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Just 69 days left for this grassroots campaign
California is trying to end the failed prohibition against the cannabis genus of plants again with a grassroots campaign and we need your help to get the word out. Please help us get the California...
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Will California be the next State to relegalize Cannabis?
The deadline to turn in the signed petitions is February 15th, 2014 to get this on the November ballot. It looks pretty good right now because we have already created a very good grassroots...
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NJ-Sen: Cory Booker (D) To Team Up With Rand Paul (R. KY) To Take On The Drug...
Here's what act of bipartisanship to look forward to this year: http://www.vocativ.com/... The staffs for Sens. Rand Paul and Cory Booker officially confirmed to Vocativ on Friday that they are...
View ArticlePot legalization in Colorado persuades me to comment on the idiocy of the...
Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it. The solution to the drug war as well as prison overcrowding has been staring us in the face for decades. Thankfully, people are starting to wake up.
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Something New with the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative of 2014
The deadline to turn in the signed petitions is February 15th, 2014 to get this on the November ballot. California registered voters can now go directly to the CCHI2014.org website and download a...
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Weed Truth
What is it about the Republicans and their disgust towards common sense...? Inquiring minds would like to know! thinkingblue~~~Marijuana is "less toxic" than alcohol, Marijuana Policy Project, Aug. 15,...
View Article"Hemp For Victory"
A 1942 U.S government film that gives instruction on how to grow, harvest and utilize hemp. With the current federal drug policy this looks like it's from an alternative universe.Under "things I...
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Toke TV/Radio 42: The Top Cannabis / Marijuana News Stories Of The Week.
Find out what you need to know about the week in cannabis/marijuana news, in just 20 minutes! In this edition of Toke Signals: FBI To Let In Potheads?! Feds May Cut Off Water For Weed! Wingnuts Oppose...
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Overnight News Digest: May 25
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Man Oh Man, rfall, and JML9999. Alumni...
View ArticleHouse votes to end DEA raids on state legal medical marijuana operations
Jacob Fischer of Buzzfeed reports House Votes To End DEA Raids On Legal Medical Marijuana OperationsWASHINGTON — The House passed an amendment late Thursday night to restrict the Drug Enforcement...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Protect States' Rights on Medical Marijuana and Hemp Cultivation
The Justice Appropriations last night saw a number of votes related to the drug war.In a positive development, bills protecting medical marijuana and hemp cultivation and research passed with...
View ArticlePrediction: Hemp Will Save The Small American Farm
You heard it here first. More on this later, but first all need to work to make hemp completely legal... Hemp is God's gift to America, and I don't mean when it goes up in smoke. I am speaking of...
View ArticleTHC (Marijuana) Stops Cancer Tumors Cold
Medical Marijuana I thought, originally was just a trick to make smoking it legal ... I thought that ok, perhaps maybe it eased the pain, dulled the mind, or something good like that enabling people in...
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Seattle Hempfest 2014 - Dawn of A New Era Regarding Legalization of Pot
Photo by Mark Taylor-Canfield Glass marijuana pipes on display at Seattle HempfestSeattle's Hempfest event claims to be the largest pro cannabis festival in the world. This year, event organizers are...
View Article"My e-car runs on HEMP" - breakthrough in supercapacitor-science
(Long-time lurker and first-time diarist from Holland here, so please be gentle, but I found this too delicious not to share here...)So, it seems that there's even another ingenious possible usage of...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Kos: back ballot initiatives!
Recent elections show that Kos is wrong in opposing ballot initiatives. Instead of bewailing their misuse, smart activists are using them to accomplish FAR more than begging representatives for mercy....
View ArticleHouse "Marijuana Vote-a-Rama" Gives Hope to Reform Advocates. Which Ds Stood...
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House began taking votes related to the appropriations bill for the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and other agencies.During the amendment voting...
View ArticleThe Eighty-One-Year-Old Codger from Alabama, Richard Shelby, Has an Opponent
Richard Craig Shelby, senior U.S. Senator from Alabama (nearing 30 years of disservice to our nation), actually has an opponent in the 2016 election:It’s Official: Ron Crumpton to Run for United States...
View ArticleBernie Sanders' stance on Marijuana can pave the way for pollution free...
The Washington Post reports that Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders proposes to remove Marijuana from the Schedule 1 Federal list of dangerous drugs:(Courtesy WAPO and Erratic Synapse)Sanders’s plan...
View ArticleRevolutionary? Bernie Sanders' Marijuana policy could help end Fossil Fuel...
The Washington Post reports that Bernie Sanders has stated that he will remove Marijuana from the Federal List of most dangerous drugs, and there is something profoundly revolutionary about this: As I...
View ArticleMy article on Bernie Sanders on Huffington Post goes viral
I have been writing on Huffington Post Denver for as long as it has existed, and since it is not the 'front page' but a features page, articles there usually don't get much 'traffic'.However, that...
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Gov. McCrory Allows Legalized Industrial Hemp Farming In North Carolina
And now some great news for North Carolina farmers and other entrepreneurs that want to bring back farming of another kind to North Carolina:Governor McCrory of North Carolina issued a statement...
View ArticleWhat we REALLY need is Industry Transition Assistance.
What we REALLY need is Industry Transition Assistance. Imagine a world, starting with the U.S., where instead of unemployment insurance at 60% of your employed pay rate, you had Industry Transition...
View Article2/2/16 TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
Today is National Groundhog DayNational Heavenly Hash DayFebruary is Black History Month1) The first computer coders were women. In the 80s, 37% of Computer Science graduates were women. Today it is...
