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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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		<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>What Can You Buy with a Trillion Dollars?  Marijuana Prohibition’s Failed Economics</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/12/09/what-can-you-buy-with-a-trillion-dollars-marijuana-prohibition%e2%80%99s-failed-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 10, 2010 &#8211; The drug war has cost Americans over one trillion tax dollars, of that more money has been spent on marijuana crimes than any other drug including methamphetamine, heroin, or cocaine. The lost productivity of the millions of working tax payers devastated, and rendered unemployable, after being convicted of a marijuana crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop. 19 Backers Plan New Marijuana Legalization Effort</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/11/04/prop-19-backers-plan-new-marijuana-legalization-effort/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/11/04/prop-19-backers-plan-new-marijuana-legalization-effort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marijuana]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 4, 2010 &#8211; Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and return to the ballot in two years. &#8220;We have a debate that was just heard around the world, and the conversation has only just begun,&#8221; said Dale Sky Jones, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Legalization: Not If, But When</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/11/03/marijuana-legalization-not-if-but-when/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/11/03/marijuana-legalization-not-if-but-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marijuana]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 3, 2010 &#8211; California&#8217;s marijuana legalization initiative, Proposition 19, didn&#8217;t win a majority of votes yesterday but it already represents an extraordinary victory for the broader movement to legalize marijuana. What&#8217;s most important is the way its mere presence on the ballot, combined with a well run campaign, has transformed public dialogue about marijuana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End the War on Pot</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/10/28/end-the-war-on-pot/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/10/28/end-the-war-on-pot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 28th, 2010 &#8211; I dropped in on a marijuana shop here that proudly boasted that it sells “31 flavors.” It also offered a loyalty program. For every 10 purchases of pot — supposedly for medical uses — you get one free packet. “There are five of these shops within a three-block radius,” explained the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Soros: Why I Support Legal Marijuana</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/10/27/george-soros-why-i-support-legal-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 27, 2010 &#8211; By GEORGE SOROS &#8211; Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. Law enforcement agencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Changes are at Hand for Marijuana Politics</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/10/03/major-changes-are-at-hand-for-marijuana-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/10/03/major-changes-are-at-hand-for-marijuana-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 3, 2010 &#8211; SAN FRANCISCO — The medical-marijuana political movement in America began the night police busted into Dennis Peron&#8217;s apartment with a warrant. They twisted Peron&#8217;s arms behind his back and placed him in handcuffs. They forced Jonathan West, Peron&#8217;s boyfriend, to the ground, and an officer held him there, Peron said, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/08/10/watch-what-a-legal-pot-economy-would-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/08/10/watch-what-a-legal-pot-economy-would-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 10, 2010 &#8211; Sometimes a cartoon can be worth a thousand words. &#8230; or even more than 100,000. Haik Hoisington&#8217;s &#8216;Flower&#8217; video has hit a nerve and has gone viral on the internet. The Flower was released by the online news service AlterNet on July 29 – and in just five days has been [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/13/prince-of-pot-is-at-a-low/#comments</comments>
		<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>Canada: Pot Club Busts Only Help Criminals, Tory Senator Says</title>
		<link>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/06/canada-pot-club-busts-only-help-criminals-tory-senator-says/</link>
		<comments>http://hempnews.tv/2010/06/06/canada-pot-club-busts-only-help-criminals-tory-senator-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 6, 2010 &#8211; MONTREAL—Police have done the Mob and street gangs a favour by cracking down on cannabis clubs, say pot decriminalization advocates. They warn that people will now be buying their stuff from criminal networks instead of tax-paying businesses. Thirty-five people were arrested in raids on Quebec’s so-called &#8220;compassion clubs” — storefront outlets [...]]]></description>
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