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Harvard Law School Lecturer, Rebecca Richman Cohen deserves HUGE applause for the following video and her bold film Code of the West.

In the attached clip Rebecca tells the story of an industrial medical marijuana grower Chris Williams who was growing cannabis in accordance with Montana state law.  He is currently in jail and faces a minimum penalty of 80 years. Does that seem right to you?

This story is so disturbing that I struggle not to cry for this man, his son and his community.  Our national drug policy has failed America miserably.  The human consequences have been devastating. What is it going to take to change federal marijuana laws?  Obviously state medical marijuana laws provide no security to people who are abiding by their state laws when those laws are in conflict with the federal government.  The only solution here is a change in our national drug policy.

The science of cannabis clearly debunks the argument that marijuana has no known medical use.

Please take a moment to write your legislators today not only to urge their support for an immediate change in the federal laws governing marijuana but also to help educate them about the efficacy of marijuana as a safe and versatile medicine.

Click here to contact your U.S. Representative .  Click here to contact your U.S. Senator

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June 5, 2009

Does regular marijuana smoking cause COPD, Emphysema and/or Lung Cancer?

In part 1, Donald Tashkin, MD examines risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Donald P. Tashkin, MD – Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

Presented to Fifth Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics held in Pacific Grove, CA, April, 2008. Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time.

http://MedicalCannabis.com

Listen to the Fresh Air Interview about the future of the marijuana industry. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/164981433/legalizing-and-regulating-pot-a-growth-industry

November 13, 2012

When reporter Tony Dokoupil was a teenager, he found out that his father had sold marijuana, but he just thought his parents “were hippies.” A few years ago, while working on a story about his father’s drug dealer past, he discovered that actually, in the 1970s and ’80s, his father, Anthony Dokoupil, had been a big-time marijuana smuggler.

“He was arrested in the early ’90s on a job selling 17 tons of marijuana,” Dokoupil tellsFresh Air’s Terry Gross, “which was enough at the time to roll a joint for every college kid in the U.S.”

Dokoupil is now writing a book about the controversial plant, and is the author of the recentNewsweek cover story “The New Pot Barons,” about the group of entrepreneurs who are growing medical marijuana in Colorado and hoping to cash in on the plant’s recent legalization there for recreational use. On Election Day, Colorado and Washington became the first states to greenlight marijuana for recreational use, which is big news for the expanding marijuana industry.

If legalization is here to stay, Dokoupil says Colorado’s tightly regulated for-profit medical marijuana market will likely be the basis for the legalized recreational markets in other states as well. In Colorado, more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space outside of Denver are dedicated to growing marijuana, and hundreds of dispensaries sell it. To manage this growing business, the state has 200-plus pages of regulation to explain what is legal and isn’t. Marijuana grown in the state, says Dokoupil, is tracked from “the time it blooms to final sale — every single ounce is accounted for.”

Read more info and listen to the story on npr: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/164981433/legalizing-and-regulating-pot-a-growth-industry