‘Stoner Mice’ Eat Marijuana Evidence At Kansas Police Storage Facility

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Hey, vermin, don’t bogart that evidence!
Wichita police in Kansas are hot on the tail of mice that chewed through bags of marijuana kept in a police storage facility, KMBC reported. The three packages were evidence seized during arrests in 2009.
The rodents apparently nested in the pot and ate some of it. “We’ve got some mice that are stoners,” Police Lt. Doug Nolte said on Thursday. The animals were probably attracted to the scent, he added.
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/stoner-mice-eat-marijuana_n_2552594.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Can’t Deal With Marijuana Protesters, Ditches Public Event

By Chris Roberts
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Protesters will have to make do with this
 
Medical marijuana is not making U.S Attorney Melinda Haag’s life easy. Among Bay Area cannabis advocates, she’s become a loathed figure, scorned and mocked in unflattering effigy. All of this due to her role in the Justice Department’s crackdown on state-legal medical marijuana clubs.
Haag has shut down more than a dozen taxpaying “pot shops” in the Bay Area since October 2011, and is working to add the scalp of Harborside Health Center — the state’s biggest pot club — to her list.
Haag — who, we have been told, is actually a likable person — was scheduled to take time out of her busy day Wednesday to participate in an educational panel at Golden Gate University’s law school. Then the medical marijuana folks got wind of this event and quickly organized a protest in her honor.
Then Haag got wind of this protest and a few hours before she was scheduled to speak, she bailed.
 
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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/01/marijuana_protest_us_attorney_melinda_haag_golden_gate.php

Medical-Marijuana “Vapor Lounge” in West Valley Allows Patients to Toke Up, Rent Bongs and Hang Out

By Ray Stern
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Images: Ray Stern
Patrons at the Arizona Vapor Lounge in the west Valley belly up to a bar covered by bongs, not beer mugs, as a staff member looks on.
 
A group of medical-marijuana dispensary owners at the State Capital yesterday afternoon urged authorities to shut down unregulated cannabis clubs.
 
Meanwhile, up the road in a small, west Valley strip mall, medical-marijuana patients toked up openly in a “lounge” that has the look, feel, and scent of a Dutch coffeeshop.
It’s similar to a drinking establishment, but rented glass bongs rest on the bar instead of mugs of beer. Patrons can buy snacks and sodas, not alcoholic beverages. Colored, dimmed lights hang help provide a mellow atmosphere, A high-def TV plays music from YouTube; and video games are available upon request.
The entrepreneur behind the Arizona Vapor Lounge, BIll Hayes, says his business is a budding franchise: He expects 14 similar lounges across the state to open in the next two months.
 
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2013/01/medical-marijuana_vapor_lounge.php
 

Roger Christie faces more charges

By JOHN BURNETT
Tribune-Herald staff writer

 
Trial has again been delayed for marijuana advocate Roger Christie and prosecutors have filed additional charges against him as well.
Christie, founder of The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, had been scheduled to start trial on Wednesday on federal charges of conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and possess 100 or more marijuana plants, plus manufacturing and possessing with intent to distribute 284 marijuana plants.
Trial is now scheduled for March 19, the seventh trial date set in the case, although it may be delayed further.
 
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http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/christie-faces-more-charges.html
 

Former Congressman Says He’ll Smoke Pot to Honor Bet


 
Former congressman Tom Tancredo says he’ll honor a bet to smoke marijuana.
In a video to promote Colorado’s Amendment 64, which legalized the personal use of marijuana in the state, Tancredo reportedly pledged to smoke pot if the measure passed. Tancredo, a self-professed non-marijuana smoker, supported the measure.
“Look, I made a bet with the producer of the film that if Amendment 64 passed (I did not think it would) that I would smoke pot,” Fox News quotes Tancredo as saying. “I will therefore smoke pot under circumstances we both agree are legal under Colorado law. Hey, it’s better than having to do a stupid dance as [Denver] Mayor [Michael] Hancock must perform as a result of losing a bet on the Broncos beating the Ravens.”
 
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http://www.kmbz.com/pages/15362790.php

Jury acquits Oregon’s Huff – He does admit to smoking marijuana about a week before being charged with driving under the influence

BY JACK MORAN  – The Register-Guard
 
Without a doubt — even a reasonable one — Josh Huff won the day.
After a two-day trial in Eugene Municipal Court, a jury on Thursday found Huff not guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana.
City prosecutors had filed a misdemeanor charge against the University of Oregon football player after he was stopped for speeding and arrested near the UO campus during the early morning hours of March 3, 2012.
The six-person jury deliberated 2½ hours on Thursday before returning its unanimous decision in Huff’s favor.
 
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http://www.registerguard.com/web/updates/29349209-55/huff-jury-marijuana-field-test.html.csp
 

Marijuana’s Medicinal Value Vindicated Once Again, This Time For The Elderly


 
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
Researchers from Tel Aviv University say that smoking a little marijuana could help provide dramatic relief for the elderly who suffer from a variety of chronic ailments.
The scientists tested the effects of marijuana treatment on 19 residents of the Hadarim nursing home in Israel. During the study, the participants reported dramatic physical results, including healthy weight gain and the reduction of pain and tremors.
According to the study authors, the elderly participants also experienced an immediate improvement in their moods and communication skills after smoking cannabis.
 
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112770306/medical-benefits-of-marijuana-elderly-012413/
 

Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati to start medical marijuana biz

By Emily JacksonMetro Vancouver

Marijuana almost cost him an Olympic gold medal, but snowboarder Ross Rebagliati is hopeful the substance could soon earn him millions.
Rebagliati plans to open a medical marijuana franchise under the name “Ross’ Gold” with storefronts in Whistler, Vancouver and Toronto, he announced online Tuesday.
 
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http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/521270/olympic-snowboarder-ross-rebagliati-to-start-medical-marijuana-biz/
 

Buying American

by JEFF PRINCE
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The bar is well stocked at J.R.’s house, nestled quietly in a well-to-do neighborhood not far from downtown Fort Worth. Booze is in short supply — three dusty wine bottles sit forlornly on a shelf. This bar’s bounty is green, red, and gold flowery buds sprinkled on trays and in baby-food-sized jars. It’s a cornucopia of cannabis, enough to make any connoisseur’s toes curl.
Mexican dirt weed?
Not here.
J.R. doesn’t touch it. He’s a trained budtender with a diploma earned at Oaksterdam University, the pot college in Oakland, Calif.  With a second home in California (and a medicinal marijuana permit in that state), J.R. buys nothing but the best pot, hydroponically grown with precise formulas of water, light, temperature, and nutrition for maximum effect. (Like all the pot aficionados interviewed for this story, he asked that his full name not be used.)
 
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http://www.fwweekly.com/2013/01/23/buying-american/