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[420RedHead]

Colorado's marijuana enthusiasts are in for a treat. While similar consoles do already exist for registered dispensaries in states where the drug is approved for medical use, never before has a machine been aimed at the recreational user, enabling customers to purchase marijuana directly, rather than over the counter as it were. The appropriately emerald hued ZaZZZ machine, manufactured by American Green, was unveiled on Saturday in Avon, Colorado, stocked with Herbal Elements marijuana. And while the console won't be available to the general public quite yet, its first outing certainly generated excitement. - Mail Online

 

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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana (1 ounce = 28g) in their jeans simply makes no sense, the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy. - William F. Buckley - Legalization of Marijuana Long Overdue - Albuquerque Journal June 8, 1993

 

[420RedHead]

If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

 

[420RedHead]

An ordinance legalizing possession of marijuana for non-medical use in Maine's largest city goes into effect Friday. Last month, Portland voters approved by a wide margin the legalization measure, which allows individuals 21 or older to carry 2.5 ounces or less of the drug according to city rules.While medical use of marijuana has been legal in Maine since 1999, and larger scale medical marijuana dispensaries have been legal since 2009, the Portland ordinance is the first in the state to legalize pot for recreational purposes. Possession and recreational use of marijuana remains illegal under state law, and all uses of the drug continue to be outlawed under federal law. - The Bangor Daily News

 

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The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. Moderate use of hemp, appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind, no injurious effects on the mind and no moral injury whatever. - Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894

 

[420RedHead]

GW Pharmaceuticals, the firm that did the work on Sativex, was founded in 1998 and granted a lisence by the Home Office to grow marijuana at an undisclosed location. It began running clinical trials on Sativex in Britain a year later. Elsewhere, the process has been faster. Canada approved Sativex for relieving pain (but not spasms) in MS patients, albeit under strict conditions, in 2005. Two years later, people with advanced cancer were also allowed to take it. Clinical trials are under way now in Spain, where GW hopes Sativex will be approved for use later this year (2010). In America, the Food and Drug Administration gave its blessing in 2005 to clinical trials involving cancer patients, and these, too, are due to conclude this year. - The Gleaner - Jamaica

 

[420RedHead]

Presidential hopefuls who've voiced their support for state regulated medical marijuana could exploit medical marijuana advocates' anger at President Obama. The president as a candidate promised to maintain a hands off approach toward pot clinics adhering to state law. At a 2007 town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire, Obama said raiding patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes "makes no sense." At another town hall in Nashua, New Hampshire, he said the Justice Department's prosecution of medical marijuana users was "not a good use of our resources." Yet the number of Justice Department raids on marijuana dispensaries has continued to rise. - Huffington Post

 

[420RedHead]

Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social high and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects. - Crancer Study, Washington Department of Motor Vehicles

 

[420RedHead]

Hundreds of protesters all over France have been rallying and demonstrating in favor of legalizing cannabis. The event coincides with the so-called world march for the legalization of the drug. In Paris, protesters gathered on Bastille Square on Saturday, after Cannabis Without Frontiers, an organization struggling to legalize marijuana in the country, called for the rally. - Sign Of The Times

 

[420RedHead]

UFCW has a brand new website dedicated to the growing number of workers and UFCW members who are employed at medical marijuana dispensaries and other cannabis industry related workplaces around the country. Together these members are raising standards and professional stature for all marijuana and hemp workers. They are helping to build a legitimate industry that provides safe jobs for its workers.

 

[420RedHead]

When it comes to treating mild to severe health problems, millions of people and physicians worldwide trust the medical benefits of cannabis. This is not just because the effects of medical marijuana are good enough to promote the sense of well being and reduce pain, but also because medical marijuana has the ability to treat debilitating diseases in an effective way. It is worthwhile to note that medical marijuana is used to treat many health problems like epilepsy, AIDS and HIV, sexual dysfunction, anxiety, Multiple Sclerosis, arthritis, and fibromyalgia. Moreover, recent medical marijuana statistics suggest that marijuana is second to none when it comes to the stimulation of appetite and relief from nausea for patients with HIV/AIDS and chemotherapy (cancer), respectively. The list of positive effects of medical marijuana does not end here. Medical marijuana is also used for treating complications such as alcohol abuse, spinal cord injuries, cancer, bipolar disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep apnea, Parkinson's disease, sickle-cell disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis. - iMarijuana.com

 

[420RedHead]

UpToke believes that the legal cannabis market is the next great American industry and that it can and should be elevated and professionalized so its benefits can provide community services to benefit millions of Americans. Imagine what we can do for our friends, families, and communities at large. The perspective does not change one bit when you consider the role of women in the cannabis industry. There is so much opportunity in this industry to grow as an individual and as a professional for driven young women willing to boldly step into the excitement and uncertainty of a rapidly expanding market. Young women can, right now, step into the budding cannabis industry and watch their careers grow at a much faster rate, I believe, than in traditional industries in America today. The growth potential for the market is staggering. Leaders of both genders are going to be managing large workforces sooner rather than later. - Uptoke

