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​Selling cannabis seeds has long been legal in the United Kingdom, unlike the United States, and as a result the U.K. market for marijuana seeds has reached such maturity now that it merits its own price comparison website, according to the creators of a new site that, you guessed it, does exactly that.
Launched in August, Seedscanner offers an overview of the cannabis seed trade for a growing and increasingly discerning international market, according to marketing director Sophie Banks.

Graphic: Emperor Of Hemp

​Cannabis activist Jack Herer (1939-2010) was a true American original. When we lost him on April 15, he passed into the hallowed hall of hemp history, a man who devoted his life to the cause of marijuana freedom.

Jack pledged to fight every day of his life until either cannabis was legal, he was dead, or until he turned 84. He took the pledge very seriously and never stopped fighting, giving an impassioned speech at Hempstalk 2009 and then collapsing with the heart attack that ended up taking his life a few months later.
Jack’s friends decided to honor the man and his work with a memorial tribute edition of writer/producer Jeff Meyers’ and director Jeff Jones’ 1999 documentary, Emperor Of Hemp. “We went back through all of Jack’s original interview footage and found a few never-before-seen gems, 20-plus bonus minutes of classic Jack at his fiery best,” Meyers says on the Emperor Of Hemp website.
“In the 11 years since the release of Emperor Of Hemp, our humble low-budget marijuana documentary has been seen by millions all over the world and has aired on PBS stations in major U.S. cities,” Meyers, a former L.A. Times reporter, said. “We receive email all the time from viewers who say the documentary has enlightened them to the truth behind marijuana prohibition.”

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Be prepared to pay almost $100 more an ounce in New York.

​Now there’s a site where you can envy — or pity — cannabis consumers in other cities by comparing the price of weed everywhere in the U.S. and Canada.

Price Of Weed, “A Global Index of Marijuana,” collects data on pot prices all over so that potheads and producers alike can gauge the going rate for ganja. As remarked by J. Patrick Coolican at our sister Village Voice Media blog LA Weekly, isn’t the Internet wonderful?
Much like a tech-friendly version of High Times‘ time-honored Trans-High Market Quotations, long a favorite part of the magazine, priceofweed.com visitors can anonymously input information about their most recent bud buys: amount purchased; price; and quality (your choices are low, medium, and, yes, high).

Graphic: Reality Catcher

​T-Mobile claimed on Tuesday that it did not block medical marijuana text message alerts because of the content of the text. Instead, its decision to cease delivery of text came because EZ Texting didn’t follow “best practices” guidelines, company officials would have us believe.

T-Mobile is being sued in a federal court by EZ Texting, whose clients include WeedMaps.com, for allegedly blocking text alerts to customers seeking the locations of distributors of medical marijuana.
“Though T-Mobile doesn’t typically comment on pending litigation, we believe it is important to clear up some of the confusion generated by EZ Texting’s allegations,” T-Mobile said in a statement, reports Cecelia Kang at The Washington Post.
The firm claimed it requires content providers like EZ Texting to follow the Mobile Marketing Association’s U.S. Consumer Best Practices Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Programs, as well as other rules applicable to the mobile content business.

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The Wickie Pipe offers all-in-one convenience with a flip-out mouthpiece, built-in lighter, and hidden stash compartment.

​The Wickie All-In-One Pipe Lighter offers everything you need but the weed with its revolutionary self-lighting pipe, making life easier for smokers everywhere.

The Wickie has a flip-out metal bowl and a mouthpiece made from acrylic to keep it from heating up, a flip up/flip down metal bowl cover so you can leave it full for later or properly secure the material when finished smoking, a built-in storage compartment so you can store smokeables with your lighter, and an adjustable flame control on the built-in lighter.
The futuristic design is sure to delight gadget freaks. The secret stash compartment can be found underneath the acrylic mouthpiece attached to the body to store extra herbs.


The official trailer for the upcoming marijuana smuggler documentary, Square Grouper, has been released — and man, does it ever underline the “must see!” nature of this film.

