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​The California Chamber of Commerce on Thursday released a legal analysis claiming that Proposition 19, which would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults, would lead to more workplace accidents by forcing employers to let workers smoke pot on the job and operate dangerous equipment while stoned.

“Imagine a workplace where employees show up to work high on marijuana and there is nothing you can do about it,” the Chamber’s “analysis” begins.

This is, of course, patent nonsense, since booze is already legal, and no employer has ever been forced to let an employee get drunk on the job. But since when have facts gotten in the way of a good pot scare story?
Prop 19 proponents dismissed the Chamber’s claims, reports John Hoeffel at the Los Angeles Times.
“It’s a lie that’s designed to raise money from California employers and other hot-button organizations,” said Dan Rush, a union official working for the Prop 19 campaign.

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GOP Senate candidate Dino Rossi captured in a rare moment without his head up his ass

​You’d expect a politician to promote medical research being done at local universities. But Republican Senatorial candidate Dino Rossi of Washington on Thursday tried to gain some traction in his political campaign by attacking a local research project which studies the use of marijuana cannabinoids to control pain.
Rossi thought it would make an easy target, after all: Talk about “wasteful” federal stimulus spending to rile up the Tea Party faithful, and then drag in a tired old stoner stereotype for good measure.
“This is one of those boondoggle projects that forces you to set aside the serious economic consequences of this so-called stimulus for a moment and just laugh at how out of touch Washington, D.C., really is,” Rossi said. “Washington state taxpayers are tired of their money going up in smoke. This bill isn’t going to stimulate anything other than sales of Cheetos.”
It’s time for a diversion, Rossi seems to believe, to distract voters from inconvenient little things like, well, the fact that he was recently named to a list of the 11 Most Crooked Candidates in the United States(!) by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

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Rev. Wayne Dagit, 60, during a July preliminary hearing. The minister faces up to 7 years in prison for providing medical marijuana to patients in Michigan.

​Undercover agents spent untold thousands of tax dollars and man hours “monitoring” Rev. Wayne Dagit and patrons of the Green Leaf Smokers Club in Williamstown Township, Michigan, as part of their surveillance of the medical marijuana collective. Now the minister is headed for trial on pot charges, facing up to seven years in prison.
“He was set up from the beginning,” Rev. Dagit’s son, Mike James, told Toke of the Town. “My dad didn’t even have money for the alleged marijuana. He was so broke, he couldn’t even pay attention. They think that a man that moved into town with his 15 year old six months ago would suddenly have money and connections in Michigan for 100 pounds? There’s more to the story.”
“My father was doing everything by the book,” Jones told us. “He was set up by some kid named Matt that was supposedly a new friend of my dad’s church. He was an informant sent in to do everything in his power to set my dad up. This guy was a snake, and he did everything he could to get my dad to do something that he could get busted for. My dad never had money to buy the amount that is advertised that they confiscated.”

Graphic: Yes On Prop 19

​Support for Proposition 19, California’s Tax and Regulate Cannabis marijuana legalization initiative, is at 50 percent in the latest Survey USA poll, which was released Thursday. The figure is unchanged from last month’s Survey USA poll.

About 40 percent of respondents oppose Prop 19, which would allow Californians 21 or over to carry up to an ounce of pot and grow a 5×5 marijuana garden. The initiative would also give counties and cities the local option of permitting, taxing, and regulating marijuana sales and cultivation, reports Phillip Smith at StoptheDrugWar.org.
Other recent polls show similar levels of support for Prop 19. A Sacramento Bee/Field poll released last weekend showed support for a general marijuana legalization question at 51 percent.
Interestingly, ike other recent telephone polls, Thursday’s Survey USA poll shows higher levels of support for legalization than the face-to-face polls. Voters could be reluctant to say they support a controversial idea like cannabis legalization in a face-to-face encounter, but may do so in much greater numbers in the privacy of the voting booth, Smith points out.

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It may look an awfully lot like a, well, garden-variety GARDEN to you. But to Christine Byers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis County Police, it’s a dangerous DRUG LAB — the kind for which you take away people’s kids. Oh, and get big Drug War grants, too!

​A marijuana “lab“?
Really, Christine Byers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? REALLY??
“A North St. Louis County couple has been charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child after police found a marijuana growth lab in their basement,” Byers cluelessly reports Thursday.
“Todd, 43, and Angela Priest, 33… had four children between the ages of 2 and 4 living with them when St. Louis County Police found the active marijuana growth lab in their basement,” Christine gives us to believe. [Italics added.]

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​Musician George Michael was charged Wednesday with marijuana possession and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, stemming from an incident last month.

The 47-year-old former Wham! singer reported to a police station in north London’s Camden Town on Wednesday, reports Christopher Brocklebank at PinkNews.
The charges result from an incident when Michael was arrested after driving his Range Rover into a branch of photo developers Snappy Snaps in Hampstead in the early morning hours of July 4. The singer had reportedly been attending the London Gay Pride celebrations the previous night.

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Oops, wrong guy.

​Charges have been dismissed against Ronald McDonald and another Iowa City man charged with possession of marijuana in February.

Police went to McDonald’s home on February 14 after a snitch called in to report a “suspicious smell.” Officers claimed they could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from the residence.
Police claimed they found “a quantity” of marijuana “and other drug use paraphernalia” in the home. A jar containing “marijuana residue” was also supposedly found in McDonald’s room, and he admitted to smoking marijuana, police claimed.
McDonald was charged with possession of marijuana and “permitting a gathering for the use of drugs.” Yeah, pot parties seem to be specifically against the law in Iowa, folks. No McBong hits for you!

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Alanis says she is giving up the ganja until after the birth of her first child.

​Expectant mother and rock star Alanis Morissette said she’ll be giving up something she enjoys — marijuana — while she’s expecting her first child.

“I don’t have a stance on it,” Morissette said, reports Starpulse.com. “I enjoy it… Not while I’m pregnant, obviously.”
The quirky Canadian singer is expecting her first child with new husband MC Souleye, whom she married in May after a whirlwind seven-month romance.
Morissette, who also plays a role in the hit Showtime series Weeds, created a stir last year when she “came out” about her pot smoking.



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The Stop Prop 19 people aren’t interested in your feedback on their little video. This is a one-way conversation, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

​A far-right conservative political group called SaveCalifornia.com is turning its unwholesome attention from anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8, to fighting this year’s pro-marijuana legislation, Prop 19, the legalization measure on November’s California ballot.

The group’s inaugural television ad ignores decades of scientific evidence showing showing otherwise to claim that marijuana is a “gateway drug” leading to methamphetamine and cocaine, and that it’s the addiction most cited by teenagers in drug rehab (failing to mention that most of those teens were forced into “marijuana rehab” under threat of jail).
Tellingly, both comments and the “Like/Dislike” buttons have been turned off on the YouTube video. SaveCalifornia doesn’t want a dialogue with Californians — it wants to lecture Californians.
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