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With the state of California still handing out fucking IOUs to businesses like they’re playing Monopoly because of their immense debt, one of the new plans could be just what the state needs. A trio of Norml affiliated Northern CA attorneys rallied together to create the Tax, Control, and Regulate Cannabis Act of 2010.  The second new and better written initiative was created by Richard Lee, founder and president of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, CA.

The 1st act that was created by the lawyers from North CA is in a nut shell complete state legalization with regulation and taxing, while Richard Lee’s bill would give individual cities and counties the right to decide if they wanted cannabis to be taxed and regulated. Richard’s plan would also allow citizens to posses up to one ounce of marijuana and grow their own in a 5×5 grow space regardless of the city or counties choices on regulation and taxing. Richard’s bill is more likely to garner more attention and support because of his financial resources, having already allotted 1.5 million dollars towards signature gathering. We support any kind of reform of the countries corrupt and oppressive marijuana laws so tokes for Lee and the lawyers.

Cannabis is truly an amazing substance and that’s why I smoke so much. I will probably live until I’m 100, don’t quote me on that one, but I know i’ll get close. In a clinical abstract just published online on the Cancer Prevention Research website, a team of U.S. investigators report that marijuana use, even long-term, is associated with a “significantly reduced risk” of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

This is not the first of these clinical trials. Marijuana related research has been taking place for years. yet it has been ignored by our stupid government and lobbied against by pharmacuetical companies. as well as passed over by mainstream media for fear of losing advertisers that benefit from the prohibition of marijuana. Advertisers like beer and alcohol companies, who if marijuana were legal, would surely lose a large percentage of profits to a substance that can’t kill you.  The funny thing is, Bush was doing coke, ignoring things like stem cell research and cannabis related research, fighting wars that were unnecessary and fucking Condoleeza Rice…..get serious world, the people that were aiding in his most shady actions are still in congress. They haven’t gone anywhere and they won’t unless we remove them by electing officials with productive ideas and pro-marijuana stances. Tokes to the researchers who take chances and blaze new paths, all pun intended.

Illegally sharing files is why the internet is soooo amazing wrong and people really shouldn’t be doing it…OK I know that wasn’t very convincing, but only because I’m not quite so sure where I stand on this issue.

A Dutch court has ordered three of The Pirate Bay’s founders to block traffic to and from the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay, which has more than 20 million users, provides an index to BitTorrent files, which can be used for trading media such as movies, music and computer games. The court ruled in favor of antipiracy organisation Stichting Brein, which alleged that Pirate Bay has been infringing copyright in the Netherlands for a very long time.

The new ruling gives the  men who are allegedly responsible for the site only 10 days to shut down the site or they will face an inital fine of  3million euros. If the site is not down after the first fine has been imposed they will also face an  extra 30,000 euros per day fine for each day that the site is still live. Yesterday at the hearing one of the men was qutoed saying:

“None of us live in The Netherlands, operate from there or even own the site they are suing over. There are so many errors in this lawsuit that it’s almost a crime to spend the court’s time this way!”

It’s a sad day for Pirateay users, but if my memory serves me correctly, which I’m not so sure about because I smoke like Montell Williams, Piratebay has already been through such litigation, but since their are no anti-piracy laws in certain European countries they can simply move their servers like I believe they did last time. Long live the pirates…arghhhhh

Here’s a video from youtube user Hosserlegalize420 that gives 10 great reasons why the US and most of the civilized world should wake up and find some fucking common sense. Cannabis is a plant that is more benign than most of the substances we ingest everyday. Check out the video and keep tokin.

This is one baby step for California’s budget crisis and an even bigger step toward medical marijuana dispensaries being respected as legitimate businesses. In Oakland, CA yesterday voters made the city the first in the US to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, in what was said to be a landslide vote. About 80% voted in favor of the tax according to  the Almeda County registrar of voters. This new tax comes at a time when Oakland is in massive debt, like most cities in the state. What’s interesting is that it wasn’t the city council that proposed the tax or a legislator, it was a local dispensary owner who felt that he and the cities other dispensaries should put some of their excess income to good use by putting back into the community. One of the dispensary owners that CNN spoke to said that under the new tax he would be contributing an extra 350,000 roughly each year. The new tax measures out to be about $18 for every $1,000 in cannabis sales.

This is fucking sweet to see happening. It seems like it was just yesterday when Arnold the Governator mentioned that maybe we should look into researching the pros and cons of legalization and now one city in CA has imposed this new legislation. Could this be a sign of what is to happen in cities like Los Angeles where there are over 600 dispensaries and collectives? We certainly hope so because we don’t know how much longer companies in CA will continue to take IOUs from the state. There are currently more places where you can obtain legal marijuana in LA than where  you can buy Starbucks and Mcdonalds french fries and if all of them can be taxed a significant amount of revenue would be generated for the state. Maybe then the rest of the country will realize that it is a real way to gather funds for our growing defecit and begin law reform.  Tokes for Oakland and its forward thinking citizens.

Apparently the Iphone really does do everything. Apple has approved a new $2.99 iPhone app, simply named Cannabis. The application was created by the people at ajnag.com (yes, that’s ganja backwards) and the purpose of this amazing app is to help locate legal medical marijuana in states and other places that it can be found. Cannabis, just like other location-based apps takes the known locations of  medical collectives, dispensaries, clinics, doctors, and organizations all from 3 differents sources and aggregates them onto a google map.

The app also helps out those of us who live in areas where cannabis dispensaries and collectives aren’t legal. It will provide the user with the closest legal cannabis organization to encourage reform. The one feture that I find most appealing is the fact that it has most of the coffeeshops in Amsterdam listed and makes it incredibly easy for me next time I venture to the motherland. No longer will I be too stoned to find my way from Rusland to Grey Area. Check out the video to see it in action and use this app wisely. Share with your fellow man or just me…tokes for ajnag.com for creating such a great app

Fresh off the waves of press from her sexy Esquire shoot, our favorite pot slanging mother of the year,Mary-Louise Parker has decided to take a leap into the world of childrens books. No fuckers she isn’t writing her own, but she was nice enough to fulfill some of my fantasies involving her read an excerpt of Alice in Wonderland for Esquire.com and i thought I’d share t with you. For those of you, like me who don’t really care much for her reading, imagine that she has just walked through the door with an ounce of barneys blue chesse, perfectly trimmed and cured and replace the words “alice, blah blah…” with “Hi, I’m Nancy Botwin, I bought a gift for us to share” and then you’ll be in dreamland bliss for a while. If that doesn’twork, just check out some of the pics from her shoot for Esquire here. Tokes for MLP and her  Weeds character Nancy, although we don’t care too much for Esteban Reyes.