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textWill California's New Medical MJ Regulations Force Closure of All Los Angeles Dispensaries by Brett Stone
The way I read the regulations it appears that there is no way for any of the currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles to comply with the state law and obtain a state license by 2018. Major changes will need to be made for any of the existing dispensaries to comply with the state law and obtain a license to continue operating....
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2015 7:54am PDT
videoDr. Jill Stein speaks out in Ferguson July 25, 2015 (video/mp4 32.7MB) by Jill Stein/IndyRadio edit
How many presidential candidates have visited Ferguson? While there, Jill Stein spoke against systemic racism that leads to fatalities, through forced choices in housing, education, and how we deliver justice. It is amazing she has been painted almost completely invisible by the media - even and especially the "progressive" media....
Posted: Sat, Aug 22, 2015 8:28pm PDT
imageCyprus IndyMedia computers seized illegally by Police; members interrogated and harassed
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by via Cyprus IndyMedia
Following the online publication of an article satyrizing the Minister of Health Philippos Patsalis on July 11, the Cyprus IndyMedia Editorial Collective has been subjected to a series of illegal abuses by State authorities which, so far, have also been shamefully condoned by the lower Courts. We are fighting the case at the Supreme Court and preparing, if need be, to take it to the European Court of Human Rights. o- Editorial Collective founding members Solon Antartis and Petros Evdokas t...
Posted: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 12:07pm PDT
audioDr. Carl Hart at Drug Policy Alliance Conference in NOLA (audio/mpeg 19.3MB) by WTUL News & Views
A Human Rights based approach to drug policy...
Posted: Wed, May 6, 2015 8:15am PDT
textNJ Gov. Christie Claims Cannabis Legalization is "Blood Money" by Clown Award Goes to Christie!
At a recent speech given in a drug treatment facility NJ Gov. C. Christie claims that legalization is "blood money" when in fact the opposite is true. This comedian who plans to run for Pres. in 2016 believes then that there is no blood money made in the illegal status of drugs that spurn the cartels and resulting violence of gang warfare? Am nominating NJ Gov. Chris Christie for the 2016 Cannabis Clown Award for making the most logically fallacious statement thus far in 2016!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 7:29pm PDT
audioWTUL News & Views Interviews Kevin Caldwell of Common Sense NOLA (audio/mpeg 29.2MB) by WTUL News and Views
Interview with Kevin Caldwell leader of Common Sense NOLA, a New Orleans-based advocacy group working toward the establishment of a cannabis marketplace through economic development, education, and legal reform to ensure our community's prosperity and security....
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 7:27am PDT
imageCherán K’eri: Political parties are dead to us in this town
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by El Enemigo Común
In April, the Purépecha municipality of Cherán K’eri, Michoacán is celebrating four years of its uprising to end organized crime in its territory....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2015 3:07pm PST
image43 Students That Do Not Want to Disappear
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by El Enemigo Común
Disappearances are acts of terror intended for those left behind. Today the Mexican federal government has declared the students dead, because since they won't disappear, it is better that people just begin accepting the fact that they are now dead. The Mexican federal governments is like a child with its eyes closed, plugging its ears with index fingers chanting the mantra "Please go away. Please go away. Please go away." The problem is that the problem isn't going away and the Mexican ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2015 7:19pm PST
image43 estudiantes que no quieren desaparecer
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by El Enemigo Común
Las desapariciones son actos de terror destinados a los que se quedan. Hoy el gobierno federal mexicano ha declarado que los estudiantes están muertos, no desaparecidos y que es mejor que la gente comience a aceptar este hecho. El gobierno federal mexicano es como un niño con sus ojos cerrados y sus oídos tapados con los dedos repitiendo "Por favor que desaparezcan. Por favor que desaparezcan. Por favor que desaparezcan." El problema es que los estudiantes no desaparecen y el gobierno ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2015 7:16pm PST
imageSOA Graduate Takes Control of Security in Michoacán, Mexico
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by El Enemigo Común
U.S. Army School of The Americas (SOA) graduate general Pedro Felipe Gurrola Ramírez takes control of security in Michoacan, Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2015 12:44pm PST
imageEgresado de la Escuela de las Americas Toma Control de la Seguridad de Michoacán, México
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by El Enemigo Común
El general Pedro Felipe Gurrola Ramírez un egresado de la Escuela de las Americas del Ejército de Estados Unidos (SOA por sus siglas en ingles), asume control de la seguridad de Michoacán, México...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2015 12:40pm PST
audioWTUL News & Views (audio/mpeg 27.6MB) by WTUL News & Views
"Race, Patriarchy, and Pleasure" Harm Reduction Coalition Podcast #39 from 2011, 30m09s. With Asha Bandele, Drug Policy Alliance and Joyce Rivera, St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction...
