The highest grade (an "A+") went to U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who said last May that he supports medical marijuana "without reservation." Following close behind in the grading were former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) -- receiving an "A" -- and U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) -- with an "A-" -- both of whom indicated support for federal medical marijuana legislation. On the next tier were retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark (D-AR) -- earning a "B+" -- and the Rev. Al Sharpton (D-NY) -- earning a "B" -- who also pledged to stop the raids.

Front-runner and former Governor Howard Dean (D-VT) received a "D-."

originally posted by xowie

Great L.A. Times feature on industrial hemp.

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America just loooves marijuana and porn! (fark)

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Today is 4/20.

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It won't help him at the polls, but Pat's message has penetrated the smoky haze and captured the imagination of the stoner demographic.

To them he offers the promise not of a chicken in every pot, but of a pot sign for anyone who isn't chicken to grab one.

"It seems the younger generation has decided that being a stoner is cool," said Pat, who was born a Stoner and will die a Stoner. He is running for re-election as alderman.

"It's irritating," he said. "They're $4.87 apiece with the wires."

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Think of the number of police officers, judges, lawyers and prison guards — not to mention prison construction firms and other providers of basic prison services — who are employed through marijuana's criminalization. It is apparent by any measure that the marijuana laws are more harmful to society and to the individual than the behavior they are attempting to regulate.

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"It isn't about being drug free," Cowan argues. "It's about being free."

originally posted by daiichi

If you want to know what marijuana is like, ask your co-workers. Or your neighbors. Or fellow PTA members. You won't be hard-pressed to find someone who knows.

Marijuana possession is lawful in Canada, maybe.

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Profile of “marijuana madonna” Renee Boje.

originally posted by xowie

The Corrals’ attorney, Ben Rice, said "deputy" status would put WAMM under the provisions of a federal law stating a person can’t be sued for having a controlled substance if he or she is carrying it while "enforcing" local drug laws.

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It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.

"I did smoke a joint and I did inhale,'' he said, taking a jab at President Clinton's famous statement. "The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did. I have never touched it since.''

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Impressions of Amsterdam after the 2001 Cannabis Cup by Spider Robinson.

Bonghit sanctuary.

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When of tired of playing with Diamonds, Spades, Hearts and Clubs try Joints, Leafs, Bongs and Buds.

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UK potheads celebrate reclassification.

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The official game show of randomWalks just taped a week of shows with rescue workers and firefighters. Take one bong hit every time Bullard says “Tami”.

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Seattle Weekly’s stoner edition.

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One acre of cannabis hemp produces as much paper as 4.1 acres of cut-down trees.

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He inspired this pothead to go to law school.

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GW grows 50,000 cannabis plants a year, at unspecified sites in southern England under glass structures described by Dr Guy as a ‘cross between a spaceship and an operating theatre’.

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Drug czar OK with MMJ.

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The partnership of Cannabis and man has existed now probably for ten thousand years — since the discovery of agriculture in the Old World. One of our oldest cultivars, Cannabis has been a five- purpose plant: as a source of hempen fibres; for its oil; for its akenes or ‘seeds,’ consumed by man for food; for its narcotic properties; and therapeutically to treat a wide spectrum of ills in folk medicine and in modern pharmacopoeias.

The amount of time depicted is so great that the record at [the La Brea tar pits] began one-hundredth of an inch from the end of the ribbon.

“According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the [tradition] began in the California city of San Rafael in the early 1970s, when a small group of high school students called the Waldos began gathering every day at 4:20 p.m. to toke up at the foot of a statue of Louis Pasteur.” Apparently lots of people got high yesterday.