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National Marijuana Reform: Steve DeAngelo Releases Statement on Obama`s New Yorker Interview

The political risk of the President taking such actions is at an all time low, with over 50% of Americans supporting full legalization, and close to 80% in favor of medical cannabis.

(OAKLAND) - In response to Obama’s recent comments in the current issue of The New Yorker (1/27/14) on national marijuana reform “to go forward” - national cannabis leader Steve DeAngelo released this statements today.

“President Obama's belated acknowledgement that cannabis has less a less harmful impact on its users than alcohol deserves applause. After all, with that one statement, he has shown more courage on the issue than any President since Jimmy Carter...

Marijuana: Universal Medical Use of an Ancient/Modern Panacea

It is well known that medical marijuana permits have lowered the use and costs of medical treatment for the indigent on welfare, etc. The increased legal use of medical marijuana in Colorado and Washington will definitely decrease medical costs.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The search for a medical panacea has been going on for more than a couple of thousand years. It comes from the Greek language Panakeia who actually was the Greek Goddess of Universal Healing.

In other words, not a real person. She was said to have a poultice or potion, which would heal all diseases. This sounds like marijuana/cannabis to me.

Curtis Keaton Story - Winning !!!

Today's court case proves that the people of California are not willing to convict legal patients that are protected by the law.

(SACRAMENTO) - In Tehama County, Sheriffs deputies have been busy these past couple of years with a string of arrests all aimed at medical marijuana patients.

The most recent target of their war on the legal medical marijuana patients is Curtis Keaton, a disabled man who suffers from muscular dystrophy which is a condition that effects the musculoskeletal system. Curtis was arrested after placing an ad on Craigslist looking for fellow Prop. 215 patients. The person that responded to his ad was anything but a legal patient, rather a sheriff investigator Jeff Garrett.

Talk Nation Radio: After the Legalization of Marijuana

The program's music is from the legendary Duke Ellington.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Jon Walker is a writer and a senior policy analyst at FireDogLake.com and the author of the new book After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy in America.

Program Host David Swanson says in this episode with Jon Walker, he looks into the writer's crystal ball, examining the future of this long criminalized herb in a modern world.

Medical Marijuana: Best for Legal Medical Use

In use for 5,000 years, marijuana has endless health benefits, the ability to help people beat dangerous addictions, and it has never caused a death...

(PORTLAND, OR) - For an article like this, it is important to point out that marijuana / cannabis has been used medically for at least 5,000 years and has never caused death by itself. If it is used together with other drugs acting on the brain, it can do so but never while it is used alone.

Another interesting medical fact is that before 1900, there were about 30 pharmaceuticals prescribed for about 100 different diseases. Today marijuana is used for these same diseases.

Marijuana: Legal Sales Explosion in Colorado and Ignorance Explosion in the New York Times

It was comforting to see that hundreds, if not thousands of media outlets jumped into the fray about Brooks' obvious arrogant ignorance over the subject he foolishly purports to know about.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The week of January 1, to January 8, 2014, brought forward two of the most remarkable advances (?) about marijuana use and its detractors. Colorado's marijuana business is exploding far beyond their marijuana commissioners' feeble minds, to a million dollars worth a day.

It just proves that they didn't know anything about marijuana and its use as medicine.

WATCH: The Daily Show Blasts Cable Anchors Over Unwarranted Legal Pot Hysteria

Stewart: "I guess you could say, you’re a f*cking idiot”

(NEW YORK ) - On Tuesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart weighed in on cable news freaking out over Colorado’s decision to legalize recreational pot. Stewart blasted Fox’ Billy O’Reilly and his “old timey Americana restoration hour,” for saying pot-smoking is “literally Russian roulette.”

“I think the only difference between a bong hit and pointing a loaded gun at your own skull is that the gun can kill you instantly, and must never be criminalized or restricted in any way ever,” Stewart remarked.

Marijuana: Malignant Misinformation in The New York Times

Reporter David Brooks should ignore National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) propaganda.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The New York Times has published some excellent articles about marijuana as medicine, but Mr. Brooks' article is replete with "falsies" direct from NIDA.

His first error from NIDA is that is causes addiction in one of six teenagers. However, about nine percent of teenagers smoke. Nine percent of those become dependent. That is only one percent total.

PETITION FREE the Plant FREE the People FREE the World

REVOKE Hemp/Cannabis Laws and Patents; RESEARCH & REGULATE Hemp/Cannabis---Government funded (For all the suffering over the decades, medically); REMOVE from Scheduled Substances. Enough is Enough...

(WASHINGTON, DC) - It's Time for the People of the World to Take a Stand Together. People's Lives and Health are at Stake. The Planet is at Stake. There is a Solution.

"Too many lives lost already, too many people suffering that shouldn't, too many people cannot afford prescription medication or Cannabis as Medication of choice and it's illegal. It is a plant it should be the people's choice no one Else's. Too much money wasted on a war that should not of happened in the first place."

Marijuana Eruption in Colorado and a Million Dollar Sale

Possible five hundred thousand pot heads.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I hope all users get the joke. There has been too much pejorative comments about patients who use the safest, most effective medicine for their myriad of diseases. It appears that the overseers of the medical marijuana program were surprised that the large number of first day buyers, which numbered around ten thousand people, who purchased about $1,000,000 worth of medicine.

At the same time, the committee made the same foolish mistakes as all of the other state committees. Marijuana IS medicine and should be considered such, like aspirin, which incidentally kills about one thousand people per year. Marijuana kills nobody!