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Yesterday, the Colorado Department of Revenue and the Marijuana Enforcement Division jointly released emergency rules for the marijuana industry promulgated without any public input or testimony so that the industry can begin being licensed and selling to adults over 21 by January 1, 2014.
The agencies stress that these mandates are temporary, meant only as placeholders until permanent rules are adopted later this year after the public has had a chance to give their input at future rule-making meetings. Denver Westword went over the edicts and pointed out a few of the more interesting tidbits. Click over to Westword to check them out followed by the complete document and a press release from the DOR and the MED.

Ex-crackhead Rep. Darryl Rouson, who sponsored the bill that eventually became the “bong ban” law on Monday, is unhappy about how watered down it turned out to be, when all was said and done.
Rouson believes that The Pot is a gateway drug to things like The Crack. Therefore, he worked diligently for years on a bill he hoped would ban all bongs, glass bowls, roach clips, and other things that can be used as a marijuana smoking device. But the final bill basically says that head shops can sell the devices, as long as they’re for tobacco only, thus creating the raddest loophole ever, man. The Broward-Palm Beach New Times has the full story.


I think you can divide the world–or at least Southern California–into two types of people: those who love Taco Bell and those who love Del Taco. And then there are the stoners who swear by both of them for midnight munchies, who’ll shove either of the two down their gullets, especially if it’s extra-cheesy.
The two companies will never acknowledge this latter fan base, even though they were the ones who made Del Scorcho sauce into a modern-day sacrament and secured the popularity of Doritos Locos Tacos. Stoners should be angry at the lack of respect, and now they have even more reason to be angry at the two now that the companies have united to go after the upcoming Kush Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. OC Weekly has the rest.

It’s not exactly the American Bar Association, but the nation’s other major group representing lawyers has just issued a report calling for an end to the U.S. war on weed.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) has been around since 1937 and has taken on a host of causes over the years. Its new report on pot came after months of research into the vast array of ways that marijuana’s prohibition has been harmful to the American public. OC Weekly has the rest.

Patrick Kennedy, the former Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island, is not a fan of marijuana legalization, and he wants everyone to know about it. The son of the late Teddy Kennedy, the wildly popular long time Senator from Massachusetts, Patrick is riding the coattails of his family name on a whirlwind media tour to promote his new prohibitionist group, SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana).
After visits to nationally syndicated cable television shows like Bill Maher and Piers Morgan, Kennedy’s latest soapbox comes in the form of an op-ed piece that was graciously printed by the notoriously conservative and anti-cannabis San Diego Union-Tribune.
In the piece, Kennedy says, “When I woke up after the 2012 election, two states had voted to legalize marijuana. That day I also ‘woke up’ to how naive I had been. ”

Eighteen mayors from around the country passed a resolution Monday at the United States Conference of Mayors, urging the federal government to respect state rights when it comes to recreational and medical marijuana laws.
The resolution, drafted by the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, calls for the government to amend the Controlled Substances Act to allow states to regulate their own marijuana policies and to end federal intervention in state-legal businesses. Denver Westword has the rest.

Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t just a media buzzword. It’s mental and often physical suffering that affects millions of people to varying degrees, often making life unlivable. In recent years, cannabis has been shown – albeit anecdotal – to help improve PTSD symptoms yet many states with medical marijuana laws still don’t allow it as a qualifying condition.

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