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Former Mexican President, Vincente Fox, Blames U.S. for Mexican Drug War Casualties

Vincente Fox spoke with the BBC’s Katty Kay about Mexico’s War on Drugs. Since 2006, when Fox was replaced by Felipe Calderon as President of our neighbors to the south, there are have been 45,000 deaths during battles with the drug cartels. To place that in context, there were 58,000 U.S. soldiers killed in our [...]

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Important Side Effects of Cannabis

Toke of the Town had a lovingly sardonic post about the side effects of marijuana cannabis. This was a nice reminder that toking ganja is at once relaxing and also helpful for your “bliss within.” Check out the funny asides, and my own after the jump.

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Cars and Cannabis

A new study from Dr. Guohua Li, professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, found that 30% of fatally injured drivers tested positive for drugs other than alcohol. Cannabis was the main culprit. Lets go over the study, and then I’ll lay waste to it with anecdotes and simple logic.

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California Medical Association Calling For Medical Cannabis

Despite the rash of dispensary raids in California headed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the California Medical Association has come out in favor of medical cannabis. Perhaps most surprising is that despite its call for the legalization of cannabis, California doctors still find cannabises effects of questionable medical value. Huh?

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Will Amsterdam’s Attempts to Curtail “Liberalism” Hurt Tourism and Increase Drug Violence?

We’ve mentioned the coming apocalypse for American college students hellbent on cannabis and other pharmacological delights in the most progressive nation on earth, but the call for imposing laws on the cannabis practices in the Netherlands isn’t going away as Christian Democrats gain more and more power power in a Dutch government fractured by multiple [...]

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Federal Government Doesn’t Care About Legality of California’s Medical Cannabis

U.S. Attorney’s have issued a crackdown on the California [Medical] Cannabis trade. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner claims the new raids and arrests have resulted in “hundreds of pounds of marijuana, tens of thousands in plants, and thousands in cash.” Yeah, that’s because it’s legal to buy and sell cannabis for medical purposes under California state [...]

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If You Smoke a Ton of Cannabis You Could Be a Star on MTV!

I’m old in comparison to most HMJ readers and writers, and I’m unfamiliar with current MTV programming. The popular Music Television station has long since passed it’s position as the zeitgeist of popular teenager  twee culture mid cult, but that doesn’t mean they’re totally bankrupt…of ideas. They’re currently looking for “Marijuana [sic] addicts” for an [...]

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Marijuana Prohibition

Former Police Agree Prohibition of Cannabis Doesn’t Work

Police officers are sometimes the primary antagonists in the war on drugs, specifically the war on small-time cannabis possession. It’s their job to be. That doesn’t mean they’re all happy about it. Since the police ride the front lines on this supposed “war,” many of them have grown leery of the hypocrisy inherent in the [...]

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America Still Locking Up Non-Violent Cannabis Users in the ‘War’ on (Passive Tokers)

The FBI released the Annual Uniform Crime Report [<---this is a link you can click to see the report commenters] on Monday, and as noted in the NORML blog and Drug Warrant  853,838 people were arrested for cannabis in 2010. It’s one of the highest numbers ever recorded, and it’s almost identical to the number [...]

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Follow Road Regulations When You Have Pounds of Cannabis in the Car

Former Reggae star, Denroy Morgan, was busted going through a red light when police found 25 pounds of marijuana in his car. This led to a series of events which netted the NYPD over 300 lbs of ganja, and forever sullied the name of 1980′s reggae stars who are attempting to become cannabis kingpins in [...]

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