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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>Jimmy Kimmel Calls Out Obama For Pot Raids</title>
<description><![CDATA[Appearing at the same table as President Barack Obama, late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel drew attention over the weekend following his pro-pot remarks while speaking at the 2012 White House Correspondents&rsquo; Dinner in Washington, D.C.&#160;After fifteen minutes of skewering Obama and many others in attendance with his typical laid-back smarmy style, Kimmel turned to the president and asked more pointedly: &#034;I do have one real question for you, Mr. President.&#160;What&rsquo;s with the &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7659">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:20:59 -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>Medical Marijuana Patients and Politicians Protest Obama&amp;#8217;s San Francisco Appearance</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:22:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>Justice Department Issues New Medical Marijuana Memo</title>
<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the Justice Department issued a new memorandum in an effort to further clarify &#8211; or perhaps obfuscate &#8211; the DOJ&#8217;s stance on medical marijuana prosecution.
 
In 2009 Deputy Attorney General David Ogden advised that law enforcement officials &#8220;should not focus federal resources in your States on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.&#8221;
 
The &#8220;Ogden &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/7170">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:51:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mike Hughes</dc:creator>
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<title>President Obama Addresses Drug Policy During YouTube Q&amp;A</title>
<description><![CDATA[Earlier today President Obama conducted what has become an annual question-and-answer session on YouTube. As in previous years, the majority of the questions submitted and voted on by the general public and posed to the President were related to marijuana and drug policy.
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In 2009, when asked whether legalizing cannabis would improve the economy and create jobs, President Obama flatly stated, &ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think that [legalizing marijuana] is a good strategy to grow our &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/6937">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:06:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mike Hughes</dc:creator>
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<title>Just A NORML Guy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Allen St. Pierre was born in Belfast, ME to an upper-middle-class blue-collar commercial fishing family. He had an almost cinematic upbringing on scenic Cape Cod, where his family continues to own a variety of water-born businesses. To this day, he says, &ldquo;my father doesn&rsquo;t know where the front-door key is.&rdquo;
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Ironically, although he studied wildlife at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he graduated there in 1989 with a degree in legal studies. While working at &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/rick/6918">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:28:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Richard Cusick</dc:creator>
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<title>MPP Update</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>By Morgan Fox</b>
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For years, scientists have been trying to find the Grand Unification Theory, a factor that would allow the different schools of physics and mathematics to unite their widely disparate views about the universe into one cohesive idea. And while the scientific community has yet to find their unifier, the political community is starting to realize theirs: marijuana reform.
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As we get closer to enacting real meaningful changes in marijuana law around the &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6621">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:28:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>HT Admin</dc:creator>
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