Pot to the Rescue

In this ad a real marijuana user who smokes real marijuana really wants to pay her fair share in taxes in order to help alleviate California's budget crisis. It's a plea from the Marijuana Policy Project to make legal and tax (heavily) marijuana.
more HERE

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Schwarzenegger On Pot Tax
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CNN Goes Shopping for Pot

Olympic Sized Joint

More and more people seem to be agreeing with select Canadian potheads that the Official Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch, lying on its side, looks suspiciously like a big, fat doobie. As in, joint. Hooner. Marijuana cigarette.
more HERE

Pot Vending

Some say marijuana should never have been made illegal in the first place.
see HERE

Drug Sniffing Drone

Fire Up!

lots-o-info HERE

THE PUNCHLINE 420

A California assemblyman introduced a bill (AB 390) for the state to tax marijuana for sale. He couldn’t wait 30 more bills for AB 420?
--Will Durst

Aphrodisiastic Fantastic

Marijuana has been used as an aphrodisiac for thousands of years. So what exactly is it about weed that turns people on?
find out HERE

Origin of 420

420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California in the late '70s...so the story goes...
more HERE

Legalize It

There are puckish signs of a zeitgeist shift. A few weeks ago, the White House decided to stage a forum in which the President would answer questions submitted by the public; 92,000 people responded — and most of them seemed obsessed with the legalization of marijuana. The two most popular questions about "green jobs and energy," for example, were about pot.
Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense; an editorial piece by Joe Klein of Time magazine is HERE

Related:
Carlos Santana wishes Obama would legalize pot

Get Motivated with Michael Phelps

Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps, subject of recently released photographs showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe, is still scheduled to speak at upcoming motivational events.
"Right now, we've not made any change to the program," said the executive vice president of Get Motivated Seminars Inc., the Tampa, Florida-based organizers of the Get Motivated business seminar tour.
more HERE
date/tickets HERE

from their website:
Michael Phelps is easily the most accomplished all-around competitor in Olympic history! The world watched Michael make history at the 2008 Olympics when he became the first athlete in history to win eight gold medals at a single Olympic event. With 14 gold medals to his credit he also holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals ever won. That's focus! The consummate competitor, Phelps will show you...

• How you Can Establish and Maintain the Competitive Advantage in Your Field
• Positioning Your Company to Win in a Highly Competitive Market
• Why YOU May Be Your Greatest Competition
• How to Make a Bong out of an Apple
• How to Hold your Breath for a Long Time

...hummm...pot smoking and motivation...if that's not an oxymoron, it's pretty damn close!

No Taxation Without Legalization

California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco.
Ammiano, a Democrat in his third month as a state lawmaker, said taxes and other fees associated with regulation could put more than a billion dollars a year into state coffers at a time when revenues continue to decline.
San Francisco Chronicle report HERE

...will pot smokers embrace taxes in exchange for legalization?

Remember Red Wine & Weed

Two new studies suggest that substances usually associated with dulling the mind — marijuana and red wine — may help ward off Alzheimer's disease and other forms of age-related memory loss.
Researchers from Ohio State University reported that THC, the main psychoactive substance in the cannabis plant, may reduce inflammation in the brain and even stimulate the formation of new brain cells.
Meanwhile, in the Nov. 21 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a neurologist at the University of California, Los Angeles reported that polyphenols — naturally occurring components of red wine — block the formation of proteins that build the toxic plaques thought to destroy brain cells. In addition, these substances can reduce the toxicity of existing plaques, thus reducing cognitive deterioration.
more HERE

Getting High on Change

Pot Pollution

Some of America’s national parks and forests are becoming among the most polluted places in the country due to the use of toxic chemicals by farmers who illegally grow marijuana on public land.
The Associated Press reports that large quantities of some defoliants and insecticides, which have long been banned in the U.S., are being smuggled into the remote farms.

...duh! there's a solution...legalize it!