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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’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.

Comic-con is not only a nerds paradise, it was held in California, where medical marijuana is legal, so there were bound to be throves of cannabis supporters as well as probably a hell of a lot of the special green on site. One of those supporters was for me an obvious fellow toker, writer and director Kevin Smith.While he looks 8 monts pregnant, he’s still a creative genius in our minds, making such greats like Clerks and Clerks 2 which is my favorite because they discuss one of my specialties…ass-to- mouth…Ok totally  fucking kidding, I won’t even eat an m&m off the ground, let alone put my mouth on something that looks like Renee Zelwegger’s desperate pouty smile. Ass-to-mouth is something for professionals folks, leave it to them but its ok to think about ass-to-mouth, just have some tokes before you seriously consider it.  Well here’s Kevin talking about his love for fatty cuisine the greatest herb ever.

This is some bizzaro crazy face shit. Teens in San Ysidr, CA were caught with cannabis and heroin taped to their bodies. WTF are these kids doing smuggling drugs. I’ve never been able to grasp why people are so intrigued by quick cash that comes with such a huge risk. People really do get caught smuggling drugs, check out locked up abroad, that shit is no joke. Check out the dumbest kids of the year above.

Its about time we got a show dedicated to the amazing substance we know as cannabis. Cannabis Planet is a weekly, 30 minute television program that will explore the merits of Cannabis as a Medicine, Industrial Resource, Agricultural Crop and more. Collective Profiles, Grow Tips with Ed Rosenthal, Cannabis Cooking, news and information.

The show premieres Saturday, August 1st at Midnight on KDOC TV, Los Angeles and will air every Saturday at Midnight. and Wednesdays at 12:30 am. Unfortunately I believe that it will only be broadcast in the Los Angeles area, but we have this fuckin sweet alien technology called the internet where mostly everything is available and i’m sure this will be too. I’m pretty excited for this new show. Check out the trailer up top for a feel of what the show will be like.

This video that has been cut down and given a title I like much better (Beyonce Clown) comes from youtube user Coconutfishy and is pretty hilarious. I wont give it away so just watch and don’t hit your bong during it (do it before and after)….. smoke+laughing=too much coughing. Plus it’s a clown that is possibly a better actress than the large thighed one we like to call Beyonce, and I don’t even know if she acts. we kid we kid…but then again does anyone besides Solange really enoy her acting?

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.

Though it hasn’t been 100% confirmed, according to mikecann, World Champion MMA fighter Toby Grear will likely be a guest speker at the 20th annual Boston Freedom Rally in MA. The Boston Freedom Rally is an annual event in Boston, Massachusetts. Held on the third Saturday in September, it is traditionally the second largest annual gathering demanding marijuana law reform in the United States, after the Seattle Hempfest. It is organized by the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MASS CANN), the Massachusetts state affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws also known as MASS CANN/NORML.

Grear, who is currently smoking some trees on suspension from fighting for marijuana use, embraces and isn’t afraid to say that he enjoys cannabis and that’s why we think he is one of the perfect people for the job. He is a well educated public figure and it’s voices like his that we need because just last year in the state where the rally is to be held, cannabis supporters managed to get a question for decriminalization onto the Nov. ballot and it passed!!!! fucking yes marijuana posession has been decriminalized in Mass, but just like Grear, we know that is not enough. Legalization and ending prosecution are the only answers….so just like Toby, get ready for a fight, a fight of perseverance because progress is being made in marijuana law reform everyday. By you, by me, by us….tokes tokes and more fucking tokes, and now for some coughing

It seems as though another casualty of an evil and unjust drug war has been taken. Joseph “Jojo” Simmons Jr., 19, plead guilty to a single charge of disorderly conduct stemming from a marijuana related arrest in May. According to police, Simmons was caught being stupid by officers rolling a marijuana joint on May 8 while sitting inside his BMW on New York’s Upper West Side. Police said he attempted to flee in the car, nearly backing into an NYPD cruiser in the process, which led to charges of resisting arrest as well as drug possession, reckless endangerment and criminal use of drug paraphernalia, which were all subsequently dropped. Jojo has been sentenced to one day of community service through is plea deal with prosecutors.

This is pretty shitty news because I am fully against the current marijuana laws that our country has, not only because they are based on racism, but because they are nearly useless. The fact that Jojo could have found a better spot to roll a joint than the always busy upper west side is a given and he should have known that. I’m all for responsible consumption by adults but his actions weren’t too responsible, so if you really must break the law, which i don’t advocate, do it in the least risky way possible and Jojo, get a darker tint on your beemer please because if I have to see your skeleton like uncle Russell lecturing you frequently, I might become ill.

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

Well I guess it looks like another one of our civil liberties as Americans is up for grabs and freedom of speech is its’ name. Judge John “Jack” Delaney of South Dakota recently forbid a Mr. Bob Newland of SD from taking any public role in the campaign to legalize marijuana for medical uses for one year. The restriction was part of the judge’s sentence issued Monday for Newland’s conviction for felony pot possession. Delaney sentenced Newland to a year in jail but suspended all but 45 days, with stipulations including random searches and weekly drug tests and a ban on public advocacy for medical marijuana. Newland could end up serving all or part of the remaining jail time if he violates terms of the sentence.

While the sentence for felony marijuana possession under current laws was seemingly reasonable, how in the fuck does a judge have the right to take away someone’s right to campaign for something that they believe in??? The fact that a judge has the right to inflict his personal views upon a person through sentencing should raise a huge flag for intelligent citizens of the US as to where our country is headed if things like this continue to happen.

Delaney also lectured Newland on the lies that have been created through racism about problems of marijuana use, particularly among youths, and told the outspoken advocate for legalizing marijuana for medicinal use that he was “not going to take a position as a public figure who got a light sentence.” This is seriously crazy shit, but the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is currently looking into the sentence. Also if you like I do, feel the need to contact Judge Delany, he can be reached at jack@judgedelaney.com……I hope you enoyed the creepy cruise ship pic beautiful picture of Delany and his badger faced wife. Since Bob Newland can’t currently campaign in the direction of common sense which is legalization, we must do it for him….Tokes for Newland and his upcoming jail time.