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On Tuesday, Congressional Representatives passed by voice vote H.R. 5143, the House version of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010.
NORML first blogged about this federal legislation back in November, and encouraged supporters to contact their members of Congress in favor of this much-needed reform. This week the House did their part. Now it [...]

The law is the law. If we unquestioningly accepted that maxim, imagine where we would be today. Jim Crow would be alive and well, rivers and skies would be polluted, and women wouldn’t be allowed to vote.
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)City backs off marijuana ballot questionDelta County IndependentIn June, members of the Delta City Council decided that the question of medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits should be left up to voters. …Rich…

California — The law is the law. If we unquestioningly accepted that maxim, imagine where we would be today. Jim Crow would be alive and well, rivers and skies would be polluted, and women wouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Yet such is the mi…

CANNABIS CULTURE – A new poll of California voters shows 52% in support of Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize and tax marijuana in the state. 36% of voters said they oppose the proposition; 12% were not sure.
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Barry Cooper’s conversion from dogged narcotics agent to outspoken pot advocate may seem stranger than fiction.
But Cooper’s story — including his no-holds-barred, if sometimes quixotic quest to unearth police corruption in the Lone Star State ??…

We are doing fantastic and really appreciate everyone’s support through the very difficult time our family just experienced.
The Odessa American just reported on our Hollywood movie deal and the 40 million dollar lawsuit we just filed.
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A Mendocino County sheriff’s officer shot and killed a man who leveled a rifle at him in a large, remote marijuana garden early Tuesday morning, law officials said.
The shooting occurred at about 6:45 a.m. on U.S. Forest Service land in northeastern Me…

TopNews United Kingdom (blog)District patients shouldn't expect legal sale of marijuana until early 2011Washington PostDistrict leaders say it will be months before the city begins allowing the sale of medical marijuana, even though the law authori…

Santa Cruz — After the last several WAMMFests encountered challenges, organizers of Santa Cruz’s annual medical marijuana awareness event appear to be in for an easier time getting the city’s nod of approval.
Today, the City Counc…