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Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana
Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year. Casias is also a legal medical marijuana patient under Michigan state law. He [...]
Continue reading...Top California official ‘favors’ taxing and regulating marijuana as revenue generator
11. March 2010
For decades, advocates of marijuana policy reform have argued that a regulated and taxed marijuana market would generate revenue for government on the local, state and federal levels. There have even been studies projecting tax revenues from marijuana sales at $6.2 billion and even $31 billion annually. Occasionally – although far too rarely – we have [...]
Continue reading...Another World-Class Athlete Gets Punished for Using Marijuana
11. March 2010
Twenty-four-year-old American Ivory Williams—one of the fastest 100-meter sprinters in the world—will not be allowed to compete on the U.S. Team for this year’s World Indoor Championships. His offense? He tested positive for marijuana. Now Williams, who just last month ran the fastest 60 meters in the world, will be ineligible to compete for the next [...]
Continue reading...NORML Foundation To Relaunch NYC Times Square Ad Campaign — ‘Money Can Grow On Trees,’ Marijuana Legalization Group Announces
11. March 2010
“Money can grow on trees.” That is the message of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Foundation (NORML) in a 15-second digital ad scheduled to debut in New York City’s Times Square next week. The advertisement, produced and paid for by NORML’s educational arm, The NORML Foundation, will air on the CBS [...]
Continue reading...Former Bush Appointee, Prohibitionist Author Now Supports Marijuana Policy Reform
10. March 2010
Talk about seeing the error of his ways. John J. Dilulio, Jr., the man who once co-authored a book with two former drug czars that described America’s drug war as “the most successful attack on a serious social problem in the last quarter-century,” has now reversed course, writing in the journal Democracy that it is “insane” [...]
Continue reading...NORML Launches iPhone Application, ‘Reefer Revolution’ Continues In Cyberspace
10. March 2010
With ‘marijuana’ already one of the most popular topics on the Internet, NORML proudly announces that the ‘Reefer Revolution’ has now found its way into the smart phone technology tsunami that is sweeping the world up into instant access and connectivity to important information and like-minded community. Available for a .99 cent download from the iTunes [...]
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12. March 2010
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