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.

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.

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.

Looks like were getting more lies from the man with tiny eyes because in a recent interview the new drug-czar, Gil Kerlikowske he was quoted saying:

“Legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary, and it’s not in mine,” he said. … “Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit.” The federal government is not going to pull back on its efforts to curtail marijuana farming operations, Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Wednesday in Fresno.

This is coming from the same man who held a very lax view on marijuana in his former position as police chief of Seattle. Gil also recently called for an end on the war on drugs.It seems to me as though he has a case of the “John flip-flop Kerry” and it really pisses me off. While I know that we are a considerable amount of time away from legalization, it should most certainly be in his brains that while in the Obama administration the issue should be discussed. It’s a pretty big croc of shit for him to pick and chose when he wants to have a progressive intelligent point of view and when he wants to sound like Paula Abdul on a good day. Normal has recently noted that it is stupid of him to make such a comment because they recently featured a study on their site that found the following information:

“Clearly, there is a growing acceptability of the therapeutic practice of medicinal cannabis use amongst organized medicine groups. … Estimates indicate that in 2008, approximately 7,000 American physicians have made such authorizations for a total of approximately 400,000 patients.”

I really hope that he can pull it together and fly straight because positions can be filled and we can find another czar that can stick to  one stance on marijuana, one being towards reform and progression, not lies and oppression….im starting to feel a bit like Al Sharpton so i’ll stop now cause that’s never a place u wanna take yourself to, but you get the point…legalize it bitches

Monkey see monkey do isnt just some creepy phrase that my mom said to me when I was younger and would fall victim to my inquisitions. Now the state of Rhode Island has created a “Special Senate Commission to Study the Prohibition of Marijuana,” directly on the heels of the passing of  cannabis tax legislation that was just passed in Oakland, CA. The state is considering imposing a $35 tax to each ounce of marijuana sold.

Apart from researching the potential economic benefits of taxing marijuana, the state seeks to answer questions that sites like Norml have had answered since the 80’s and question that all of already know the answers to because we are intelligent cannabis users. Among the questions they want answered are:

“Whether and to what extent Rhode Island youth have access to marijuana despite current laws prohibiting its use. … Whether adults’ use of marijuana has decreased since marijuana became illegal in Rhode Island in 1918. … Whether the current system of marijuana prohibition has created violence in the state of Rhode Island against users or among those who sell marijuana. … Whether the proceeds from the sales of marijuana are funding organized crime, including drug cartels. … Whether those who sell marijuana on the criminal market may also sell other drugs, thus increasing the chances that youth will use other illegal substances.”

The panel created has until January 31, 2010 to deliver the study. When they find out the things that many of us already know what do you think they’ll do? Hopefully make some significant changes to RI law…I wonder if they had ever stopped to think about commissioning some of the people who know cannbis best (fuckin smokers like us) to participate in the study, at any capacity….guess not, but I’ll be fuckin toking everyday studying the subject substance anyways

Anything is possible if you’re famous. Or at least for the kid who plays Vincent Crabbee in the Harry Potter movies. Jamie Waylett who has starred in all six Harry Potter movies was uber lucky to only recieve 120 hours of community service for growing  a plant that should be legal a crime for which he could have recieved upto 14 years in jail. Jamie  was busted back in April when cops found eight bags of weed in the car in which he was riding. Cops later searched his mom’s home and found 10 growing marijuana plants. The judge was reportedly so lenient because he understood that the plants were on a small scale and were only for his use.

His community service could include clearing graveyards, cleaning graffiti, picking up trash, chopping down overgrown trees clearing, leaves and clearing ditches. He should feel like the luckiest kid on earth, but he shouldn’t have to if marijuana were legal….tokes for Jamie for pleading guilty, taking your sentence and growing madd amounts weed….If someone is growing 10 plants it probably isn’t on a small scale

This is not one of the make-believe committees that George W. would create in the oval office during his substantial amount of time without coke free time. The Congressional Anti-Cannabis Caucus was recently formed under the idea that the Obama administration is becoming lax on the biggest shitpot lie waste of money ever war on drugs. The leader and dipshit brains responsible for the caucus is none other than desperate or attention republican John Mica.

Mica and the group have four main objectives, with the most contradictory of them being their desire to ” disrupt the narcotics market” as well as “healing drug users”. If Mica and his group of creepy republicans really wanted to disrupt the narcotics market they would be campaigning for the legalization and regulation of marijuana because right now the market is in the hands of drug dealers and not the US govt. As if this caucus could even make an attempt to make some of their changes, one thing that would be nearly impossible for them to accomplish would be the “healing of drug users.” While we don’t disagree that some people can abuse cannabis and could use some “healing”, I don’t believe that cannabis is the problem. Those who abuse cannabis are not doing it because of the effect from the drug, but simply from something that they are missing within themselves and an untrained congress member really wouldn’t be of much help to someone with a substance problem?

It’s no wonder that all eight, yes all 8 members of the caucus are republicans and we’d like to give you the chace to contact them and express your opposition to their bizzare and infantile ideas thoughts. So since he is the leader of the caucus John Mica is a good place to start. He can be reached at two different email addresses, jmica@mail.house.gov or john.mica@mail.house.gov

On Tuesday, Steve Epstein testified on behalf of marijuana legalization, decriminalization, and medical marijuana all after a huge bog hit before Massachusetts judiciary committee. During his testimony he gave a detailed view into the history of marijuana reform in MA, which is very similar to that of many other states in the US. He also provided the committee with personal stories of pro marijuana supporters, one being that of an elderly grandmother who uses medical marijuana to deal with a degenerative disease. The video is filled with knowledge so watch it and learn something folks. Tokes for Steve because I’ve testifies in front of a judiciary committee and lets just say most of them suck balls and are extrememly ignorant it wasn’t the most exciting thing ever.

Here’s a quick video from the home of cougar sexpot Katie Couric, whom we’d do CBS news where they speak to a doctor who clearly states that in the motherland Amsterdam where the sale and use of cannabis in coffeeshops and private residences is tolerated the mere fact that it is available has not increased the use among teens and the like….just a quick FU to the naysayers in video form,check it out and toke up