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Hemp’s Hidden Qualities

How well do you know the powers of the cannabis plant?  Do you know about this . . . biodiesel is the name for a variety of oxygenated fuels made from vegetable oils or animal fats. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel that runs in any conventional, unmodified diesel engine. Biodiesel can be used alone [...]

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Let Freedom Ring

OMG Moment! The suits in government have finally passed legislation that will legalize the beautiful leaf in the District! I never thought D.C. (the military state) would allow it before my current, beloved state of New York, but it’s all good. I’m not ‘joning’ on the District. I might even more down there…lol. JK.

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Shaping the Things to Come

Two stories came across the HMJ news desk discussing the birth pains of legalization.  From Ann Arbor, Michigan, we learn of a resolution before the city counsel dealing with the day-to-day workings of legal marijuana.  A meeting of the city’s medical marijuana licensing board was convened in response to concerns raised by several dispensary owners.  [...]

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Some Overdue Good News

We only get this day once every four years, so let’s spend it with some good news.  A second state, Colorado, has joined Washington state in giving its’ citizens the chance to vote for authorizing legal, recreational cannabis.  “This could be a watershed year in the decades-long struggle to end marijuana prohibition in this country,” [...]

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Video: Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama Talk About Their Marijuana Use

The last 3 Presidents have admitted to trying marijuana and Obama has admitted to inhaling. I’m a pothead for life. Because I have a record of possession of cannabis. That is the greatest line I have ever heard. I know two of us here at HMJ have been caught. One being myself and the other [...]

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Colorado To Vote On “The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012″

Plus 1 for Colorado and the supporters for getting almost double the amount of signatures needed to get the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 on the ballot. They needed 86,105 and got just about double that amount but about 80,000 were rejected. I wonder why? Much like California’s Prop 19, that unfortunately didn’t [...]

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Getting Ahead of Oursleves

As the first wave of medical marijuana states experience local blow-back and federal interference, New Jersey is slowing things down.  New Jersey is one of 16 states plus Washington, D.C., that allow medical marijuana.  But in NJ it has taken longer than expected to launch its program because “opposition to dispensaries in towns and villages [...]

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This Deserves an Oscar

With the Oscar’s only a few hours past, I would have liked to see some type of award go to the Huffington Post Business section.  They reported on a new study from Norway, 25 years in the making, which admits that it can’t link the its conclusion to the drug’s[cannabis] effects. Nor can it account [...]

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Will of the People?

So Much for Local Laws

As the Obama White House continues its betrayal of states which have chosen to adopt medical marijuana access, the news out of California is not encouraging.  In Cali’s Golden Triangle officials and growers had crafted a registration program for individual plants and their growers.  This plan gave growers some peace of mind, allowed law enforcement [...]

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American Weed (National Geographic Mini-Series)

So I just got word about a new series on national geographic channel that will American Weed goes inside Colorado’s pot culture and explores the legal world of medical cannabis from various perspectives, including the growers, patients and dispensary owners, cops, caregivers and opponents.  It premiered tonight and will on every wednesday at 10 pm. [...]

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