“Square grouper” was the nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes during the halcyon smuggling days of the 1970s and 80s in South Florida.

The new documentary from filmmaker Billy Corben and rakontur, the creators of Cocaine Cowboys and The U, looks to be one of the best pot documentaries ever.

Graphic: Fishbowl LA
Allison Margolin, “L.A.’s Dopest Attorney,” is joining forces with her famed dad Bruce Margolin to form a powerhouse law firm.

​When Allison Margolin went into the practice of law, she followed in the footsteps of her distinguished father, attorney Bruce M. Margolin. Bruce is currently the director of the Los Angeles chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), a post he has held for more than 30 years.

It took ambitious Allison just under a decade to establish herself as an equally sophisticated criminal defense lawyer in her own right, gaining fame as “L.A.’s Dopest Attorney.”
Now father and daughter are merging to form a new law firm which will unite two of the country’s most prominent marijuana law experts.

In his career, spanning four decades, Bruce has successfully represented thousands of clients, including Dr. Timothy Leary, well known attorney Tony Serra, Marlon Brando’s son Christian Brando, and porn star Linda Lovelace.
He has also been involved in the “Lawyer in the Classroom” Program on behalf of the Constitutional Rights Foundation.
A Columbia College graduate and Harvard Law School alumnus, Allison’s greatest professional achievements have come in the courtroom as a successful trial lawyer. She is as known for her toughness in the courtroom as she is for being easy on the eyes (Allison isn’t averse to appearing in ads rocking tank tops and fishnets.)
Profiled in front-page stories for the Los Angeles Times and Daily Journal in 2006 and recently appearing on the cover of the April issue of California Lawyer magazine, Allison has been quoted in newspapers throughout the U.S.

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​Man, I really hate to tell you this. But if you’re a cannabis user in California, you should stop drinking beer, unless you are into donating money to continue being busted for pot.

The second biggest contributor to the main group opposing Prop 19 marijuana legalization in California — behind only law enforcement organizations — is the trade association for the state’s beer distributors, according to Steve Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project, co-author of Marijuana Is Safer.
On September 7, the California Beer and Beverage Distributors made a whopping $10,000 contribution to a committee opposing Proposition 19.

“Unless the beer distributors in California have suddenly developed a philosophical opposition to the use of intoxicating substances, the motivation behind this contribution is clear,” Fox said.
“Plain and simple, the alcohol industry is trying to kill the competition,” Fox said. “They know that marijuana is less addictive, less toxic and less likely to be associated with violent behavior than alcohol. So they don’t want adults to have the option of using marijuana legally instead of alcohol.”
“Their mission is to drive people to drink,” Fox said.

Graphic: NESAHS
Class dismissed.

​An outfit previously billed as New England’s first medical marijuana school has decided to cancel its inaugural class and indefinitely postpone operations, citing concerns that the Rhode Island Department of Health has not offered its explicit approval.

The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Science’s founder, Luis Hernandez, pointed to a September 2 article in The Brown Daily Herald in which a spokeswoman for the Health Department expressed reservations and concerns about the school.
“From the Health Department’s point of view, our one concern is that accurate information is presented, not only about what the law permits in terms of growing (marijuana) but about the rules and regulations for caregivers and patients.”

Photo: Plant Medicine Expo

​The Cannabis Therapy Institute has announced it will participate in the Plant Medicine Expo and Healthcare Provider Conference on September 25 and 26 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado. The Plant Medicine Expo will bring together some of the leading national experts on medical marijuana for a two-day conference and expo focused on the scientific and health aspects of medical cannabis.
Conferences are designed both for health care professionals and medical cannabis patients.
Two instructors for the Cannabis Therapy Institute will be presenting talks at the PME. Deanna Gabriel will discuss “Cannabis Medicine Making” and “Cannabis Therapy Fundamentals.” Timothy Tipton will discuss “Bringing Medical Marijuana Into Your Practice” for health care providers.

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