Was It The Odor Or Posted Photo On Instagram? Regardless, Wiz Khalifa Busted In Music City

April 26, 2012   |   2 views   |   No Comments
Was It The Odor Or Posted Photo On Instagram? Regardless, Wiz Khalifa Busted In Music City

The Tennessean reported last night that popular musician Wiz Khalifa and a friend were busted in Nashville after police received complaints of the strong odor of cannabis apparently emanating from Wiz’s hotel room (I’m shocked!). After unsuccessfully trying to ditch a blunt out a window upon police entry, the pair were busted. Every 38 seconds in America, another cannabis consumer is busted on ganja charges (850,000 per year), and with a pro-cannabis profile as high as Wiz’s (heck, hours before he was busted he posted a photo to Instagram depicting his [...]

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NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up

April 25, 2012   |   5 views   |   No Comments
NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up

Marijuana law reform legislation still remains pending in several this 2012 legislative session. Is your state among them? Find out here. More importantly, have you taken the time to call or write your state elected officials this year and urged them to support these pending reforms? If not, NORML has provided you with all of the tools to do so via our capwiz ‘Take Action Center’ here. Below is this week’s edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up — where we spotlight specific examples of pending marijuana law reform legislation [...]

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West Virginia Governor Orders Job Trainee Drug Testing

April 25, 2012   |   4 views   |   No Comments

It's not just Republicans hopping on the drug testing bandwagon. On Tuesday, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, issued an executive order requiring people who seek state-funding job training to f…

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Obama To Rolling Stone: We’re Not Going To Legalize Weed Anytime Soon

April 25, 2012   |   3 views   |   No Comments

From Politico: President Obama clarified his position on medical marijuana in an interview with Rolling Stone, telling publisher Jann Wenner that he can’t “nullify congressional law.” “What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it’s against federal law. I can’t nullify congressional law,” Obama said. “I can’t ask the Justice Department [...]

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Politico Reports On Obama’s Medical Cannabis Conundrum

April 23, 2012   |   5 views   |   No Comments
Politico Reports On Obama’s Medical Cannabis Conundrum

The most widely read political website, Politico.com, covers the now clear controversy the Obama Administration has found itself in regarding it’s semi-articulated medical cannabis policy position post hundreds of law enforcement closures of medical cannabis dispensaries since the fall of 2011. Beyond bringing this political quandary regarding medical cannabis to a well informed readership, what is notable about the reportage is that buried in the piece is an apparent recent confrontation between cannabis law reform proponent Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and President Obama at a swank fundraiser directly across the [...]

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