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<title>US House Votes Against Stopping Feds&amp;#8217; Medical Pot Raids</title>
<description><![CDATA[For the sixth time in a decade, the U.S. House of Representatives last week defeated an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have prohibited the federal Dept of Justice from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in those states with legal medicinal cannabis laws.
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The bipartisan amendment was co-sponsored, as it has been each of the six times it&rsquo;s been introduced, by Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and this year they were joined by Tom McClintock &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7689">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:55:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>The Marijuana Explosion</title>
<description><![CDATA[<i>The number of Americans who use marijuana continues to increase annually. Never has it been clearer that the failed and destructive War on Pot must come to an immediate end. </i>
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<b>By Jon Gettman</b>
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Marijuana is as popular in the US as it&rsquo;s ever been. A look back over the last 25 years places the War on Pot in perspective: It really hasn&rsquo;t changed a thing. Marijuana is still widely used, and efforts to enforce its prohibition are a wasteful, ineffective drain &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/jgettman/7686">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:45:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Jon Gettman</dc:creator>
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<title>New Poll: Majority In US, Canada, and Britain Favor Alternative Sentencing for Pot Possession</title>
<description><![CDATA[A newly released international <i>Angus Reid</i> public opinion poll reports that a vast majority of Americans, Canadians and Britons support marijuana possession offenders being fined, serving community service or sentenced to probation rather than being incarcerated. &#160;&#160;
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In the U.S., over 1,000 adults were surveyed, with nearly three-fourths of the nation - 74 percent - in favor of alternative penalties being administered to those busted for possession. The figures for &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7667">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 13:39:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Tourist Pot Ban Protested in Southern Netherlands</title>
<description><![CDATA[May Day is a celebration rooted in both the ancient pagan (honoring Spring) and the post-modern political (International Workers Day), so it seemed fitting that both tourists and coffeeshop owners in the Netherlands banded together on Tuesday to voice their collective opposition to the law that went into effect that day prohibiting all sales of cannabis to foreigners and only permitting a restricted number of registered local citizens to purchase pot.
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In the southern Dutch city of &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7660">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:45:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Obama &amp;#8220;Clarifies&amp;#8221; Medical Pot Position</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has publicly replied to his administration&rsquo;s stepped-up controversial crackdown on medical marijuana after having previously pledged to support states&rsquo; rights on the matter.
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In a cover-page interview in the May 10 issue of <i>Rolling Stone</i> conducted by magazine founder Jann S. Wenner and titled &ldquo;Ready for the Fight,&rdquo; Obama now claims that the potential for the federal government to raid medicinal cannabis dispensaries (which of course &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7652">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>President Obama Avoids Pot During Online Chat</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Obama opted to completely ignore all questions regarding pot legalization and the war on drugs during a national online chat Monday, disappointing cannabis activists across the country. 
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YouTube aired the online event, which was moderated by Google.&#160;The exclusion of the marijuana issue from the chat is particularly egregious as 18 of the top 20 most popular questions submitted by those voting on YouTube concerned medical marijuana, cannabis legalization in general, and &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7515">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:28:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Barack and Newt &amp;#8211; Compassion Transplants Required</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>As the 2012 election approaches, the similarities between candidates are troubling.</b>
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<b>By Paul Krassner</b>
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What do Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich have in common? They were both pot smokers.
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&ldquo;When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently,&rdquo; Obama said. &ldquo;That was the point.&rdquo;
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Gingrich said, &ldquo;That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.&rdquo;
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What else do Obama and Gingrich have in common? They &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/7464">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:30:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Paul Krassner</dc:creator>
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<title>Chicago Bans Synthetic Marijuana</title>
<description><![CDATA[Chicago may be the &ldquo;Second City&rdquo; compared to New York (or third when stacked population-wise versus L.A.), but it is the first among the big three when it comes to banning synthetic marijuana products that have come under fire and been banned in states and cities across the U.S.&#160;
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On Tuesday, Chicago Alderman Edward Burke (D-14th Ward) and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced at a press conference that, effective December 14, the sale of all synthetic pot &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7448">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:29:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Aussies Inching Closer to Okaying Hempseed in Foods</title>
<description><![CDATA[Governmental body Food Standards Australia proposed on Wednesday to amend the nation's Food Standards Code to sanction processed hempseed being utilized as an ingredient in a variety of food products, from staples like cheese to snacks like ice cream and energy bars. &#160;&#160;
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The chief executive of Food Standards, Steve McCutcheon, has publicly compared hempseed to traditionally used poppy seeds and declared hemp seeds to be safe for human consumption.&#160;McCutcheon&rsquo;s &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7438">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:46:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Cain-nabis</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a refreshing change from politics as usual, GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain openly voiced his support for states&rsquo; rights regarding medical marijuana during a campaign appearance Tuesday in Urbandale, Iowa. &ldquo;If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that's a state's right,&rdquo; <i>NBC News</i> reported Cain as saying. &ldquo;Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issues &ndash; most of them belong at the state (level), because when &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7409">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:23:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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