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| Eric Roberts, now playing the part of a marijuana addict. Hey Eric, any chance of you just shutting the hell up and going home? |
"Eric quit drugs and alcohol in 1995," Eliza told E!. "He has no interest in anything, other than marijuana."
According to Eliza, Eric had previously tried prescription pills to treat anxiety, but they didn't agree with him, so he turned to cannabis for a cure.
To the rest of us, that may sound damn close to "no problem," but that's not the way Eric sees it.
"He uses marijuana as a medication," Eliza said. "He has a prescription. However, a dependency is a dependency and he doesn't want to be dependent on it anymore."
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The First Annual International Cannabis Convention is scheduled for Halloween weekend, October 29-31, according to event organizers Medical Marijuana Inc., reports Zlati Meyer at The Detroit Free Press.
Organizers expect up to 50,000 visitors, and have scheduled entertainers, exhibits, vendors, speakers and classes for the event. Vendor booth space is for sale as of this week.
By Steve Elliott in
Culture
Tuesday, Jul. 27 2010 @ 2:58PM
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| Sunshine: "I try to live up to my name by bringing sunshine and happiness to my life and others." Mission accomplished! |
Sunny Sunshine, 23, a 5-foot, 2-1/2-inch firecracker from Oklahoma City, Okla., is beautiful proof of that.
"I try to live up to my name by bringing sunshine and happiness to my life and others," said Sunny, a student and accountant.
"I'm a junior in college, getting a degree in accounting," Sunny said. "I'm good with numbers; what can I say? And for anyone who's seen the movie Grandma's Boy, it is hard to be an accountant stoned, but that's what after work is for."
Turns out Grandma's Boy is one of Sunny's favorite movies. It's also the source of one of her favorite movie quotes: "Does someone have a light? I found this weed. I wanna smoke it."
"I wouldn't want to miss out on something amazing because I was too small minded to try," Sunny said. "I do my best to not judge and hope for the same in return."
"I can get very passionate about my beliefs," she says, "but I always try to make sure I know where they are coming from too and try to reach a mutual understanding of ideas."
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| "Weeds" star Mary Louise Parker: Cultural bellwether? |
Almost two-thirds of Americans -- even those who are against it -- now believe that marijuana will be legalized within the next 10 years.
A "plurality" in polling terms simply means that more people are in favor of pot legalization than are opposed to it.
That's quite an improvement from a year ago, when a similar Rasmussen poll found 41 percent supporting legalization and 49 percent opposed, reports policy analyst Jon Walker at FireDogLake.
"It is possible that Prop 19, by bringing the debate to the forefront, is starting to noticeably move national opinions by forcing people to take some time to actually think about the issue," Walker said.
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| Gordon Clement, 80, had this painting for five years before he discovered four pounds of marijuana inside the frame. See photo of the cannabis after the fold. |
Gordon Clement, 80, of Cherokee County, Ga., said he found four pounds of cannabis stashed inside the frame of the painting he now owns, reports WSB TV.
Rather than being cool about it, just smoking the damn stuff and enjoying the painting like he should, Clement opted to take the whiney approach.
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The key to so many problems in our world today is cannabis, the Tree of Life.
Cannabis hemp will displace petrochemical and pharmaceutical corporations that dominate our politics today, and decentralize wealth and influence at a time of growing technological advancement.
Stop the Drug War before they kick in your door.
For those facing execution for anti-cannabis laws in Malaysia and elsewhere, work for global cannabis freedom.
For those languishing in jails and prisons for anti-cannabis laws everywhere, work for global cannabis freedom.
For our forests, the web of life and the Mother Earth, which suffers from extraction of her resources and poisoning of our environment, work for global cannabis freedom.
For economic and political justice, work for global cannabis freedom.
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| Bret Michaels may need to up his meditation time after his marijuana stash got seized from two tour buses last week. |
After a DeKalb County Sheriff's deputy pulled over the two buses just after 11:30 pm for what Chief Deputy Jay Oberholtzer claimed was a "lighting violation" of some sort on one of the vehicles, police K9 units turned up stashes of marijuana and other unspecified drugs onboard, reports Aaron Organ of The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
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Oh, and dude was in a car he'd just stolen, too.
Alexander Lemke, 20, of Palm Harbor, Fla., must have had a king-hell case of the munchies.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office claims Lemke broke into a neighbor's home at about 1:25 a.m. on Friday and left in their 2005 Toyota Solara, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
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A new campaign committee to support Prop 19, California's initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use, has a wealthy donor: the president of Adam & Eve, a mail order firm selling sex toys and porn.
Philip D. Harvey, who heads up the North Carolina company which has been billed as America's largest provider of sexual products and fuck films, has donated $100,000 to the Drug Policy Action Committee to Tax and Regulate Marijuana, reports Peter Hecht at the Fresno Bee.
By Steve Elliott in
Culture, Legislation
Monday, Jul. 26 2010 @ 12:17PM
Photo: ACLU-WA Famed travel writer and TV host Rick Steves will be among the panelists at "Where Is Marijuana Reform Heading?", a public forum in Seattle on September 12 sponsored by the WA ACLU.
Sure, it seems that the wind is at our backs. The tantalizing possibility of marijuana legalization looks more possible than it ever has before. But what comes next?
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington on September 12 will present a discussion on the history, current status, and future of marijuana-law reform in Washington and the United States.
The event will be Sunday, September 12, 2010, 7 pm - pm (doors open at 6:30 pm), at the Great Hall at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street. Enter on 8th Avenue. (Directions and Parking)
Local and national panelists include travel writer Rick Steves; Keith Stroup, founder of and legal counsel to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML); Washington state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles; Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP); and Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).
