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Reefer-tax madness | DMV revises guidelines on medical marijuana | You Can Have Your Medical Marijuana If You Give Me Your Gunna

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Legal pot: Bill sees cash harvest for state - read AB 390 - click here

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Spiking of organic fertilizer under fire | Marijuana Porn: 12 strains of medical pot and how they heal

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It's Not Just About Getting High - Seven Marijuana Stocks

National News:

• Medical Marijuana Push Gaining Steam - 420 Magazine
• Barack Obama and Medical Marijuana (interview Q&A) | Stop Smoking Blog
• Medical marijuana law is imperfect
• Panel OKs medical marijuana expansion
• Medical-marijuana law expansion advances
• Legislature 2009: Medical marijuana measure advances
• Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient
• Medical marijuana bill clears Senate; House is
• AG Holder Puts A Stop to Medical Marijuana Raids
• Holder says Feds will stop medical marijuana raids - War Room ...
• Obama Admin to Put a Stop to Medical Marijuana Raids ...
• Media Advisory: Medical Marijuana Patients React to New "American 
• Marijuana debate flames on to national level
• Medical marijuana: Is this now an American policy?
• US to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states
• Hemp For Victory Now!: Is Hemp Now Legal?
• US states mull weed to ease deficit pain
• Obama stops medical marijuana raids
• Memo: US atty banned charges on medical marijuana

California News:

• It’s high time to legalize pot in California - 2-23-09
• Legal pot: Bill sees cash harvest for state - 2-23-09 - Sacramento Bee
• Gavin's Pot Stance: Will it fly in the gov's race?
• Medical Marijuana Author Endorses Craig X Rubin for Mayor
• CA: Father’s Medical Marijuana Use Poses Threat to Children
• Fun With California’s Marijuana Laws
• California Assemblyman Announces Bill to Tax Marijuana
• The Dangers Of California-Style Marijuana Dispensaries.
• Legalize MJ and Reap The Revenues for California
• DMV gives the high sign for medical-pot use - The Garden's Cure
• California DMV: Licenses can't be revoked over medical marijuana
• Medical marijuana in California: a history
• New marijuana bill can fetch $1 billion tax revenues to government
• Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy?

Thought & Philosophy

• Should the state take over growing and distributing medical pot?
• Medical pot users concerned about possible state control

State News:

• RX Marijuana Measure Advances
• Missoula officials give take on medical marijuana
• NM adds 7 conditions to medical marijuana coverage
• Hawaii Legislature needs prodding on medical marijuana ...
• Lawmakers speak on medical marijuana
• Dispensary initiative cure for medical pot issues?
• State Capitol Q&A: Medical marijuana back up for debate in Senate
• Session Daily - Health - Minnesota House of Representatives
• Med. marijuana passes state house committee
• WA lawmakers consider expanding marijuana law
• Medical Pot Bill In WA Legislature Could Lead To More Access
• Medical Marijuana (HB 164) Needs Your Support
• Missouri Drug Policy Reform Conference pushes for change
• Lawmakers sniff out pros, cons of medical cannabis bill at Capitol
• Montana: Senate OKs bill tweaking medical-marijuana program ...
• The Session, 2009: Senate gives final OK to medical marijuana bill
• Minnesota House Committee Passes Medical Marijuana Bil
• Marijuana Bill Passes State Senate
• NJ: NJ Senate Approves Medical Marijuana Bill - Marijuana.com
• State should OK medical marijuana
• Medical Marijuana Bill Passes New Jersey Senate
• NJ gov says he'd sign medical marijuana law
• Medical Marijuana is Legalized in New Jersey | 1800blogger
• Corzine Says He Would Sign Medical Marijuana Law | Weberence.com
• Multiple ideas floated on revising Oregon’s medical marijuana law
• Iowa medical marijuana bill SF293 introduced
• Question of the week: Leniency on medical marijuana good for state?
• Bill would license dispensaries to sell medical marijuana
• Illinois Legislative Panel Okays Medical Marijuana
• 'Hysteria over nothing'? Controversial Michigan medical marijuana
• Garden State to decide whether smoking marijuana is medicinal
• NH House weighing medicinal marijuana bill
• Iowa state senator seeks to legalize medical marijuana conditions
• Ore. needs to clarify medical marijuana laws, activists say
• Medical Marijuana Passes Another Hurdle At State Capitol
• Iowa lawmakers consider medical marijuana bill
• IA Lawmakers Consider Medical Marijuana Bill (AP) | KSFY.com ..
• Medical marijuana gains momentum across New England
• Could Medical Marijuana Soon be Legal in New Jersey?
• Bill proposed to legalize medical marijuana
• Oregon House bill would tax medical marijuana
• Reality Check: Medical Marijuana Path To Approval?
• Oregon should grow and sell pot to medical users, lawmakers say
• Medical marijuana bill advanced in the Senate
• Iowa Looks Into Medical Marijuana
• Attempt to legalize marijuana for medical use in Iowa fails again ...
• Minnesota Bill Passes Another Senate Hur

