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New Poll Has Record High for Marijuana Legalization
Yet another poll shows that support for marijuana legalization has reached the tipping point.
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Prop 36 will help reducing overcrowding in California prisons (US Supreme Court)
First Nonviolent Drug Offender Released Under CA Prop 36
25 to life for drug possession? Not anymore, not under California's now amended Three Strikes law. The first drug prisoner to be released after voters approved Prop 36 last month is now a free man.
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Colorado Business Groups Ask Feds to Enforce Marijuana Laws
Some Colorado business groups are urging Attorney General Holder to enforce federal marijuana laws in Colorado. Read on to see the complete list of these groups trying to subvert the will of the voters.
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Coast Guard Officer Killed By Drug Smugglers
A US Coast Guard petty officer was killed trying to intercept a Mexican smuggling craft just off the Southern California coast Sunday. He becomes the 61st person to die in US drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
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CBS Poll Has Support for Marijuana Legalization at All-Time High
The CBS News poll is reporting its highest levels yet of support for marijuana legalization, with the country now evenly divided.
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Marijuana Legalization Favored in US, Canada
A new poll provides more evidence that support for marijuana legalization is becoming the new norm in both Canada and the United States.
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Tax-Deductible Donations Support the Cause
We are approaching a new year, in a new time, with critical opportunities and critical work needed to be done. A tax-deductible donation as year's end approaches will make sure the word gets out in 2013 -- a non-deductible donation will help us advocate legislatively too.
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Medical marijuana provider Chris Williams in happier days (facebook.com)
Outrage at Potential Sentence for Montana Medical Marijuana Grower [FEATURE]
A Montana medical marijuana grower is looking at an 80-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence after standing on principle and refusing onerous plea bargains. Now, Chris Williams' supporters are rallying.
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Medical Marijuana Update
Arizona marks a medical marijuana first, there's an ominous move by the feds in Northern California, Illinois is considering a medical marijuana bill, and that's not the half of it.
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Chronicle DVD Review: Code of the West
A brilliant documentary by filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen tells the story of Montana's medical marijuana wars. Code of the West is definitely worth watching.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
There seem to be some problems with drug task force leadership in Mississippi, and a Michigan cop gets in trouble for treating the forfeiture shed as his own personal pawn shop.
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Protecting Your Rights in a College Dorm
Over at Flex Your Rights, we've been getting a lot of questions lately about how to protect your rights when you're living in a college dorm. I put together this video response that I hope everyone will find helpful (I think a lot of the tips will be useful to anyone who's living around lots of other people, so this isn't just for students). Enjoy, and please share with any students you know.
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Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten (wikimedia.org)
Dutch Plan to Ban Potent Marijuana From Cannabis Cafes
Holland's conservative justice minister has announced a plan to reclassify high-potency marijuana as a hard drug like heroin or cocaine and bar it from being sold in the country's famous cannabis coffee shops.
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New Poll Finds Canadians Want Marijuana Law Reform
Two out of three Canadians want marijuana law reform, according to a new poll. That's in line with other recent polling, but out of whack with the policies of the Conservative government.
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Marijuana Legalization Initiative Filed in Montana
Which state will be the next to legalize marijuana? Activists in Montana are taking steps to make it happen there in 2014.
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Ohio Cop Kills One in Undercover Bust Gone Bad
An undercover heroin bust gone bad in Cincinnati has left one young man dead, one wounded, and one on the run.
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Uruguayan Deputies Say Legalize All Drugs
Even as Uruguay moves to create a system of state-regulated marijuana commerce, legislators from across the political spectrum are calling for the legalization of all drugs in a bid to blunt the threat from the drug trade.
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Tax-Deductible Donations Support the Cause
We are approaching a new year, in a new time, with critical opportunities and critical work needed to be done. A tax-deductible donation as year's end approaches will make sure the word gets out in 2013 -- a non-deductible donation will help us advocate legislatively too.
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New England Marijuana Legalization Bills Coming
Now that Colorado and Washington have blown open the door, legislators in New England are rushing to be the next to legalize marijuana.
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Colorado US Representatives Move to Support Legal Marijuana
Colorado's congressional delegation is demonstrating that it heard the voice of the voters loudly and clearly on the topic of marijuana legalization. Letters are going out, bills are being filed.