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Dutch coffeeshops 'on strike' on election day http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-co...ke-election-day Published on : 12 March 2010 - 8:40pm | By Johan van Slooten Dutch "coffee shops", a euphemism for outlets selling soft-drugs, have announced they are going on strike on 9 June, the day the country will hold parliamentary elections. The idea behind closing for the day is to encourage all those who like to smoke a joint to get out and vote for the parties which will ensure that coffee shops will not be banned in the Netherlands. Nol van Schaik <http://nolvanschaik.info/index.html>, who owns a coffee shop in Haarlem, launched the campaign because he f…

The good: The New Hampshire House yesterday voted 214-137 to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The bad: The governor has vowed to veto the bill. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dl...template=single

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Interesting times when 'big media' starts releasing stories like these. I'll kick off with a summary. The full article follows, and is fairly wide-ranging. Summary: "Politicians are finally catching up with the American public" Some good statistics here: A Gallup Poll last October found 44% of Americans favor making marijuana legal (as in outright legal for recreational use), an eight-point jump since the question was asked in 2005. An ABC News-Washington Post poll in January found 81% favor making marijuana legal for medical use. Try to find another political issue with that level of support. Also, * California considering outright legalization of cannabis, …

http://www.wesh.com/crime/22758796/detail.html march 5, 2010 there is a video on the link aswell.... CHULUOTA, Fla. -- College students suspected in a massive marijuana operation that was busted in Central Florida went to court on Friday. Several agencies busted operations in Orange, Seminole, Lake, Polk and Pinellas counties on Thursday. Those arrested went before a judge on Friday. Drug agents suspect the men were buying marijuana by the hundreds of pounds from a California broker and bringing it to Florida. Before dawn Thursday, drug investigators kicked down doors and rounded up suspects by the dozen -- 31 in all. One of them was University of Central Flor…

In March 1999 a man living in Kandos (near Mudgee in NSW, Australia ) received a bill for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another bill and threw that one away too. The following month the gas company sent him a very nasty note stating that they were going to cancel his gas line if he didn't send them $0.00 by return mail. He called them, talked to them, and they said it was a computer error and they would take care of it. The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome gas line figuring that if there was usage on the account it woul…

Here is a link to the show I was just on ... couldn't help but poke my face ... oh well ... another one down. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5160415 Enjoy! Love and a Squish, Alison xx

End hempseed food ban: businessman thewest.com.au 29th November 2008, 9:00 WST http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?Men...ontentID=110650 A Perth businessman wants the Federal Government to lift a ban on the sale of hempseed foods and oils for human consumption, arguing they have a better balance of essential fatty acids than popular fish oil. Hemp Resources chief executive Kim Hough has written to his local MP and Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith calling for an exemption from the Australian food standard which makes hemp foods illegal for human ingestion. Hempseed and its oil come from the leaf of the cannabis plant but do not have any psychotropic prope…

This is not a news story as such. But more of a reminder how the Queensland Police Service has one lot of standards for civilians in the State of Queenland 'n a different rule book for themselves. Our QPS is that good. It apears they don't require Random Drug Testing. It's a pity the rest of the public don't agree with them. But then again civilians are probably just ticked off that they can be subjected to drug testing in the workplace and on our roads. And yet officers of the law get to slip through the net, time and time again. Poll results aquired from Gold Coast Bulletin