Obama: Decriminalize not Legalize - A Missed Opportunity
Thursday, during President Obama's online Town Hall, cannabis activists once again sent him an email tsunami regarding cannabis legalization and its potential positive impact on the economy. His...
View ArticleEvolving New World to Greet Obama in London
On his first trip overseas as president, Obama travels to London Tuesday for the Group of 20 economic summit. In the wake of W's foreign policy catastrophe, together with the deepening global...
View ArticleHuff Post To Launch Investigative Fund
I didn't see this matter specifically diaried. If so, pardon the repetition.Today, Arianna Huffington significantly announced that Huffington Post will launch an investigative journalism fund. She...
View Article(UPDATED) Tom Kennedy 1960 - 2009 Artist/Activist Extraordinaire
This past Easter Sunday, the profound Tom Kennedy and his loving family, friends and fans experienced the shock of his life being tragically cut short at Ocean Beach south of the Cliff House and the...
View ArticleDrug Czar: End of War on Drugs Near
In his first interview given Wednesday to the Wall Street Journal, Gil Kerlikowske, our new drug czar, trumpeted the official beginning of the end of the War on Drugs.Follow me over the bump.
View ArticleStates Leading Way on Industrial Hemp
Last week, Maine's Senate passed LD 1159 on a vote of 25-10. The bill would establish a licensing regime for farming industrial hemp. The State of Oregon is also on the verge of passing industrial hemp...
View ArticleCalifornia to Legalize Cannabis in 2010?
Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle reported that a new group, TaxCannabis2010.org, has been formed for the express purpose of getting an initiative on California's November 2010 ballot that would...
View ArticleUpdated - Oregon Resoundingly Passes Hemp Bill
Monday afternoon, on a resounding 46-11 vote, the Oregon House passed a bill clearing the way for licensing industrial hemp farming in the state. Barring a highly unusual veto of a bi-partisan bill by...
View ArticleOakland & Measure F - Harbingers on Cannabis
This Tuesday, we'll discover the results of Oakland's mail-in ballot including Measure F - a 1.8% tax on the gross receipts of all cannabis related business within the city's limits. This is only the...
View ArticleOakland's Measure F Passes Overwhelmingly
The citizens of Oakland today overwhelmingly passed, via mail-in ballot, Measure F - a first of its kind 1.8% local sales tax on medical cannabis sold at the city's four medical cannabis...
View ArticleWhat are These Jokers Talking About?
The San Francisco Chronicle today ran a front page, above the fold piece on the 2010 California gubernatorial (potential) candidates' opinions on legalizing cannabis. While the opinions themselves...
View ArticleIconic SF Public Art Piece - Defenestration - Saved
13 years ago San Francisco public artist Brian Goggin inspired 100 or so of his friends to turn the exterior of the derelict Hugo Hotel in SF's South of Market District into a surreal sculpture of...
View ArticleCA Prop 19 at 50/50 Odds - Poll
In spite of recent polls showing support for California's Proposition 19 (Tax and Regulate Cannabis) waning, there is still hope for supporters. And it lies primarily with younger voters (under 35) who...
View ArticleCA AG - Harris (D) Declares Victory (Updated)
Didn't see this posted yet. Good news out of California. Though the race has yet to be called, Kamala Harris (D) has apparently squeaked out a victory over Steve Cooley (R) for California's Attorney...
View Article[CA-AG] Harris (D) Lead Widens - SF Perspective
Following up on ArthurPoet's Saturday update, Kamala Harris' (D) lead over Steve Cooley (R) swelled to 31,000 Monday night:Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 4,138,170 46.0% Steve Cooley (Rep) 4,107,173 45.6% With...
View Article[CA-AG] Provisional Ballot Battle Heading to Court?
With Kamala Harris (D) leading Steve Cooley (R) by just over 30,000 in the epic vote count to determine California's next Attorney General, the campaigns are engaged in heated exchanges over...
View ArticleGov Brown's Shameless Industrial Hemp Veto
On his final day to act on bills, California's Governor Brown shamelessly vetoedSB 676 (Leno) - Industrial Hemp Farming Act. Even though the bill was specifically designed to withstand federal...
View ArticleCalls for Legalization Intensify
Last week, while the Obama administration was dealing with the embarrassment of the Secret Service scandal at the Summit of Americas in Columbia, developments on the far more important issue of the...
View ArticleObama Ramping up War on Drugs (Cannabis) Not Ending It
As an Obama supporter I am deeply troubled by recent developments on the national drug policy front - cannabis in particular. Statements by the President in a new Rolling Stone interview and his...
View ArticleMitch McConnell - Industrial Hemp's Newest Booster
Mitch McConnell is seeing green. Yep, today the Senate Minority Leader announced his enthusiastic support for Kentucky's legislative effort to add the versatile industrial hemp crop to its farmers'...
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