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	<title>HempNews &#187; Legalization</title>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Be Blunt: It&#8217;s Time to End the Drug War</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2012/04/21/lets-be-blunt-its-time-to-end-the-drug-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 21, 2012 &#8211; April 20 is the counter-culture “holiday” on which lots and lots of people come together to advocate marijuana legalization (or just get high). Should drugs—especially marijuana—be legal? The answer is “yes.” Immediately. Without hesitation. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 seized in a civil asset forfeiture. The war on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Legalize Marijuana, former B.C. Attorneys-General say</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2012/02/15/canada-legalize-marijuana-former-b-c-attorneys-general-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 15th, 2012 &#8211; Four former B.C. attorneys-general &#8212; Colin Gabelmann, Ujjal Dosanjh, Graeme Bowbrick and Geoff Plant &#8212; are calling for the legalization of cannabis. &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not smoking anything,&#8221; Dosanjh cracked when contacted. &#8220;It&#8217;s just time &#8211; 77 per cent of Canadians are telling us it&#8217;s time to change the law.&#8221; The former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Liberal Convention 2012: Federal Grits Vote To Legalize Marijuana</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2012/01/15/canada-liberal-convention-2012-federal-grits-vote-to-legalize-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Legalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 15, 2012 &#8211; The Liberal Party of Canada has voted to legalize pot. Seventy-seven per cent of delegates at the Liberals&#8217; biennial convention told their party&#8217;s leadership Sunday morning that they want a future Liberal government to legalize marijuana. Their interim leader Bob Rae acknowledged the war on drugs hasn’t worked, but told reporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Marijuana Should Not be Criminalized</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/04/14/canada-marijuana-should-not-be-criminalized/</link>
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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>Poll: Majority of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/04/03/poll-majority-of-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2, 2011 &#8211; Legalizing marijuana use has been a debate that waxes and wanes in various political climates but has always remained a hot issue with smoking embers. However, a recent poll finds most Americans support legalizing the drug. Several states have legalized it for medical purposes and some have considered legalizing it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis Battle is Winnable, Barney Frank says</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/02/27/cannabis-battle-is-winnable-barney-frank-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND &#8211; U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. told the state&#8217;s first Maine Medical Marijuana Expo on Saturday that current laws against marijuana use are expensive, applied unevenly and ought to be repealed. &#8220;People who make a personal decision to smoke marijuana should not be subject to prosecution,&#8221; said Frank, noting that the movement has allies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Marijuana</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/02/18/the-economics-of-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hempnews.tv/?p=4966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 18, 2011 &#8211; An advertisement for Oaksterdam University reads &#8220;Cannabis Industry Now Hiring,&#8221; along with claims to a salary between $50,000 and $100,000 dollars. To the average American, such an ad would surely be deemed a joke &#8212; but in Oaksterdam, a district in downtown Oakland lined with medical marijuana dispensaries, training centers, head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassroots Activists Head to the Nation’s Capital to End Prohibition of Hemp and Cannabis</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2011/01/25/grassroots-activists-head-to-the-nation%e2%80%99s-capital-to-end-prohibition-of-hemp-and-marijuana/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2011/01/25/grassroots-activists-head-to-the-nation%e2%80%99s-capital-to-end-prohibition-of-hemp-and-marijuana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 20th, 2011 the “Overgrow the Government” movement is staging a rally in Washington D.C. to demand an end to cannabis prohibition. As of this writing the Facebook page for the rally has over 1,100 people signed up to attend and another 1,000 “maybe attending.” They are looking for one million people to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Legalization Across America: How Should Medical Marijuana Be Regulated?</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/12/13/marijuana-legalization-across-america-how-should-medical-marijuana-be-regulated/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/12/13/marijuana-legalization-across-america-how-should-medical-marijuana-be-regulated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 13, 2010- Well, the debate continues apace. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have already voted to legalize medical marijuana. And eight states continue to consider the matter. If these considerations end up in the affirmative, we will have reached a point where the citizens in almost half of our states will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.A. v. Smith: Federal Judge Allows Medical Marijuana Defense</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/12/12/u-s-a-v-smith-federal-judge-allows-medical-marijuana-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/12/12/u-s-a-v-smith-federal-judge-allows-medical-marijuana-defense/#comments</comments>
		<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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