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San Diego Union Tribune, 10 Jun 2010 - LEGALIZING AND TAXING MARIJUANA WOULD BENEFIT SOCIETY California's budget turmoil is the worst in the nation. Sacramento closed a $42 billion deficit this summer only to face tens of billions more red ink already. Most expect another round of tortured budget balancing that further slashes aid to the most vulnerable, raises taxes and fees and kicks the can down the road with billions more in borrowing.

On this week's episode of the Dopecast, the Web's Favourite Cannabis Commentator, the Dopefiend, talks about the recent report by the UN's Internationsal Narcotics Control Board, which criticizes Canada's medical marijuana programme for being too open to abuse, and also warns against the rising tide of legalization in South America. In the emails this week, a wave of comment on the subject raised last week of whether those who use cannabis recreationally on a daily basis are unknowingly doing so in order to treat an undiagnosed psychological issue, and whether such use actually hinders the resolution of such issues. After talk of whether cannabis helps you get in touch with repressed emotion, and even some input from Sonny Bono, the DOpefiend heads into the VaporLounge, the Dopefiend talks about how he has structured his life to enable him to easily access our secret sacrament, and how twelve years of daily cannabis use has done him no harm, why cannabis is the most popular recreational drug on the planet, and how his first tolerance break in twelve years is going! Following a musical interlude in support of a good cause, the Dopefiend returns to the emails and talk of how the Dopecast itself may be aiding and abetting stoners in their avoidance of problems, before Christine reports from Portland, Oregon's NORML Cannabis Café and chats to its founder Madeline Martinez. In this week's Cannabis News: federal prosecutors refuse to return a Colorado medical user's legally grown plants, entirely disregarding the advice from the Department of Justice, L.A.'s HempCon closes around news of an alleged assault on the event's organizer by one of the exhibitors, High Times launches its new Medical Marijuana title, a West Coast office, and a Medical Cannabis Cup, a fifth grader doles out tasty cannabis treats to her classmates, and Mexican ganja smugglers take to the sewers in a bid to circumvent Border Patrol! Email mail@dopefiend.co.uk, send us a voicemail, and check out the forum.

 

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Join the Dopefiend, Max Freakout and friends at this year's massive Dopestock gathering in Amsterdam on April 20th: All the info is here: http://www.thegrowreport.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9053

 

And register your interest for the Dopestock Canal Cruise on April 19th in Amsterdam: http://www.thegrowreport.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9054

 

For more infor on Portland, Oregon's NORML Cannabis Café, as mentioned by Christine in her report, see here: http://usacannabiscafe.org/

 

Playlist: ei8ht - Am I Dreaming remixed by Jeff T (Jeff T Remix); Filastine, Jahcoozi - Opium Den (Jahcoozi Remixes Desordenador); Cruize of Fiction - Al-Nakba; mLe - Crazy Switch (Original Mix); T.O.B. - Evolutionary (feat. Nonku) (Radio Mix); Jonathan Andress - Dreaming In Symphony; John Ellis & Double-Wide - Dubinland Carnival; Ralph Bowen - Less Is More; The Seals - No More Babylon; Rootz Underground - Makisupa Policeman

 

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ei8ht "Am I Dreaming remixed by Jeff T"(mp3) from "Am I Dreaming - EP" (acropolisRecordings) More On This Album Filastine, Jahcoozi "Opium Den" (mp3) from "Extra Dirty Bomb" (Post World Industries) More On This Album Cruize of Fiction "Al-Nakba" (mp3) from "Mass Murder LP" (FOULPLAY RECORDS INC) More On This Album mLe, DJ Hero "Crazy Switch" (mp3) from "Crazy Switch" (Velcro City Records) More On This Album T.O.B. "Evolutionary (feat. Nonku)" (mp3) from "Evolutionary" (Muti Music) More On This Album John Ellis & Double-Wide "Dubinland Carnival" (mp3) from "Puppet Mischief" (ObliqSound) More On This Album Ralph Bowen "Less Is More" (mp3) from "Due Reverence" (Posi-Tone Records) More On This Album No More Babylon "Propaganda" (mp3) from "Roots Meeting" (A la Folie Music) More On This Album Rootz Underground "Makisupa Policeman" (mp3) from "Dub Like An Antelope - Legends of Reggae Celebrate Phish" (Red Hillz Music) More On This Album

 

This week The Grow Report has BREAKING NEWS to report!!

