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Legalizing Pot in California Won't Hurt Cartels

Mexican gangs will still make plenty off the rest of the country

(Newser) - Fans of California’s Proposition 19 like to argue that it would be a major blow to Mexican drug runners, but that’s just not true, according to a group of drug policy researchers. A new report from the nonpartisan Rand Corp. finds that even if legal marijuana displaced the...

Who Needs Donors? Arts Group Starts Selling Pot

Group expects to raise $1M from marijuana

(Newser) - When the directors of the nonprofit foundation Life Is Art found it increasingly hard to raise cash from recession-strapped donors, they decided to embrace a new revenue source: marijuana. Life Is Art's director owns land in California's Sonoma County, so the group has been growing varieties known as O.G....

Now, Grown Kids Score Pot for Aging Mom, Dad

 Now, Grown Kids 
 Score Pot for 
 Aging Mom, Dad 
FAMILIES WHO SMOKE TOGETHER...
Oct 10, 2010 9:30 AM CDT

Now, Grown Kids Score Pot for Aging Mom, Dad

Middle-aged users surprised by who they're making hash brownies for

(Newser) - Thirty years ago, he would have been grounded. But today, 46-year-old Bryan brings marijuana into his parents' house—with their blessing and for their brownies. The New York Times calls it a new, though still rare, rite of middle-age passage: recreational users purchasing pot to ease mom and dad's ailments....

Facebook Bigwigs: Legalize Pot!

Dustin Moskowitz, Sean Parker for it, but ads with pot leaves still banned from site

(Newser) - Ads with images of marijuana leaves have been banned from Facebook but two of the site's movers and shakers have made hefty donations to the same cause backed by the ads. Co-founder Dustin Moskowitz has donated $50,000 to support legalizing marijuana in California, and Sean Parker, Facebook's first president,...

Dems Look to Light Up Stoner Vote in 2012

Ballot measures to legalize pot could motivate youth, dude

(Newser) - Democratic strategists think they might be able to float to victory in 2012 on a cloud of Mary Jane. If California’s Proposition 19—the ballot initiative to legalize pot in the state—does a decent job of driving liberal young stoners to the polls, expect to see similar initiatives...

Smokin' Design Features Futuristic Pot Plant

Laboratory-like Oakland facility aims to supply med marijuana dispensaries

(Newser) - Imagine a world where all anxieties are tranquilized, all boredom amused, thanks in part to a sterilized, hermetically sealed, blindingly white California marijuana growing operation. That's the kind of laboratory-like plant Oakland nonprofit organization Gropech has designed. The 60,000-square-foot facility would nurture 30,000 plants (worth $50 million a...

Why California Loosened Its Pot Law

Schwarzenegger is trying to Kill Prop 19 ... or he just likes to toke

(Newser) - Getting caught with up to an ounce of pot (enough for about 30 joints) in California will get you in about as much trouble as driving a little too fast. What's behind Schwarzenegger's decision to decriminalize recreational pot? The Week takes a look at 5 theories.
  1. He's actually trying to
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CBS Reporter, Wife Busted for Growing Weed

Cops: radio correspondent nabbed with 11 plants

(Newser) - A celebrated CBS reporter and his wife have been arrested in DC for possession of pot and intent to distribute, reports Radar . Howard Arenstein, a correspondent for CBS Radio News, and his wife, Orly Azoulay, a correspondent for an Israeli newspaper, were busted for growing 11 marijuana plants (average height:...

Drug Smugglers Burrow Under Border

Arizona town stands over network of tunnels to Mexico

(Newser) - Drug smugglers have found a new way to sneak their merchandise across the US-Mexico border : Under it. The heart of the burrowing business are the Nogales—two towns bearing the same name on either side of the border, notes the New York Times . There, in an old network of drainage...

California's Pot Crop Draws Thieves, Violence

'Just legalize it already,' says one local

(Newser) - In California's conservative Central Valley, legions of recession-hit farmers are growing medical marijuana legally. But protection from the law can't keep robbers at bay, and there have been at least five confrontations in the last month, two of which were fatal, notes the Los Angeles Times . In one incident, a...

