ACT NOW to stop DEA raids on Medical Marijuana patients

Congress will vote next week on an amendment that if passed would prohibit the federal government from arresting, raiding or prosecuting patients who are abiding by state medical marijuana laws. Your action today could help protect hundreds of thousands of patients that should not have to live in fear that police will take them to jail.

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Marijuana plants found behind Dallas drug agency

Dallas police have made a pot bust near the Trinity River. Federal agents found a number of marijuana plants in the forest right behind Drug Enforcement Agency headquarters.

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It's Time to Rethink Marijuana Laws

Tasty, attractive and highly ritualized in our culture, wine and other alcoholic beverages are approved for responsible use despite the fact that alcoholism and attendant problems are a plague, while responsible use of a weed that, at worst, makes people boring and hungry, is criminal.

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Giuliani rejects medical marijuana

About 80% of Americans think doctors should have the right to prescribe or recommend marijuana to their patients if they feel they can get some benefit from it. Medical science backs up marijuana as medicine, yet Giuliani tows the drug warrior line. He's not "Americas Mayor". Discussion from SomethingAwful D&D forum.

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Marijuana prohibition -- some harsh reality here

Here's some reality programming with teeth! Go get 'em browndirt.

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Bibliography of the Histories of Depression

Antidepressants are now the most prescribed drug in the U.S. and Canada leads the industrialized world in marijuana use. Why? It seems like a lot of people just feel powerless to prevent whatever it is that’s about to happen....

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34 Surprising and Important Marijuana Users

(with sources). Good list with lots of surprises. 24) Newt Gingrich. 20) Balzac. 6) Ben Franklin....I think number one will really surprise you... ...

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Reality Check: Marijuana is illegal!

Smoking marijuana causes some changes in the brain similar to those caused by long-term use of cocaine and heroin. Pot affects a user’s judgment, motor coordination, and short-term memory. Weed can cause increased heart rate and make some users extremely anxious -- Ha ha, this site is the modern day Reefer Madness!

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Legal Marijuana Growing in USA

You can now legally grow marijuana in the USA! Sound impossible? Well, you can download free software (freeware) from HighGrow and test your green thumb with a variety of different seeds.I’ve just finished downloading the software and anxious to get started. Several years ago I played with this software and found it fascinating.

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Police Find Pot, Bomb and 6 Kids in RV

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - A recreational vehicle stopped for reckless driving near a state softball tournament held six children, three adults, marijuana and a bomb, the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office says.

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New Documentary about Legalizing Marijuana

A trailer for the documentary HIGH, about the war on drugs, DEA, an insane drug czar, and doctors prosecuted for trying to help their patients feel better.

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It's Time to End Costly, Unfair Marijuana Prohibition

If marijuana were legalized, regulated and taxed at the rates applied to alcohol and tobacco, revenues would reach about $6.2 billion annually, according to an open letter signed by 500 economists who urged President Bush and other public officials to debate marijuana prohibition. Among those economists were three Nobel Prize winners.

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