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 7:18am PST
imageCannabis Farmers In Lebanon Join Fight Against ISIS
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by John Vibes, The Anti Media
The cannabis farmers in Lebanon are also concerned about ISIS, especially after videos surfaces of alleged ISIS fighters burning cannabis crops in Syria. Now many of the farmers have joined with their former enemies to fight ISIS on the borders of Syria and Lebanon....
Posted: Sun, Nov 2, 2014 1:05am PST
textSaudi Arabia: Four relatives executed for hashish possession amid surge in executions by Amnesty International
The Saudi Arabian authorities must halt all executions, Amnesty International said after four members of the same family were executed today as part of a “disturbing” recent surge in the use of the death penalty in the country....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 10:24pm PDT
documentReport Unveils How DEA Blocked Research and Reclassification of Marijuana, MDMA, Others
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by via MAPS
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) on June 10 released their new report, “The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science”. The report documents a decades-long pattern of systematically obstructing medical research and ignoring scientific evidence....
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2014 1:03pm PDT
audioLouisiana Defenders Collective Interview from WTUL News and Views (audio/mpeg 50.6MB) by WTUL News and Views
News and Views speaks to members of the Louisiana Defenders Collective, going over the holes in the criminal justice system that make their services necessary and the particular pressures put on juveniles in the privatization of the public school system, especially the ways formerly standard in-school behavioral problems have become criminalized....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 7:22am PDT
textArizona State Senator Blocks Funding for Long-Sought Medical Marijuana Research by MAPS
After 22 years of hard-fought efforts, the non-profit pharmaceutical company Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has finally obtained approval from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a FDA clinical trial to examine the medical safety and efficacy of marijuana. The trial would study military veterans suffering from treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet the study’s ability to receive Arizona state funding is in jeopardy d...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 6:55pm PDT
documentACLU's New Online Tool Allows Users to Fight Racial Bias in Marijuana Possession Arrests
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by ACLU
NEW YORK – With today's release of The Uncovery, the American Civil Liberties Union has put its devastating findings on racial injustice and marijuana possession arrests into the hands of web users. In partnership with Interbrand, the ACLU has developed a simple, elegant online advocacy tool, a one-stop shop where users select their own facts, convert them into customized graphic messages, share them on social media, and send them to legislators – all in sixty seconds or less....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 8:21pm PDT
documentD.C. Passes Marijuana Decriminalization as Step Toward Racial Justice
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by ACLU
WASHINGTON, DC – On March 4, the District of Columbia City Council passed legislation to remove criminal penalties from the possession of marijuana in amounts of one ounce or less. The bill would treat such possession as a civil offense, and awaits approval by Mayor Vincent Gray and then Congress. The vote was 10 to 1 with one abstention....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 12:58pm PDT
imageTierra Caliente: The freedom we have now, we haven’t had in twelve years
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by carolina
At the barricades and in the towns, people were enthusiastic about following their own agenda, regardless of whatever plans the State might have....
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 2:50pm PST
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