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See Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang Today At Joshua Tree Music Festival
Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang will be performing this Saturday, May 18th at Joshua Tree Music Festival. Their set is at 5:30pm local time. After a stellar performance at The Getty in L.A. last fall and dates with Omar Souleyman, the band is back on the road in support of their En Yay Sah LP (Luaka Bop). They doing a [...]
Representatives Polis and Blumenauer Talk To ABC News About Marijuana
Representative Jared Polis and his colleague Earl Blumenauer speak with Jeff Zeleny from the ABC News and Oliver Knox with Yahoo News about legalizing marijuana in the United States. Both Representative Blumenauer and Representative Polis continue to make serious labors to end the prohibition of marijuana in our country by attempting to educate their colleagues [...]
Did You Hear About The DFW NORML Marijuana March?
From the fine folks at DFW NORML: On May 4, a sense (and smell) of hope and freedom filled the air as marijuana supporters gathered at Hyde Park in Fort Worth to participate in DFW NORML’s annual Global Marijuana March. The energy could be felt from the very beginning, as volunteers and vendors gathered early [...]
Protest Held At San Bernardino City Hall By Pro-Medical Marijuana Advocates
Pro-medical marijuana advocates gathered at the San Bernardino City Hall in California in order to demand that the city officials discontinue shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries in their municipality. The gathered group of over 30 medical marijuana supporters chanted “patients, not criminals,” “we toke and we vote” and “Mayor Morris, don’t ignore us,” outside of [...]
Does Legalized Marijuana Create Competition For Mexican Drug Cartels?
The Drug Enforcement Administration is claiming that the amount of marijuana being seized from Mexico in the El Paso, Texas area has declined by nearly half since the year 2009, which is when drug cartels began a violent drug-route war just across the border in Ciudad Juarez. “Once the fighting started in Mexico, we didn’t [...]
President Carter Proves He Still Knows How To Flip-Flop Over 30 Years After Leaving Office
Some of you may remember former President Jimmy Carter saying marijuana legalization was “ok” late last year. For those who do not remember, let us refresh your memory. “I think it’s OK,” Carter told CNN about legalization. “I don’t think it’s going to happen in Georgia yet, but I think we can watch and see [...]
Legislative Committee Rejects Recreational Marijuana Bill In Maine
Maine’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee has decided to reject legislation that would legalize and tax marijuana for recreational purposes in their republic via an 8 to 3 vote. Representative Diane Russell, the bill’s lead sponsor, claims that legalizing marijuana for recreational dedications could quite plausibly eliminate the black market and produce much needed [...]
Medical Marijuana Approved By Legislature In Illinois
Medical marijuana patients in Illinois came one step closer to relief when the legislature recently passed medical cannabis legalization legislation. The folks at the Marijuana Policy Project bring us the details in a email blast sent out earlier today, which reads in part: After “only” 10 years of lobbying in Springfield, MPP has finally succeeded [...]
Colorado Farmer Hoes First Row Of Hemp Crop
Colorado resident and farmer, Ryan Loflin, has done something that hasn’t been publicly done in over fifty years, he’s planted a crop of hemp. “I believe this is really going to revitalize and strengthen farm communities,” the 40 year old farmer proclaimed. Loflin has leased 60 acres of his father’s alfalfa farm in order to [...]
Tommy Chong Claims Legalized Marijuana Could Save Our Country
Tommy Chong, who is undoubtedly one of the most iconic people in the entire cannabis community, has recently made a proclamation that legalizing marijuana on a federal level could save the country from its financial dire straits. “Look at the situation we’re in now, sequesters, cuts, everything cut across the board. Now, the government is [...]
Will Actor Patrick Dempsey Sell Marijuana In His Seattle Coffee Shops?
One of the stars of Grey’s Anatomy recently bought the Seattle coffee conglomerate Tully’s for a little over $9 million and is looking to add some new products to the stores in the future. Patrick Dempsey spoke with a website about his plans and his love of coffee. ”Coffee is good for your mind—it’s basically a legalized drug,” he explained. [...]
DEA Bans Three More “Synthetic Marijuana” Chemicals
In the grand tradition of prohibition failures everywhere, today the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that they are banning three more chemicals that are used to make so-called “synthetic marijuana.” MAY 16 (WASHINGTON) –Today the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances [...]
Could Medical Marijuana In Washington Hamper The Recreational Marijuana Industry?
There are concerns among some officials in Washington state that the availability of medical marijuana is going to undercut the recreational marijuana industry as it struggles to get up and running. Since there are very little taxes on medical cannabis in Washington, some fear the price of MMJ will stay below the price of recreational [...]
Federal Government’s Investigation Disrupted Medical Marijuana Industry In Montana
Due to its blooming medical marijuana marketplace, Montana had been reportedly dubbed the “Big High Country.” Now, after the Drug Enforcement Administration has completed a three-year long investigation, it might as well be re-dubbed the “Big Dry Country” in respect to being able to obtain a supply of medical marijuana in the state. Even though [...]
Clinical Trial Reveals Smoking Marijuana Reduces Symptoms Of Crohn’s Disease
According to clinical trial datum that was published online ahead of print in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, inhaled marijuana has been proven to reduce the symptoms of Crohn’s disease. The examination in question took place at the Meir Medical Center’s Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Israel where researchers assessed the safety and [...]