 

[420RedHead]

Late last month, the U.S. House voted to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in Colorado and other states that have legalized MMJ, an unprecedented development that was greeted with cheers by many cannabis reformers. The next step in the legislative process is passage by the U.S. Senate. This hit a snag despite support by two extraordinarily odd political bedfellows, Kentucky's Rand "Son of Ron" Paul, a firebrand touted in many quarters as a 2016 Republican presidential hopeful, and New Jersey's Cory Booker, a liberal Democrat and unapologetic pal of President Barack Obama. In expectation of this exciting event, Riffle released the following statement, "Poll after poll shows 70 - 80 percent of Americans support medical marijuana." Even among conservatives, most oppose enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states where marijuana is legal for some purpose. Having two rising stars like Rand Paul and Cory Booker team up to introduce this amendment just shows how popular the issue has become, and that our outdated federal marijuana laws are inevitably going to change. - Denver Westword

 

[420RedHead]

California medical marijuana patients should have an easier time getting their weed back if they are cleared of the charges that led police to seize it. The state Senate passed a bill May 23 that would require police to return marijuana and paraphernalia to MMJ patients who are acquitted of charges tied to the seizure of the drug. The same would apply if the charges were dismissed. If authorities destroy a patient's pot or paraphernalia, the bill provides that the patient may collect reasonable compensation for the loss. In addition, the bill allows drug defendants to examine their seized property before it's destroyed. "It's a pretty noncontroversial bill," said Dale Gieringer, director of the California branch of NORML. "As long as medical marijuana users are taken care of, we're fine with the bill." Senator Noreen Evans, a Democrat from Santa Rosa, sponsored the legislation, S.B. 1193. Along with requiring return of seized cannabis, it reduces the holding requirement for police in drug cases. - California Marijuana Market

 

[420RedHead]

With Washington state set to open legal shops within months, a series of other states are expected to be battlegrounds in the next few years. They include Alaska, Oregon, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, and perhaps most crucially California. - The Telegraph

 

[420RedHead]

They queued patiently down the street, some showing up in coaches or stretch limousines. 70 per cent of the people coming through today are from outside Colorado. We even had a few Brits. The tourists were descending for 4/20 otherwise known as World Weed Day. Origins of this annual stoner celebration are hazy, but it is the first such occasion since Colorado became known as America's Amsterdam. On Jan 1 the state opened shops that legally sell cannabis to anyone aged over 21, paying hefty taxes on the profits to the state government. Falling as it does this year on Easter Sunday the event was also inevitably labelled the holy day of pot. While millions across America went to church an estimated 80,000 people were gathering in Denver's Civic Center Park for the self billed biggest cannabis rally in history. T-shirts saying "What would Jesus have smoked?" were on sale. - The Telegraph

 

[420RedHead]

Once the province of activists and stoners, the traditional pot holiday of April 20 has gone mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana. Tens of thousands gathered for a weekend of Colorado cannabis themed festivals and entertainment, from a marijuana industry expo called the Cannabis Cup at a trade center north of downtown, to 4/20 themed concerts at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater, acts included Slightly Stoopid and Snoop Dogg, to a massive festival at Civic Center Park, in the shadow of the state capitol, where clouds of cannabis smoke are expected to waft at 4:20 p.m. MDT Sunday. - New York Post

 

[420RedHead]

Nearby, businessman Stephen Shearin was demonstrating the ZaZZZ, a cannabis vending machine which keeps the drug at optimum temperature. "I never thought I'd see anything like this in my lifetime," he said taking in the scene. "It's amazing how far things have come." Cannabis proponents believe the tide of legalisation is now inevitable and that the rest of America will follow Colorado sooner rather than later. Polls have consistently moved that way, and now show slightly more than 50 per cent of Americans in favour. Under federal law possession of the drug is still illegal but the central government has simply left Colorado to go its own way. Last week US Attorney General Eric Holder said he was "cautiously optimistic" about what was happening in the state. Taxes are rolling in to the Colorado Treasury and it expects to receive $118 million (£70m) from $613 million in sales in the 2014/15 fiscal year. - The Telegraph

 

[420RedHead]

The extraordinary measures taken by University of Colorado officials to stop a large, annual pro-marijuana smoke-up on campus half failed, as hundreds of protesters still breached the campus' closed borders and lit up in unison on a field outside a physics lab at 4:20 p.m. But the university succeeded in keeping the protesters off Norlin Quad, the centerpiece of campus where the gathering normally takes place. And the crowd for the event this year stayed small, several hundred participants and onlookers, instead of the 10,000 or more who have joined in the event in the past and smothered the area with marijuana smoke.