The Grow Report is your News & Information source for Medical Marijuana.

We have a special treat for everybody…A little blues number from our very own Latewood!!

Mrs.Z has the news you need to know to keep you up to date and informed about Medical Marijuana.

Zandor is still under the weather so no growing segment yet but Zandor answers YOUR email questions and even a few posts from the forum…PLUS we still have politics with passion.

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Dallas Morning News, 07 Mar 2010 - EL PASO - A painting in the apartment of novelist Benjamin Saenz depicts an exodus of Mexican campesinos to El Paso during the 1910 Mexican Revolution - part of a larger group of refugees that included business and civic leaders. Many settled in this Sunset Heights neighborhood. A street named for then-President Porfirio Diaz cuts through the historic area. Another former Mexican general and president, Victoriano Huerta, is buried nearby.

Detroit Free Press, 07 Mar 2010 - LOS ANGELES - With a 13-year head start on Michigan, California's efforts to transform marijuana from illicit to prescription drug offers a clear lesson: It ain't easy. The conflict has flared in recent weeks with a new Los Angeles ordinance aimed at hundreds of marijuana dispensaries, many that operate more like drug dens than pharmacies. Michigan prohibits dispensaries under its 2008 voter-passed law, but communities are struggling with limits on the medical pot business.

Washington Post, 06 Mar 2010 - MEXICO CITY -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for Latin America to fight drug corruption in a regional swing that ended Friday in Guatemala, days after that country's drug czar and national police chief were jailed on suspicion of leading a police ring that stole cocaine from drug traffickers. The arrests underscored Guatemala's vulnerability to traffickers, whose billions of dollars in profits and bribes are undermining a fragile country still recovering from years of military rule and civil war.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 06 Mar 2010 - Sen. Ed Harbison (D-Columbus) plans to introduce a bill next week that would make synthetic pot -- known as K2 or "spice" -- illegal. The substance, which like potpourri and is marketed as incense, is sold in smoke shops. It mimics the affects of THC, the chemical in marijuana that gives users a high.

Victoria Times-Colonist, 06 Mar 2010 - Scientists Find Long-term Use Raises Risk Of Hallucinations, Delusions Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists say.

El Paso Times, 06 Mar 2010 - EL PASO -- Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman insulated himself from his soldiers on the streets of Juarez by having his wife be a go-between, a witness testified Friday in U.S. District Court. The witness, Jesus Fierro-Mendez, a former Juarez police captain, said Guzman wanted to "remain removed from the lower levels of his organization."

Statesman Journal, 05 Mar 2010 - It's happened again. Another set of well-meaning parents wants to ban a book because they think it's inappropriate for all elementary-school students, not just their own. Laura and Aaron Nevel of Salem object to the content of the award-winning book, "The Dead Man in Indian Creek," which their daughter Echeo Nevel, 10, was reading in her fifth-grade class at Auburn Elementary School. The couple has filed a formal complaint with the Salem-Keizer School District asking that copies of the book by Mary Downing Hahn be banned from all district elementary school classrooms and libraries.

Austin Chronicle, 05 Mar 2010 - Time To Throw Tomatoes? Obama's Drug Program Highlights President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2011 national drug control budget seeks $15.5 billion - a 3.5% increase over the 2010 budget - to combat drug use and its consequences. The funding would go toward the five major functions listed above.

