On the April 5 episode of NORML SHOW LIVE we spoke live with Richard Lee, founder of Oaksterdam University. Click this link to hear the interview.
Richard told me he’s doing as well as can be expected when federal agents violate your home and business. He tells us the nature of the federal warrants that were served Monday in early morning raids.
Richard was “treated well” by the authorities – “they didn’t even break anything,” he told us – and he was not arrested, though Read more.....
Statements of the US Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration regarding the massive increase in emergency room visits for energy drinks:
Trend data show a sharp increase in the number of emergency department (ED) visits involving energy drinks between 2005 (1,128 visits) and 2008 and 2009 (16,053 and 13,114 visits, respectively), representing about a tenfold increase between 2005 and Read more.....
Of all the despicable fear-mongering being promoted by Patients Against Pragmatism, this one takes the cake:
What’s worse is the ZERO tolerance clause for those under age 21. Drivers in this age bracket will be guilty of DUI if even the smallest amount of cannabis is found in their system. Anything over 0.00 in fact. In other words, a designated driver subjected to second-hand cannabis smoke would be held criminally liable Read more.....
My father turns 70 this year. He still lives in my birthplace, Nampa, Idaho. He has some medical issues that include severe nerve damage to his feet and lower legs, leaving him with chronic neuropathic pain he treats with a regimen of many opioid painkillers.
Today he forwarded to me a local newspaper article about the push for a medical marijuana law in Idaho, which is abutted by four medical marijuana states – Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana. Nampa’s news media, being in southwestern Idaho, focus Read more.....
On this day of remembrance of the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., many news outlets will provide highlights or even the full text of his landmark 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech at the Nation’s Capital. It is a remarkable oration of a man dedicated to the most American of principles – that all men are Read more.....
It’s end-of-year retrospective time! While my colleagues on the NORML Blog (go check out the new look that matches the new site) are going to bring you the biggest marijuana news stories of 2011, here at The Daily Stash Blog we’re going to bring you stories that may have fallen through the cracks of other drug policy 2011 remembrances.
Today we bring you the Top Ten “Reefer Madness” Stories of 2011. ”Reefer Madness”, of course, is the Read more.....
There is a great editorial in a Southern Oregon newspaper today called “Legalize pot: It’ll dry up drug cartels’ market, save forests.” It’s well done and deserves a read, but today my muse comes in the form of a comment on the piece. My reply was far too long for comments, so I’m putting it up here. The first paragraph references a jibe the editorialist makes at the conservative sheriff’s alarm at the waste and pollution from a clandestine marijuana grow on forest lands Read more.....
David Malmo-Levine forwarded an article he’s written as reaction to an online conversation in which many leaders in the marijuana movement are participating. Let’s call it the “Crossroads Debate.” Some folks, like Malmo-Levine, whom I’ll call “Medicalizers,” believe the proper strategy to fulfill our aim of ending adult marijuana prohibition is to continue expanding the the medical marijuana model under an “all use is medical” or “wellness supplements,” to keep broadening the conditions for which patients can get medical marijuana recommendations and to reduce the requirements for a patient to legally use cannabis until cannabis is treated as aspirin – a safe over-the-counter substance requiring no doctor and no registrations.
I and folks like Mickey Martin at CannabisWarrior.com, whom I’ll call “Legalizers,” disagree, believing that all use of Read more.....
Leading up to the promotion of their new Discovery Channel reality show, Weed Wars, brothers Steven and Andrew DeAngelo appeared on the Dylan Ratigan Show (on the left-leaning MSNBC) and on The O’Reilly Factor (on the right-leaning FOX News Channel). Steven and Andrew run the world’s largest cannabis dispensary, Harborside Health Center in Oakland, CA, serving over 98,000 patients and grossing in excess of $20 million annually.
First, Dylan Ratigan asks Steven whether he would be “presumptuous in suggesting that you guys would be in favor of legalization?”
Steven DeAngelo: “Yes, you would. I don’t believe that any psychoactive substance should be used for recreation.“
Steven DeAngelo: “Wine and cannabis… you know, I support any effort to change the cannabis laws Read more.....
Seventy years ago today, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a day President Roosevelt said, “would live in infamy”. The next day, Congress declared war* and America, which had been reticent to get involved with foreign wars just a generation after “the Great War”, was at war in the Pacific, and days later, in Europe as well.
My grandfather was a part of that “Greatest Generation” and fought in the Pacific. He’s passed on years ago, but I always remember him when this day comes around. As a child, I saw his sergeant’s uniform, clean and pressed, hanging in a plastic bag in his closet. That was as much as I knew about his involvement in World War II; unlike some men who never see war, he didn’t talk about it much.
My friends often kid me that I can find a marijuana angle in Read more.....
Someday we will look at the American Cancer Society’s stance on cannabis like we look at medieval barbers’ thoughts on bloodletting.
Seriously, American Cancer Society, you’re publishing this Reefer Madness on your “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” data sheet in medical marijuana?
Many researchers agree that marijuana contains known carcinogens, or chemicals that can cause cancer.
All researchers agree that water contains a known explosive, hydrogen, a Read more.....
So now there are three Republicans running for president with a better stance on state medical marijuana laws than President Obama:
(MSNBC.com) ”If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that’s a state’s right,” Cain said while campaigning in Iowa. “Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issues — most of them belong at the state, because when you do something federally … you try to force one-size-fits-all.”
That sentiment wouldn’t necessarily make Cain the only Republican candidate who’s sympathetic to marijuana rights. Texas Rep. Ron Paul supports the availability of medical marijuana, and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson supports the drug’s overall Read more.....
FOX News Latino is reporting news of a huge drug ring bust with the headline “Arizona Busts Billion Dollar Drug Ring Tied To Mexican Cartels“. Based on the report, over 99% of the drugs seized in what was called “Operation Pipeline Express” was marijuana.
“The ring is believed be tied to the Sinaloa cartel — Mexico’s most powerful — and responsible for smuggling more than 3.3 million pounds of marijuana, 20,000 pounds of cocaine and 10,000 pounds of heroin into the U.S. through Arizona over the past five years, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Their efforts in that time generated an estimated $2 billion, according to ICE.”
In the three busts combined, the agencies have arrested 76 Read more.....
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