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A Bong Fit for Mac Lovers

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Ask Cheech and Chong anything you want...

Cheech and Chong are taking over Current and we're taking your questions! They'll... more

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"The Preposterous War on Pot"

Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000... more

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A Nice Story from Texas: What's your toke on this story?

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Legalizing Marijuana in California Could Be Good for the Environment

As of 2006, there were over 21 million marijuana plants harvested in California.... more

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In case you were wondering - Jack Herer Strives To Recover While The Fight For Hemp Goes On

Jack Herer is recovering from a heart attack, but his mission to bring hemp into the... more

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Mr President;can I grow my OWN medicine and stop Terrorism ?

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LOOK :A Positive Cannabis current Story.

my good deed for the day ! rock on guys and gals ! we are winning !

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Is Ending the War on Drugs the Cure for our Economic Woes?

"You hear the argument from every college hippy or your average couch bum that we need to legalize marijuana, and probably think that everyone will turn into a hippy or a useless couch bum if these drugs were legalized.

But what our country needs to take into consideration is, if anyone wants drugs like marijuana or mushrooms, they will get it, legal or illegal. Marijuana especially, spend a day on pretty much any college campus and you will notice that everyone is pretty much doing it from professors to students.

But how could that be? Didn't we declare war on drugs like marijuana?

It is estimated that the War on Drugs has cost this country over 41 billion for the year 2009. And that is a very low ball estimate. When considering costs to aid countries like Mexico and Colombia in stopping drug cartels, the figure is probably close to over a hundred billion.

And that is just to stop the distribution of drugs in this country. If you think of how much illegal organizations like the Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are making every year for the distribution of illegal drugs, the number is way over a hundred billion.

So lets face it, We don't want a country full of drug addicts. And critics fear that if illegal drugs were easier to get that we will increased number of drug users. But that's based on the assumption that people can't take care of themselves. People can, and they will.

So take it from me, I have never used drugs in my life, and don't intend on it. End the War on Drugs. Legitimize the drug trade, and stop the cartels. This is economically and morally responsible in a time where the deficit is approaching 2 trillion.

Please support politicians that truly believe in ending the War on Drugs. Democrats give you the allusion that they want to end it, but lets face it, with control over the House, Senate and the Presidency, the War on Drugs is going on stronger than ever.. Republicans are even worse except for one, Ron Paul. I hope other politicians follow in his lead to end the war on drugs."
- Justin Hillstead, Examiner.com"You hear the argument from every college hippy or your average couch bum that we need... more

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Federal government acknowledges medical marijuana patients rights, what's next?

Lately the world become a little more happy when the Feds decided to recognize the rights of medical marijuana patients and a lot of people have been speculating what will come next. CNN recently talked about legalization and turning cannabis into a commodity, which in the long run is probably not such a bad idea. With all the speculation and the media clamoring for ratings to sell some ad space and some of their television personalities books it amazes me they haven't taken a deeper look at what this potentially means.

Marijuana or Cannabis is a Schedule I drug , meaning three things

" 1. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
2. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
3. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."

Talking about legalizing it right away is ridiculous unless we visit and understand the original hypocrisy of all drug laws in the United States, to ask questions about the federal governments right to interfere with what are ultimately personal decisions that are in line with our personal liberties in a supposed free nation.
Some people hide behind the veil of these medical marijuana laws and abuse them for personal gain, and soon the media will focus on that and begin a negative campaign driving up support for the opposition; most of which are opposed because of a lack of education, or general stubbornness.
The community of "recreational" cannabis users needs to find their own fight in this war, let the medical field remain legitimate or risk a back lash and a battle you will never win. Recent polls found 40% of the public in favor of reform, promising but far from the support needed for real change.
Relaxing the stance on medical users allows recreational users to focus on the hypocrisy of the drugs Schedule I standing and with enough noise could force the governments hand to look at and make a decision on that matter. Steps need to be taken in order to achieve the desired results where we could all grow a few plants in our backyard if we felt like doing so, let's start with step 1 and then worry about steps 2-54.Lately the world become a little more happy when the Feds decided to recognize the... more

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Obama's marijuana policy - What's next?

