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- November 5th, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Los Angeles County posts record seizures of marijuana
I can’t do any better than MPP’s Bruce Mirken on this one: (LA Times) Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, ridiculed the effort. “Let…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
No surprise, again: Use of marijuana in The Netherlands among lowest in Europe
AMSTERDAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) – The Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands’ well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional stu…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Iowa Sen. Grassley: Webb Commission will “do what we tell them to do” and not “recommend or study the legalization of drugs.”
Thanks to a tip from our friends at LEAP, I reported on Tuesday about Iowa Senator Charles Grassley offering an amendment to Senator Jim Webb’s prison reform bill that forbids the commission fro…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
TIME Magazine wins 2009 Worst Pot Pun Headline Award for “Dude, Where’s My Trauma? Marijuana Could Treat PTSD”
I reported yesterday on the Israeli research on THC and PTSD. TIME Magazine has a post written by the wonderful Maia Szalavitz covering the study. The post itself is fantastic, but I don’t k…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Stash for Wed, Nov 4, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-11-04.mp3) Hemp Headlines Cannabinoids show promise in treatment of post traumatic stress disorder Re…
- November 4th, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Oregon Court of Appeals to decide 2nd Amendment rights of medical marijuana patients
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Music: Medical Marijuana – “Medical Marijuana”
Medical Marijuana (the band, not the herb) Masta G and Sack Daddy Flash (a.k.a. Kevin and Chris) from Glasgow, Kentucky make up the unlikely hip-hop duo, Medical Marijuana, and their eponymous tune fe…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Drug Czar Kerlikowske on National Public Radio
Check out the thirty-minute interview with our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, on National Public Radio. What’s telling to me isn’t the Drug Czar…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Halloween photos are now up
What do you mean you're not in costume? Ow! Lemme go! (Click this photo for gallery of the Friday Night THCF Halloween Party.) Scott, the Urb Age Polynesian Pot Warrior! (Click this photo for g…
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LA NORML names new Assistant Director
Lou Dog, from Suburban Noize recording group the Kottonmouth Kings, has been named the new assistant director for the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws…
- November 3rd, 2009
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The Voters Have Spoken — Again!
Conventional wisdom dictates that if the people lead then our political leaders will follow. Of course, when it comes to marijuana law reform, conventional wisdom seldom applies. In a result that shou…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML Blog
Marijuana Is More Mainstream Than Ever, So Why Is Legalization Still Taboo?
As voters in several states head to the polls today to decide Governor and city council races it seems appropriate to ask: “Why are most politicians still inexplicably silent on marijuana law re…
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- November 2nd, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Stash for Mon, Nov 2, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-11-02.mp3) Hemp Headlines Oregon NORML set to open first patient’s Cannabis Café Michigan medical…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Colorado Health Board pulls last second “emergency” meeting tomorrow to weaken medical marijuana law
In an underhanded move, the Colorado Board of Health will be voting to weaken the medical marijuana law at an “emergency” meeting on Tuesday, November 3 at 10:30am in Denver. At this ste…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Music: Mia Muze – “Dr Chronic”
Click to visit Mia Muze's website Mia Muze is Tokyo born, Sydney raised, lives on NE Coast QLD. Lived abroad in Colorado where she was hugely influenced by hip hop. Musically, her background is fu…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Breckenridge, Colorado, voting tomorrow on decriminalization of marijuana
Voters in Breckenridge, Colorado are deciding whether to decriminalize personal possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults. The editorial board of the local Summit Daily News has already co…
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Maine citizens to vote on registry cards and dispensaries for medical marijuana tomorrow
For our readers in Maine, don’t forget to get out and vote tomorrow on Question 5. Here’s a summary from Maine Citizens for Patient Rights: Current law allows a person who has been diagn…
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Watch-On-The-Web: Important Medical Marijuana Case Before California Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Hold Special Outreach Session at UC Berkeley Law School Live TV Broadcast of Oral Arguments on Nov. 3 in Cases Involving Medical Marijuana, DNA Evidence, and Sex Offender Law San Fran…
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Oregon NORML set to open first patient’s Cannabis Café
While most Portlanders are all too familiar with cafés of the coffee-serving variety, there’s a new café coming to town worth noting. It’s Oregon’s first cannabis café (a concept common else…
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Passed out publicly pantsless in a puddle of piss in the Peach State preferable to a pocketful of pot
(Athens Banner-Herald) An extremely drunk man passed out early Sunday morning in the lobby of the Comfort Suites on North Avenue, said Athens-Clarke police. The 32-year-old man was found at 2:35 a.m.…
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NJ: Wilson Trial Support Rallies Planned
Jim Miller suppporting John Ray Wilson - mycentraljersey.com Despite a public call from two state Senators for a pardon, the criminal trial against John Ray Wilson is moving ahead. John lives with MS…
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NJ: Should Health Insurance Cover Medical Marijuana?
10/30/2009 by Chris Goldstein On October 19th the Ocean County College in Tom’s River, NJ hosted a debate on medical marijuana. A professor of Social Science, Brad Young, moderated. The oppos…
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- November 1st, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML Blog
The Other ‘L’ Word: Lying
Former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey “Lies” To Beat The Band About Cannabis…Then Again, What Else Is New? In the media rush to cover the DOJ memo on the Obama administration’s redi…
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- October 31st, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Stash for Fri, Oct 30, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-10-30.mp3) Hemp Headlines US Drug Czar Kerlikowske says marijuana legalization is “a non-starter”…
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- October 30th, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
New Hampshire cop’s public stance on marijuana legalization costs him his job
(Union Leader) EPPING – A local police officer who claims he has been targeted because of his involvement with a group that wants to legalize drugs has been suspended from the force. Officer Bradle…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
US Drug Czar Kerlikowske says marijuana legalization is “a non-starter”
(ONDCP) Marijuana legalization, for any purpose, remains a non-starter in the Obama Administration. It is not something that the President and I discuss; it isn’t even on the agenda. Attorney Gener…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
UK Drugs Advisor Nutt sacked for being honest about marijuana
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. David Nutt’s comments have embarrassed the Briti…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Best of Music: The Tentacles – “Ganja Computer”
If you are still looking for a costume for that Halloween Party, may I suggest going as a “Ganja Computer”? One of the coolest songs I have ever heard that has ganja in the title, we go b…
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NORML SHOW LIVE Halloweed Special with “The Black Tuna” Robert Platshorn
We’re back in studio this Saturday for our special Halloweed show! Our guest is ROBERT PLATSHORN, a.k.a. “The Black Tuna”. We’ll be discussing his life as America’s longe…
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NORML has dugg: Maine: Voters To Decide Next Week On Medical Marijuana
- October 29th, 2009
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Stash for Thu, Oct 29, 2009
Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-10-29.mp3) Hemp Headlines New study examines cannabis vaporization Seven-year-old’s honesty about b…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Best of Music: The Tall Brothers – “I’m Kinda High”
ANY tune from the Tall Brothers can easily fit onto our best of ROctober toker tunes. These hep cats swept the 2008 Marijuana Music Awards and if you go to thier web site you can easil…
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NORML has posted a new entry on: NORML's Daily Audio Stash Blog
Colorado appeals court rules caregivers must have personal relationship and provide other services than just cultivating marijuana
…but Colorado has also said that providing marijuana in and of itself counts as caregiving. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out. The Colorado Court of Appeals issued a ruling…