In California, Pot Possession Is Now Like a Traffic Ticket

Having less than an ounce is just an infraction

(Newser) - California residents caught holding small amounts of marijuana are now barely criminals in the eyes of the law. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into effect a measure that downgrades possession of less than an ounce from a misdemeanor to a lowly infraction, on par with a speeding ticket, the San Francisco Chronicle...

Schwarzenegger Opposes Pot Legalization
Schwarzenegger Opposes Pot Legalization
OPINION
Sep 24, 2010 11:49 AM CDT

Schwarzenegger Opposes Pot Legalization

Prop 19 would make state a 'laughingstock,' Governator writes

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, who just last year called for debate on legalizing pot, has come out against Proposition 19, a ballot initiative that would do just that. “Any patrol officer, judge or district attorney will tell you that Proposition 19 is a flawed initiative that would bring about a host...

Pot Growers Join Teamsters Union

It's unclear how unionizing will help though

(Newser) - Medical marijuana growers have officially joined the ranks of organized labor—as part of the Teamsters. Almost 40 growers jointed the labor union earlier this month, the AP reports. All of them work for Marjyn Investments, an Oakland business that contracts out pot growth for patients. Thanks to their newly-negotiated...

Mother Records 2-Year-Old Smoking Weed: Cops

Jessica Gamble faces 11½ years in prison

(Newser) - An Ohio woman encouraged her 2-year-old daughter to smoke pot, made a cellphone video of the child puffing on a joint, and now faces three felony charges and as much as 11½ years in prison, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. "It’s beyond disgusting,” the prosecutor says of the...

Drug Use Hits 8-Year High
 Drug Use Hits 8-Year High 
Sep 16, 2010 1:19 AM CDT

Drug Use Hits 8-Year High

Marijuana, meth, ecstasy use up, cocaine down

(Newser) - Illegal drug abuse in America has soared to its highest rate in almost a decade, according to a government report which finds marijuana, methamphetamine, and ecstasy use surging, but cocaine declining. Some 21.8 million Americans used illegal drugs last year, a 9% increase from the year before and the...

Barbara Boxer Aide Busted for Pot

He's caught trying to bring it into Senate office building

(Newser) - Oops. An economics adviser to Barbara Boxer got caught trying to sneak some pot into a DC Senate office building and promptly resigned. His arrest—he tried to "remove and conceal" the marijuana while going through security—comes just ahead of California's proposition to legalize the stuff. Boxer, incidentally,...

LA: Only 41 Pot Dispensaries Can Stay Open

City facing flood of lawsuits after strict ruling

(Newser) - Los Angeles may soon be facing a major shortage of marijuana dispensaries. City officials have taken a much stricter than expected approach to an ordinance regulating dispensaries and ruled that only 41 can stay open—less than a quarter of the 180 who were allowed to apply for permits to...

Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads
 Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads 
Aug 25, 2010 1:43 PM CDT

Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads

Dubs image 'illegal content'

(Newser) - You might think Facebook, a site that got its start catering to college kids, would be marijuana-friendly—but you’d be wrong. The social networking giant has rejected an advertisement from the “Just Say Now” legalization campaign, explaining that it contained the image of a marijuana leaf, and thus...

In the Works: Electric Car Made From Cannabis

But no, you can't smoke it

(Newser) - Looking for the ultimate pothead ride? How about an environmentally-friendly car that is literally made of hemp? Canada’s Motive Industries has announced that it is working on just such a miracle of science. Its Kestrel model is a fully electric car constructed from a biocomposite made of cannabis, Fast...

Seshroulette: Chatroulette for Pot Smokers

'Never Smoke Alone—Enjoy Seshes With Randos!'

(Newser) - Lonely stoners have a new option for finding fellow tokers: Seshroulette , a random video-chat site similar to Chatroulette but for marijuana smokers. Promising enjoyable "seshes with randos," Seshroulette is officially only for users of medical marijuana, but it's populated with potheads from around the country. The Daily Beast's...

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