User current89 pointed us to this story: Obama Issues New Medical Marijuana Policy.... more

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The solution to our environmental woes is to end prohibition: Planting the seeds of their destructio

The best solution to our environmental problems is to end prohibition. There is no... more

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Los Angeles County D.A. prepares to crack down on pot outlets -- latimes.com

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NORML’s 38th Annual Conference: Strung Through The Heart

NORML’s 38th annual conference in San Francisco, convened September 24-26, was the best attended, ever. Held at the Grand Hyatt, downtown, under classic San Fran weather conditions: 78 degrees and sunny, with the fog creeping up over the hills and a river of fog laying atop the water, streaming in from the ocean through the Golden Gate, sailboats, freighters…the sun-drenched surrounding hill…all of which was to be seen from the hotel’s restaurant on the 36th floor. Medicating could be done, down at street level, on the plaza surrounding the hotel. NORML’s annual conference was held downstairs in the grand ballroom and adjoining meeting spaces. Well, my brothers and sisters in the movement to legalize marijuana, we kicked ass this during this amazing weekend!

The caliber of the presenters and breath of topics @ NORML 38.0 was just astonishing; everything from martial artists using cannabis just before the fight for calming and focus, to how current tax court decisions are shaping the trend toward a wider range of services delivered to patients at dispensaries, to a deep and satisfying look into the science of the exceptional safety profile and utility of cannabis as a medicine. And, if you couldn’t have been there in San Francisco with us, now for the very first time in history, you can attend conference from anywhere in the world, free, on the Internet, simply by visiting NORML’s 38th conference broadcast.

I arrived in San Francisco early enough the day before Conference started to do the NORML “walk through” with Grand Hyatt hotel staff. My morning had started at home at 4:00am doing chores before the two-hour drive to the airport, then my flight to SFO and transport to the Hyatt, only to find out that I was one of the 57 attendees who were being bumped to other hotel properties for one night, because a nasty overbooking computer-glitch. The cynical among us made muffled comments that this “glitch” might have something to do with the US Customs Service/Homeland Security Conference in progress at the hotel the day of NORML’s arrival. The overbooking problem ruffled a few feathers, but we got over it quickly and everyone with a reservation at conference was booked onsite by the end of the first day. The Grand Hyatt staff was awesome in dealing with the mess. And after all, really, how can you be in a bad mood anyway, you’re in San Francisco at a NORML Conference???

A tiny case in point: on day 1 of Conference, during our 4:20 afternoon break, as several hundred of us medicated on the plaza, San Francisco’s Thursday Green-Transportation Bike Protest, with police escort, pedaled by, a significant number of their ranks biking buck-naked…

As I lay in bed that night, finally in my rightful hotel room, my head a-buzz with all the people I’d talked to and some of the world’s finest cannabis, I pondered why NORML Conference was so much fun, and why I had gotten such a huge emotional lift from the day’s events. Sure, I was seeing old friends, making new ones, the common struggle and all of that…but as I continued to think about it, I realized that while those were all important elements of it, but they did not account for the power of what I was feeling.

Then it struck me! Just three weekends before NORML’s Conference, over the Labor Day weekend, my wife and I had held our daughter’s wedding on our ranch, with 70 campers and 120 guests for a sit-down dinner under a tent set up next to our home. We had the first rain in 14 weeks and rainbows the day of the ceremony. The feelings I was getting from the first day of NORML’s Conference was something very much akin to those same feelings that welled up inside that big tent during my daughter’s wedding. Yes. NORML, too, was a meeting of family, self-chosen family, the very tip of an iceberg, a worldwide network of people who, with cannabis, are strung through the heart.

The more I thought about all the people I’d talked to that first day, our wheelchair warriors, CONTINUED>NORML’s 38th annual conference in San Francisco, convened September 24-26, was the... more