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Between now and election day 2012, when many of you may be voting for the legalization of marijuana in your state, you will hear much in the media about cannabis and how bad things are. Well, the patients are there, whether they get legal or illegal medicine. We prefer the above ground model. PBS does a good job of showing you a few viewpoints. We encourage you to seek as many points of view as you can. Especially the points of view of judges and cops who want to legalize all drugs including legalizing cannabis. L.E.A.P. is Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and they want to protect your kids by legalizing marijuana and all drugs. Please pay attention to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich when he says he “didn’t inhale” with Bill Clinton in college, and that marijuana should be legalized today. Immediately.

Here’s an example of a legal business which popped up in the last year. Obama took the pressure off the medical marijuana dispensaries and people got jobs at businesses like StickyGuide. Legalizing marijuana is good for jobs.

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High Minded Marijuana Quote of the Day:
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.”
–Vaclav Havel

(CBS) Move over, fad diets. Scientists have identified something else that might keep off excess weight.

For the study – published online in the August 24 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology – researchers analyzed data from two large population surveys of U.S. adults. The researchers found obesity rates in people who “just say no” were 22 percent and 25.3 percent in each survey, respectively. But study participants who puffed pot at least three times a week had obesity rates of 14.3 percent and 17.2. The study didn’t actually prove smoking pot causes weight-loss.

Yeah, all those funny pot jokes Jay Leno makes on the Tonight Show are going to have to get more nuanced. Do you hear me, Jay? Not all put users immediately reach for the cookies and popcorn. In fact, I heard Kevin Smith say that his strategy when faced with hunger cravings while stoned, is to simply smoke more weed. Kevin Smith lost weight after becoming a daily cannabis user. Yep, break out the nuance, folks. The future looks thinner than we might have thought possible with all that dank around. Viva Sativa!

Here’s what we said about the matter in our Top 10 Marijuana Myths about “Marijuana Makes You Hungry”

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High Minded Marijuana Quote of the Day:
“When you reach the top, keep climbing.”
–Zen quote

When the doctors say yes, but the politicians say no, you have to wonder about your health. Who do you trust? The money behind the politicians, or the doctors who are sworn to do no harm?

The Feds are overreaching. As activists, we can expect our a great wave of success after the public backlash for their mistaken efforts. We appreciate them helping us fast track to legalization. In the meantime, hunker down and remember that nothing could be as bad as Nixon and he’s long since buried. Good riddance.

By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2011, 6:01 p.m.
Reporting from Sacramento— The state’s largest doctor group is calling for legalization of marijuana, even as it pronounces cannabis to be of questionable medical value.

“It’s an uncomfortable position for doctors,” he said. “It is an open question whether cannabis is useful or not. That question can only be answered once it is legalized and more research is done. Then, and only then, can we know what it is useful for.”

There is a battle being waged against you, me, and human development. Doctors nationwide are begging to study cannabis. They know their patients are using the plant medicinally, as a life enhancer, and yes, also recreationally. Doctors can’t study, and so ignorance prevails. Is that the best use of your tax dollars? Is the war on drugs the best use of your tax dollars? The protests in the streets of major cities around the United States, and now the world, to occupy Wall Street, occupy San Francisco and so on, are all resisting the power of money to influence our political system in ways which to not benefit you as an individual citizen. The war on drugs is a corrupting influence on our political, judicial, and human services systems. Who benefits? Not you. Not me. The time to end the drug war is yesterday.

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High Minded Dope quote of the day:
“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”
–Joseph Stiglitz

We don’t bleed when we don’t fight. Yet they keep bringing the fight. Why? Let it be known, we are under Federal attack. Stand up with us. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy San Francisco.

Drug Policy Alliance press release about Obama escalating the war on drugs against patients:

A series of administration actions in the past month makes it clear that they are engaged in a full scale assault on medical marijuana patients’ rights and their ability to access medicine and that they have reconsidered their willingness to allow states with medical marijuana laws to implement those policies without federal interference. The Treasury Dept. is forcing banks in Colorado to close accounts of medical marijuana businesses operating legally under state law. The IRS now says it will not recognize legitimate business expenses of dispensaries and is requiring owners to pay taxes required of no other businesses; the result will be closure of the most well regulated dispensaries and loss of millions of dollars in tax revenue for local governments. And the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last week ruled that state-sanctioned medical marijuana patients cannot legally possess firearms.

“The Obama administration’s latest moves strongly suggest that their medical marijuana policies are now being driven by over-zealous prosecutors and the anti-marijuana ideologues who dominated policymaking in past administrations,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Barack Obama is betraying promises made when he ran for president and turning his back on the sensible policies announced during his first year in office. Instead of encouraging state and local authorities to regulate medical marijuana distribution in the interests of public safety and health, his administration seems determined to re-criminalize as much as possible. It all adds up to bad policy, bad politics and bad faith.”

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I want to be very clear with you, Dear Reader. You won’t read cannabis news like this every day. This story is HUGE and we must all come together to fight against it. Dispensaries are already closing because of this IRS ruling.

In a potentially crushing blow to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, the IRS has ruled that dispensaries cannot deduct standard business expenses such as payroll, security or rent.
Harborside Health Center, one of the nation’s largest medical marijuana dispensaries and considered a model for the industry, is on the hook for $2.5 million in taxes from 2007 and 2008. That is $2 million more than the Oakland, Calif.-based company paid for those tax years.
“I see only two outcomes here,” said Steve DeAngelo, director and chief executive of Harborside. “Either this IRS assessment has to change or we go out of business. There really isn’t a middle ground for us.”
DeAngelo says the ruling will likely be appealed. He has 90 days to respond to the ruling.

Dear Reader, that is the leader of the biggest dispensary in the US talking. If Harborside goes down, who else can defeat the IRS? We must stand together with Harborside. Put pressure your political leaders today!!!! Patients must be allowed safe access to their medicine, as the voters set into law with the passage of Prop 215 in California. Who is the federal government to say otherwise when they provide medical marijuana to a group of patients each month. Check out the story of federal marijuana patients like Irv Rosenfeld here.

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High Minded Marijuana Quote of the Day:
“When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”
–Barack Obama