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Football Stars Fall Asleep In Drive-Thru Line; Busted For Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 8, 2010 Culture, News

Willie Jefferson, left, and Josh Gordon were busted for pot early Sunday after falling asleep in the Taco Bell drive-through line.

I’ll have some of what they’ve been having, please. Just hours after last weekend’s 55-7 victory over Kansas, Baylor wide receivers Josh Gordon and Willie Jefferson were arrested in Waco, Texas, on allegations of marijuana possession after they were discovered asleep in a Taco Bell drive-through line near campus.

Waco police received the call at 2:15 a.m. Sunday about a man passed out in the restaurant’s drive-through lane, reports Dwain Price at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After a search of the vehicle, officers found bags of marijuana, according to police reports.

Jefferson was driving the vehicle, while Gordon was a passenger in the front seat.

Prop 19 Pot Legalization Pulling In High Dollar Donations

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 8, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: Green Patriot

David Bronner, Dr. Bronner’s Natural Soaps: “Cannabis for me is a daily sacrament and a communion that at the end of each day helps me get past my small petty self and find my moral center”

With the election less than a month away, the campaign to pass Proposition 19, California’s marijuana legalization initiative, is pulling in some high-dollar donations.

The owners of a natural soap company and a hemp clothing store announced on Thursday a $100,000 contribution to pay for a voter registration drive aimed at California’s college students, reports John Hoeffel of The Los Angeles Times. That donation followed the contribution of $100,000 on Monday by Napster co-founder Sean Parker and the recent donation of $50,000 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, based in Escondido, Calif., announced the $100,000 donation to Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) in The Huffington Post. Bronner put up $75,000, and the founders of Capitol Hemp in Washinton, D.C., kicked in $25,000.

“Something like this will benefit everybody in America, and we just want to do our small part,” said Alan Amsterdam, co-owner of Capitol Hemp. “It’ll trickle down to the rest of the states.”

‘Mayor Juana’ Wants Downtown Pot Garden In Dunsmuir, CA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 7, 2010 Culture, Dispensaries

Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann/Redding Record Searchlight

Dunsmuir, California Mayor Peter Arth, himself a medical marijuana patient, stands on his land in the center of town where he is proposing to grow a medical marijuana garden in greenhouses

Peter Arth, mayor of Dunsmuir, California, doesn’t mind being called “Mayor Juana” for his highly visible advocacy of medical marijuana in the tiny Northern California town.

The mayor is aware he has become a lightning rod for a pot culture war in Siskiyou County that is being waged not in the forests or streets, but in the minds of local residents, reports Damian Mann of the Southern Oregon Mail Tribune.

Dunsmuir and Mount Shasta are the only two cities in the mostly rural county where medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed to operate. Elsewhere in the county, government leaders have banned pot shops in their communities.

1967 ‘Dragnet’ Episode Predicted Legal Marijuana [Video]

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 7, 2010 Culture

In this 1967 episode of TV cop show Dragnet, a father being investigated for this marijuana use tells LAPD’s Joe Friday and Bill Gannon that “marijuana’s going to be just like liquor — packaged and taxed and sold right off the shelf” in the future.

Something tells us Sgt. Friday wouldn’t approve of Prop 19.

Michigan: Silverdome Cannabis Convention Cancelled

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 6, 2010 Culture, Products

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Bruce Perlowin: “They were clear we weren’t going to get a city permit, so I decided to reschedule it”

Organizers have canceled a marijuana festival planned for October at the Silverdome, former home of the Detroit Lions.

Elected officials and police cast the show as a “pot party,” and pointed to advertising materials they claimed “upset” them because the materials described the event in much the same way. Local officials claimed the event would tarnish the reputation of Pontiac and Oakland County, Michigan.

Promoters said the International Holistic Health Cannabis Convention Halloween Harmony & Harvest Festival (damn, how were they going to fit that on the marquee?) had been “moved,” Pontiac Silverdome Building General Manager Grant Reeves told Shaun Byron of The Oakland Press.

