Body Detoxification, Cleansing, Health

Stealth Grow Maybe? need help!!! (pics) – 1794th Edition

By BluntsAllDay

Marijuana, a Valid Medical Option – 1793th Edition

By Cannavelli

Sober Break – 1792th Edition

By PhilipFry

Marijuana Shops? Wowie, What a Bad Idea – 1791th Edition

By Cannavelli

High woot woot – 1790th Edition

By stonerjesus420

Stealth Grow Maybe? need help!!! (pics) – 1789th Edition

By BluntsAllDay

Top California official ‘favors’ taxing and regulating marijuana as revenue generator – 1788th Edition

For decades, advocates of marijuana policy reform have argued that a regulated and taxed marijuana market would generate revenue for government on the local, state and federal levels. There have even been studies projecting tax revenues from marijuana sales at $6.2 billion and even $31 billion annually.

Occasionally – although far too rarely – we have even seen elected officials reference the possible revenue-generating benefits of a legal marijuana market. But today we read something that we can’t recall seeing before. A notable elected official actually cited a legal and taxed marijuana market as the best means of generating revenue for her state.

Betty Yee, chairwoman of the five-member California State Board of Equalization, made her feelings clear after a gloomy speech about the state’s current fiscal situation. Here is how the article conveyed her position:

As for new revenues, Yee is favoring Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s marijuana legalization approach, which will likely appear in some form on the November ballot and would allow the state to regulate and tax marijuana growing to the tune of about $1.4 billion a year.

Will she be ignored or will she be joined by other elected officials finally willing to accept this most logical position? We are hoping – and advocating for – the latter.

By sfoxmpp

Stealth Grow Maybe? need help!!! (pics) – 1787th Edition

By BluntsAllDay

Marijuana, a Valid Medical Option – 1787th Edition

By Cannavelli

Another World-Class Athlete Gets Punished for Using Marijuana – 1786th Edition

Twenty-four-year-old American Ivory Williams—one of the fastest 100-meter sprinters in the world—will not be allowed to compete on the U.S. Team for this year’s World Indoor Championships.

His offense? He tested positive for marijuana. Now Williams, who just last month ran the fastest 60 meters in the world, will be ineligible to compete for the next three months and will have to complete an anti-doping educational program.

It’s simply maddening to see a 24-year-old world-class athlete get sidelined from his sport just because he used a substance that is safer than alcohol and isn’t exactly what you’d call a performance-enhancing drug.  To add insult to injury, his manager felt compelled to issue a token apology, saying Williams exhibited “poor judgment.”

In a related, possibly even more frustrating story, the defending champion in the Iditarod—where dogs do the racing, not humans—might now be disqualified because he uses medical marijuana to treat the effects of throat cancer.

Of course, these are just the most recent examples of athletes being reprimanded and forced to apologize for using marijuana. (How can anyone forget the faux-outrages over Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps and Cy Young Award Winner Tim Lincecum?)

It’s one thing for law enforcement to issue penalties to athletes for breaking the law, but it’s quite another for sporting organizations to take it upon themselves to suspend athletes for doing something that isn’t affecting their performance and is actually safer than many of the substances they could be using legally. The fact that these successful, healthy athletes sometimes use marijuana helps to defy inaccurate lazy stoner stereotypes, but the harsh penalties handed down by sporting officials in response simply furthers the baseless notion that marijuana is a particularly harmful drug that consenting adults should be ashamed of using.

By Mike Meno