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         <title>WA Governor&apos;s Office Calls Pot Legalization &apos;Legitimate Idea&apos;</title>
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           ​Could marijuana legalization be in Washington state's future? The office of Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday that it's a "legitimate idea" that will be considered.When Gov. Gregoire opened an online suggestion box on ways to fix the state's budget, she may not have expected pot legalization to come in at first place. But it has been in the lead for more than a week now, and the governor's office even has a somewhat positive response."It's a legitimate idea," said Gregoire spokeswoman Karina Shagren, who said the Governor is reading the list herself, as is Marty Brown, the director of the governor's budget office. "But we'd like to see how the federal government would respond."With marijuana legalization apparently so popular among Washington's (and America's) voters, the idea is being considered right along with the roughly 1,750 others that have been submitted so far.
      
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         <title>First Marijuana School To Open In New England</title>
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           ​California and Colorado, move over. Higher learning is coming to the American Northeast.The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies, a Rhode Island-based medical marijuana training center, announced on Thursday the September launch of its basic medical marijuana training class in Warwick, R.I., which it said is the first professional medical marijuana training class in the northeastern United States.
      
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         <title>Court Rules Marijuana Use No Reason To Take Mother&apos;s Kids</title>
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          ​​​The state cannot take children away from a mother simply because she tests positive for marijuana use, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday.According to the decision, reversing a Marion County juvenile court ruling, the children can't be taken away without evidence showing the mother's cannabis use endangers the kids, reports Helen Jung at The Oregonian.The juvenile court had earlier ruled that the state Department of Human Services had jurisdiction over the two children, a 19-month-old and a 6-month-old. The state had argued that the simple fact fact that the mother used marijuana "presented a reasonable likelihood of harm to her two children."But the appeals court reasonably agreed with the mother's argument that the state had failed to provide any evidence connecting her marijuana use with risk to the children.The children and the mother are identified only by their initials in the case to protect their anonymity.
      
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         <title>Challenge To Federal Medical Pot Policy Helped By V.A. Change</title>
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          ​Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed an important legal brief on Wednesday to correct statements made by the federal government that "marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."The ASA legal filing points to a policy directive issued last week by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), recognizing medical marijuana and distinguishing it from other illegal controlled substances.In its brief, ASA says that the VHA directive bolsters advocates' arguments that marijuana does indeed have medical value."Recognition of marijuana's therapeutic benefits by a federal agency makes it more difficult for the government to argue against marijuana's medical value," said ASA Chief Counsel Joe Elford, who filed the notice with the court.
      
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         <title>County Will Pay For Marijuana Plants Stolen From Patient</title>
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           ​A Washington medical marijuana patient whose pot plants were stolen on Sunday will probably get money -- but not his plants -- back from the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.The plants, which are now being held as evidence in the criminal case against two men accused of stealing them, may be needed in court, and will likely spoil before they can be returned to their rightful owner, according to Kitsap County Sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson, reports Josh Farley at the Kitsap Sun."We don't want to provide something back that could cause illness," Wilson said.
      
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         <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:30:21 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Deputy Smuggles Pot To Inmate; Inmate Busted; Deputy Walks</title>
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          ​​An inmate who allegedly received a box of marijuana-filled ballpoint pens from a female Cook County, Illinois sheriff's deputy is facing a felony contraband charge for the transaction.But prosecutors declined to charge the deputy after she was arrested earlier this month for hand-delivering the cannabis inside the Cook County Criminal Courts Building, reports Matthew Walberg at the Chicago Tribune.Wait, what?"We are still at a loss as to why this particular case did not get charged," said Joe Ways, head of the sheriff's Office of Professional Review, which investigates employee misconduct.The state attorney's office said the case fell apart because incompetent sheriff's investigators did not follow specific instructions to ensure they had the evidence needed to show the deputy knew she was delivering drugs to inmate Brian Goolsby, 28.
      