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Local News: Grass-roots effort: Village legalizes medical marijuan Medical marijuana law to kick in April 4 Palm Springs council to vote on medical marijuana law Southwest Missouri Town Legalizes Medicinal Marijuana Paul Stanford Discusses Increasing Medical Marijuana Acceptance in ... PS City Council to vote on medical marijuana ordinace Media Advisory: New Jersey Senate to Vote on Medical Marijuana on Cliff Village residents voice objection to ordinance publicity  California Mendocino County Under Medical Marijuana Seige Now Hidden Valley Lake Association concerned about medical marijuana ... Arroyo Grande medical marijuana dispenser heads Los Angeles protest KNCO Newstalk Radio - Nevada County Approves a Medical Marijuana . Fort Collins Police Warn Residents About Home Invasions the ... Arroyo Grande medical marijuana dispenser heads Los Angeles .. Pasadena class teaches how to legally dispense marijuana Local medical-pot laws likely to stay in place Palm Springs' dispensary ordinance goes to second reading Springfield police narcotics agents raid ‘medical marijuana club’ Medical marijuana rulemaking hearing postponed Town Votes To Snuff Marijuana Clinics - 420 Magazine

Medical Conversation(s)& Health

• Medical Marijuana Research Has Taken a New Direction This Century
• Semi-new MJ user-chronic pain-Questions - Stoner Forums
• The Miracle of Medical Marijuana, Part II 
• Smoking marijuana harms kids, adults
• Marijuana and nutrition; does it really help?
• Marijuana ingredient cuts lung cancer growth, spread 
• Medical uses of marijuana disputed
• Marijuana use and testicular cancer
• Marijuana As Gateway Drug - Is It Still One? Was It Ever ..\
• Marinol/Pure THC May Cause Testicular Cancer
• E Medical Marijuana Doctors
• Marijuana: The miracle drug
• Conditions Added To Medical Marijuana Coverage - Health News Story ...
• Marijuana: The miracle drug
• My trip to the Medical Marijuana doctor
• Adverse Effects of Marijuana: People Using Medical Cannabis Must ..
• Medical Marijuna - Good and Bad
• Getting a Medical Marijuana Card - Cannabis Forums Message Boards ...
• Think Outside the Cage: Medical Marijuana - Action Alert
• Medical Marijuana MD Referral
• The Science of Medical Marijuana
• Illegal Drugs: Part Six -- Medical Marijuana and the ...
• Marijuana Misinformation & Incredible Duplicity by a Money Grubing ...
• The Facts About Medical Marijuana
• Medical Marijuana Benefits
• Putting pot under the microscope
• The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana
• Rheumatoid Arthritis and Marijuana Benefits
• Medical Marijuana Blog: Marijuana Uses - Marijuana as Medicine
• Institute Of Medicine Report On Medical Marijuana Celebrates 10 ..
• Medical Marijuana Q&A: The Doctor is In

