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Salem-News.com (Sep-07-2013 16:52)

Hempstalk Festival 2013 - Campaigns Launched to End Cannabis Prohibition in Oregon

Headlining musical acts include Santee Sioux activist and spoken word artist John Trudell and his band Bad Dog, iconic Las Vegas rappers Los Marijuanos, and Arden Park Roots, Hempstalk Talent Search winners.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Hempstalk 2013 The ninth annual Portland Hempstalk is a compelling mix of upbeat music with a focus on ending Oregon's marijuana prohibition. Hemp is the answer to many of Oregon's practical needs.

Hempstalk is Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th at Kelley Point Park, located at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

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Salem-News.com (Sep-06-2013 16:50)

Marijuana Ignorance and Marijuana Laws

Dr. Mark Kleiman scores financially Big Time!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Dr Phil Leveque and Bonnie King These people know nothing about marijuana use and marijuana users.

I was under the impression that the epidemic of “reefer madness” had subsided until I read the NYT article that “US Won’t Sue to Reverse States Legalization of Marijuana” (8-28-2013) and then the story of Dr. Kleiman totally snookering Washington State’s marijuana advisory board half-wits on how to regulate marijuana for a total of about $800,000 with probably more costs to come at $292/per hour.

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Salem-News.com (Sep-05-2013 16:20)

2013 Portland Hempstalk is Bigger than Ever

Salem-News.com will be in attendance as usual, come find us!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Salem-News.com The ninth annual Portland Hempstalk is a compelling mix of upbeat music with a focus on ending Oregon's marijuana prohibition. Hemp is the answer to many of Oregon's practical needs. Hempstalk is Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th at Kelley Point Park, located at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

Co-sponsored by The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation, Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp, Green Leaf Labs and Paul Loney Law office, the event is free to attendees of all ages.

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Salem-News.com (Sep-05-2013 01:20)

Billboard Posted in Front of Denver Broncos Stadium Calls on NFL to Stop Punishing Players for Using Marijuana

A press conference was held in Denver today.

(DENVER) - MMJ billboard in Denver, Colorado A billboard calling on the National Football League to stop punishing players for using marijuana was posted Wednesday in front of Sports Authority Field at Mile High, just one day before the Denver Broncos host the first NFL regular season game of the year.

The 48-foot-wide Broncos-themed billboard highlights the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol and urges the NFL to "stop driving players to drink" with harsh penalties for marijuana use, noting that, "A safer choice is now legal (here)."

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Salem-News.com (Aug-29-2013 14:22)

Feds Take 1st Step To Sane Policy on Cannabis

Steve DeAngelo Responds to DOJ Memo on Guidance for Marijuana Enforcement.

(OAKLAND) - Marijuana in Washington and Colorado The United States government finally took a historic step back from its long-running failed drug war on Thursday.

Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-27-2013 17:50)

Marijuana Dangers and the Oregonian Newspaper: Petty, Puerile, Pernicious Propaganda

Hoorah for the new marijuana laws!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - pot propaganda The Oregonian has been bitching about marijuana as medicine from the word “GO”. Every step toward allowing patients to use medicine has been met with a barrage of falsities and half-truths which their staff purported as fact. There have been a few factual statements but then some negative aspect has been thrown in.

Apparently the words pot, pothead, pot doctors and pot patients is at the front of their dictionaries because they use them so much.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-26-2013 12:02)

Senator Leahy Schedules Hearings on Marijuana, Calls for Federal Respect for State Laws

Attorney General Holder Invited to Hearing Scheduled for September 10.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Senator Patrick Leahy Today Senator Patrick Leahy (D – VT) invited Attorney General Eric Holder to a September 10 hearing to clarify the federal response to states that have passed marijuana laws in conflict with federal policy.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and Colorado and Washington last year became the first places in the world to legalize and regulate marijuana for personal use.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-23-2013 21:18)

Reverend Healer Carl Olsen, a True Cannabis Freedom Fighting Warrior

Cannabis has been used as a sacrament for thousands of years. Why would now be any different?

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Nissenbaum-Olsen Many moons ago, you may have heard of the "Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church" - this reporter became a member back at the age of 14. It is a renown church formed in Jamaica but that began spreading it's membership throughout the US in the 1980's.

Reverend Carl Olsen is a priest of the church, and is the first minister to be sentenced to federal prison for the promotion of cannabis as sacrament in religion.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-22-2013 23:30)

Feds Force Security and Armored Car Companies to Stop Servicing the Cannabis Industry

DEA puts public safety and lives at risk.

(OAKLAND) - AG Eric Holder On the heels of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s endorsement of medical cannabis, and Eric Holder’s speech advocating reform of the War on Drugs, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has informed security and armored car services that they can no longer render services to state-legal cannabis providers

The list includes the country’s largest model cannabis dispensary, Harborside Health Center in Oakland and San Jose, California.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-21-2013 22:44)

Hawaii Cannabis Minister Granted the Right to Assert Religious Defense in Federal Proceedings

Three Years in a Federal holding facility, now Rev Christie will finally have his day in court.

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Reverend Roger Christie Reverend Christie is the founder of "The Hawaii Cannabis Ministries" (THC Ministries). He has been sitting unwillingly in a federal jail in Hawaii awaiting trial due to his teachings, encouragement and use of cannabis as a sacramental substance with his congregation.

Reverend Christie has been illegally detained in the Hawaiian Federal Correction system despite the promise of Due Process and the right to Speedy Trial in the US court systems since 2009, when his ministries were raided at the hands of state and federal authorities.

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