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Landmark Marijuana Forum to be Held in Ukiah

“This is an event for our entire community to come together and learn from each other” -MMMAB member and workshop coordinator Pebbles Trippet

(UKIAH, Calif.) - The Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board and Cannabis Law Institute are presenting a forum and participatory workshop entitled, “Life After Legalization: Marijuana Enters the Mainstream.”

The event, consisting of presentations and a hands-on, community stakeholders’ workshop will take place on April 24 in Ukiah, beginning at 1:00 p.m.

Jack Herer, Patron Saint of Global Cannabis Movement IN EULOGY

Center stage is exactly where Jack Herer belonged. A talented, “bombastic” man, Jack’s energy was contagious and his legacy is alive and well.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Jack Herer was born June 18th, 1939, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. In 1940 his family moved to Buffalo, where he was raised, the son of a collection agency manager.

A “normal American nerd”, he grew into a respectable young man, joining the military, getting married and starting a family.

Reefer Madness in District Attorneys & Judges
This Virus is Vicious & Infectious

Part of Reefer Madness virus infection is the thought like Chicken Little – remember him – “the sky is falling, the sky is falling”.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - About 1937 The U.S. Government and Hearst Newspapers produced the moving picture REEFER MADNESS which has become the most grotesque but hilarious movies ever made.

Worldwide Screening of Marijuana Documentary on Defacto Pot Holiday

The film starts in the heavily guarded fields of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle where the longtime growers of “Pineapple Kush” make the transition into the legal world of Medical Marijuana.

(LOS ANGELES) - For years now, Marijuana enthusiasts have adopted April 20th as their own holiday.

This year they celebrate in style with a worldwide screening of How Weed Won the West with its LA screening at Paramount Studios and a 30,000-person march in Toronto, Canada.

Medical Marijuana: Magnificient Maestros

Memorial to Tod Mikuryia and Jack Herer; it's a crying shame we've lost both.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Everybody in the world owes these two fine gentlemen a great debt of gratitude.

Supreme Error

"I do not understand why, in our system of dual sovereigns, Oregon must fly only in federal formation and not, as Oregon's motto provides, 'with her own wings.'" - Justice Martha Lee Walter

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The Oregon Supreme Court has a long history of siding with out-of-State corporate interests against average Oregonians.

The recent Emerald Steel decision, in which the court ruled that employers can fire medical marijuana patients, is the ultimate example of judicial activism by the Court against the people of this State.

Oregon Supreme Court Medical Marijuana Ruling Proves States Rights Do Not Exist

Not that you thought your vote mattered, but...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Business rights trump state law in Oregon. Oregon has no guts when it comes to backing the wishes of the state's voters.

Oregon's Supreme Court decided that a person can be sick, use medical marijuana, but have no rights when they are fired at work through urine testing.

Muslim Soldiers in the US Army and Ignorance, Prejudice & Discrimination

The Army needs every Arab speaking soldier they can get.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have been subject to and seen the above in the Army. If the soldier is somewhat different and SMARTER than his Sergeants he is in for HELL.

This latest story from hell is about Army Specialist Zachari Klawonn reported in the Washington Post. Spc. Zachari Klawonn is the son of an American Air Force Veteran who died when his son was 15.

The Hemperor, Jack Herer has Died

The global cannabis community mourns the loss of the great Jack Herer.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The sad news has been confirmed. Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes and renowned around the world for hemp activism, has died today, in Eugene, Oregon.

Jack Herer suffered a heart attack last September just after speaking on stage at the Portland HempStalk festival.

OMMP & Dr. Phil `Marijuana` Leveque - 5000 Permits and No Rejects

Right now there are over 30 thousand Medical Card holders, about 8 thousand care givers, and over 3000 doctors in the program.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I had a very intense, controversial relationship with OMMP for five years. Anyone who has searched the web will immediately see what an explosive relationship it was.

I first heard about cannabis/marijuana about 1928 – 80 years ago when I was a newspaper boy in Klamath Falls, Oregon.