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Strong Growth in Hemp Food and Body Care Sales Contrast DEA’s Hostility to Farmers Who Want to Grow the Crop
May 13, 2010 – WASHINGTON, — The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), a trade association consisting of hundreds of hemp businesses, released final estimates of the size of the U.S. retail market for hemp food and body care products in 2009. Data supporting the estimates show that retail sales of hemp food and body care products…
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Obama ‘Firmly Opposes’ Marijuana Legalization as California Vote Looms
The Obama administration said Tuesday that it “firmly opposes” the legalization of any illicit drugs as California voters head to the polls to consider legalizing marijuana this fall.The president and his drug czar re-emphasized their opposition to legalizing drugs in the first release of its National Drug Control Strategy this morning. “Keeping drugs illegal reduces…
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Extradition Order Issued for Canadian Pot Activist Emery
May 10, 2010 – Vancouver’s so-called Prince of Pot will be turned over to U.S. authorities to face drug charges five years after he was first arrested for selling marijuana seeds to U.S. residents, his wife and lawyer have confirmed. Marc Emery, 51, turned himself in to authorities at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on…
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‘Prince of Pot’ Extradited to the United States
Update: (We have just learned that he has been extradited as of 1:00pm today) May 10, 2010 – Calling himself a “great Canadian” who has spent his life advocating for the legalization of marijuana, the self-styled “Prince of Pot” turned himself in Monday morning to face possible extradition to the United States. Marc Emery’s fate…
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NJ MS Medical Marijuana Patient Slapped with 5 year Prison Sentence Makes Bail
DELMONT, N.J. — A multiple sclerosis patient slapped with a five-year prison sentence for growing marijuana that he said was for medical purposes says he’ll just say no to the drug until it becomes legal in New Jersey this summer. John Wilson was freed from Southern State Prison on $15,000 bail Thursday. Earlier this week,…
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Hemp is Here to Save the Global Economy, One Sustainable Product at a Time!
April 24, 2010 – The new business markets that could be created from a hemp revolution are boundless. Imagine a new building material that could be harvested in fractions of the time of traditional lumber while providing much more strength and not harming our already fragile forests and ecosystems. Imagine a new source of fuel,…
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Canada: Ottawa’s Parliament Hill Just One of Many Protests Planned on 4/20
April 12, 2010 – On April 20 you can expect to see huge crowds at the Nation’s Capital on Major’s and Parliament hills in Ottawa as the Peace Tower clock turns to 4:20 p.m. This year it is expected that over 2,000 will be there protesting the prohibition of Marijuana. The event’s beginning is a…
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Canada: Protesters Demand Legal Access to Cannabis after Police Shut Down Clinic
April 12, 2010 – Some lit up bongs, some blasted Bob Marley and others waved flags emblazoned with the marijuana leaf in a Sunday afternoon protest outside police headquarters to protest the shuttering of Cannabis as Living Medicine. Officers raided the Queen St. E. clinic of CALM, an organization that sells marijuana to medicinal users,…
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Speaking Out Against the War on Youth
College students should be more vocal on legalization April 5, 2010 – Throughout history the youth of this nation have rarely shied away from the opportunity to lead progressive cultural movements. Ten years after D.C. voters approved the use of medical marijuana by a substantial 69 percent, the District has finally seen movement on the…