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<title>Marijuana Law Reform: Where The Ideas Come From</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>The Cannabis Column</b>
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The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) recently filed suit in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration&rsquo;s (DEA) refusal to reschedule cannabis. The CRC originally filed a petition to have marijuana removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and regulated like other substances with accepted medical use in the United States in 2002. After several years of review, and the &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/jgettman/7542">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:25:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Jon Gettman</dc:creator>
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<title>Appellate Court: Voters Can Decide on Detroit Decrim</title>
<description><![CDATA[The city of Detroit will finally be able to vote on a suppressed 2010 ballot proposal that would amend city law and permit the legal use and possession of up to an ounce of cannabis on private property by those age 21 and up.&#160;
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Previously, a Wayne County Circuit Court judge had upheld the Detroit Election Commission&rsquo;s unanimous vote against placing the 2010 question on the ballot because they were advised by the city's Law Dept that decriminalizing pot conflicted with state &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7530">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:31:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Rocky Mountain Higher</title>
<description><![CDATA[Even for cannabis-friendly Colorado, this was impressive.&#160;On Wednesday, the Denver-based chronic coalition known as Campaign To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol submitted 160,000 collected signatures supporting <i>The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012</i> to the Secretary of State&rsquo;s Office, also located in the Mile High City.&#160;The pro-pot organization&rsquo;s efforts almost doubled the required number of signatures (86,000) to place the initiative on the November 2012 &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7470">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:05:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Stop Alarming, Racially Biased Marijuana Arrests in New York City</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) New York City arrests and jails more people for minor marijuana possession than any other city in the United States. This telling statistic made headlines late last month after a protest in front of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's home over NYC marijuana arrests.
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The NYCLU points out both the absurd number of arrests &ndash; 350,000 since 2002 for low-level pot offenses &ndash; as well as the disparity of who gets busted by the NYPD &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/7152">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:22:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mike Hughes</dc:creator>
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<title>NORMLizer &amp;#8211; The Supreme Court Is Out to Get You</title>
<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no good word in the English language for when you&#8217;re paranoid &#8211; and right.
 
I&#8217;m not prone to conspiracy theories, but one has to wonder when it comes to cannabis and the Supreme Court of the United States (a.k.a. SCOTUS). By this I mean the court&#8217;s pervasive series of decisions on cannabis prohibition &#8211; dating back to the 1960s &#8211; that has placed a huge segment of society and the government in conflict. SCOTUS almost always rules in favor of &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/7099">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:51:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>HT Admin</dc:creator>
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<title>Dog Days &amp;#8211; How Accurate Are Police Drug Dogs?</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>By Nicholas Tamarin</b>
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HIGH TIMES asks the experts whether K9 units&rsquo; bites justify their barks in an effort to explore the assertion that police dogs act as &ldquo;probable cause on four legs.&rdquo;
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If you live in New York City, or pass through any area designated as a terrorist target in the decade following 9/11 &ndash; from airports and train stations to government buildings &ndash; there&rsquo;s a good chance that you&rsquo;ve encountered a K9 unit deployed in a &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/7005">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:17:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>HT Admin</dc:creator>
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<title>Veterans of the Marijuana War</title>
<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing project to erect a national Marijuana War Memorial, we're seeking Veterans of the Marijuana War - whether well known or unknown - willing to share their own personal stories of serving on the front lines as growers, smugglers, dealers, activists, convicts, lawyers, politicians, smokers or medical patients.
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If you have a story that you would like to share with us, please send it to <b><a href="mailto:vmw@hightimes.com">vmw@hightimes.com</a></b>
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<b><a href="http://headshop.hightimes.com/fun-stuff/vmw-membership-kit.html">Join the VMW and receive your official VMW Membership Kit. The package includes a bumper sticker, button, iron-on patch, and backpack.</a></b>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:46:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Supreme Court Considers No Warrant Searches</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court is considering how much leeway police have in entering a home without a warrant. The case, Kentucky v. King, centers on &ldquo;exigent circumstances.&rdquo; These are situations that allow police to enter and search a home without obtaining a warrant &ndash; sort of the exceptions to the warrant requirement (i.e. if authorities suspect criminal activity but believe that time is a factor due to a life being endangered, a possible escape or the destruction of &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/6911">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:56:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mike Hughes</dc:creator>
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<title>ELECTION 2006 - Sowing the Seeds of Pot Reform</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>By Paul Armentano</b>

While drug law reformers should not view the initiative process as the primary mechanism for enacting substantive legislative reform (that duty still belongs to state legislatures and Congress), there&#8217;s little doubt that voter initiatives have been a highly successful way for activists to amend and overturn some of America&#8217;s more egregious marijuana policies. 

Of the eleven states (Medical Marijuana Programs) that have passed legislation legalizing the &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/3711">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:14:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Paul Armentano</dc:creator>
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<title>ELECTION 2006:</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>by Paul Armentano</b>

This fall, all pot politics will be local.

For the second straight year, citizens across the country will decide on a number of municipal ballot initiatives to significantly liberalize their local cannabis laws. Following the success of Seattle's 2003 deprioritization initiative and last year's multiple victories in Oakland, CA (making marijuana enforcement the city's "lowest priority"); Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI (legalizing the use of medi-pot); Columbia, MO &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/1385">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:34:50 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Paul Armentano</dc:creator>
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