A bill that could legalize medical use of marijuana in Minnesota undergoes its first test this morning. It’s scheduled for conversation at the House Health and Human Services Committee, and both sides of the debate have begun preparing their people.
At the moment, the list of speakers remains hush-hush as committee administrators want to avoid the possibility that either side will try to stack the room. It’ll be made public about two hours before the meeting. Minneapolis City Pages has the complete story.
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CU-Boulder was once the setting for one of the planet’s largest 4/20 celebrations. But after a massive blowout in 2011, administrators closed the campus in 2012, and did the same in 2013.
No surprise, then, that the university has announced the campus will be off-limits to visitors on this April 20, too. Our friends at the Denver Westword have the rest.
Eighty-five percent of Pennsylvania voters want to legalize medical marijuana in their state, according to a poll released this week by Quinnipiac University.
However, the survey also showed that only 48 percent of voters would approve of legalizing recreational cannabis. 49 percent said they would oppose it.
While every Colorado town has a story, most are – in some way or another – related to the state’s rich mining history. Not Garden City, however. That town was founded on alcohol. Specifically: booze was outlawed in Greeley, Colorado even after prohibition, so in 1935 town founders created a four block by five block devoted to bars and liquor sales.
In a case of history repeating itself, Greeley has banned recreational pot sales, but not Garden City.
On Saturday night, an apartment in Colorado Springs, Colorado blew up — and shortly thereafter, Lee Brown, 51, was arrested. Why? He’s suspected of causing the explosion by attempting to make hash oil inside.
Feel like you’ve heard that story before? That’s because such tales are becoming all too common. Denver Westword has photos and details about five hash-oil explosions, including the most recent one — plus details about why the process is so dangerous.
Alaska voters could legalize the cultivation and possession of limited amounts of marijuana by the end of the summer after signatures for ballot initiative cleared the final hurdle last week and gained approved from the state Lieutenant Governor.
Signature gatherers only needed around 30,000 signatures, but ended up getting 36,000 just to be safe.
Thanks to a lot of hard workers hawking petitions in parking lots, not to mention the shifting pop cultural sands, it looks like Florida has a fighting chance for legalizing medical marijuana. Come November, we’ll find out. But as with any political movement, despite best intentions and hopes, it’s money that’s really powering the show. And the funding trail behind the legalization effort leads right back to South Florida.
Broward-Palm Beach New Times has the full story
Marijuana is still very much illegal in Texas, and, whatever Governor Rick Perry says about “decriminalization”, it will remain so for the immediate future. But the tide of public opinion is turning fast, and it’s not so hard to imagine a day when Texas relaxes its weed ban. It almost seems like an inevitability.
That’s what Jerry Grisaffi is banking on. “Once the cities and the government start tasting the tax revenue, all the other BS goes away,” he says, referring to marijuana regulations in every state that’s not Washington or Colorado. Dallas Observer has more.
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If, for some reason, you did not believe that there really is a War on Drugs underway in America, two top-ranking U.S. military generals admitted as much earlier this week in testimony before the Congressional House Armed Services Committee in Washington D.C.
Army General Charles Jacoby and Marine General John Kelly sat Tuesday before the pasty white panel of entitled U.S. Congressmen, begging the government’s purse-holders for a few more bucks, and warning that more budget cuts will translate directly into violent drug sales here at home.
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When the LA Weekly found out that hip hop rapper/cult personality Riff Raff had his own strain of weed, they were pretty pumped and imagined dancing like a manic octopus, telling hilarious stories about how our father fights polar bears, and being blessed with sartorial inspiration.
So they did what any curious writer should do: they made their way over to a local cannabis club selling the strain at five grams for $55. And then they got high. Read more of their journey into stonedness over at LAWeekly.com