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Ted Rall, “Pot”
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Colorado Pot Stores Will Soon Get a Little Help From Their Friends at “High Times“
Executives from the magazine “High Times” have established the HT Growth Fund, a new private-equity fund that will invest in the growth of established mid-size cannabis-related businesses.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Medical Marijuana Plan in State of State Speech Falls Short
Patients and advocates are disappointed that Cuomo doesn't call for comprehensive legislation to effectively help patients get their medicine.
Marijuana and a New York State of Mind
Why aren't more progressive-oriented states legalizing marijuana? A look at how New York state's police departments - and legislative candidates - are funded may provide a clue.
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Higher Hopes for Hemp
The phony justification for banning hemp because someone might secretly grow pot makes even less sense than it did before Colorado and Washington State legalized marijuana.
Rethinking Marijuana: As Colorado Opens World’s First Pot Retail Stores, NY to Allow Medical Usage
New York state is poised to become the latest state to loosen restrictions on marijuana usage. The governor's surprise reversal on medical marijuana is part of a nationwide shift …
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William Rivers Pitt | Homegrown
William Rivers Pitt: “What is more caustic to this society: marijuana or thousands upon thousands of people consigned to the tender mercies of the penal system?”
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Colombia and Uruguay Take the Lead in Drug Policy Paradigm Change
State after state is voting to defy federal marijuana laws, resulting in a chaotic patchwork of legalization schemes that has put the Justice Department in the awkward position of …
Uruguay Becomes First Country to Fully Legalize Marijuana
The small Latin American country of Uruguay has become the only country that allows growing and selling marijuana.
DPA Gripping Video Shows Life-Altering Consequences of Marijuana Possession Arrests in NYC
Statewide polls show strong majority of New Yorkers, including republicans, support fixing marijuana possession laws; NY lags behind neighboring states in marijuana reform