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Denver bans all marijuana-related signage
The Denver city council voted unanimously this week to ban all outdoor signage for medical marijuana, in a move that even enjoyed support from a trade group representing many of the city’s licensed dispensary owners. Many residents complained that medical marijuana ads were a public nuisance and the local media…
New Mexico state employee fired over medical marijuana
A state employee in New Mexico, one of 16 states that allows doctors to recommend marijuana for medical uses, told local media that she was fired after a drug test revealed that she’d been following her doctor’s orders to treat post traumatic stress disorder. The woman told local reporters she…
Dutch pot advocates aiming to smoke out new voters
Opponents of a Dutch cannabis law that restricts sales of the drug to foreigners on Saturday launched a campaign aimed at getting citizens to vote for pro-pot parties in elections next month. Organisers said they would travel the nation in an old American school bus, painted silver to convince people…
Maher calls Obama a ‘dismal failure and a liar’ over drug policy
HBO’s Bill Maher on Tuesday blasted President Barack Obama over his administration’s decision to ramp up prosecutions of medical marijuana dispensaries. “This is one place where Obama has been such a dismal failure and a liar,” Maher said during an interview with The Huffington Post’s new HuffPost Live video streaming…
Researchers: Infant drug tests for marijuana are unreliable
The most commonly used drug testing methods for detecting marijuana exposure are unreliable when used on infant babies and “should not be reported” without additional testing and followup by hospital staff and social workers, according to new research published recently in the scientific journal Clinical Chemistry. While infant drug testing…
Pentagon wants bin Laden-style SEAL raid on Mexican drug kingpin: report
The most wanted man in the world, 55-year-old Mexican billionaire Joaquin Guzman Loera, has landed on the Pentagon’s hit list, according to a Spanish-language report published by Proceso (English translation), which cites anonymous military sources in the U.S. and Mexico. The plan, described as a bin Laden-style raid orchestrated by…
Medical marijuana appears headed for Arkansas ballot
A group of Arkansas drug reform activists submitted on Monday more than double the number of signatures needed to put their medical marijuana legalization initiative before the state’s voters in November. The signatures represented the second round of petition gathering for campaigners with Arkansans for Compassionate Care, which saw its…
Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry
Medical marijuana dispensaries that have taken federal tax deductions are about to be gut-checked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), thanks to a recent ruling by the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C. In Olive v. Commissioner (PDF), judges unanimously found that the owner of the Vapor Room Herbal Center,…
Vermont farmer crushes 7 police cars with tractor over pot arrest
A Vermont farmer used his tractor to crush seven Orleans County Sheriff’s Department squad cars on Thursday because he was angry about being arrested on marijuana charges last month. “It’s more than half our fleet,” Chief Deputy Sheriff Phil Brooks explained to the Burlington Free Press. “We have 11 cars.”…
Arkansas police claim man shot himself in head despite handcuffs
A Mississippi mother is accusing police in Jonesboro, Arkansas of killing her son after he was found shot in the head with his hands cuffed behind his back in a squad car. A police report obtained by KAIT indicated that 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter had been a passenger in a…
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