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For years I was told the stoner lore that marijuana was being kept illegal partly so that police could come up with a way to roadside test stoned drivers. That’s hardly true, and arrest records for DUI-marijuana in all 50 states prove that even without a breathalyzer or even a blood draw cops can bust you high-driving.
But still, there’s researchers out there are trying to find new ways to catch you red-eyed behind the wheel. Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that active THC can be detected in a breath-draw. Good news is that they can’t decide if it can really determine impairment.

Charlotte Figi and mom Paige.

As we reported earlier this month, the number of children on the Colorado medical marijuana patient registry — with parental permission — nearly doubled from June to August this year, with sixty kids under the age of eighteen now on the list. This is the highest that figure has ever been, and it’s due in no small part to six-year-old Charlotte Figi, a Colorado Springs girl featured in an August CNN special hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that explored the world of medical cannabis.

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The United States is known worldwide for our insatiable drug habit, and for decades we’ve been seen as the ones importing it all from other countries. Whether it was opium and heroin from the East, primo ganja from Jamaica, Mexico or Thailand in the 70s, or cocaine from Colombia still to this day shipping stuff in has always been our style.
We still do most of that, but it seems we’ve managed to start exporting something we’re really good at: cannabis. According to a recent Associated Press story out of Hanoi, Vietnam, Canadian and American ganja isn’t just in demand in Asia – it’s prevalent and carries a hefty price despite heavy penalties for importing drugs in that country.

Hidden smoke shack in Colorado.

Many Colorado ski towns are allowing recreational pot sales. But that doesn’t mean public weed smoking is any more legal at resorts than it is elsewhere in Colorado.
Still, the idea that ski areas will crack down on those who light up in plain view definitely stirs emotions, as Arapahoe Basin chief operating officer Alan Henceroth (seen here) discovered when he wrote about it not once but twice this past weekend. Denver Westword has the full story.

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Heide Fleiss in her most recent mugshot.

For the second time this year, former Hollywood madam Hedi Fliess has been busted for marijuana near her home in Pahrum, Nevada.
Nye County Sheriff’s deputies say they stopped Fleiss’ Toyata Land Cruiser about 3:30 Tuesday morning and found her to allegedly be under the influence “of a controlled substance”. That gave them probable cause to search her car, where they found a quarter pound of herb and about $10,000 in cash.

Legalize me.

Think Mary Jane should be legal? You’re not alone. In just one year, the percentage of Americans who favor legalizing marijuana jumped ten percentage points from a small, 48 percent minority to a large, 58 percent majority.
Only 39 percent of people polled said marijuana should remain illegal. They also probably still think the war on drugs is money well spent.

Though legal medical marijuana sales have been allowed since July if this year in our nation’s capitol and dispensaries are open and in operation, less than 60 people have actually signed up for the program — or just 0.0093 percent of the population.
The problem isn’t a lack of interest, dispensary owners argue. It’s that the process of obtaining a recommendation is difficult and the city is strictly regulating who is and isn’t eligible for medical cannabis access.

Cannabis-infused edible.

Watch your step, medical-marijuana users: Phoenix police say they might bust you for holding the wrong kind of cookie.
In researching an upcoming cover story about marijuana food products and concentrates, “Half Baked,” Phoenix New Times asked police to clarify their position on the preparations of marijuana not protected by the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. That includes, basically, anything but using whole buds in edibles. It’s very similar to a decision in Michigan recently surrounding the same topic.
Phoenix New Times has the details on why you’d better be careful with your edibles in Arizona.

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