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Seattle Hempfest Review 10 09 2012 On August 17th was official opened the twenty-first Hempfest in Seattle, the biggest event in the marijuana industry! More than 300.000 persons attended what is now the biggest hemp fair in the USA. Many…
Plant Counts are the Most Ridiculous, Cannabis Legalization
Did you spend the summer growing 5 micro cannabis plants? Well if you did your growing cannabis illegally. It doesn’t matter if your buddy down the street grew one 15 foot tall plant that yielded 100X more than you did….
Members Only: Why Most Weed Lounges Stay Private
While Denver has only one licensed cannabis lounge,there are several places outside of your home where you can smoke a joint with friends — and we’re not talking about a park or alleyway. Private cannabis clubs that allow members to…
Lawmaker Hopes To Legalize Medical Marijuana In North Carolina
A North Carolina lawmaker filed a bill that would allow marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes. Representative Kelly Alexander, who is behind the bill says the veterans struggling with chronic pain is his motivation to push for legalization.“Cannabis is a substance that does have medical applications that…
Salal Credit Union Announced They Will Do Business With Marijuana Stores
Bob Schweigert, a representative of Salal Credit Union announced that they will do business with stores selling recreational cannabis in Washington State.The announcement took place at the Marijuana Business Association’s Canna Business & The Law seminar in Seattle. The big announcement came during a Managing Your Marijuana Business Money panel. The credit union is willing to work with business’s that …
Cannabis in California: A local and federal divide
The recent history of cannabis in California demonstrates a split between state and federal law that is rapidly widening. The first U.S. state to have, in 1913, prohibited the use of the devil’s herb imported by Mexican immigrants that was “marijuana”, California was also the first to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis in 1996. 15 years of legal ambiguity on medicinal marijuana Dancers prepare…
Mystery Marijuana Plane Lands in Houston
Monday, November 20, at the Executive Airport in Houston, Texas, a small aircraft failed to answer calls from the control tower, leaving them in the fog… After landing with the wind behind it, the small twin-engine plane skidded off the track ending up with its nose in the grass. The plane that landed full of marijuana …
Switzerland and Copenhagen – beyond cannabis tolerance (part two)
Switzerland and Denmark are considering measures which could lead to the return of decriminalised cannabis in 2012. In both cases, the main reason for the proposed change is to reduce the harm caused by pushing cannabis onto the black market. The simple, inarguable fact is that cannabis will continue to be consumed for its medicinal and recreational properties, so allowing otherwise law-abiding people to grow or purchase it legally…
Switzerland and Copenhagen – beyond cannabis tolerance (part one)
The policy of ‘soft drug tolerance’ in the Netherlands is probably the most well-known example of a country attempting to regulate the use and sale of cannabis. Recognising that marijuana and hashish consumption cause very little social or personal harm, Holland’s laws were changed to differentiate relatively benign soft drugs from genuinely harmful hard drugs. Low rate of cannabis consumption Not only did this free citizens from unreasonable prosecution, the law change had the positive effect of separating the cannabis market from the hard drug black market, so…
Over medicated America – a few figures to understand why cannabis is still illegal
Here’s a chart that puts into simple words and figures a system that shows no benefits: Created by: Medical Billing and Coding Online What this work prove is that profit is more important to the people in charge of the health system than the health of the people that generate their profits. Just over a week ago the FDA pushed to approve a …
Norway’s former Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg to receive Cannabis Culture Award 2012 in the Netherlands
Amsterdam, 26 April 2012. Norway’s Former Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg receives the award on behalf of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Other winners are: Dr. Lester Grinspoon (extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry of the Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Frederick Polak (one of the most experienced and respected Dutch psychiatrists in the area of drug use). The Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 are presented by former Dutch Prime minister Dries van Agt. After the Awards ceremony, former Dutch Minister…
The Beatles call for the legalisation of marijuana
9.00am, Monday 24 July 1967 (45 years ago) A full-page advertisement appeared in The Times newspaper on this day, signed by 64 of the most prominent members of British society, which called for the legalisation of marijuana. Among the signatories were The Beatles and Brian Epstein. The advertisement was instigated as a response to the nine-month prison sentence for possession received on 1 June…
The Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 – opening the debate about cannabis
Cannabis Culture Award winner 2012 Thorvald Stoltenberg: ‘Hope is almost as important as life itself’ During a festive and moving ceremony, the Cannabis Culture Awards 2012 were awarded on April 26th in Amsterdam. Two former statesmen, Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg, former minister of Defense of Norway and Mr. Dries van Agt, former Prime…
Cannabis policies in the Netherlands, what went wrong?
ENCOD BULLETIN ON DRUG POLICIES IN EUROPE AUGUST 2012 The last major change in Dutch drug policy was in 1976, when new legislation established a distinction between soft and hard drugs, and decriminalised possession and sales of small amounts of cannabis by and to adults. At first cannabis only became available on special…
Seattle Hempfest Review
On August 17th was official opened the twenty-first Hempfest in Seattle, the biggest event in the marijuana industry! More than 300.000 persons attended what is now the biggest hemp fair in the USA. Many hemp products were on presentation and lectures were held. As the organizers describe it on their website, “Each year, we give birth to a beautiful, bouncing Seattle Hempfest. Each year her gestation is different, The City and Parks Departments remold her and force us into a model of constant redesign. It’s amazing how…
YCSO busts large-scale marijuana growers
A Havana couple was arrested this week on suspicion of large-scale marijuana cultivation inside the city limits.
Judge overturns Maricopa County zoning law on medical marijuana
A judge has overturned Maricopa County’s zoning ordinance for medical marijuana dispensaries, ruling that the law was a “transparent attempt” to keep the businesses out of unincorporated areas of the county.
Thieves shoot, beat man for medical marijuana
A Newaygo County man says he was beaten and shot at by one of three men trying to steal medical marijuana in his back yard.
Medical marijuana growers take the high road against county
Heading down a residential side street in Happy Valley, you’d never guess that dozens of marijuana plants grow next to one of the area’s ubiquitous three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot houses.
Panel Approves Rules For Washington Pot Industry
Washington state has approved rules for its new legal marijuana industry. After nearly a year of research, planning and public hearings, the three-member state Liquor Control Board adopted the rules Wednesday.