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    • A Southern California medical marijuana dispensary has agreed to remove its holiday decorations after it found itself at the center of a town controversy.

             

      The Harbor House of Dank in San Pedro hired an artist last week to paint Christmas decorations, including a pot-smoking Santa, on its store front.

    • On Facebook, one man posted "have some damn sense, kids walk by that place all the time." A woman posted "just couldn't understand why?"

             

      "What do you tell your kids about that?" asked Tony Apodaca, who posted the picture of the store front on Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, his post had more than 190 comments.

                              

      "I was shocked when I drove by in the morning knowing there's a junior high school a block away," said Apodaca.

    • 40 percent tax on marijuana sales? Fairview hopes to dissuade sellers after Oregon makes cannabis legal
    • The Fairview City Council in October anticipated Tuesday's election outcome and approved a sales tax of 40 percent on sales of cannabis and related products. While dozens of towns have approved similar taxes, Fairview's is the biggest on a list compiled by the League of Oregon Cities.

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    • According to Parks bureau documents, the issue stemmed from lax security at the 2013 festival held at Kelly Point Park, which drew an estimated 80,000 people. "Event personnel were deliberately indifferent to the rampant presence, sale and use of marijuana, 'medibles,' and alcohol, including use by minors," the bureau wrote. "These violations were not trivial, nor were they isolated."
    • "The city made us jump through so many hoops," Stanford said, claiming the new security tacked on an additional $60,000 to their costs. "There's really nothing here to fear but fear itself."

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    • New York Cops Know People Have a Right to Record Them; They Just Don't Care
    • Two weeks ago the NYPD  sent officers a memo reminding them that "members of the public are legally allowed to record police interactions." In fact, "intentional interference such as blocking or obstructing cameras or ordering the person to cease constitutes censorship and also violates the First Amendment."

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    • I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.
    • Regardless of what happened with Mike Brown, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is not the cops, but the people they stop, who can prevent detentions from turning into tragedies.

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    • The result launches Monday, when workers begin dropping human-size rat cages around Denver and ads that acknowledge debate about how dangerous marijuana is begin running on television and in movie theaters.

      The campaign is called "Don't Be a Lab Rat." The idea is to suggest to kids that Colorado has become a testing ground on the consequences of marijuana legalization — and they will be the test subjects if they use pot.

      Sukle said the goal isn't to scare kids with the usual claims about what will happen to them if they use marijuana. Instead, it's to unsettle them with the uncertainty that they can't be sure what will happen.

    • The DARE campaign, a staple in classrooms two decades ago, has been shown in numerous studies to have had little impact on teen drug use. A study published last year revealed that when parents try to discourage their kids from using drugs by talking about their own youthful experimentation, kids are less likely to perceive drug use as harmful. A study from 2005 showed that anti-drug ads often backfire and instead prompt experimental curiosity in kids, in part because they cause kids to think that everybody else is already doing drugs.

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    • Study: White People Support Harsher Criminal Laws If They Think More Black People Are Arrested
    • A recent study suggests that, if you are white, and you are presented with evidence that our criminal justice system disproportionately targets black people, then you are more likely to support harsh criminal justice policies than if you were unaware of this evidence.

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    • The Real Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
    • Taking the stage to rousing applause last February, Kennedy joined more than 2,000 opponents of marijuana legalization a few miles south of Washington, DC, at the annual convention of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest such organizations in the country.

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    • Ironically, both CADCA and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids are heavily reliant on a combination of federal drug-prevention education grants and funding from pharmaceutical companies.
    • Partnership for Drug-Free Kids showing that the group’s largest donors include Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, and Abbott Laboratories, maker of the opioid Vicodin. CADCA also counts Purdue Pharma as a major supporter, as well as Alkermes, the maker of a powerful and extremely controversial new painkiller called Zohydrol.
    • n February, the same month that CADCA held its convention, forty-two leading drug-prevention groups sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration to protest the recent approval of Zohydro. Notably absent from the signatories: CADCA and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.
    • CADCA and the Partnership have also failed to call for action on current bills in Congress to crack down aggressively on painkillers, including the Stop Oxy Abuse Act, which would—in keeping with the suggestion of the doctors’ advocates who petitioned the FDA—allow OxyContin to be prescribed only for severe pain. The two anti-drug groups have not signed on to support the Safe Prescribing Act, which would move hydrocodone products like Vicodin and Lortab from Schedule III to Schedule II, making the product more difficult to prescribe. Nor, for that matter, have they endorsed any of the bills introduced by Representative Hal Rogers or Senator Joe Manchin to block the approval of new, stronger pain-killer drugs such as Zohydro.

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    • After Project SAM began organizing opposition to Alaska’s legalization initiative this year, demonstrators in Anchorage paraded a giant check with the figure $9,015—the amount in campaign money that Kennedy received from the liquor and beer lobby while in office.
    • For example, Ben Cort, Project SAM’s spokesman, leads a drug-treatment program in Aurora, Colorado.

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    • Downing, the retired LAPD deputy chief, notes: “The only difference now compared to the times of alcohol prohibition is that, in the times of alcohol prohibition, law enforcement—the police and judges—got their money in brown paper bags. Today, they get their money through legitimate, systematic programs run by the federal government. That’s why they’re using their lobbying organizations to fight every reform.”
    • Here in West Virginia’s northern panhandle, marijuana possession arrests soared by more than 2,000 percent in the first decade of this century. It was the biggest arrest-rate jump of any locality in the nation,
    • “Arresting them’s easy,” says Sgt. Brian Allen, a state trooper assigned to the task force. “Marijuana is everywhere around here.”

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    • There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado’s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife, the authorities say. Some hospital officials say they are treating growing numbers of children and adults sickened by potent doses of edible marijuana. Sheriffs in neighboring states complain about stoned drivers streaming out of Colorado and through their towns.

      “I think, by any measure, the experience of Colorado has not been a good one unless you’re in the marijuana business,” said Kevin A. Sabet, executive director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes legalization. “We’ve seen lives damaged. We’ve seen deaths directly attributed to marijuana legalization. We’ve seen marijuana slipping through Colorado’s borders. We’ve seen marijuana getting into the hands of kids.”

    • It was only in January, for example, that the Colorado State Patrol began tracking the number of people pulled over for driving while stoned. Since then, marijuana-impaired drivers have made up about 1.5 percent of all citations for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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    • Minnesota Now Requires A Criminal Conviction Before People Can Lose Their Property To Forfeiture
    • Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill yesterday to curb an abusive—and little known—police practice called civil forfeiture.

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    • Medical Marijuana is Still the Best Deal on Pot in Colorado
    • Four months into legal recreational marijuana in Colorado, the market for medical cannabis is still by far the most cost-effective way to purchase pot in the state, a FiveThirtyEight analysis has found.

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    • BECAUSE no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their Religious Profession and Worship
    • That no Person or Persons

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    • And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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