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| Graphic: a site so dumb I ain't linkin' it |
"Although we haven't had any complaints, we discussed it internally and decided it wasn't appropriate," said Cal Expo Assistant General Manager Brian May. So it looks like the state agency won't be selling any more ad space to the local cannabis shop.
So how did Cal Expo officials go about killing the pot billboard? Documents show that agency bigwigs approved a "morality clause" against marijuana advertising, report Hugh Biggar and Nick Miller at the Sacramento News & Review.
That's right, folks: Marijuana may be used for medical purposes, but it's still "immoral," according to these mental midgets.
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By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in
News
Thursday, Sep. 2 2010 @ 1:02PM
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| Photo: Eric Hasert/TCPalm |
| Ingrid Peters helps recover debris from the 33-foot boat that came ashore carrying 1,100 pounds of marijuana on Tuesday morning. "You never know what's going to wash ashore," Peters said. |
A Hutchinson Island resident called the U.S. Coast Guard Tuesday morning, thinking the drifting 33-foot boat might be experiencing some sort of trouble, reports Will Greenlee at TCPalm. But as the vessel came close to shore, she said a man with no shirt or shoes jumped out and ran away.
St. Lucie County deputies and federal agents searched the boat, which came ashore about 6:40 a.m., and found about 1,100 pounds of neatly packaged marijuana they claimed was worth an estimated $1 million.
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| Photo: NORML Stash Blog |
| Your tax dollars were used to pay for this dumb-ass billboard just outside of Portland, Oregon. |
Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illegal drugs as young adults has a lot more to do with factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research, reports Science News. In fact, the strongest predictor of whether someone will use hard drugs is their race/ethnicity, not whether they ever used marijuana.
"In light of these findings, we urge U.S. drug control policymakers to consider stress and life-course approaches in their pursuit of solutions to the 'drug problem,' " wrote UNH associate professors of sociology Karen Van Gundy and Cesar Rebellon.
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| Photo: Binside TV |
| T.I. and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle face felony drug charges after a traffic stop Wednesday night. |
Police arrested rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle for alleged possession of a controlled substance Wednesday night after Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies smelled a strong odor of marijuana emitting from vehicle.
The newlyweds -- they just got married on July 30 in Miami -- were booked at the West Hollywood sheriff's station, reports Jolene Michael at Gather. Both were held on charges of felony possession of a controlled substance, and bail was set at $10,000 apiece. Both had posted bail as of 4 a.m. Thursday, and are due back in court on September 3.
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in
Legislation, News
Wednesday, Sep. 1 2010 @ 1:43PM
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| Photo: The November Coalition |
| Near-record numbers arrested for marijuana again in 2009... Hey, California! It's time to STOP! Kandice Hawes of Orange County NORML protests the madness. |
In 2009, there were 17,008 felony and 61,164 misdemeanor marijuana arrests in California, for a total of 78,172.
In 2008, there were 17,126 marijuana felonies and 61,388 misdemeanors, for a total of 78,514. This was the highest number of marijuana arrests since pot was decriminalized in California in 1976, according to Dale Gieringer of California NORML.
"The record is clear that the war on marijuana has failed," Gieringer told Toke of the Town Wednesday afternoon.
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| Photo: David Grubbs/Billings Gazette |
| Dr. Harry Boye, of Kingston, Tennessee, talks with Yellowstone Valley Herbs caregiver Amanda Skewis about why he travels to Montana to authorize medical marijuana for patients. |
But Dr. Boye didn't spend just a few minutes each with hundreds of patients, a common practice for some doctors at medical marijuana clinics. On his two trips, he saw fewer than a dozen patients. And he conducted examinations of all of them, averaging from 22 to 30 minutes, reports Linda Halstead-Acharya of the Billings Gazette.
