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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>Bob Weir Talks Politics, Pot and Performance</title>
<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, March 24, guitarist Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead will perform with The National as part of &ldquo;The Bridge Session&rdquo; at Weir&rsquo;s TRI Studios in California (9pm EST and 6pm PST). Headcount.org a non-profit organization that promotes voter registration and participation in elections, is producing the free webcast online at Yahoo! Music music.yahoo.com.
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Scott and Bryan Devendorf, of the Brooklyn-based band The National, have teamed up with Weir in his &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/nycjamgal/7590">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:28:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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<title>Growing Pains &amp;#8211; The Movement Hits a Wall</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>The Cannabis Column </b>
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Recently, marijuana has received a great deal of media attention. Three stories are currently in the national spotlight &ndash; Pat Robertson, Joe Biden, and the California legalization issue. Reformers are excited about Robertson, critical about Biden, and frustrated with recent events in California. Taken together, all three highlight the significant challenges marijuana legalization faces in the future by exposing long-standing faults in the reform &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/jgettman/7578">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:02:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Jon Gettman</dc:creator>
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<title>Fear Factor: Mitch McConnell on Marijuana</title>
<description><![CDATA[Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is serious about keeping marijuana illegal. The Senate Minority Leader recently sent a letter to a constituent who had asked about legalizing pot. McConnell&rsquo;s response, as you may have guessed, was discouraging.
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In the letter McConnell explains that THC, &ldquo;the primary ingredient in marijuana,&rdquo; is available in pill form. The pill form appears to have an advantage over the plant form in McConnell&rsquo;s view as he goes on to express how he &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/7575">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:25:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mike Hughes</dc:creator>
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<title>Cannabis Smackdown!</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>2011: The Year the Drug Warriors Struck Back</b>
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&ldquo;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they Fight you, then you win.&rdquo;&#160;
&mdash;Mahatma Gandhi
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It should be obvious to marijuana-law reform advocates that 2011 was the year the government decided to fight back &ndash; and fight back with a vengeance. By year&rsquo;s end, it was apparent that President Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign pledge to respect state medical-marijuana laws had become ancient &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/parmentano/7548">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:59:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Paul Armentano</dc:creator>
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<title>NORML Endorses Roseanne Barr for President</title>
<description><![CDATA[Roseanne Barr once ruled the TV airwaves. In the 1989-1990 season her eponymous sitcom <i>Roseanne</i>, which served as an ode to lower-class living, was number one in the national Nielsen ratings, and now over two decades later, she seeks to obtain the highest political office in the land as she&rsquo;s running for President of the United States.&#160;One of Barr&rsquo;s primary platforms is to legalize marijuana and for that she garnered an endorsement from NORML this week. &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7521">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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<title>A Legend Passes On: Gatewood Galbraith Dies At 64</title>
<description><![CDATA[Kentucky attorney and legendary marijuana and hemp advocate Gatewood Galbraith has passed away&#160;from complications due to pneumonia. He was 64.&#160;Gatewood was cut from the same cloth as Jack Herer. A fiery, articulate cannabis activist for decades, Gatewood ran five times for governor of Kentucky &ndash; three times as a Democrat, once on the Reform ticket and last year as an independent.&#160;He finished third in the three-candidate race this past November.
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Galbraith was a &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/7466">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:53:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>HT Admin</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>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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<title>Vote Gatewood for Governor!</title>
<description><![CDATA[On November 8, the entire country will be focused on the governor&rsquo;s race in Kentucky. Perennial candidate Gatewood Galbraith &ndash; an outspoken advocate for legalization who&rsquo;s appeared on the cover of HIGH TIMES with Willie Nelson (Jan. &rsquo;91) &ndash; has been tied with sitting Governor Steve Beshear in most polls, and has even crushed him and the Republican candidate in local surveys. Galbraith has run for governor four times, three times as a Democrat, once as a Reform Party &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/7354">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:47:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>HT Admin</dc:creator>
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