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Billboard Posted in Front of Denver Broncos Stadium Calls on NFL to Stop Punishing Players for Using Marijuana

A press conference was held in Denver today.

(DENVER) - A billboard calling on the National Football League to stop punishing players for using marijuana was posted Wednesday in front of Sports Authority Field at Mile High, just one day before the Denver Broncos host the first NFL regular season game of the year.

The 48-foot-wide Broncos-themed billboard highlights the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol and urges the NFL to "stop driving players to drink" with harsh penalties for marijuana use, noting that, "A safer choice is now legal (here)."

Feds Take 1^st Step To Sane Policy on Cannabis

Steve DeAngelo Responds to DOJ Memo on Guidance for Marijuana Enforcement.

(OAKLAND) - The United States government finally took a historic step back from its long-running failed drug war on Thursday.

Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.

Marijuana Dangers and the Oregonian Newspaper: Petty, Puerile, Pernicious Propaganda

Hoorah for the new marijuana laws!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Oregonian has been bitching about marijuana as medicine from the word “GO”. Every step toward allowing patients to use medicine has been met with a barrage of falsities and half-truths which their staff purported as fact. There have been a few factual statements but then some negative aspect has been thrown in.

Apparently the words pot, pothead, pot doctors and pot patients is at the front of their dictionaries because they use them so much.

Senator Leahy Schedules Hearings on Marijuana, Calls for Federal Respect for State Laws

Attorney General Holder Invited to Hearing Scheduled for September 10.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today Senator Patrick Leahy (D – VT) invited Attorney General Eric Holder to a September 10 hearing to clarify the federal response to states that have passed marijuana laws in conflict with federal policy.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and Colorado and Washington last year became the first places in the world to legalize and regulate marijuana for personal use.

Reverend Healer Carl Olsen, a True Cannabis Freedom Fighting Warrior

Cannabis has been used as a sacrament for thousands of years. Why would now be any different?

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Many moons ago, you may have heard of the "Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church" - this reporter became a member back at the age of 14. It is a renown church formed in Jamaica but that began spreading it's membership throughout the US in the 1980's.

Reverend Carl Olsen is a priest of the church, and is the first minister to be sentenced to federal prison for the promotion of cannabis as sacrament in religion.

Feds Force Security and Armored Car Companies to Stop Servicing the Cannabis Industry

DEA puts public safety and lives at risk.

(OAKLAND) - On the heels of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s endorsement of medical cannabis, and Eric Holder’s speech advocating reform of the War on Drugs, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has informed security and armored car services that they can no longer render services to state-legal cannabis providers

The list includes the country’s largest model cannabis dispensary, Harborside Health Center in Oakland and San Jose, California.

Hawaii Cannabis Minister Granted the Right to Assert Religious Defense in Federal Proceedings

Three Years in a Federal holding facility, now Rev Christie will finally have his day in court.

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Reverend Christie is the founder of "The Hawaii Cannabis Ministries" (THC Ministries). He has been sitting unwillingly in a federal jail in Hawaii awaiting trial due to his teachings, encouragement and use of cannabis as a sacramental substance with his congregation.

Reverend Christie has been illegally detained in the Hawaiian Federal Correction system despite the promise of Due Process and the right to Speedy Trial in the US court systems since 2009, when his ministries were raided at the hands of state and federal authorities.

Marijuana: Very Good for Insomnia

It’s been known for centuries!

(PORTLAND, OR) - After mulling over the medical uses of marijuana, struck me that many or most of the medical conditions allowing its use left out the most important and most common condition over riding all of the others. IT’S INSOMNIA!

Insomnia probably has a thousand different causes for a thousand different people.

Oregon Governor Signs Marijuana Dispensary Bill into Law

Oregon’s cannabis culture rises to the occasion becoming the 13th state to approve dispensaries

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed the bill legalizing medical marijuana dispensaries today.

Medical marijuana advocates rejoiced as the Oregon House and Senate passed a bill legalizing medical marijuana retail establishments. The bill has been on the governor’s desk since July 10th.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Marijuana and Weed - An Egregiously Disappointing Program

Marijuana helps many diseases.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - All of the hullabaloo advertising Dr. Gupta’s apology for maligning marijuana (cannabis) left a sour taste in the mouth of everybody who knew anything about marijuana. He says, “I had steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana and thought it was fairly unimpressive.” This is an outright fraud. Even a high school Junior knows better than that.

In his own country, India, it has been used as medicine for about 3,000 years. He is supposed to be a scientist, as well as a physician. How can I, or anyone else, accept his apology about marijuana?