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Two I-1068 signature hotspots need volunteers today and tomorrow.

Two I-1068 signature hotspots need volunteers today and tomorrow.
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Alaskan Price Support Program For Alcohol Successful in "Dry" and "Damp" Communities

"A fifth of hard liquor, which equals one fifth of a gallon, normally costs $12 but can command as much as $300 depending on the accessibility of booze in any given village."
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Dr. Lester Grinspoon has endorsed WA I-1068

Dr. Lester Grinspoon has endorsed WA I-1068. Sensible Washington has announced the endorsement of WA I-1068 by Dr. Lester Grinspoon (http://sensiblewashington.org/endorsements/).
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Actively support WA I-1068 (Marijuana Reform Act Initiative)

Sensible Washington and I-1068 deserve and need your active support. The initiative text is readable on the site and this is a clean civil liberties initiative with
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WA MMJ Petition Hearing 6-2-2010 -- whether to add Alzheimer’s, chronic renal failure and neuropathic pain

I'm requesting people who can point me to information that might be persuasive Alzheimer's, chronic renal failure or neuropathic pain are conditions for which medical marijuana would be beneficial poi
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Sensible Washington needs volunteers to circulate I-1068

Sensible Washington is about to start circulating initiative I-1068. Volunteers to circulate the petition are needed. PDF copies will soon be available for download from the Sensible Washington site.
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Docket No. DEA-331 reopened for public comment, new deadline is 11/27/09

The DEA issued an NPRM to place 5-MeO-DMT in Schedule I and has reopened the period for public comment because the first notice was defective. So far one substantial objection has been posted which objects primarily on grounds the Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional rather than the sham findings for placement in Schedule I. I'll copy some of that argument below from PUBLIC SUBMISSION DEA-2009-0008-0007.1.
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Assembly Hearing on Legalization of Marijuana: Social, Fiscal and Legal Implications for CA - Oct. 28, 2009 - with Public Comment time

Below is text of email from Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco).
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Imitation is the sincerist form of flattery

"...I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama; 1963 "Legalization is not in the president's vocabulary, and it's not in mine," - Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy; 2009
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Unitarian Universalist Association - Alternatives to the "War on Drugs" 2002 Statement of Conscience

It would be interesting and possibly productive if 10 or more people each day visited the ONDCP, White House and Attorney General web sites and used their email programs to paste in various morality b
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Former Drug Czar McCaffrey in Iraq War, Afghanistan War Propaganda & War Profiteering Scandal

David Barstow, investigative reporter with the New York Times, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his articles "Message Machine: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand" and "One Man’s Military-In
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