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				<title>Baby chokes on pipe screen in Florida, parents charged with neglect</title>
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			 Here's another argument for giving up that old metal-screen pipe and moving on to a nice piece of blown glass: parents in Bradenton, Florida are being charged with child neglect after their baby...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>U.K. sends out pot scratch-and-sniff cards, ask public to rat on neighbors</title>
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			  The powers-that-be in the United Kingdom want their citizenry to rat on one another. At least, that's the plan with a series of marijuana-scented scratch-and-sniff cards that were mailed to mor...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:20:01 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>New York legislature fails to pass marijuana decriminlization bill</title>
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			Despite the fact that New York City has spent more than one million police hours arresting people for marijuana over the last eleven years, New York state lawmakers have dropped any talks of decr...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>15 California marijuana grow houses busted In federal raid; 10 arrested</title>
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			 Ten people were arrested yesterday and 8,000 plants were seized in a hydroponic marijuana-grow ring that spanned Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the U.S. Attorney's Office an...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Colorado police drug dog trained to ignore marijuana</title>
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			  Normally, drug dogs and I don't get along. That whole I-smell-like-skunk-ass-daily thing really puts a damper on any chance of a mutually-respectful friendship. 

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				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>West Virginia legislator introduces his second MMJ bill of the session</title>
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			Delegate Mike Maypenny, a democrat from Taylor County, introduced House Bill 2961 on Tuesday, which would allow for a medical marijuana program in West Virginia. 

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				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>West Virginia to mull second MMJ bill</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>New Hampshire House approves medical marijuana, moves bill to Senate</title>
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			Congratulations New Hampshire, you're one step closer to having medical marijuana.
 
Yesterday the House approved House Bill 573 that would allow patients to grow up to three plants or get it fro...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Marijuana would be policed by Calif. alcohol authorities under new proposal</title>
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			 Who regulates medical marijuana in California? Well, basically, nobody. State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano wants to change that. Today he announced legislation, introduced last month, that would brin...]]></description>
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				<title>Cannabis crusader Dr. Lester Grinspoon on his 40+ years of marijuana reform (and meeting a Beatle)</title>
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			 Dr. Lester Grinspoon is easily one of the most prominent, and influential voices within the cannabis reform movement, and he has been for decades. A retired Harvard Psychiatry Professor, Grinspo...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Top ten hemp legends: myths and facts</title>
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			 Did Henry Ford really make a car out of hemp? Was the Declaration of Independence written on hemp paper? Did Abraham Lincoln use hemp oil in his lamps?

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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Maryland House stacked with marijuana proposals, but could time be running out?</title>
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			Update - Wednesday, March 20, 2013: The Maryland Senate voted to decriminalize marijuana possession of up to ten grams of marijuana yesterday. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Robert Zirkin, a democrat f...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:32:46 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>New York City police spend 1 million hours making 440,000 arrests in New York City over last ten years</title>
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			New York City police have spend more than 1 million man hours arresting making about 440,000 marijuana arrests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office, according to a study released by the Drug...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Barbados attorney general wants ganja laws reviewed</title>
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			  Barbados Attorney General Adriel Brathwiate last week said that he had doubts his country was winning the war on drugs and said the country should re-examine their existing marijuana laws.

Acc...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:32:49 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>$4 million in pot found on California beach near abandoned boat (again)</title>
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			  Despite their taste in verdant herbal remedies, smugglers did not have the luck of the green on St. Patrick's Day. Authorities in Santa Barbara said they found and seized their $4 million stash...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Can industrial hemp make a comeback? New laws in Colorado have some activists excited.</title>
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			 Last week, Denver Westword writer Melanie Asmar took a closer look at what recent marijuana legalization laws have done for industrial hemp in Colorado and what that could mean for the rest of t...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>New York lawmaker who voted against medical marijuana busted with marijuana.</title>
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			  New York Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz is a fucking hypocrite. Last year, the lawmaker - who is on the Assembly Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee - voted against medical marijuana in the ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>California sixth-grader arrested for fooling classmates into eating pot brownie</title>
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			In an almost comical attempt to achieve pure political correctness, we have seen elementary schools across the nation go to the extremes by banning ridiculous items like Pogs, Flamin' Hot Cheetos...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>University of Colorado to shut down campus on 4/20</title>
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			  For many years, the University of Colorado was known as one of the largest 4/20 gatherings on any college campus in the United States. Thousands would descend upon Norlin Quad for a peaceful an...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Snoop Dogg Lion documentary drops in limited cities today</title>
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			Over the last year or two, one of the greatest rap icons of all time has undergone a transformation of sorts. Snoop Dogg, one of the kings of West Coast rap, seemingly has reached a midlife point...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title>Proposed bill would stop mandatory minimum sentencing for marijuana</title>
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			Marijuana possession would not be included in Louisiana's draconian mandatory minimum sentencing laws if a bill introduced earlier this week manages to find approval in the state legislature.

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