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Recording artist Ziggy Marley has released a new single, “A Fire Burns For Freedom,” also known as “Wild and Free,” in support of Prop 19 and cannabis reform, and is offering the song as a free download on his website.
“I would love if everyone enlightened themselves on the many uses and benefits of this plant,” Marley said. “A plant that if utlized to its full potential will greatly benefit humankind in the many different aspects of our lives and existence.”
Ziggy’s aim is to spread the word about marijuana and what if offers the human race.
“I have been quite surprised in my travels to realize that those who I have come in contact with seem oblivious to the ‘other’ uses of this amazing gift that has been given to us,” Marley said.
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Ah, nothing like getting back in touch with old friends. But one of the first questions you ask, when you’ve got years of catching up to do, led to an arrest after the recipient of a “So do you smoke weed?” text message turned out to now be a cop.
Amanda Williams, a reserve officer with the Early Police Department in Texas, was not amused when she received the text message Tuesday, asking about getting together to smoke some marijuana with her old friend, Steve Nash at The Brownwood Bulletin reported on Friday.
Williams, who is apparently quite gung-ho about her job and evidently lacks a sense of humor, said she had not spoken to the man in some time, and he did not know that she’s now a police officer.
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| Lincoln Park, MI will allow the cultivation of medical marijuana, but not in residential neighborhoods. |
Licensed persons can now grow marijuana in certain sections of Lincoln Park, Michigan, according to an ordinance adopted Monday by the City Council.
Council members voted 6-1 for the ordinance, reports Nate Stemen at The Southgate News-Herald. Councilman Thomas Murphy was all alone in opposing the measure.
The ordinance restricts the growing of marijuana for medical use to an “industrial part of the city” that runs along John A. Papalas Drive from Southfield Road to Outer Drive.
An additional ordinance relating to growing marijuana, requiring growers to be registered with the state and licensed with the city, was also adopted.
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Plants? We Don’t Need No Steenken Plants!
In yet another embarrassing fiasco for the hapless San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department, it is about to buy 43 dead marijuana plants for $25,000.
Rather than go to trial in federal court and fight a civil rights lawsuit brought by Los Osos, California resident Richard Steenken, the county and Sheriff’s Department agreed to settle the case by paying up, reports Colin Rigley at the San Luis Obispo New Times.
The monetary amount is said to be roughly the cash value of the cannabis plants, which were seized in a botched pot raid on Steenken, a medical marijuana patient.
The great Timothy Leary would have been 90 years old today.
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space.
An icon of 1960s counterculture, Dr. Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD.
As a psychology professor at Harvard University, Leary, along with Dr. Richard Alpert (who later became Ram Dass), performed the famous Good Friday Experiment [PDF] in which Harvard divinity students were given psilocybin before a church service.
Leary coined and popularized the catch phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
Rightly called the Galileo of Consciousness, Dr. Leary went public with his observations of the mind made with psychedelic mindscopes and helped initiate a renaissance which is still only beginning to elaborate itself.
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Last week, in what may be the largest single cop-to-grower marijuana transaction ever (the largest amount of pot returned by cops we’re aware of was 11 pounds, but that was given back a little at the time), the San Francisco Police Department gave seven pounds of cannabis back to grower Cody Phillips, whose cultivation for sale charges were dismissed in August.
The seven pounds of pot — in good condition, according to his attorney! — wasn’t all that Phillips got back, reports Chris Roberts at SF Weekly. The cops also gave him back everything else they seized in the June raid, including grow lights and cash.
The grow equipment had been returned earlier, according to attorney Derek St. Pierre, but figuring out how to return the marijuana was problematic. There is apparently no standing protocol for cop-to-civilian marijuana returns, especially for such large amounts. (Toke of the Town suggests that someone at the SFPD should get right on that.)
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”I figure it this way:
Dope’s gonna be legal in a few years. Then it’ll be a legitimate job.
All the other dudes won’t be ready for it and I’ll know how to do it.
Then I’ll have a job.”
~ Tommy Chong [1980]
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A Ukiah, California woman who was allegedly paying her teenage son to harvest marijuana instead of attending school was busted Tuesday, according to police.
Dena Price, 46, was arrested on suspicion of cultivating marijuana and possessing it for sale, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, providing marijuana to a minor and child endangerment, reports Glenda Anderson at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
Price was also cited for violating Ukiah’s city ordinance against outdoor marijuana growing, according to the Ukiah Police Department.
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| Chris Bartkowicz: “They have won. I will be entering a guilty plea tomorrow.” |
A Highlands Ranch, Colorado man charged with growing marijuana in his home has said he will plead guilty, and has scheduled a change of plea hearing in federal court for Friday.
Chris Bartkowicz, a medical marijuana patient and provider, had maintained that all his cannabis was for medical purposes and was legal under Colorado law. Marijuana is illegal for any purpose under federal law.
“They have won,” Bartkowicz posted on his Facebook page Wednesday night. “I will be entering a guilty plea tomorrow.”
“If the judge accepts it after a pre-sentence report is done then I will be sentenced to 5 years in FEDERAL prison,” Bartkowicz posted. “I am sorry for tapping out. I give up and can no longer fight the fight. They have broken me.”
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New Film Follows Three College Students Who Can’t Handle Intense Pot Brownie High; Premieres Thursday Night In L.A.
Bad Batch, indie producer-writer-director Abe Schwartz’s feature debut, features three college students who meet on Facebook, then can’t handle an intense pot brownie high one night.
The film’s hipster style has critics comparing Bad Batch to the work of directors Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater and even Ingmar Bergman.
The students, two African-American cousins and one Jewish hipster chick, discover sexual, psychological, and social tensions as they soar higher and higher in close to real-time, ultimately landing in a dramatic, sobering place.
But there are plenty of laughs, and the film doesn’t pound viewers over the head with a tiresome moral message, Schwartz told Toke of the Town in an exclusive interview.