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CA Marijuana Legalization Initiative to Qualify for Ballot Today
Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Legalization, News. No Comments »
Today, an initiative that would legalize personal marijuana possession and allow regulated sales of marijuana to adults will qualify for California’s November general election ballot. A win at the ballot would be a first of its kind in U.S. history. This is a remarkable moment in the struggle to change our decades-old marijuana policies.
Marijuana was prohibited in 1937 before most Americans had ever heard of it. Today the U.S. leads the world in marijuana consumption. Nearly 26 million Americans used marijuana last year and more than 100 million have tried it in their lifetimes. A huge commodity of the underground economy, marijuana is the nation’s top cash crop, valued at $14 billion in California alone. Our state Board of Equalization has estimated we would generate $1.4 billion a year by taxing marijuana like alcohol.
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State Dems want to legalize medical marijuana to help plug budget gap
Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
ALBANY – Senate Democrats are counting on a pot of gold!
They want to legalize medical marijuana as a way to generate nearly $15 million in licensing fees to help plug the state’s $9 billion budget gap.
“It is the right thing to do and there is revenue attached to it,” said state Sen. Thomas Duane (D-Manhattan). Duane and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) are behind the plan to make it legal for folks with serious medical woes to score limited amounts of weed from state-certified distributors – or grow it themselves.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/
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Dakta Green’s Upcoming 60th Birthday Party!
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Blog, Events, Featured, Information, Misc, The Daktory. 5 Comments »
Friday 09/04/2010 till Sunday 11/04/2010
There are details yet to be finalized, when they are I will post more information, but the most up to date news is on our facebook page.
Tickets will be on sale from Monday, 29th of March, from The Daktory and a few stores that will be confirmed shortly.
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Legalizing Marijuana Is America’s Top Political Issue — Again
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
To the surprise of virtually no one who has been following public opinion polls for the past 18 months, the call to “legalize the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana” placed #1 in the 2010 Change.org online vote for the “Top 10 Ideas for Change in America.”
Open voting at the Change.org website took place for six weeks — during which time citizens voted nearly 210,000 times on over 2,500 different ideas. This morning the website released the top 10 results here.
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Pot Protesters get arrested and Crowd gets ANGRY!
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Legalization, Misc, News. 2 Comments »
Undercover police raid the 420 Celebration outside of Liberty Forum 2010. Catherine Bleish, David from Keene and local all arrested. Protestors storm jail to demand release. Four armed police question Mike Tiner for smoking and more!
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OUTRAGE: MS Patient Gets 5 Years For Medical Marijuana
Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Medical, News. No Comments »
A New Jersey man with multiple sclerosis was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for growing marijuana — which he said was for medicinal purposes — in his back yard.
Wilson, 37, was growing 17 marijuana plants.
Tragically, the sentence handed down to John Wilson is the minimum prison term he could have received under New Jersey law, reports Michael Deak at MyCentralJersey.com.
Wilson’s attorney, James Wronko, said he plans to file a motion to stay the sentence pending an appeal.
Read the rest of the article at tokeofthetown.com
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The Drug War takes American Lives in Mexico, maybe they will finally start to listen?
Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Information, News. 1 Comment »
The US consular killings are the latest brutal proof that prohibition is a deadly option
When politicians talk of a “war” on drugs they rarely mean it literally. Yet in some parts of Mexico the “drug war” is more than metaphorical. On taking office as the country’s president in December 2006, Felipe Calderón launched 45,000 army troops against trafficking gangs, declaring that “organised crime is out of control”.
Since then some 18,000 people have died — and there is no sign of any let-up in the violence. Worst hit is Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling city of 1.3 million people in the Chihuahuan Desert rammed up against the border with Texas. One of the most important industrial centres in North America, it has now become one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite the presence of 10,000 troops and federal police, there are eight to ten murders every day in Juárez. The latest victims were a pregnant employee of the American consulate, her husband and the partner of another consular worker.
Read the rest of the article at timesonline.co.uk
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Medical Pot Patient Robbed, Beaten; Cops Take Plants While He’s Dying
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Uncategorized. 1 Comment »
A Washington medical marijuana patient has died after being attacked by robbers who were after his pot crop. When local police were called to the scene, rather than investigating the assault, they started questioning mortally injured Michael Shane Howard about how many plants he had.
The police told Howard, who had just been clubbed in the head with a crowbar, that the medics would “probably just put a big bandage in his forehead and leave him at the house.”
Read the full article at tokeofthetown.com
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Multiple DEA Raids Target Marijuana in Hawaii
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Information, News. No Comments »
CANNABIS CULTURE – Hawaii’s THC Ministry and the homes of several medical cannabis growers were raided Wednesday by federal agents from the United States DEA and IRS.
Roger Christie, founder of the THC Ministry, said he was visited Wednesday morning by federal agents and local police who presented search warrants for his Wainaku home and popular Hawaii Cannabis Ministry in Hilo.
“It was a surprise raid,” Christie told Cannabis Culture. “Apparently they were looking for evidence of a crime or fraud.”
Agents searched Christie’s properties for seven hours, confiscating holy anointing oil containing cannabis and seizing files, but made no arrests and laid no charges.
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Harper’s Youtube Political Dilemma: Cannabis Legalization
Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Information, Legalization, Misc, News. No Comments »
“It sounded like a good idea at the time”. I fully expect those to be the words beginning to thrum in the mind of Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, following his announced acceptance of Google’s offer to stream his response to the throne speech today, and to answer YouTubers’ questions on YouTube next Tuesday, March 16th. It is a decision that has put him in an uncomfortable spot with respect to the issue of marijuana legalization. Read the rest of this entry »