International :

• Clarification demanded on where medicinal marijuana smokers can ... - Canada
• No dispensaries for Trinidad - Times-Standard Online
• Think Outside the Cage: Some Find Hope For Shift In US Drug Policy
• Medical Marijuana OK in Israel and Germany, US Stuck in 1937
• Canadian Couple Lose Children over Medical Marijuana Garden
• US debates on whether to legalize medical marijuana uses - China
• Discussing marijuana - Canada
• Ont. wants federal government clarity on medical marijuana use - Canada

Growing: & Maximizing Effects:

• Maximize Your Marijuana High
• Medical Marijuana Education
• Growing Pot for Research
• Cloning Cannabis Plants
• The Organic Writer: HYPER AMERICAN
• Medical Marijuana Cultivation 101: part 1 of 2
• Marijuana Growing
• Medical Growers.. - Marijuana Growing
• Shrooms in Cali - Marijuana Growing
• Morphine Sulfate Recall: Need a reason for medical marijuana
• Marijuana Porn: 12 strains of medical pot and how they heal
• Depression relief - Marijuana Growing
• Medical Marijuana Cultivation 101: part 1 of 2
• How does your Medical Marijuana garden grow ?
• The economics of growing medical pot
• hydroponics
• 'Growing Problem' Seen In Indoor Pot Grows

Court & Legal:

• Case centers on how kid came across pot brownie
• 'Guru of Ganja' mounts second court appeal.
• More pot cases coming to courts
• Nurse sues to prescribe marijuana
• Religious freedom at center of pot case
• Owner of Calif pot shops given 5-year sentence
• Two face arraignment in medical marijuana case
• Opening A Medical Marijuana Patient ID Center
• DMV sued over medical marijuana
• Prop 215/MMJ Case Law CA - Cannabis Forums Message Boards ...
• Tenant can't force landlord to OK growing marijuana
• Loretta Nall: Medical Marijuana Letter Writing Campaign

Of Interest:

• Medical Marijuana Raises Questions
• A Gallery of Medical Marijuana
• Opium Trading in India
• Holocaust survivors' party teams up with pro-marijuana offshoot - Israel
• The perils of putting morality ahead of medicine
• Panel Kills Effort to Expand Medical-pot Law 
• Hugh Hefner's New Twins Need Medical Marijuana?

Books, Publications, Shows, Movies & Reviews:

• "Waiting to Inhale" Screening
• The Truth About Medical Marijuana (video) - Dedicated to Cannabis
• Medical Marijuana: A History - 420 Magazine
• Marijuana Journal
• Links to the best Goddamn Cannabis Movies online
• Medical Marijuana and Marijuana internet radio show 1/30/2009 .
• Music: Medicine Man - “Cuz I’m Medicated” | NORML's Daily Audio Stash
• Marijuana Journal
• Medical Marijuana Documentary “Waiting to Inhale”
• Audience Packs Library for Medical Marijuana Film
• Rest In Peace - George Carlin: Should Cannabis Be Legal?

Groups:

• LA TACO » Union of Medical Marijuana Patients
• Coalition for Medical Marijuana--New Jersey, Inc. February 2009 ...

Thought Provoking :

• Will Pot And Hookers Help Rescue Californias
• Kiwi Growers - Cannabis Forums Message Boards - Medical Marijuana

Misc. Stories:

• Local grandmother says medical marijuana prolonged daughter's life
• Medical Pot Traded for Cash Near Dutch Bros, Handgun in Another Deal
• Another Voice - Illegal growers won't be ignored
• Michael Phelps puts a face to a smoking injustice
• Marijuana stores will increase crime, local budgets and Property Taxes 
• Medical Marijuana Awareness Week
• Reefer-tax madness
• You Can Have Your Medical Marijuana If You Give Me Your Gun
• Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes
• Man wants old Montana street bulbs to grow pot