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         <title>Bermuda Sucks: Passenger Hauled Off Cruise Ship For Pot</title>
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           ​Yet another passenger has been hauled off a cruise ship in Bermuda for allegedly arriving on the backwards-ass island with marijuana.Hey, Bermuda? Get a fucking clue. If you really want to be a vacation paradise, you need to let people smoke weed. Arresting tourists is bad for business, morons.George Koumoulis, 37, of Abingdon, Maryland, was removed from the Norwegian Dawn on July 22 after police found just over seven grams of cannabis in his cabin, reports Nadia Arandjelovic at Bermuda newspaper The Royal Gazette.
      
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         <title>Eric Roberts In Celebrity Rehab... For Marijuana!</title>
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           ​Sometimes fading Hollywood stars, attention junkies that they are, do the dumbest things to keep their names in the headlines. Eric Roberts checked into "Celebrity Rehab" last week, and his wife, Eliza, told the press that he was there to be treated for his addiction to medical marijuana, reports The Huffington Post."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.&nbsp;"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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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:59:45 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>D.C. Patients Can Expect To Buy Legal Marijuana In Early 2011</title>
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          ​According to political leaders in the District of Columbia, it will be months before D.C. begins allowing the sale of medical marijuana from licensed dispensaries, even though the law authorizing up to eight of the pot shops took effect Tuesday after the Democratic-controlled Congress declined to intervene.The delay is caused by a lack of detail about how the city will operate the program, which includes a very cool, first-in-the-nation provision requiring dispensaries to price their marijuana on a sliding scale so the city's poorest patients can get their medicinal cannabis for free, reports Tim Craig at The Washington Post.​Council member David A. Catania, chairman of the Health Committee, said he doesn't expect the first dispensaries to open until early next year, and that would be a best-case scenario."I know people are eager for this to go forward, but I think we have to do this judiciously and slowly and carefully," Catania said.
      
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         <title>Michigan Police Worried About Big Marijuana Convention</title>
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          ​Police in Pontiac, Michigan say they are concerned about plans to hold what is being called "the largest cannabis/wellness event ever held in the Midwest" at the Silverdome in October.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.
      
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         <title>Congress May Double Penalties For Pot Brownies</title>
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          ​A bill has just reached the floor of the United States Senate that would double penalties for any edible products combined with medical marijuana in California and the 13 other states that provide compassionate relief for patients.The worst part is that the bill was written and sponsored by Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California!S. 258, the "Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act," was introduced by Sen. Feinstein and is using a hyped-up media scare about "candy flavored methamphetamine" to attack medical marijuana patients and providers.Since there is no national trend toward lacing candy and other edibles with meth or any other drug besides cannabis, this bill clearly targets legitimate medical marijuana dispensaries, caregivers and patients in states that have legalized it as medicine.
      
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         <title>D.C. Medical Marijuana Law Clears Congress</title>
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          ​The District of Columbia's medical marijuana law cleared a mandatory 30-day Congressional review period Monday night, after Congress declined to take action against a D.C. Council bill that allows the District to license between five and eight medical marijuana dispensaries, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said Tuesday.The District joins 14 other states across the U.S. in having effective medical marijuana laws.
      
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           ​Man oh man, they really know how to grow 'em in the heartland.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:&nbsp;"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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         <title>First Time: A Plurality Of Americans Supports Legal Marijuana</title>
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           ​There's more good news for supporters of marijuana legalization. For the first time ever, Rasmussen Reports' poll of American adults has a plurality supporting legalization: 43 percent think marijuana should be legalized, while 42 percent think is should remain against the law.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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         <title>We&apos;re Winning! Poll Shows CA Pot Legalization Ahead 52%-36%</title>
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           ​Pothead Power, people. California's Proposition 19, which would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adults 21 and older, is currently leading by a wide margin among state voters, according to a new poll. The measure is supported by 52 percent of voters, and opposed by only 36 percent.The new PPP poll (PDF) shows the largest margin of support yet seen from recent polling on Prop 19, reports policy analyst Jon Walker at FireDogLake.Interestingly, the poll found Prop 19 support among African Americans to be very high, possibly influenced by the California NAACP's recent endorsement of the legalization measure.African Americans are the strongest supporters of Prop 19, with 68 percent in favor and 32 percent against, followed by whites who support it 53 percent to 37 percent.
      
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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:10:43 -0800</pubDate>
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