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LA’s Measure D Wants to Create a Marijuana Monopoly
Ups and downs in medical cannabis have been the norm for Los Angeles in recent -
The 11th Annual Joshua Tree Music Festival Sponsored By The 420 Times
The 11th Annual Joshua Tree Music Festival – A three day family friendly global dance -
Tommy Chong, Cancer Free And Amazed By New 3D Issue Of The 420 Times
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California Dispensaries Choosing To Deliver Medical Marijuana In Response To Federal Intervention
It seems that due to the ongoing federal intervention that an increasing number of medical -
Legislature In New Hampshire Overwhelmingly Approves Medical Marijuana Law
Officials in New Hampshire are taking another crack at medical cannabis in their state, and -
L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl Says Obama “Betrayed Me On Every Step Of The Way” On Marijuana Policy
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Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy Supports Hemp Legalization
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has claimed that he would support an amendment to the farm bill that will legalize industrial hemp production. We recently reported that Senator Ron Wyden has introduced such an amendment and Chairman Leahy’s endorsement will be a chief enhancement to his efforts due to the fact that Leahy’s committee superintends [...]
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Cop Goes Undercover At A High School To Bust Special-Needs Teenager For Marijuana
We report a lot here at The 420 Times about law enforcement wasting resources on arresting people who possess marijuana. But this story goes way beyond the wasting of resources. It seems a police officer went undercover at a high school in California and befriended a special-needs teenager. The undercover officer tried to get the [...]
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Senator Ron Wyden Introduces Hemp Amendment To Farm Bill
Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a modification to the current federal farm bill that would allow farmers to legally cultivate industrial hemp. The “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013″ would eliminate industrial hemp, which is not a drug, from being classified as “marihuana,” eradicating it from the federal law against cultivating marijuana, and permitting regulation [...]
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California Senate Voted In Favor Of Senate Bill 439
Legislation that would plausibly better protect medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives has successfully traversed the legislative scrutiny of the California Senate. Senate Bill 439’s language simplifies that a cooperative, collective or other business entity that operates within the Attorney General’s “Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use” will not be [...]
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City Council In San Jose, CA Votes To Raise Medical Marijuana Taxes
The city council in San Jose, California has voted unanimously to raise the tax rate on medical marijuana dispensaries from 7% to 10%. The new tax rate goes into effect in July and is expected to raise an additional $1.5 million per year for the city. “We probably have 100 dispensaries operating in San Jose, [...]
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Study Claims British Columbia Marijuana Purchases Total Half A Billion Dollars Annually
A study that was conducted in British Columbia is claiming that legalizing marijuana for recreational usage by adults could mean big revenue for their government. The study in question says that legalized marijuana sales could quite plausibly generate as much as half a billion dollars annually. Of course as with any study of this type [...]
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Measure D Passes In Los Angeles: Now What?
Yesterday voters in the city of Los Angeles approved ballot Measure D with nearly 63% of the vote, which will limit the number of dispensary and collectives in the city to those who were operating before the 2007 citywide moratorium; roughly 138 businesses. “At long last, after more than 7 years of trying to establish [...]
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Michigan Supreme Court Rules Medical Marijuana And Driving Not Automatically A Crime
On Tuesday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that driving under the influence of marijuana is not automatically a crime under the state’s medical cannabis law. The case in question was that of Rodney Koon, who had been arrested in 2010 for speeding; he was found to have marijuana in his system and admitted to being a [...]
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Uruguay’s President Proposes Legalizing Marijuana
The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, is calling for different thinking in an attempt to stop the illegal drug trade. He has proposed legalizing the sale and distribution of marijuana. The personal consumption of marijuana by adults has been legal in Uruguay since the year 1974. The president’s new proposal to legalize marijuana is intended [...]
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Does Feeding Pigs Marijuana Waste Make Them More Savory?
Susannah Gross is a livestock farmer with property just north of Seattle, Washington where she has been conducting an unusual but practical experiment with some of her pigs; she’s been feeding them marijuana waste materials. She chose four pigs to conduct the study on and proceeded to supplement their feed with potent plant leavings during [...]
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Researchers Discover Hemp Waste Could Produce Graphene-like Nanomaterial
Researchers at the University of Alberta are attempting to reduce the price of manufacturing a graphene-like nanomaterial using an agricultural byproduct that’s usually sent to the landfill: hemp fiber. It’s been reported that graphene has the capability to modernize approximately every energy-generating technology on the planet, from batteries to solar panels. There is only one [...]
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Springfield, MO City Council Votes Against Lessening Marijuana Penalties
On Monday night the Springfield, Missouri City Council defeated a proposal that would have lessened certain penalties for marijuana possession by a vote of 6 to 2. The city has gone to great lengths recently to keep marijuana penalties where they are and this time around the council voted 8 to 0 to not put [...]
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