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		<title>Canada: Lawmakers, Police Seek Guidance After Pot Laws Quashed</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/04/14/canada-lawmakers-police-seek-guidance-after-pot-laws-quashed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 14, 2011 &#8211; Lawmakers and enforcers are looking for guidance on how to react to an Ontario Superior Court decision quashing Canada’s marijuana laws. On Monday, a St. Catharines judge ruled the federal medical marijuana program unconstitutional because patients are largely prevented from legally accessing the drugs they need. Justice Donald Taliano also struck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Marijuana Should Not be Criminalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 14, 2011 &#8211; It is hard to understand why Canada criminalizes marijuana. Make it illegal, sure – subject to a fine, as is wearing a face veil in France – but where is the high degree of harm, to others or self, that requires criminal sanction, including jail? The criminal law is not meant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.A. v. Smith: Federal Judge Allows Medical Marijuana Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 11, 2010 &#8211; U.S.A. v. Smith et al is a landmark cannabis case that could change federal medical marijuana law for all 50 states. This is the first case in which a defendant in the United States has been allowed to raise an affirmative medical marijuana defense in federal court. Cormac J. Carney is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many L.A. Pot Clinics Will Survive Crackdown?</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/09/28/how-many-l-a-pot-clinics-will-survive-crackdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 28, 2010 &#8211; In Los Angeles, medical marijuana dispensaries once outnumbered Starbucks. But after months of a major crackdown, the number of pot clinics has plummeted. Now, a series of lawsuits and counterlawsuits over city regulations is playing out in court. And it&#8217;s still uncertain how many dispensaries will be left in L.A. when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Mobile Sued for Allegedly Blocking Pot-related Texting</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/09/19/t-mobile-sued-for-allegedly-blocking-pot-related-texting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 19, 2010 &#8211; In a case with free-speech and Net-neutrality implications, T-Mobile has been sued by a text-message marketing company for allegedly blocking access to the T-Mobile network because of a client that provided information on medical marijuana. Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages to large numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Sues Wal-Mart for Firing Medical Marijuana Patient</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/07/10/aclu-sues-wal-mart-for-firing-medical-marijuana-patient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 10, 2010 &#8211; The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against retail giant Wal-Mart for firing an employee who used medical marijuana. The lawsuit argues that firing an employee for lawfully using medical marijuana violates the provisions of the 2009 Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Joseph Casias, 30, is a cancer patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Medical Marijuana Clubs Mount Court Challenge</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/24/canada-medical-marijuana-clubs-mount-court-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 24, 2010 - Lawyers for 35 people arrested during raids that shut down five compassion clubs in Quebec say they will mount a constitutional challenge to the federal government&#8217;s medical marijuana laws. Supporters of those arrested during the raids on June 3 protested outside the Montreal courthouse Monday. Inside, the 35 were formally charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Marijuana Can Cost Parents in Custody Disputes</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/21/medical-marijuana-can-cost-parents-in-custody-disputes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 21, 2010 &#8211; MATLOCK, Wash. — Nicholas Pouch runs an organic farm and a glassblowing studio on a 20-acre spread in southwest Washington&#8217;s timber country. Spicy mustard greens, tomatoes and corn sprout in humid greenhouses as chickens and sheep roam nearby. It would be an ideal place for children to romp, Pouch thinks. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Prince of Pot&#8217; is at a Low</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/13/prince-of-pot-is-at-a-low/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 13, 2010 &#8211; For years, his seed catalogs were scrutinized by discerning cannabis cultivators across the U.S. and Canada, much like the ladies of Cumbria might fuss over Chiltern&#8217;s inventories of sweet peas and heirloom tomatoes. There was Blue Heaven pot, capable of producing a &#8220;euphoric, anti-anxiety high,&#8221; or Crown Royal, whose &#8220;flower tops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Faces ‘Years of Litigation’ Over Medical Marijuana Shops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 11, 2010 &#8211; Los Angeles is facing litigation after its crackdown on the proliferation of medical marijuana dispensaries, the WSJ reports. For years, the city sat by as the number of shops soared to about 600; it’s now trying to pare that back to only 186. Yet many dispensaries are launching legal challenges to [...]]]></description>
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