View Article2-9-16 Today's TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
February is Black History Month Today isNational Pizza DayNational Toothache Day National Bagel DayNEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY WINNERS:Bernie Sanders (D) and Donald Trump (R)There was record-breaking turnout...
View Article2-13-16 Today's TILT (Things I Learned Today
February is Black History MonthToday isNational Tortellini Day17 year old Rochelle Ballantyne is one of the best chess players in the world. She's on the brink of becoming the first female...
View ArticleMarijuana Prohibition Relief: The Environmental Benefits of Legalization
Legalization of marijuana has many benefits for all its possible uses are many, to put it modestly. Somehow, people lost the knowledge of just how useful the cannabis plant can be, and that’s the...
View Article3/3/16 ~ The TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday isPeach Blossom DayI Want You to be Happy DayNational Anthem DayNational Cold Cuts DayNational Mulled Wine DayOn this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching...
View Article3-5-16 Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday isCinco de Marcho [Really? That's a thing?]Multiple Personality DayNational Absinthe DayNational Cheese Doodle DayNational Potty Dance DaySusan B. Anthony was a...
View Article3/6/16 ~ The TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday isAlamo DayDentist's DayNamesake DayNational Frozen Food DayNational White Chocolate Cheesecake Dayvia HistoryNetLouisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) most remembered as...
View Article3/7/16 ~ Today’s TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthThis is International “Celebrate Your Name Week”March 6 - 12, 2016Today is:Casimir Pulaski Day (only observed in Chicago - see #7)National Cereal Day; National Be Heard...
View Article3/9/16 ~ Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday is Panic DayBang-Clang DayBarbie DayGet Over It DayNational Crabmeat DayNational Meatball DayRegistered Dietitian Day!Discover What Your Name Means DayAmerigo...
View Article3/11/16 ~ Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday is Dream DayDebunking Day Johnny Appleseed Day Middle Name Pride Day National Preschooler's Day National Promposal Day Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day World Plumbing Day...
View Article3/13/16 ~ Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday isKen Day; Earmuff DayDonald Duck Day; K-9 Veterans DayNational Open an Umbrella Indoors DayNational Jewel Day; National Coconut Torte DayNational Good Samaritan...
View Article3/20/16 ~ Today's TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday is The First Day of Spring! (some calendars said yesterday!)Alien Abduction DayAtheist Pride DayBibliomania DayFrench language dayGreat American Meatout...
View ArticleNew Cash Crop for Colorado? Industrial/Ag (non-thc) Hemp
Could a commercial, non-thc, industrial/ag hemp industry help boost struggling rural Colorado economies which have been hit hard by low energy prices and coal mine closings….among other things? Hemp on...
View ArticlePotential Billion Dollar Market In Pot Tourism If Cannabis Prohibition Repealed
“It’s time for state regulators and elected representatives to wake up and smell the pot!“NOTE: 25% of US residents will be living in an area where cannabis is legal if November ballot initiatives are...
View ArticleYay - Hemp Cooking Oil!
I found this on a supermarket shelf in Munich. (And, yes Hanf translates as Hemp.)OK, so there’s presumably no, or negligible, ‘active ingredients’ and I’m sure it can be bought in places in the US...
View ArticleHey! Anyone hear about this?
Trump signs farm bill making hemp federally legalwww.citizen-times.com/…While we’ve been obsessing focusing on the imminent end of the world tRump’s latest pratfalls, somehow this happened: ..hemp...
View ArticlePoem: Hemp, Hemp, Hemp, The American Plant
I have been working on a cycle of poems inspired by looking at particular paintings. In this case, I was looking at a painting that featured a farmhouse. That made me think about the American farmer,...
View ArticleDKos Asheville Open Thread: Hemp
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, July 20th, 2019.We offer this space every weekend to share what we're up to in Western North Carolina...
View ArticleNational Hemp Day
As a retired Army aviator, I avoided being anywhere around pot during my career, and for about a decade after I retired. Once I moved to WA, it took me a while to gather up the courage to try it. Talk...
View ArticlePERVERSE ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
Today, Ali Velshi on MSNBC did a story about President Biden’s phasing out of private prisons. He used the phrase “perverse incentive” a number of times — the point being that it is in the private...
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Greening Deserts species protection project for critically endangered species...
Greening Deserts Critically Endangered Species Research and Protection Program (CES-RPP)started an extra project for endangered tree species to focus on the most important issue of global biodiversity...
View ArticleDKos Asheville Open Thread: Chauvin verdict, Hemp Fest this weekend, Bear...
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, June 26th, 2021.We offer this space every weekend to share what we're up to in Western North Carolina...
View ArticleWhite to move Mate in two #53
Of Yet No JourneyThe knot was within the weeds fallow fields yielding dry hemp where cows had grazed to seed the thirsty dust with new intent Lost in the dust and wind no trace none sought it there,...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest, Saturday Science, 11/19/22
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest - Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise above...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest, Science 12/10/22
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest, Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise above...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 8/2/23: Re-Legalize It
86 years ago today was a day that should live in infamy, for that was the day cannabis became illegal.The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, Pub. L. 75–238, 50 Stat. 551, enacted August 2, 1937, was a United...
View ArticleAMERICAN HOLOCAUST One Billion lies served
All lies Matter..One billion lies served.Thank You Ron Desantis..Thank you, you racist, prohibitionist piece of hell bound offal.Thank you for helping me formulate and vocalize the visions and beliefs...
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