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Police being sued for damage in wrongful raid

Man who was growing medical marijuana with a permit, was raided and charged criminally. After his charges were dropped, the police were ordered to return his plants. 67 of them had died and were of “no use for medical reasons.”

The man is now suing Colorado Police for $360,000 in damages. The police refuse to pay.

“Police take an oath to protect the law, you don’t get to pick and choose which laws to follow.”

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Marijuana: Prohibition failing; legalizing could be tax boon

Are people really afraid of legalizing marijuana? I cannot understand why it is such a crazy idea to let people consume cannabis. People can get drunk all they want, and humanity keeps moving right along.

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Drug gangs will plague city as long as drugs are illegal

Matt Simon, executive director of SendTheRightMessage.com, with a lucid, convincing op-ed piece in New Hampshire’s largest-circulating newspaper about the real cause of drug violence, and how to stop it.

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How America Lost the War on Drugs : Rolling Stone

After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.

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California’s Medical Marijuana System in ‘Chaos’

California’s Proposition 215 legalized medical marijuana in that state 11 years ago as a treatment for pain, the side-effects of chemotherapy, and other ailments. However, the federal government still views all marijuana use as illegal, and the Supreme Court has upheld the federal Drug Enforcement Agency’s right to go after dispensaries.

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Ex-cop gets 25 years in drug case

The admitted leader of a band of Chicago police officers who ripped off drug dealers and funneled narcotics onto the city’s streets was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in federal prison.

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Student suspended after voicing opinion on marijuana

“In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco,” said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student.

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Marijuana dealers offer Schwarzenegger $1,000,000,000

A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. According to economic studies, regulation and taxation of marijuana could produce six billion dollars in additional tax revenue. “Marijuana legalization is inevitable,” Schaffer says.

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College kid charged with marijuana possession gets raped in jail

A teenager in possession of marijuana could possibly have AIDS, herpes, hepatitis because of a criminal charge on marijuana possession. Great country we live in. All they know how to do is create murderers with shit like this!

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FBI Confiscated $400K from man, who is charged with no crime

2 robbers broke in to Luther RIcks home, one of them stabbed his son. He shot and killed one of them defending his home. Even though the robbers didn’t get to the $402,767 that he had in a safe, the FBI refuses to give it back until he proves he made it, because they found marijuana in the home. Even though he has been cleared of all charges!

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