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Medical Marijuana a Cash Crop for Newspaper Ads

In Colorado, California and Montana, where medical marijuana is legal, newspapers are enjoying increased ad revenue for this emerging market. This is most valuable at a time when newspapers are hurting for advertising, particularly classified ads, which have plummeted with the rise of online services like Craigslist.

Be Part of History -- Help Legalize Marijuana in California!


Watch the instructional video and start making calls today!

Hi Friends,

You can use your phone to directly help legalize marijuana!

Our Just Say Now Phonebank is a virtual system that provides you with a free, quick & easy way to reach individual voters in states voting on marijuana initiatives.

There are thousands of voters in Arizons, California, Oregon and South Dakota who need to hear from you, and we need your help. 

Help us end the war on marijuana - start calling voters in support of marijuana reform today. Click here to start calling: http://go.firedoglake.com/

Ourgoal is to call 100,000 voters in California in the next 30 days.  If 5,000 people call 20 voters each, about 5 calls per week, we can reach that goal.  You don't have to do it all yourself, though - pass this email to your friends and ask them to call.

Each call just takes a few minutes, and you can start calling voters with just your email address or Facebook account. There's evena video that explains how to call, step by step.

If you're in an SSDP chapter, you can earn points and compete with other chapters everytime you call or rectruit people to your chapter's team. Points are updated in real time on our leaderboard!

Voicing your support for this issue has never been easier or more urgently important, so start calling voters today.

Let's make history, let's make marijuana legal. 

Aaron Houston

Exectutive Director
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
 

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Please help us grow our grassroots movement to end the failed War on Drugs by inviting family and friends to join. http://www.ssdp.org/invite

 

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Crazy Man Leads Opposition to Marijuana Legalization in California, Part II

Bishop Ron Allen is seriously one of the best things to ever happen to the marijuana legalization debate. In all my years of marijuana reform advocacy, I've never seen an opponent so unhinged, so incoherent and intoxicated by his own idiocy. Just watch this FOX News debate with MPP's Steve Fox and see if you can figure out what the hell Bishop Allen is trying to say:

Royal Castle Square, Warsaw
Royal Castle Square, Warsaw

Poland Shutters Synthetic Drug Shops

The Polish government is cracking down on new synthetic drugs and wants the power to pull from the shelves any product that could be harmful to health or life. It didn't mention Polish vodka, though.

English Soccer and Cricket Unions Want to Stop Recreational Drug Testing

The player unions representing soccer players and cricketers in England have called for recreational drugs to be removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency's prohibited list. "For the number of players who have tested positive for cocaine, the consequences are far from performance-enhancing and the outcomes in the majority of cases have been very negative," said John Bramhall, deputy chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association. Ian Smith, the Professional Cricketers' Association's legal director, agreed that recreational drug use isn't usually about gaining an unfair advantage, saying "Marijuana is not a big issue with cheating in sport -- let's get it off the (WADA) list."

Marijuana: the Victimless Crime That Costs New York State $15 Billion a Year (Opinion)

Kristin Davis opines that there is one fact that Americans, and New Yorkers, must face (as it slaps us in the face): Prohibition hasn’t stopped the use and domestic production of marijuana. Marijuana is currently used by over 25 million Americans annually and cannabis is the largest cash crop in the United States. In fact, the only thing prohibition has done for the people of New York is cost them a huge amount of money — somewhere in the ballpark of $10-15 billion a year.

Council Could Make New SWAT Policy Permanent

The idea of making recent changes to Columbia police SWAT policy permanent could move ahead this week. Soon after police Chief Ken Burton made SWAT policy changes in May in response to a controversial February drug raid on Kinloch Court, Columbia resident Holly Henry requested that the council and the review board put the new policy into a city ordinance.

Portland Wants Random Drug Testing of Officers

The union representing Portland police officers is pushing back against a proposal that would require random drug testing of police officers. Portland Police Association attorney Will Aitchison said the random testing proposal would violate the officers’ right to privacy.

Thousands March on Wisconsin State Capitol to Demand Cannabis Legalization

Yesterday marchers made the annual trek from Library Mall at one end of State Street to the Wisconsin State Capitol. Longtime Harvest Fest organizer Ben Masel estimated that around 3,200 people paraded this year. Not only were crowd numbers up, but attendees seemed very enthusiastic about flexing the activist muscles gained in the fight for medical cannabis in Wisconsin.
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