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<title>DEA Imprisons College Student for 5 Days Without Food or Water</title>
<description><![CDATA[For 23-year-old UC San Diego student Daniel Chong, a small, private 4/20 celebration turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare after DEA agents raided the apartment where he was smoking cannabis with friends in honor of the &ldquo;high holiday,&rdquo; took him into custody, and then left him alone for nearly five days in a five-foot by 10-foot holding cell. Mr. Chong was left without food, water, and any contact with the outside &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7661">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:10:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Dutch Judge Approves &amp;#8220;Weed Pass,&amp;#8221; Tourist Ban To Begin May 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Dutch judge upheld the government&rsquo;s controversial Weed Pass law on Friday, paving the way for the new rules to take effect in parts of the Netherlands starting May 1. Dutch coffeeshop owners and their allies immediately vowed to continue their legal battle against the measure&rsquo;s tourist ban and other aspects of the Weed Pass they cite as unconstitutional, but conceded that their appeal of this ruling would not come in time to stop initial implementation in the nation&rsquo;s &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7655">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:47:32 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Hope for Future of Coffeeshops After Collapse of Conservative Dutch Government</title>
<description><![CDATA[Since the 1970s, the Netherlands&rsquo; legendary cannabis coffeeshops have been officially &ldquo;tolerated&rdquo; by the government, meaning that while technically illegal, they&rsquo;ve nonetheless operated openly, with hundreds of locations in Amsterdam alone selling limited amounts of marijuana to the public.
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Despite their being tightly regulated and contributing considerably to the nation&rsquo;s tourism industry, however, the conservative government has been steadily working to &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7648">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:07:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Colorado Activists to Spend 4/20 Weekend Working for Legalization</title>
<description><![CDATA[The broken clock on the wall in Mason Tvert&rsquo;s office is only right twice a day - at exactly 4:20 - but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that one of the driving forces behind Colorado&rsquo;s Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, will be taking a &ldquo;high holiday&rdquo; for the upcoming 4/20 weekend. Instead, the Executive Director of SAFER hopes to use the annual celebration of all things cannabis as a way to reach supporters in advance of this November&rsquo;s historic vote &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7637">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:28:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Arizona to Begin Accepting Dispensary Applications</title>
<description><![CDATA[After more than a year of legal wrangling, including an unsuccessful federal lawsuit filed by the governor attempting to block parts of the state&rsquo;s medical marijuana law, Arizona&rsquo;s Health Services Department director Will Humble has announced that his office will begin accepting applications to open state-regulated medical cannabis dispensaries starting May 14, and that he expects to issue up to 126 certificates (one for each of Arizona&rsquo;s &ldquo;Community Health Analysis &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7624">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:36:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>San Fran&amp;#8217;s DA Gives Medical Pot The Green Light</title>
<description><![CDATA[San Francisco&rsquo;s District Attorney reaffirms unequivocal support for medical marijuana after conflicting reports.
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Less than a week after major media outlets reported that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon&rsquo;s office was circulating a memo describing the &ldquo;continued illegality of selling marijuana,&rdquo; even by erstwhile legitimate medical marijuana providers, an official spokesperson for the city&rsquo;s top lawyer has now forcefully denied those reports &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/news/bean/7603">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:55:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Road Block &amp;#8211;  Several States Push For &amp;#8220;Stoned Driving&amp;#8221; Limits</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Attempts to established &ldquo;stoned driving&rdquo; limits in California, Colorado, Washington and elsewhere threaten to target all marijuana users, even those wholly unimpaired.</b>
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With marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot in several states this November, lawmakers across the country have begun pushing a new legislative strategy for targeting cannabis users, one with the potential to strip every one of them of their ability to legally operate a motor vehicle, even if &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/7588">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:15:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Born to Rudd: An Interview with Paul Rudd</title>
<description><![CDATA[Paul Rudd explains how he&rsquo;s prepared himself to play so many stoners on the silver screen, including a new herb-fueled role opposite Jennifer Aniston in <i>Wanderlust</i>.&#160;
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<b>By David Bienenstock</b>
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Since his breakout performance as young, idealistic pre-law student Josh Lucas in 1995&rsquo;s <i>Clueless</i>, Paul Rudd has played a super-stony surf instructor (<i>Forgetting Sarah Marshall</i>), a cigar- chomping drug kingpin (<i>Reno 911</i>), a ganja-toking &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/entertainment/bean/7560">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:59:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Reform Regroups: 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference</title>
<description><![CDATA[Drug Policy Alliance Conference in Lost Angeles brings together anti-Drug War activists amid increased hostility to reform from the federal government.
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<b>By David Bienenstock</b>
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Attracting national figures like former New Mexico Governor (and current Republican presidential candidate) Gary Johnson, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, PBS travel host Rick Steves, and even a Skype appearance by Virgin CEO Richard Branson, the 2011 International Drug Policy Reform &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/7391">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:59:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Feeling NORML a Mile High</title>
<description><![CDATA[The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws celebrates 40 years of activism with a major conference in Denver.
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A sitting member of the US House of Representatives, the director of the Colorado State Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, and top leaders of the cannabis liberation movement from across the country (any beyond) gathered this past weekend to celebrate the issue&rsquo;s &ldquo;Coming of Age&rdquo; in a city that&rsquo;s increasingly taking a leading role in &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/7069">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:08:05 -0400</pubDate>
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