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Why Would OBAMA Be Targeting Medical Marijuana Patients Now? (Clue: BIG Pharma)

October 13, 2011 News Corp MOXNews.com
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By Stephen Shea

Chile’s Supreme Court late last week ruled that agricultural export company Agrofuturo Ltda. was unfairly treated by the government’s Chile’s Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) when SAG decided to retract per…

The narrative of the popular 1960s song entitled ‘Teach Your Children‘ by Crosby, Stills and Nash was for ‘parents to teach their children well’. Today the children of the World War II generation (the so-called ‘greatest’ generation) are teaching their parents (and their fellow Baby Boomers) about the wonderful utility of naturally-produced, non-toxic medical cannabis to [...]

Obama DOJ Targets Medical Marijuana Dispensaries & Growers For The First Time In 15 Years!

October 08, 2011 News Corp MOXNews.com
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It’s getting ugly and NORML needs your help now more than ever to stand up for the rights of responsible adults cannabis consumers. The Administration that promised to base drug policy on science and respect state marijuana laws is ignoring medical facts, the needs of patients, and the economic benefits that [...]

Steve Jobs died this week after fighting a long battle with cancer. The technological visionary who founded Apple and brought us the personal computer and the iPod was called a hippy by his close friends, and reportedly said taking LSD was “one of the …

“This is not an idle threat. … What we’re trying to do is send a message as broadly as possible. … We are serious about enforcing federal law. … We are not just talking about it, but we are doing something about it. … Prosecuting marijuana cases is a higher priority now.”
–statements of the US [...]

By. JEFFREY SIMPSON, Globe and Mail

In the ongoing struggle between ideology and evidence within the Harper government, ideology too often wins.

The entire field of criminal justice features the government’s determination to ignore evidence…

Last month we shared with you a letter from Tennessee Congressman Steven Cohen — co-sponsor of HR 2306: The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011 — to Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, which called upon the Obama administration to support changing cannabis’ status as a schedule I prohibited drug and to respect the laws of [...]

The Internal Revenue Service has ordered Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, the largest medical cannabis dispensary on the West Coast, to pay $2 million in taxes after ruling that the collective cannot deduct standard business expenses, such as payrol…