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| Photo: Ross Township Police Department |
| Motorcycle cop Richard White served for 30 years -- then was canned for watering a two-foot-tall marijuana plant. |
Richard D. White, 58, of Shaler, Pa., said he had no idea how fellow police found out about his little buddy, and said he was told to resign after a meeting with Ross, Pa., Police Chief Ralph C. Freedman on August 23, reports Bill Vidonic of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
"I do regret it," White said outside his home. "I should have just kicked it over right away."
White, a motorcycle patrol traffic cop, said he found the plant while on duty about a month ago as he was urinating in a wooded area off Cemetery Lane.
White said he watered the plant once (not by urinating on it), again while on duty, but claimed he "didn't have any plans" for the illegal little plant.
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 2:48PM
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| Photo: Tim Thompson/The Oakland Press |
| Candi and Bill Teichman, owners of Everybody's Café in Waterford Township, Mich., have lost their children, their bank accounts, and their dispensary. |
The 13 patients faced hearings following last week's raids of a medical marijuana dispensary and a patients' compassion club in Waterford, Michigan, reports Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press.
Waterford District Court Judge Richard Kuhn Jr. postponed the defendants' pre-trial conferences, originally scheduled for Tuesday, until October.
Another four people arrested in the raid have not yet been arraigned, and therefore weren't present Tuesday in court, according to officials.
About 60 people, including defendants, their lawyers, and medical marijuana supporters, gathered in front of the courthouse before Tuesday's hearings to protest that their arrests were politically motivated by county law enforcement officials who are hostile to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.
Shirts reading "This is Michigan, not a Cheech and Chong movie!" were worn by about two dozen people in the crowd. The shirts were referring to a quote last week from Sheriff Michael Bouchard, who uttered those unfortunate words while criticizing medical marijuana establishments raided by his officers in Waterford and Ferndale.
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in
Dispensaries, News
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 1:54PM
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| Photo: D.Blawg's Weblog |
| Palms, California's K.F.C. (Kind For Cures) dispensary, located at 3516 Hughes Avenue, gained worldwide fame last year when its story and photo went viral on the web. |
A K.F.C. employee confirmed on Monday that the pot shop was once again open for business, reports Dennis Romero at the LA Weekly, our sister blog in the Village Voice Media world.
The MySpace page of the dispensary, based in Palms, California, advertises that it reopened on Thursday, the day after the City Clerk's office announced it was stopping the crackdown against out-of-compliance pot shops.
"Kind For Cures is re-opening August 26th, 10 a.m. to midnight, 7 days per week!" the MySpace page reads. "Come on in for your favorite flavors!!!"
K.F.C. was one of the dispensaries which shut down after it got a warning letter from City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's office back in June, threatening $2,500-a-day fines and even possible jail time.
Asked on Monday if Los Angeles is once again basically letting all the pot shops operate, a City attorney's spokesperson said, "You're basically correct."
Read Dennis Romero's story at the LA Weekly.
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in
Legislation, News
Tuesday, Aug. 31 2010 @ 12:55PM
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| Photo: Colorado Springs Independent |
| Rep. Mark Waller: "I spoke at an event about medical marijuana. My reward: ranch dressing smeared all over my car." |
"I spoke at an event about medical marijuana," Waller posted on Facebook of his salad dressing disaster. "My reward: ranch dressing smeared all over my car. Gotta love it!"
Mark, I suspect that wasn't your reward simply for speaking. I would suggest, sir, it was your reward for speaking stupidly.
Rep. Waller's latest salad setback is reported by Alan Prendergast in Westword, our sister blog in the Village Voice Media empire.
While there's certainly nothing wrong with the schadenfreude of a good condiment calamity -- I mean, who isn't up for a good sauce setback? -- it may not have been marijuana activists who did the ranch-dressing rowdiness.
"That's the last thing we need to do," a member of Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council told the Colorado Springs Gazette. "Not only that, but I'm not 16 anymore."
"At least they didn't break out the big guns and go blue cheese or Thousand Island!" wisecracked Jeff Clayton on Facebook.
