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February 05, 2009 Medical marijuana has become a growth industry in Colorado By Joel Warner Westword Michael Lee tends to his latest crop of medical marijuana. Scott Carr (above) is the THC Foundation's regional manager in Colorado; Warren Edson (right) co-authored the state's medical...

Thursday, January 8, 2009 America begins to ease up on marijuana smokers By Ian Mulgrew, columnist The Vancouver Sun Barricade the border, America is going to pot. For years we've heard Canada couldn't liberalize its marijuana laws without inciting a crackdown by U.S. authorities and...

Monday, January 5, 2009 Taking the fun out of pot Low rates of use in the Netherlands demonstrate that the best way to assure teens will try marijuana is to tell them it's illegal By Connie Littlefield The Ottawa Citizen Although the Dutch system of cannabis regulation works pretty...

September 11, 2008 Marijuana Could Be a Gusher of Cash If We Treated It Like a Crop, Not a Crime Economists estimate tens of billions for governments if we taxed pot like tobacco and stopped wasting money on the drug war. By Steven Wishnia AlterNet If marijuana were legal but taxed like...

Sep 9 2008 Pot users share high times online Web Scout LA Times Blog Dave Warden self-medicates on L.A. pot show "The Weed Report." Bong Rip of Bong TV Live. (Image courtesy Bong Rip) By the time we began the interview, Bong Rip had absorbed quite a bit of THC. I’d been watching...

Sunday, July 20 2008 Why smoking a joint could be the wolf in sheep's clothing Cannabis does far more harm to your brain than you might think, says Dr Harry Barry The Sunday Independent (Ireland) RECENT research from Trinity College, Dublin, into the effects of chronic use of cannabis...

Sunday, July 20, 2008 Teenagers trying out soft drugs isn’t so bad for them - or for us Face it, a joint may be a lesser menace than binge drinking India Knight, columnist The Sunday Times (UK) Apart from the fact that it is completely illegal and that I don’t in any sense recommend or...

Now experts say cannabis should be legal Date: 10 June 2008 By David Maddox Scottish Political Correspondent The Scotsman CANNABIS should be legalised and taxed, an influential Scottish think tank recommended yesterday, just weeks after the Government hardened its attitude towards the...

Friday, May 16, 2008 High times for cannabis: Middle class loves it, too A new study says the drug is a hit with all kinds of Canadians. Misty Harris The Ottawa Citizen A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious, but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Right to look anew at law on cannabis By Adam Trimingham The Argus (UK) One of the first big stories I ever covered as a reporter concerned cannabis back in the early 1960s. I was working in Notting Hill where West Indians who liked the drug used to hold pot...

May 10, 2008 New Federal Report on Marijuana Use is Misleading, Groups Say Is this a reaction to the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition? Tim King Salem-News.com (SALEM, Ore.) - A new federal government report on the ill effects of marijuana on teens may be a last ditch...

Saturday, April 26, 2008 Top court puts muzzle on police sniffer dogs Rulings to end routine searches in public places Janice Tibbetts The Ottawa Citizen There will likely be a lot fewer scent-sniffing dogs routinely sticking their noses in public places following a Supreme Court of...