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New Marijuana Ordinance Could Have Disastrous Impact on Los Angeles

By Closing More Than 400 Medical Marijuana Dispensing Collectives, City Will Lose Countless Jobs and Tax Dollars, Force Some Patients Into Black Market.

(LOS ANGELES) - Today, Los Angeles is expected to begin enforcing an ordinance that could shut down more than 400 medical marijuana dispensing collectives within the city.

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program: Oregon Business Magazine Promotes it

The cost of the drug war is at least $10 billion and close to that if Marijuana were taxed like alcohol and tobacco which are both death dealing drugs. MARIJUANA HAS NEVER KILLED ANYBODY.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When I first saw the article in Oregon Business Magazine, May 2010, titled Marijuana Goes Mainstream in Southern Oregon I could barely believe it.

After reading, and nearly vomiting, about the ignorant vehemence of Dan Harmon of Associated Oregon Industries (AOI) I was really “hornswoggled”.

Protect Your Rights 420 State Tour Will Visit Salem

Police officers that lie to citizens in order to convince them to incriminate themselves need to be stopped before more people lose their liberty.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Institute for Cannabis Therapeutics and Southern Oregon NORML reports that they are proud to host the first Protect Your Rights 420 State Tour.

Organizers hope to bring education and clarity to various aspects of Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program; and they say it is an important responsibility to speak up and sound off when citizens are denied their legal rights.

Medical Marijuana Qualifies for Arizona Ballot

Arizona Will Join South Dakota in Having Medical Marijuana on the Ballot in November; 14 States and Washington, D.C. Have Similar Laws.

(PHOENIX, Az.) - Today, the Arizona Secretary of State announced that an initiative to pass a medical marijuana law in Arizona has qualified for the November ballot.

In April, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project, the group that organized the initiative, turned in nearly 100,000 more signatures than were required to qualify.

California Marijuana Workers Unionize in Oakland

Those involved in the movement say they seek to establish legitimacy in the workplace.

(OAKLAND, Ca.) - Approximately one hundred workers in Oakland's medical marijuana industry voted to join the labor union for Retail, Statewide Agriculture, Food processing and community patient care employees.

In the words of a famous musical artist and songwriter who is often associated with the 1960's, these times they are a changin'.

Mayor Rybak, Let`s be Honest About Marijuana

Marijuana’s Prohibition—and the Elected Officials Who Support It—Is to Blame For Fueling Gang Violence, Not Marijuana’s Consumers.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has recently taken to Minnesota’s airwaves in a misguided attempt to blame violence at the hands of criminal gangs on consumers of marijuana.

“When you pay for marijuana, you are paying for the bullet that goes into the head of someone on the streets,” he told the Star Tribune, in one instance.

Cannabis Works for Convulsions: Medical Marijuana Saves Epileptics

Life changing results for one person.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I was only ten when it began. I had been healthy until that beautiful spring morning. Outside on the playground, beneath the wearing heat of the sun, I collapsed onto the ground and began violently seizing.

Medical Marijuana Addiction: Hogwash

Arresting marijuana users is a bad excuse for financially supporting Police Drug Warriors and the Penitentiary System.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The cops of all kinds, District Attorneys and Judges have been spending too much time imbibing ardent spirits, watching the moving REEFER MADNESS or its equivalent and listening to other police “Drug Identification Specialists” fill their ears and brains with HOGWASH.

Marijuana medical patients are neither intoxicated nor addicted. They are confusing them with fat people taking amphetamines, their fellow alcoholic cops, people on Oxycontin or Morphine, nicotine fiends or coffee junkies.

Medical Marijuana Success: Free Advertising on Portland`s Channel Two

There is no way to detect a lying patient. The doctors at my former clinic rely exclusively on previous doctors chart notes which is close to fool proof.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - I get more surprised everyday. I have been with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program even before it started about 1997 when I was a Chief Petitioner and after that the Number One Doctor for patients and applications.

I have been on Channel Two TV many times with question ostensibly “why are you a POT DOCTOR helping all of these POT HEADS?” It was very humorous much like a lynching.

Fascinating Facts from Jack Herer: Hemp History Week 2010

Jack Herer Discovers Hemp for Victory.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Things about hemp that were not taught to Jack in school, he tried to teach others. He was a steward of the plant and devoted his life to the support of cannabis as he believed it was the greatest gift the world has ever known.

Hemp for Victory was a 1942 documentary produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to encourage farmers to grow outlawed industrial hemp for the war effort as a way to stabilize America during World War II.