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Author Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

You Can Bring Bob Marley Documentary To Your Town

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BobMarley.com

Groundbreaking Partnership Expands Theatrical Distribution

Allows Fans to Hold Screenings of Oscar Winner Kevin Macdonald’s Documentary Nationwide
 
Made with the unprecedented support of the Marley family, the critically acclaimed film, Marley, features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. Directed by Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day In September, The Last King Of Scotland), Marley is the story of a towering figure in musical history whose legacy still resonates.
Gathr on Wednesday announced a partnership with Magnolia Pictures. Through Gathr, the company pioneering the method of Theatrical-on-Demand programming, fans and movie-goers can bring the incredible life story of music legend, Bob Marley, to a venue near them. Gathr said its web-based platform tool democratizes theatrical distribution by allowing anyone to create their own theatrical screening of a movie virtually anywhere in the country.
 
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Poll Shows 74% of Americans Support Medical Marijuana

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Global Ganja Report

National Poll Reveals Unpopularity of Obama Administration Interference In Medical Marijuana States
 
In a just-released poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, three quarters of American voters — 74 percent — want the Obama administration to respect individual state medical marijuana laws.
Only 15 percent of voters nationwide support using federal resources to arrest and prosecute those who are acting in compliance with their state medical marijuana laws.
The poll informed voters that medical marijuana is legal with a doctor’s recommendation in 16 states as well as the District of Columbia, and in some of those states it is legal for licensed and tightly regulated individuals to grow and sell marijuana to qualifying patients. Respondents were then asked if President Obama should respect the medical marijuana laws in these states, or continue to use federal resources to arrest and prosecute individuals who are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.
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Oregon AG Outcome Has National Implications For Marijuana

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The Oregonian
The victory of Ellen Rosenblum, right, over Dwight Holton in the Oregon attorney general race has national implications for marijuana policy

Support for Medical Marijuana Ensures Victory for Ellen Rosenblum in Oregon Attorney General Race 
Drug Policy Action: Holton’s Defeat Sends Message to US Attorneys Nationwide That Attacks on Medical Marijuana Have Steep Political Price   
Outcome Has National Implications for Increasingly Formidable Drug Policy Reform Movement
Medical marijuana was a major issue in the Democratic primary for Attorney General in Oregon – and the candidates’ starkly different positions on the issue ensured victory for former judge Ellen Rosenblum.
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Pro-Medical Marijuana Candidate Wins Oregon AG Race

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Ellen Rosenblum For Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum won big in the Oregon attorney general race with the support of the marijuana community

With early results showing a commanding 62 to 38 percent lead, pro-medical marijuana candidate Ellen Rosenblum is the winner of the hotly contested race for attorney general of Oregon.

Two Democrats — Rosenblum and Dwight Holton — had battled it out in the primary for what effectively is all the marbles, since there will be no organized Republican opposition on November’s general election ballot.
The candidates had seemed similar until the medical marijuana issue became a major part of the campaign, with Rosenblum’s friendliness to safe access for cannabis patients distinguishing her from her more hardline opponent, who was cast as an enemy of Oregon’s medical marijuana law.
Both candidates were moderate Democrats, and both were attorneys. Holton was the former U.S. Attorney in Portland. Rosenblum is a long-time judge.
The race took a unexpected turn last month when the marijuana community got behind Rosenblum, spurred on by Holton’s characterization of the Oregon marijuana law as a “train wreck.”
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Marijuana DUI Bill Fails Again In Colorado

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Timothy Tipton
The Colorado Senate on Tuesday afternoon killed a marijuana DUI bill

A marijuana DUI bill early Tuesday afternoon failed again to clear the Colorado Senate, once again being voted down.

The DUI bill has been a rollercoaster for the past two years, reports Michael Roberts at Denver Westword, perhaps due at least partially to the fact that there’s no solid science supporting the proposed limit of five nanograms per milliliter (5 ng/ml) as being at all correlated with actual driving impairment.
Failure of the bill once again in the Colorado Legislature (for the third time) may have reverberations all the way to the U.S. West Coast, since an identical DUI limit — 5 ng/ml — currently threatens to derail a semi-legalization initiative, I-502, in Washington state.
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Anti-Pot Wingnut Wants Ammiano Removed From Committee

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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Anti-marijuana wing nut Paul Chabot: “Ammiano is a long-time advocate of drug legalization and has sponsored a number of anti-pubic [sic]safety bills”

Coalition for a Drug Free California Wants To Punish Assembly Member For Supporting Medical Marijuana Patients

The Coalition for a Drug Free California (CDFC), an extremist anti-marijuana fringe group headed by entertaining wingnut Paul Chabot, has called for California Assembly Member Tom Ammiano to be removed from his chairmanship of the Public Safety Committtee.

You see, Ammiano has dared to voice his support for medical marijuana, and that’s just not permissible in the stuffed-shirt little nightmare world inhabited by Chabot and his minions — and they want to force the rest of us to live in that fucked up little world, too.
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Colorado Marijuana DUI Bill Again Poised For Approval

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THC Finder

Like a bad penny that just won’t go away, Colorado’s marijuana blood-level limit for drivers is back again, and once again is poised for approval, after two previous failures.

The Colorado House gave its initial thumbs-up to a bill setting the cannabis driving limit at 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood (5 ng/ml), reports The Associated Press.
Last year the pot DUI bill was rejected in the Senate after it was brought to light that a 5 ng/ml cut-off point is unsupported by science; the link between that blood THC level and driving impairment appears tenuous at best.
Last week, the Colorado House was once again poised to adopt the bad legislation, but the bill died as a result of a filibuster on a civil unions measure.
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Fire Leads To Discovery Of 400 Pot Plants In Restaurant

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KOMOnews.com
Nearly 400 marijuana plants were found in the basement of this restaurant, My Canh, in the south Seattle neighborhood of Rainier Valley on Monday morning after an electrical fire

A fire at a South Seattle Vietnamese restaurant led to the seizure nearly 400 marijuana plants on Monday morning.

When firefighters responded to the blaze at My Canh restaurant in Rainier Valley on Martin Luther King Jr Way South at about 8 a.m., they saw flames on the back side of the building, reports Q13 Fox News. Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore said the blaze was difficult to fight because it was an electrical fire caused by the restaurant’s badly-wired power system.
“After we got the fire knocked down it appeared that there was some type of illegal wiring to City Light,” Moore said. “The business may have been drawing power that it illegally wired.”
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Study Confirms: Marijuana Helps With Multiple Sclerosis

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MedPage Today

Researchers Note Cannabis Impacts Cognitive Function — But So Do Other MS Drugs

Smoking marijuana cuts spasticity and pain that’s resistant to conventional treatments in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), although it does have some cognitive effects as well, a small clinical trial has unsurprisingly confirmed.

Spasticity scores on the modified Ashworth scale dropped by an average 2.74 points more with smoked cannabis than with a placebo, researchers at the University of California San Diego found, reports Crystal Phend at MedPage Today.
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