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  • October 2008

    • Report to UN: Dudes, Legalize Weed

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 2, 08 1:08 PM CDT

      Report to UN: Dudes, Legalize Weed

      (Newser) - Slick-suited diplomats are not the likeliest advocates for lifting worldwide marijuana bans, but a British scientific report targets the UN, saying a regulated marijuana market would remove most of the drug's harm, since it comes from prohibition itself, the Guardian reports. Legalizing it would also allow governments to tax the 160 million users, and set a minimum age and potency limits. More »

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      United Nations  • marijuana  • marijuana legalization  • cannabis  • weed

  • June 2008

    • Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Pot Users in a Fog

      USA Today  |  Jun 30, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Pot Users in a Fog

      (Newser) - Effective tomorrow, the Netherlands bans smoking tobacco in public places, and the new law means big changes for Amsterdam's famously relaxed coffeehouses, reports USA Today. Because the law doesn't cover cannabis or hashish, users can continue to smoke them inside. But those who prefer their pot mixed with tobacco, as many do, will have to step outside. More »

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      smoking  • marijuana  • tobacco  • smoking ban  • Amsterdam  • cannabis  • Dutch government

    • Afghan Cops Blow Up Huge Hashish Stash

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 12, 08 8:59 AM CDT

      Afghan Cops Blow Up Huge Hashish Stash

      (Newser) - Afghanistan police have made what is believed to be the biggest narcotics bust in history, the Guardian reports. Some 260 tons of hashish—worth $400 million—was found buried in trenches near the Pakistan border. The narcotics haul, which would have made as much as $14 million in profits for the Taliban, was so massive that an airstrike had to be called in to destroy the drugs. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • drugs  • drug trafficking  • Kandahar  • cannabis  • counternarcotics

    • Weed Potency Hits 30-Year High

      Associated Press  |  Jun 12, 08 8:11 AM CDT

      Weed Potency Hits 30-Year High

      (Newser) - Today's marijuana is the strongest crop since the heyday of Cheech and Chong, a new study finds. University researchers who analyzed seized samples dating back to the '70s found the level of active ingredient THC hit an average of 9.6% last year, up almost 1% from the year before and more than double the 4% recorded for 1983, the AP reports. More »

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      drugs  • smoking  • marijuana  • drug use  • cannabis  • weed

  • April 2008

    • UK to Get Tough on Pot

      Independent (UK)  |  Apr 4, 08 9:14 AM CDT

      UK to Get Tough on Pot

      (Newser) - The British government is set to tighten the law on marijuana, reclassifying it as a more dangerous drug and imposing a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison for possession. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is determined to designate pot as a class B drug, only three years after Tony Blair downgraded it to class C.  More »

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      United Kingdom  • Gordon Brown  • marijuana  • cannabis

  • March 2008

    • New 'University' Goes to Pot

      NPR  |  Mar 10, 08 3:21 PM CDT

      New 'University' Goes to Pot

      (Newser) - It's sort of a slacker's med school: An Oakland activist started Oaksterdam University to train students to work in the medical marijuana industry, reports NPR. Oaksterdam offers a single $75 course, which teaches students about pot's political and legal history as well as the botany of the much-loved herb. "You don't want seeds in your cannabis," says the founder. "It's like seedless grapes." More »

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      California  • marijuana  • medical marijuana  • cannabis  • Oakland  • botany

  • February 2008

    • Smoking Pot Rots Your Teeth

      The Age  |  Feb 6, 08 8:04 AM CST

      Smoking Pot Rots Your Teeth

      (Newser) - Smoking pot might give you the munchies—and then take away the pearly whites you need to satisfy them, a new study finds. New Zealand researchers have found that regularly smoking marijuana causes increasingly severe gum disease, with one in four heavy smokers with chronic periodontal disease by the age of 32, reports Australia's The Age. More »

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      drugs  • smoking  • marijuana  • tobacco  • cannabis  • teeth

  • January 2008
  • April 2007

    • West Coast Breeds Weed Snobs, Too

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 23, 07 9:10 AM CDT

      West Coast Breeds Weed Snobs, Too

      (Newser) - Cannabis is accruing its own class of sophistocates, particularly in California, where medical legalization and lax enforcement have made connoisseurship marginally acceptable. Advanced palates judge their weed on taste, smell and quality of high, reports the Chronicle— a far cry from the 70s, when users joked that there "were two kinds of pot, good and bad." More »

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      California  • drugs  • marijuana  • drug use  • medical marijuana  • cannabis  • weed

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