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Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett has come out in support of legalizing industrial hemp production. That makes him the second gubernatorial candidate in the state to embrace the idea. Perenn…

From the Family of Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Van Nuys, California, August, 2010
Dear Friends of Hemp and Cannabis,
Our father, Jack Herer, was a man of leadership, compassion and idealism. He worked relentlessly for decades to achieve his dream of legalizing Cannabis hemp in all its forms, personal, medical and industrial. He [...]

For years, Loveland resident Pat Dupree wanted to re-enter the business of selling products all made from hemp.
In 1993, Dupree had opened a shop in Chapel Hill, N.C., that lasted only six months because he could not obtain any quality products, he …

California — Oakland inched toward a plan to allow industrial-scale production of medical marijuana, sparking a lively debate between supporters and opponents who filled the Public Safety Committee meeting Tuesday evening. The proposal crafted by City Councilmembers Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan would prompt the first major expansion six years [...]

At age 17, sitting in the basement with friends smoking pot, Don Corbeil first noticed all the cameras spying on him.  Then he became convinced a radioactive chip had been planted in his head.  “I thought I was being monitored like a lab rat,” he explains. It never occurred to him that marijuana could be [...]

In between Jay-Z and Lady Gaga songs on Redding’s hip-hop and pop music station, an advertisement proclaims that for just $149, a new doctor in town will evaluate a patient for medical marijuana. Dr.  Ahimsa Porter Sumchai’s advertisement would have been unthinkable until nine months ago, when President Barack Obama directed federal [...]

Los Angeles — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior U.S. senator, has lent her support to the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure on the state’s November ballot. The prominent Democrat, first elected to the Senate in 1992, signed the ballot argument against the initiative. On Monday, she issued [...]

In Contrast to Earlier Results, Survey Finds That 48% of Likely Voters Are Against Prop.  19 Californians who intend to vote in November narrowly oppose Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize marijuana possession and sales, according to a recent survey. The Field Poll found that 48% of likely voters [...]

The pot is growing, not burning, but still the odor from a medical marijuana business on Montana Avenue is bothering the neighboring business owners. Mike and Alexandra Gregory, who own Oxford Antiques at 2411 Montana Ave., started complaining in late May that a medical marijuana operation on the ground floor of neighboring The Yellowstone Hotel [...]

The City of Pitt Meadows is making sure people who grow medical marijuana for others can’t set up within its borders. Council gave two readings to an amendment to its land use bylaw Tuesday.  The change prohibits growing the plant for medicinal use in residential and agricultural zones. The city is one of the first [...]