Reeves declined to say if the promoter had given a specific reason for moving or canceling the festival, and said that any information about the move would have to come from the promoter.

The event had been planned for October 29-31.

The event was a trade show focusing on natural and healthy products, as well as green technologies, claimed promoter Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Medical Marijuana Inc.

Federal Marijuana Patient Safe From The DEA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 6, 2010 Culture, Medical

Photo: Michael McElroy/Miami New Times

Irv fires up a federal joint. He works at Fort Lauderdale’s New Bridge Securities, where he is senior vice-president of the stock trading firm. Yeah, his boss is cool with it.

The next time someone tells you the FDA says marijuana isn’t medicine, remind them that Irvin Rosenfeld gets his weed from the federal government.

Irv tokes up every day in the parking lot of Fort Lauderdale’s New Bridge Securities, which shares a building with the local offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration. And the DEA can’t touch him.

“Marijuana is fantastic medicine,” Rosenfeld said. “Doctors should be allowed to prescribe it nationwide.”

Rosenfeld, who at age 10 was diagnosed with a genetic disease that causes tumors to grow at the ends of his bones, was taking all kinds of narcotics as a kid. But as a 19-year-old who had just moved to Florida on his doctor’s advice, who felt the warm weather would do his body good, Irv accidentally discovered in 1971 that marijuana worked way better than the prescriptions he’d been taking.

Facebook Billionaire Donates To Marijuana Legalization

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 6, 2010 Culture, Legislation

Photo: Wikipedia

Dustin Moskovitz has given $70,000 so far to support Prop 19 for marijuana legalization in California.

Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz has confirmed that he recently gave $50,000 in support of Proposition 19, which seeks to legalize marijuana in California this November.

Moskovitz had already given $20,000 to the effort in an earlier donation, reports Luisa Kroll of Forbes. Prop 19 would allow people 21 or older to possess, cultivate or transport cannabis for personal use and would also permit local governments to regulate and tax commercial production and sale of pot.

With his public support of cannabis legalization, Moskovitz joins other billionaires such as Peter Lewis, who has donated $12,800 to Oregon’s medical marijuana initiative, Ballot Measure 74, also to be decided by voters next month.

Lewis, who was arrested for cannabis possession in New Zealand about 10 years ago, has been a longtime supporter of legalization. He reportedly smoked marijuana for pain relief after his left leg was amputated.

Comedian Busted For Marijuana After Petting Drug Dogs

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 5, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: Westword

Ralphie May: “These dogs love me!”

Comedian Ralphie May described himself as an “idiot” after he got caught carrying marijuana through customs in Guam after he approached and petted a drug-sniffing dog because he thought it was cute.

May was busted in the incident last week, but only had to pay a small fine because he was carrying less than an ounce, reports TMZ.

The comedian, who has a California medical marijuana card, said he didn’t realize the pot was in his bag when, on his way through customs, he went up to the dog and started petting it.

Oakland City Leaders Attend Reopening Of Marijuana Megastore

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 4, 2010 Culture, Products

Photo: iGrowOakland.com

Oakland marijuana supply superstore weGrow held its Grand Re-Opening on Sunday.

What a difference a year makes. Last year, you would be hard pressed to find any Oakland city leaders at an event called “Hemp Evolution,” but on Sunday, they were publicly supporting the industrialization of medical marijuana.

It was already known as the “Wal-Mart of the marijuana world,” with 15,000 square feet of everything you need to grow or use marijuana, according to Cecilia Vega of KGO. Now, iGrow is growing even more, and changing its name to “weGrow.”

Pot For Tots? Three-Year-Old Caught With Marijuana At School

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 28, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: Child Injury Lawyer Blog

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said a three-year-old took marijuana to a Lake City, Florida school on Monday.

The sheriff told a local TV news team that the three-year-old showed the marijuana to a classmate in side a classroom, according to News4Georgia.

The Sheriff’s Office said the classmate then told their teacher about the marijuana, and the three-year-old was searched.

After finding less than 20 grams of marijuana on the child, school authorities contacted the child’s mother, who denied knowing where the cannabis came from.

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