Mayo Advertiser, 05 Mar 2010 - Inspector Joe Doherty, responding to a question from Fine Gael councillor Michelle Mulherin about drug detection in the town, outlined the work done by the drugs squads in Mayo. He informed the Ballina joint policing committee that the number of seizures of drugs in the Ballina area has risen dramatically in the past 10 years. "In the Ballina district in 1999 there were eight seizures of drugs," he said. "In 2009 there were 48, which included three for cocaine, four for ecstasy for sale and supply, two for possession of ecstasy, 22 for possession of cannabis resins, and three for sale and supply of cannabis resin. There were also 10 seizures for personal use of cannabis grass and one for sale and supply of cannabis grass." Inspector Doherty praised the work of the detective sergeant over the unit and the different members who are assigned to the unit from time to time. He also told the meeting that the drugs gardai work very closely with community gardai in the town.

Seattle Times, 05 Mar 2010 - Patients who qualify for medical marijuana will be able to get prescriptions for it from a wider range of health-care professionals, under a bill that appears headed to the governor's desk. Under Senate Bill 5798, it won't just be doctors who can get sick people access to pot.

Denver Post, 05 Mar 2010 - Marijuana activists and law enforcement officials sparred Thursday as the bell rang on the fight over medical-marijuana dispensary regulations at the state Capitol. The first committee hearing on House Bill 1284 -- which would require dispensaries to be licensed by both state and local governments and is the more controversial of the two medical-marijuana bills at the Capitol -- stretched into the evening. Lawmakers said late Thursday that they would not vote on the measure until another date.

This week on Lefty's Lounge, I feature Comedy from Jack Black, Carla Ulbrich, Jim Gaffigan, Tripod, Flight Of The Conchords, and Dana Carvey. Hang out with other listeners in the Virtual Vapor Lounge. Email me at lefty@dopefiend.co.uk,leave your comments below or on the Forum.

The Black Keys - Set You Free; The Happy Hollows - Faces; Stereophonics - I Could Lose Ya; Tenacious D - City Hall; The Kooks - Ooh La; Rosie Brown - Sunray; Carla Ulbrich - What If Your Girlfriend Was Gone; The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl; Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night; Jim Gaffigan - Camping, waking up and bacon; Doughboys - Black Sheep; Empire Dogs - Oh Lord; Tripod - No Daughter of Mine; Them Crooked Vultures - No One Loves Me & Neither Do I; Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky; American Steel - Shrapnel; The Supervillains - Resin; Tenacious D - Kickapoo; The Raconteurs - Hold Up; Flight of the Conchords - Sugarlumps; The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground; Dana Carvey - Choppin Broccoli

The Campus, 04 Mar 2010 - Marijuana Is Becoming Part of Our Culture. Hope for marijuana supporters and consumers in California has reached an all time high with the "Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act" initiative on the path for the November ballot.

The Daily Times-Call, 04 Mar 2010 - BOULDER -- More than half of Boulder County's cities and towns have enacted moratoriums on approving any more medical marijuana businesses, as local governments wait for guidance from the Legislature. They're not alone, according to Michelle Krezek, the county commissioners' intergovernmental relations coordinator.

Martlet, 04 Mar 2010 - The smell of sweet skunk and sounds of cannabis coughing were tell-tale clues for the location of the 11th-annual Victoria Cannabis Convention. Many members of Victoria's cannabis community gathered this past Sunday, Feb. 28, in UVic's David Strong Building, to celebrate and educate people about marijuana's benefits.

Statesman Journal, 04 Mar 2010 - Family Says Book 'Not Appropriate' For Elementary School Students Laura Nevel grew concerned when her 10-year-old daughter asked her about a white powdery drug. Echeo, a fifth-grader at Auburn Elementary School, explained that they were reading the book "The Dead Man in Indian Creek" out loud in class.

Merced Sun-Star, 04 Mar 2010 - Bar Owner Wants To Open Dispensary In Livingston. LIVINGSTON -- Mike Sperry Jr. is the man with the pot plan. The 38-year-old owner of Mike's Cozy Corner bar stepped out of the shadows Wednesday as the person who approached Livingston wanting to open a medical marijuana dispensary in town.