland to require all cannabis at greater than 15% THC to be classified as a “hard drug
3. US Attorneys announce new crackdown on medical marijuana commerce

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• Rockin’ Friday: Lacero – “Justless”

CelebStoner.com Entertainment Report with Steve Bloom, co-author of Reefer Movie Madness: The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide

• Did cannabis prohibition kill Steve Jobs?
• Latest Sports Cannabis Busts
• Tales from Occupy Wall Street

Grassroots Activism

• Karli Duran from San Antonio NORML with update on the 420 Smart Car

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1. Study shows frequent marijuana smokers less likely to be obese
2. Study shows cannabinoids may prevent brain damage from alcohol withdrawal
3. 1,500 rally in Lansing to protest closing of dispensaries in wake of appeals court ruling
4. Michigan laboratory finds street-purchased cannabis to have 60 times the allowable pesticides and contaminants as allowed for spinach
5. Georgia Supreme Court judge removed from office, alleged to have smoked pot among other charges, earned $70,000 while on 14-month administrative leave with pay

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• Irie Wednesday: The Expendables – “Sensimilla”

Cannabis Science with Dr. Mitch Earleywine

• Pot and Obesity – Why are tokers thinner than non-tokers?

Grassroots Activism

• Karli Duran, executive director of San Antonio NORML, on being rejected for the city’s “Adopt-a-Park” volunteer cleanup program

BROWNSVILLE (My San Antonio) — The Texas Department of Public Safety last month warned parents of Mexican gang recruitment and the Border Patrol is continuing a “scare and awe” campaign highlighting the risks, including torture and death, of cartel employment that seems to promise street status and easy money.

Laredo police have caught youths as young as 13 in cars full of marijuana still wet from the riverbank, he said, and the geography of the city is obvious enough to know where marijuana in that amount is coming from.

Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso last March stopped eight juvenile drug smugglers, five of them U.S. citizens, with a total of 388 pounds of marijuana and 4.8 pounds of cocaine, prompting a news release warning that “traffickers will employ any and all types of people in their drug smuggling attempts.”

Since there’s no youth offender program in the federal courts, a 16-year-old caught trying to bring 200 pounds of marijuana over an international bridge will likely wind up in the state’s juvenile system, among thousands of cases heard each year by his county’s state district judges. Most records will be sealed.

Hey, young teen, likely black or Latino, has your mother or father been laid off recently?  Do you need some money to help your family pay the bills in this economic downturn?  If you’re lucky, maybe you can get a job at a fast food joint paying minimum wage.  Maybe you can get some backbreaking field work.  Or maybe you can “move a little product” and make twenty times the money doing one-fifth of the work of either of those jobs.

What do you think the border teen is going to choose?  It’s a win-win for everyone involved; the teenager makes big quick money and keeps the bills paid for the family, the drug gangs get cheap labor to do the job that has the highest arrest risk and lowest correctional expense.

You know who doesn’t hire American teenagers to transport and sell their products?  Beer, wine, and liquor manufacturers.

I’m proud to announce the affiliation of two new college chapters in the NORML network.

Andrew Ball is the founder of a new chapter at the University of Texas San Antonio.

Donald Brooks is the founder of a new chapter at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

Welcome aboard!  And if you’re interested in starting a NORML Chapter at your college campus, send me an email with the subject College Chapter to stash@norml.org.

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1. Mother Jones explains how the Drug Czar is mandates to lie about marijuana
2. Rachel Hoffman’s Law goes into effect tomorrow in Florida
3. Cannabis has not shown “any evidence of increasing schizophrenia” in the UK
4. Two San Antonio women die from Fentanyl patches

California Marijuana Report with Eric Brenner

• Convicted dispensary owner Charles Lynch

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Government at Work

• Loretta Nall with an interesting tale of President Obama’s college friend, Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, asking people online during his gubernatorial campaign about which policies they’d like to see enacted, much like Obama’s “Open for Questions“.

(WOAI.com) SAN ANTONIO — Controversy is brewing over a patch used for pain relief. At least two people in San Antonio have died after using the Fentanyl patch, and their families are blaming what they say is a defect.

Like most medicinal patches, Fentanyl is used by peeling off a sticky side and placing it against the skin of a patient. The patch is left on the skin for up to 72 hours and is supposed to provide the exact amount of medication needed.

However, the families of two San Antonio women who died say the patch they were prescribed to relieve their pain ended up killing them.

According to lawsuits filed by family members, both women suffered chronic pain. So, their doctors suggested Fentanyl patches.

Fentanyl is stronger than morphine. When it is applied to the skin, it then delivers a certain amount of Fentanyl into the patient.

While wearing the patches, Donna Singleton and Ellen Burks died. Their families say both suffered an overdose of Fentanyl because the patches were defective.

Similar patches have been recalled before because a cut along the side of the patch allowed too much Fentanyl to leak and cause a possible overdose.

Wait a minute, didn’t the Food & Drug Administration approve the use of these Fentanyl patches?  Why, doesn’t that mean it’s safe?  We know for sure that the FDA wouldn’t let people stick a patch on their body loaded with a Schedule II drug if it weren’t safe, even if this Fentanyl is just one isomer short of being Schedule I “China White” heroin.

We know this because they protect us from that evil Schedule I medical marijuana that never killed anybody in 5,000 years.