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I found this interesting and while I new about it I didnt know the specific details of what happened. This should be widely known! If people knew the real story behind the demonizing of pot they would be outraged. Way back when, cannibis hemp was the new cash crop. It was being hailed by everyone as the miracle plant, including the AMA. It was so successful that it was going to replace wood as the main ingredient in paper. It was easily renewable and didn't require the vast amounts of water to produce paper like wood does. It also didn't pollute nearly as much. Lots of rich people had a huge stake in wood and paper, the Duponts, etc. Eventually, a banker and influential…

Author: Georgina Dickinson Date: 1 Febraury 2009 Source: New York Post Copyright: 2009 NYP Holdings, Inc. http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312009/news/...bong_152949.htm

Taking the fun out of pot By Connie Littlefield Ottawa Citizen http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Taking/1143884/story.html Low rates of use in the Netherlands demonstrate that the best way to assure teens will try marijuana is to tell them it's illegal Teens smoking marijuana.Photograph by: Getty Images, Getty ImagesIt's official: the Dutch have managed to make pot smoking uncool. The Dutch don't smoke nearly as much cannabis as Canadians, which is surprising because cannabis use is legal in the Netherlands. What can we learn from this? Cannabis is not taboo, as it is in North America, under prohibition. That could be why there is no real attraction for Dutch youth to ta…

America begins to ease up on marijuana smokers Ian Mulgrew 8 January 2009 The Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/America+begins...3728/story.html For years we've heard Canada couldn't liberalize its marijuana laws without inciting a crackdown by U.S. authorities and creating chaos along the international boundary. Well, the shoe's now on the other foot with some American jurisdictions telling police forces to quit making minor marijuana arrests and instead issue tickets. In the country that four decades ago launched the interminable so-called War on Drugs? Perfidy. Imagine, American legislators have been adopting progressive drug policies while Ottawa invo…

A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in westernmost Canada and to his "very surprised" father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency 911 call in which the caller hung up without saying a word, Constable Janelle Canning told AFP on Wednesday. The officers entered the White Rock residence, after knocks at the door went unanswered, she said. "The father was very surprised to see us and insisted he hadn't called police," she said. "The officers then observed his 11-month-old child playing with a cordless phone, pressing buttons randomly." The mystery caller was…

Author: Scott Morgan Date: January 23, 2009 Source: DRCNet Copyright: 2009 Independent Media Institute Alternet They might as well have displayed a link to ONDCP.gov across the screen for an hour. CNBC's Marijuana, Inc. couldn’t have been more sensationalist if John Walters wrote the screenplay and Bill O’Reilly did the interviews. I’m serious, it was that bad. Of course, it’s impossible to know how the casual observer may interpret a propaganda trainwreck such as this, but for me it crossed the threshold of absurdity to the point of almost becoming useful. If one factual concept emerged unscathed from this, it is that there is simply nothing you can do to stop the …

Examiner.com Asked about medical marijuana on the campaign trail in New Hampshire just a year and a half ago, then-Senator Barack Obama said, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." Admittedly, he's been on the job just a few days, but now-President Obama's administration has just overseen its first medical marijuana raid. It's time for him to live up to his promise and call off the dogs. It's not right to blame the new White House team for the raid in South Lake Tahoe, California. Drug Enforcement Administration officials are still hold-overs from the old administration, with the…

Author: AAP Date: 17 February 2009 Source: www.news.com.au Copyright: AAP CANNABIS worth more than $1 million has been found growing in rural northwest NSW, police said. They said found 607 plants at a property on Kingsgate Road at Red Range near Glen Innes yesterday. "It's alleged that officers located cannabis plants of differing sizes growing in three separate plantations on the property," police said. The estimated street value of the plants has been put at $1.2 million by authorities. The cannabis has been seized by police who continue to investigate the plantation. No Author? Sounds to me like another frickin media relea…

Majiuanna Reconsidered 1973 remember it well yes i hafe love dat book truth must reviel appariently in the late sixties Dr Lester Grinspoon was hired by the us gov to find all the dirt pon cannabis nuff sadness they sacked him after Majiuanna Reconsidered was published yo he continued his rescearch without us gov support his next book was------> Majiuanna Fobbiden Medicine and he still continues his crucial reseacrh today forward ever Dr Lester Grinspoon Nuff raspect everytime check diss youtube clip lets hope obamma re-employes him irey guidance

Source: Rebecca Lollback Date: 14 February 2009 Source: Lismore Star http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/...-uphill-battle/

Author: Patrick Gower Date: 16 February 2009 Source: The New Zealand Herald Copyright: Copyright 2009, APN Holdings NZ Limited http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....6944&pnum=0

I ususally wouldn't post this on a pot site, however in this case humour is the only method of dealing with the story imho. I've included all follow up reports as well - this is BRILLIANT to read when you're stoned! And you're thinking I'm being insensitive about this, bwaaaahhhh! Have a cone, relax and LAUGH some! It's only when you read the follow-ups that the humour REALLY begins in earnest... Oh yeah, you might wanna know that this is running as TOP NEWS on both fairfax and news sites. Proles... Author: Lucy Hagan Date: Feb 14, 2009 Source: www.news.com.au / www.thesun.co.uk Copyright: Associated Press Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father a…