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Medical Marijuana Now Legal in Washington D.C.

by Evilpig on July 27, 2010 | No Comments

Medical marijuana is now legal in the District after the Democrat-controlled Congress declined to overrule a D.C Council bill that allows the city to set up as many as eight dispensaries where chronically ill patients can purchase the drug.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said in a statement the bill become law after Congress finished its business Monday night because neither the House nor Senate opted to intervene.

The council approved the bill in May, and under Home Rule Congress had 30 legislative days to review it.

“We have faced repeated attempts to re-impose the prohibition on medical marijuana in D.C. throughout the layover period,” said Norton. “Yet, it is D.C.’s business alone to decide how to help patients who live in our city and suffer from chronic pain and incurable illnesses.”

Although the bill has now cleared Congress, patients will likely have to wait at least several months before they can obtain the drug from a city-sanctioned dispensary.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and the Department of Health now have to establish regulations outlining who can bid for a license to open a dispensary. (See how different states handle medical marijuana.)

The law allows patients with cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS and other chronic ailments can possess up to four ounces of the drug.

Lets Cut Down Some Trees [pic]

by Evilpig on July 27, 2010 | No Comments

These are the trees we should be cutting down around the world, but for human consumption.

Sex toys retailer pumps $100,000 into California marijuana push

by Evilpig on July 26, 2010 | No Comments

A new campaign committee supporting California’s initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use is being backed by a wealthy entrepreneur in other forms of recreation – sex toys and porn.

Philip D. Harvey has donated $100,000 to the Drug Policy Action Committee to Tax and Regulate Marijuana. The committee is backing Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for adults over 21, allow small residential cultivation and permit local governments to tax and regulate pot sales.

Harvey, so far the only listed donor to the committee, is president of Adam & Eve, a North Carolina mail order and retail firm that has been billed as America’s largest provider of sexual products and adult films.

Harvey is also a philanthropist involved in family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention. He is president of DKT International, which distributes condoms and contraceptives to poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Harvey’s website features a 2004 profile by The Economist magazine. It describes him as a “famously libertarian” man who looks “more like an academic than a sex magnate” and who has “broadened his fight for free speech and individual choice” to “America’s war on drugs.”

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Medical Marijuana Usage Allowed for Some Veterans

by Evilpig on July 26, 2010 | No Comments

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs will now be taking a second look at a policy that keeps veterans from using medical marijuana for pain management. As of now, 14 states allow the use of medical marijuana, but still the United States government continues to outlaw use of the plant. This has created a paradox in which some individuals are within their own state laws, but are breaking federal laws by using medical marijuana and could face federal persecution.

Under the new rules, veterans can be denied prescription painkillers if they are found to be using illegal drugs. Up until now, those drugs included marijuana in any form. However, the Department of Veterans Affairs will still not permit veterans in states that do not allow medical marijuana to use the natural painkiller, but veterans who are living in medical marijuana states will be able to use it as a painkiller and still receive other prescription painkillers if their situation calls for it.

The legalization or de-regulation of marijuana has been a hot topic in recent years in many different states. Although no state has ever come close to completely legalizing marijuana, a total of 14 states now allow the substance to be prescribed medically when the situation calls for it. The Department of Veterans Affairs shows that the federal government may be more willing to cooperate on the issue in the future.

A number of other natural painkillers are available, but are not as effective as marijuana. These substances include Capsaicin, shingles and neuropathy.

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Six More Awesome Pro-Marijuana Ads

by Evilpig on July 24, 2010 | No Comments

In a response to our previous post 6 Awesome Pro-Marijuana Ads. A user over at Reddit has came up with his own ads. Get the high resolution images over on his website. Read more for all the images.

NDP Supports Decriminalization

by Evilpig on July 23, 2010 | No Comments

Reading over the NDP website, I find that they are supportive of decriminalizing marijuana.

“Decriminalizing marijuana possession with the goal of removing its production and distribution from the control of organized crime.”

“Adopting a harm reduction approach to substance abuse and permitting the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes”

We should all encourage our friends and family to vote NDP.

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I Love Weed is getting a new server

by Evilpig on July 22, 2010 | No Comments

Due to the amount of traffic we have been receiving the past couple months, I have decided to upgrade the webhost. You all would love a speedy website and I feel it is needed. So don’t be alarmed, this move might take a day or two and it will be worth it.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Evilpig

Cheech and Chong Slam Stephen Harper [video]

by Evilpig on July 21, 2010 | No Comments

Cannabis Culture reports: “Cheech and Chong have got some pretty blunt advice for Prime Minister Stephen Harper when it comes to Canada’s marijuana’s laws.

“Wise up, you douchebag,” Cheech Marin says with some glee when asked what he’d tell the prime minister.
Chong, who hails from Edmonton, nods in agreement.”

Why is ‘Pot’ Slang for Marijuana?

by Evilpig on July 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

How did the word for a common kitchen instrument become slang for marijuana?

Actually, the origin of pot has nothing to do with the culinary tools. The word came into use in America in the late 1930s. It is a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya that came from potación de guaya, a wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped. It literally means “the drink of grief.”

Tonight, this grief drink will be the topic of hot debate when city council members in Oakland, California vote on a historic measure that would create licensed medical marijuana factories.

If the plan is approved, the city would license four production plants that would grow, package, and process medical marijuana. Supporters say the plan will provide the city with two things it direly needs: tax revenue and jobs. Opponents decry the wholesale legitimization of a substance that is a narcotic in most of the United States.

Like pot, the word marijuana refers to cannabis, the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The plant grows naturally in central Asia and other warm regions. Its uses vary from recreational to medicinal to religious.

Marijuana is the dried leaves and female flowers of the hemp plant. The word’s origin dates back to the late nineteenth century. It is an Americanism for the Mexican Spanish marihuana or mariguana, which is associated with the personal name María Juana.

Another name for marijuana is Mary Jane, the English version of María Juana. Mary Jane also refers to a small, round sponge cake and a brand of young girls’ patent leather shoes.

The origin of the word “coffee” is much more mysterious than the names for marijuana. Learn the beautiful name for coffee in Arabic in this earlier post.

Whatever you call it — ganja, weed, reefer, tea, bhang, leaf, or skunk — it may soon be legally factory farmed in record amounts in Oakland. What do you think?

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