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Cannabis law reform magazine Norml News, which both Police and Internal Affairs recently tried to ban, has just released its Winter/Spring 2010 issue, including revelations about how and why the magazine nearly got permanently suppressed.

“Immediately prior to the Operation Lime raids in April, police went to the Dept of Internal Affairs and discussed the magazine,” Editor Chris Fowlie said today. “Soon after, Internal Affairs requested a ban on Norml News, but that request was refused and we’re still here.”

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Oakland, California.
After a marathon of public comments and debate, Oakland city council members voted Tuesday in favor of an unprecedented plan to start industrial-scale medical marijuana growing facilities in the city.

If adopted in a final vote next week, the ordinance would grant permits to four giant medical pot production facilities in industrial areas in a bold bid to place Oakland at the heart of the marijuana economy.

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(NaturalNews) In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.

This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs.

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U.S. govt. poisoned its own citizens during Prohibition
(NaturalNews) In a dark but little-known chapter of U.S. history, the federal government ordered the poisoning of alcohol supplies to deter and punish those who sought to flout Prohibition-era bans.

NZ cops poison pot puffers
(NORML NZ) The New Zealand Police's "Cannabis Eradication Program" has reached a sickening new low with the news that pot poisoned with a deadly blue spray is being sold in Auckland.

......discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history," turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

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Tax dollars at work ;-)

Three issues of a New Zealand magazine which promotes the reform of marijuana laws have been sent to the office of film and literature classification.

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SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family’s pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on.

They found a “small amount” of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment.

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WTF ?!?!?!

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From nigh noon today, hundreds of cannabis users and supporters braved southerly winds and drenching showers to voice their support for cannabis legalization at 'J Day', held again this year at Wellington's Frank Kitt's Park. J Day is the Aotearoa section of the Global Marijuana March, which has been a focus for pro-legalization activities in towns and cities around the world every year since 1999. Some supporters had come from as far afield as Manawatu, and Hawke Bay to be in Te Whanganui-a-Tara for the day's events, and two imaginative students arrived in suits, hand-cuffed together, with a whiteboard placard, which they updated with pro-reform slogans throughout the afternoon.

J-Day happening in a city near you!

Right ahead of J-Day, and just before the submissions due on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, a large police operation targeting suppliers of gardening equipment has been undertaken, rumor has it, this is the Switched on Gardener:
http://www.sog.co.nz

If anything, this only further provides evidence that legislation providing for responsible personal use, of a herb needs to be considered, which... sounds crazy I know...

If you are tired of this ridiculous law, which only persecutes people for exercising their right to travel within their own consciousness, prohibits spiritual or religious freedoms, ruins careers and travel opportunities by labeling them criminals, and locking them in a cage...