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California Endures Another Summer of Outdoor Marijuana Raids [FEATURE]

For nearly 30 years, the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting has waged a quixotic battle to eradicate California's outdoor marijuana industry. It's at it again this year.

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"Just Say Now" Marijuana Legalization Push Gets Underway [FEATURE]

A "transpartisan" effort to push marijuana legalization and get out the vote in November got its official kick-off Tuesday.

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Marijuana Legalization Trails in Nevada Poll

The Marijuana Policy Project and its Nevada affiliate want a marijuana legalization initiative on the 2012 ballot. A new poll suggests they have a lot of work to do over the next 27 months if it's to pass. Advocates say public education is what it's going to be about.

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Just Say Now: It's Time to Legalize Marijuana

FireDogLake and Students for Sensible Drug Policy are officially launching the Just Say Now campaign this week. It's an exciting new effort to amplify the marijuana legalization debate and bring out the vote leading up to California's Prop 19 in November, as well as future initiatives in 2012.

Election Day is only three months away!

Prop 19 Trumps Opposition in Fundraising

Three months out from election day, California's Prop 19 marijuana legalization campaign is out-fundraising the opposition by better than ten-to-one. And unlike the opposition, a chunk of Prop 19's money is in the form of small donations from the grassroots.

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If You Like Cartoons and Hate Marijuana Prohibition, You'll Love This

Pete Guither at Drug War Rant calls it an "absolutely brilliant video." Jon Berry at MPP says it's "a must-watch for marijuana policy reform activists." And I think it's pretty good, too. This is called The Flower by Haik Hoisington and it deserves all the viral traffic it's been getting:

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How Can We Prevent Pot Growing in Our National Forests?

There is some seriously messed up stuff going down in the woods:

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Are Opponents of Marijuana Legalization Getting Dumber?

The opposition to Prop. 19 in California would like you to believe that marijuana rots your brain. So it's just a bit ironic that the people writing their slogans couldn't pass a 3rd grade English class.

If Calif. legalizes marijuana, not clear what Obama administration would do

Is the Obama Administration hinting at a change in federal marijuana policy? Speaking in Fresno, Drug Czar Kerlikowske pointed to how state and local jurisdictions have dealt with the state's legalization of medical marijuana, saying they are "doing a really good job of licensing, land use, those kind of regulations."

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Rasmussen Poll Finds 43% Favor Marijuana Legalization, 42% Oppose

Support for pot legalization remains in the forties, but is higher than opposition and is trending upward, according to the latest Rasmussen poll.

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