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From StopTheDrugWar.org For 30 years, Donald Tashkin has studied the effects of marijuana on lung function. His work has been funded by the vehemently anti-marijuana National Institute on Drug Abuse, which has long sought to demonstrate that marijuana causes lung cancer. After 3 decades of anti-drug research, here's what Tashkin has to say about marijuana laws: "Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects," Tashkin says. "But at this point, I'd be in favor of legalization. I wouldn't encourage anyb…
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Zagreb - Croatia's Supreme Court has ruled to allow the use of marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorderhttp://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif (PTSD), a disorder that afflicts thousands of the country's war veterans, the Vecernji List daily said Thursday. Despite Croatia's harsh laws on drugs, Wednesday's verdict surprisingly acquitted a man previously sentenced to a year in prison for growing a small amount of marijuana in Virovitica, 100 kilometres north of Zagreb. 'The court took into consideration that the defendant suffers rom PTSD. ... Marijuana relaxes him and helps him overcome psychological problems,' the verdict said. …
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<h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"> The cannabis debate... </h1> <h4 class="grey">Posted By Submitted</h4> <h5 class="grey">Posted 10 hours ago</h5> Dear Editor, One beneficial component of legalizing cannabis (marijuana) that doesn’t get mentioned online (Marijuana - Time To Make It Legal? Panel Says Yes, May 25, 2009) is that it will lower hard drug addiction rates. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) will have to stop brainwashing youth into believing lies, half-truths and propaganda concerning cannabis, which…
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village sub-postmistress foiled a dealer's attempts to mail drugs hidden in Kinder eggs after she detected suspicious smells from the parcels, a court heard. By Richard Savill Published: 1:44PM BST 04 Jun 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01417/egg_1417089c.jpg A village sub-postmistress foiled a dealer's attempts to mail drugs hidden in kinder eggs Photo: PETER PAYNE Lara Oliver, 21, alerted police who found cannabis when they opened one of the chocolate eggs. The dealer, Simon Game, 38, was arrested after attempting to send the packages from …
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Only in Queens. Welcome to New York, people. Three [different] customers bought peppers at a Queens’ grocery store with bags of cocaine inside them, according to police. People, who claimed not to know what was inside them, bought the drug-stuffed peppers in separate transactions. All were bought from a store on LIberty Avenue in Ozone Park. Store owners told police the drug-stuffed peppers were imported from South America, the New York Post reported. Police notified the health department and searched the rest of the story with K-9 units.
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/170129.asp Gotta luv dat The charges will never stick, he ate the evidence, classic!!!!!!!!!! ROFL Kids got a big future in front of him me thinks, best laugh I've had in days
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Original Article Marijuana chemical may slow multiple sclerosis via insciences.org Could they get any more blatant about it if they tried
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Kinda weird i thought ,, i was never one much for the shooting gallery proposals in australia either ,, like wtf ,, you cant possess a bong but you can go to a shooting gallery for heroin ... http://kdka.com/health/Swiss.heroin.program.2.876644.html
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Survey What a disgusting lopsided survey, the questions frame the result scewing it as people being in favour of prohibition whether they are or not, I just did their survey and twisted it as much as I could back the other way and told them they were bigots in the comments field Could be fun to join their webchat and tear them a new one the bigots, anyone for a game Thursday week
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Written by Border Scope Monday, 01 June 2009 http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.ph...58&Itemid=2 Rio Grande City, Texas - United States Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station seize a wheelbarrow full of marijuana weighing 223 pounds. On Thurday, at about 3:30 p.m., Border Patrol agents working in the La Grulla area observed several subjects pushing a wheelbarrow away from the Rio Grande River. When agents approached and identified themselves, the subjects abandoned their cargo and fled into the brush. The agents recovered 20 bricks of marijuana for a combined weight of 223 pounds. After a search of the immediate area, three mal…
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http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0kIO4w3IJ7k/1.jpgWatch the News Segment Host Aaron Klein brings you the story of operation Green RX. An effort by local law enforcement and DEA to entrap and arrest all the collective grows who would deliver medicine to a valid patient in San Diego. A navy house was set up with surveillance so federal jurisdiction could be included. In November of 2008 a series of medical marijuana patients were filmed delivering medicine. Watch a collective member deliver medicine to an undercover cop on surveillance video! In February the DEA dropped out of the investigation after federal policy on medical marijuana made an abrupt 180 degree turn. The SDPD…
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/29/d...l_n_209080.html
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Hi Everyone... I've been busy again this last few days... Here are a few Interviews I was involved in across Canada. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/st...html?id=1633832 And this: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1631865 Check out our most recent Podcast from the Global Marijuana March in May 2009. Scroll half way down the front page and click on Best Bud to hear me in Part B... Click on Dope FM Part A to hear the start of the EYE WEEKLY Stage Speakers.... Podcast Host Daddy J Enjoy! http://dopefm.podomatic.com/ AND THIS TV Interview on CH News: CH Talk Back Live at 5:30pm a Satellite TV Station across Canada. It's on line…
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from Splifftube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQsTtgRQdtY&NR=1 Cannabis legalization will stop diss corruption 100% legalize it now wake up usa smell the flowerz return cannabis to it rightfull place in the socierty hear we obamma free cannabis for the people for the earth
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There's been shit loads of vids getting put up on youtube, since all signs point to the fact that Cali is about to legalise. This one is a disgusting story though, but the guy says he's gonna fight back in his own way! Check it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8jJintpWA...feature=related
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