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Pacific Island Almost Legalizes Marijuana, But Chickens Out

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Can you say marijuana tourism? As soon as Saipan legalizes marijuana — which it almost did this week — the stoner dollars will start pouring in, mine included.

​Ahhh… Sugar white beaches and sugar-frosted sticky buds.
A tropical Pacific island paradise almost just legalized weed — and no passport is required to visit from the United States, since it is a protectorate. While that stony dream may have just suffered a setback, it lives on and may soon be put up for a popular vote.
The House passed the marijuana legalization bill on Wednesday, but at least five of nine senators are lukewarm to the idea of legalizing marijuana in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which includes Saipan, Tinian, Ascuncion and Rota islands in the Pacific. This probably means the bill is doomed, reports Haidee V. Eugenio at the Saipan Tribune.
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Analysis: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012

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Jon Walker, FireDogLake: “…Massachusetts is a strong candidate for becoming one of the first states to embrace legalization”

​”If you want to win, you can do it here in Massachusetts”

~ Bill Downing, MassCann
Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions on Tuesday.

Massachusetts allows for citizens to put non-binding local “public policy questions” on the ballot, reports Jon Walker at FireDogLake. And voters in several precincts weighed in this year on whether their local representatives should “vote in favor of legislation that would allow the state to regulate and tax marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.”
More than 150,000 votes were cast on the marijuana issue across Massachusetts in districts containing about 8.5 percent of the total vote.
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Veil-Wearing Woman Says Pot, Cold Medicine Caused Robbery

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​​Here, dumb’s the bride?

A jury in Maryland has convicted a woman of burglary, assault and reckless endangerment for breaking into a neighbor’s house wearing “nothing but a bridal skirt and veil” — does that mean her boobs were out? — on a snowy night in February.

Thirty-three year old Melissa Wagaman testified in court Thursday that a combination of cold medicine and marijuana made her “hallucinate that she was getting married” and that her mother was locked in her neighbor’s basement, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Wagaman, in bridal get-up, head-butted a dining room window, causing shattered glass to cut an artery in her neighbor, Aaron Parrott’s arm.
The jury was having no part of defense arguments that Wagaman truly believed she needed to enter her neighbor’s house, and that she didn’t truly know she was endangering him.
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Marijuana Legalization’s Next Battleground: Colorado

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By on Culture, Legislation

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​Colorado will be the next battleground in the national conflict over marijuana legalization, according to Sam Kamin, a professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Kamin’s statement followed local votes on medical marijuana bans throughout Colorado and the defeat of Proposition 19, which would have legalized limited amounts of marijuana for adults in California, reports Kyle Glazier at The Denver Post.

“California has had its chance,” said Kamin. “Colorado is the next obvious choice.”
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Aunt Sandy’s Medical Marijuana Cookbook Hits The Spot

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By on Culture, Medical, Products

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Learn the secret of Aunt Sandy’s 10x Cannabutter in her Medical Marijuana Cookbook.

​Do you know how delicious cannabis can be? With the medical acceptance and value of marijuana now a legal fact in 14 states, and the growing use of edibles by medical marijuana patients, it’s time to get cooking.

Aunt Sandy’s Medical Marijuana Cookbook: Comfort Food For Body And Mind, which will help you do just that, is a beautiful thing. Not only does it just feel “right” as you hold it, it is one of the most gorgeously produced books I’ve seen in a long, long time, with stunning full-page photographs of finished dishes and well-presented, knowledgeable information from a veteran in the field.

Marijuana is medicine, and “Aunt” Sandy Moriarty shows you how to use it safely in 40 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes — desserts, appetizers, entrees and everything that’s good to eat.
Aunt Sandy’s full-color cookbook visually demonstrates the process for creating the “magic ingredient” in her recipes, Sandy’s 10x Cannabutter. The book includes 40 delicious dishes, from Aunt Sandy’s famous signature dessert, Blue Sky Lemon Bars to the “Dizzy Bird” Turkey with stuffing for festive Thanksgiving dinner.
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‘Stoners Against 19’ Hand Victory To The Cops

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Stoners Against Prop 19
Dragonfly De La Luz: The smugly self-satisfied new face of cannabis prohibition in California.

​It didn’t take long after the defeat of Proposition 19, which would have taxed and regulated marijuana in California, for the cannabis community to realize that legalization’s ignominious defeat was fueled by the duplicity — some would say outright treachery — of certain greedy, reactionary elements within the community itself. Boycotts against anti-Prop 19 businesses are now being organized.

So-called “Stoners Against Prop 19” — traitors to the movement such as Dennis Peron, Dragonfly De La Luz and J. Craig Canada — whether through stunning ignorance or outright malice, spread disinformation about exactly what the measure would have done.
They busily sowed division, distrust, and fear among a community that should have been united in striving to loosen the death grip of 70+ years of cannabis prohibition.
Offered the opportunity to embrace the future, these reactionary elements formed a fifth column within the medical cannabis community.
For who knows what reasons — maybe the miserly interest of preserving big pot profits? — they shamelessly allied themselves with the law enforcement and prison lobbies, with the Religious Right, and with the same intolerant fundamentalists behind the No On 19 campaign — the very same people, in the case of one statewide organization, that headed up the Proposition 8 anti-gay marriage initiative two years ago.
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California’s Prop 19 Legalization Has Wide Support Across U.S.

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Graphic: Angus Reid

​As voters in California have their say on Proposition 19, a proposal that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, the measure enjoys wide popular support across the United States, according to a new Angus Reid Public Opinion Poll.

Two in five Americans — 42 percent — believe that if Prop 19 passes, it will be a positive development for the U.S. One third of respondents — 33 percent — think passage of Prop 19 would be a negative development for the country.
A majority of respondents aged 18 to 34 — 52 percent — said the passage of Prop 19 would be a positive development. However, only 32 percent of respondents over age 55 agreed.
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Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann Endorses Prop 19 Legalization

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Bill Kreutzmann: “I smoke marijuana and I’m not a criminal; please vote YES on 19.”

​Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann has endorsed California’s Proposition 19 to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana.
“I smoke marijuana and I’m not a criminal; please vote YES on 19,” Kreutzmann said.
“Jerry Garcia would have voted Yes on 19,” Kreutzmann added of his former bandmate.
The famed rocker made the endorsement on The California Marijuana Report radio show.
The California Marijuana Report, with former Westwood One news reporter and current screen actor Eric Brenner, broadcasts every Sunday at 6 p.m. on KRXA AM 540 Monterey.
This ground-breaking show focuses on legalizing marijuana in Calfiornia.
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