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Washington DC’s “Washingtonian” Magazine’s “High Society” Special
“This is a town where I could probably kill 200 major careers if I wanted to be a complete prick,” says Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), which is headquartered on K Street. “Politicians, members of Congress and the Senate, many of their principals—legislative directors, chiefs of staff, communications directors—people in the private sector, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Brookings, police, any number of notable journalists from television, print, radio, many brand names most Americans would recognize pretty quickly—I’ve smoked with all of them. There is more smoke in DC closets than there is sex.”
DC Medical Marijuana Program Still Setting Rules
Much like New Jersey, Washington DC also passed a medical marijuana law, but is having challenges to put the program into place. Yesterday the DC City Council approved some emergency legislation to restrict how much marijuana for medical use will be allowed in each of the city’s eight wards. The council was getting pressure from [...]
Tell Your Representatives to Co-Sponsor HR 2306: The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011
For the first time since 1937, lawmakers have introduced a bill into the House of Representatives to end federal marijuana prohibition.
Stash for Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Dave Bienenstock from HIGH TIMES on the Medical Cannabis Cup in Denver, new issue; Debunking UK reefer madness; music by Sinister Grin.
86-year-old veteran terrorized by police raid over marijuana
I get so sick of reporting these stories. At least this time it wasn’t reported as a “botched drug raid” or a “drug raid gone awry”. It wasn’t even a drug raid; it was a marijuana raid.
I also get tired of the framing that terrorizing a citizen in their own home was just a mistake because they had the wrong address. What is it about smoking pot that makes your home the right address for state-sponsored terrorism?
D.C.’s pot pioneers: Seeking a piece of the medical marijuana action
Montgomery Blair Sibley may be best known as the lawyer who defended the D.C. Madam, the infamous escort service owner who claimed to attend to the needs of Washington’s elite.
Sibley has a new focus these days, one that’s luring a rabbi, a waitress, a State Department technician and a gaggle of other fledgling entrepreneurs: growing marijuana and selling it to sick people in the nation’s capital.
Congress censors 18th Amendment while reading Constitution
Newly sworn members of the House reading aloud the country’s founding document on Thursday didn’t recite every verse and article of the document because Republicans decided that the obsolete parts can be skipped since they’ve been superseded by amendment.
For instance, lawmakers did not read the 18th Amendment, which imposed prohibition on liquor in 1919. However, they did read the 21st Amendment, which repealed prohibition in 1933 and is still in force.
CBS Radio Corespondent Gets a Break
Howard Arenstein, a well-known CBS Radio News correspondent and his wife, Israeli newspaper journalist Orly Katz were arrested back on October 1st for growing marijuana in their backyard. An anonymous tip led police to their house where along with 11 mature plants in the backyard, they found some bagged and ready to distribute, according to the police report, implying that the Arenstiens were dealing the marijuana
Stash for Mon, Nov 22, 2010
Kevin Booth, filmmaker of “How Weed Won the West”; Religious use arguments in court; music by The Mannish Boys.
Award Winning CBS News Correspondent Arrested for Growing Marijuana
Award-winning CBS radio news reporter and Radio Bureau Manager, Howard Arenstein was arrested for growing marijuana with intent to distribute. Arenstein, along with his wife were arrested in DC on Saturday.