Word: marijuana
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...Could marijuana be the answer to the economic misery facing California? Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano thinks so. Ammiano introduced legislation last month that would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale - a move that could mean billions of dollars for the cash-strapped state. Pot is, after all, California's biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion a year in sales, dwarfing the state's second largest agricultural commodity - milk and cream - which brings in $7.3 billion a year, according to the most recent USDA statistics. The state's tax collectors estimate the bill...
...individual had a previous trespass warning for all Harvard University property. Officers placed the individual under arrest. The individual was searched and found to be in possession of marijuana. The trespasser, fifty-seven-year old Richard Wilson of Dorchester, MA, was charged with a Class D Possession with Intent to Distribute and Trespassing...
...hoped for by Tom DeLay • failure of is hoped for by Rick Santorum • failure of is really really REALLY hoped for by Rush Limbaugh • failure of to name Howard Dean as Secretary of Health and Human Services disappoints Howard Dean • graying of • medical marijuana distributors will not be raided by federal government headed by • poll reveals that "African Americans are significantly less likely than whites" to be amused by jokes about race of • predecessor of continues to be properly dissed...
...Citizen’s Briefing Book,” ultimately revealed that the “expertise and insight” that a large component of his web audience wished to share with the incoming president in this moment of crisis related to the need to legalize marijuana. Perhaps Obama overestimated the American public’s maturity. Over the past week, I’ve spent many potentially productive hours entranced by a website by the name “F*** My Life,” which may be found—for those willing to risk time better...
...Calderón put the army on the front lines of the fight against cartels as soon he took office in December 2006. There are now some 50,000 troops deployed against the gangsters, both in the marijuana-growing mountains and in cities such as Juarez, Monterrey and Tijuana. That campaign has coincided with skyrocketing violence, as criminal gangs wage war on government forces and on one another, leaving more than 5,300 dead last year. Many citizens support the soldiers, whom they see as Mexico's only hope against thugs armed with high-powered rifles and rocket-propelled grenades...