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		<title>ABC News: 46% of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana</title>
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In a new nationwide poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post, just released today, a record 46% of Americans support legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. Support for legalization is more than double what is was just 12 years ago, while the number of people opposed has dropped from 75% in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare first glimpse into only government ran marijuana farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, a camera crew was allowed into the mysterious government grow house located on the campus of The University of Mississippi in Oxford. St. Paul, Minnesota&#8217;s local Fox affiliate was granted permission to film the federal government&#8217;s one and only marijuana grow house - used to grow marijuana for research and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three times convicted marijuana activist and trafficker avoids jail in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the same day it&#8217;s reported that U.S. federal attorneys are going forward with nearly two dozen prosecutions of state-legal dispensary owners who were raided under the Bush administration, Canada lets the well known and three times convicted marijuana activist avoid jail yet again. Justice officials in Manitoba said they will not seek jail time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush-era DEA raids on pot dispensary owners still face jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly two dozen medical marijuana state owners and operators who were shut down by the Drug Enforcement Agency during the Bush administration still face prosecution, despite the new federal policy under the Obama administration of not interfering with dispensaries abiding by state law. Their fate is now up to federal attorneys who represent the regions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top federal prosecutor: we are not interested in users or compassionate providers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical marijuana users across the country can take a cautious sigh of relieve after U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello&#8217;s comments in an hourlong forum discussion with Joe Elford, chief counsel of Americans for Safe Access. While Attorney Russoniello was reluctant to concede much, if anything, in the way of federal policy (and the reason it came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Obstruction of Medical Cannabis Research in the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation&#8217;s largest organization of patients, medical professionals and scientists supporting safe and legal access to medical marijuana, issued a report today aimed at drawing attention to the federal government&#8217;s monopoly on the production of marijuana for medical research. The 14-page report, entitled &#8220;Obstruction of Medical Cannabis Research in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Drug legalization could save UK $20 billion annually</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new report titled A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulation of Drugs, the non-profit Transform Drug Policy Foundation finds that legalizing such drugs as marijuana could save England as much as Ã‚Â£14 billion (roughly $20 billion USD) annually. 

The analysis of current costs is that prohibition of drugs is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: For the first time majority of Californians support marijuana legalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A field poll commissioned by Oaksterdam University between March 16th and March 21st shows for the first time a majority of California voters are in favor of taxing and regulating adult cannabis consumption similar to alcohol. 54% of those polled believed cannabis should be legal for adults while 39% are opposed and 7% are undecided.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Police Chief: why not regulate marijuana?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton is no stranger to the law. Before being appointed LA&#8217;s top cop, he served as military police during Vietnam and later served as the New York City Police Commissioner and Boston Police Commissioner. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement from the University of Massachusetts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos Santana tells Obama to legalize marijuana now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America &#8230; now we can afford not to be paranoid.&#8221;
Hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, Grammy Award-winning musician Carlos Santana made headlines this week when he [...]]]></description>
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