With the marijuana movement sparking these days, one of its seminal figures was just nearly snuffed out. Dennis Peron -- a longtime pot activist and the co-author of the 1996 medical marijuana ballot initiative, Prop. 215 -- on Sunday confirmed he'd suffered a stroke.

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Colorado acupuncturist and botanist Lacy Story knew where to go in Mendocino County when she wanted advice on finding local property to grow medical pot.

She stopped in at the indoor smoking lounge and organic foods kitchen at Area 101.

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In Los Angeles hat das erste Hotel für Joint-Raucher eröffnet. Bisher war das mitten im koreanischen Viertel gelegene Hotel Normandie aus den 1920er Jahren eine ganz normale Herberge. Künftig können die Gäste für 420 Dollar für zwei Nächte in aller Ruhe ihr "Gras rauchen, ohne die Türschlitze mit einem Handtuch abdichten zu müssen", wie der Urheber der Idee, Dennis Peron, mitteilte.

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Medical marijuana users near San Francisco lit up Saturday at the opening of the two-day International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, where vendors displayed bongs, vaporizers, hash brownies and other marijuana-related products.

Organizers of the event at the Cow Palace said they insisted on having an onsite medicating area before holding the expo. Under a white-canopied courtyard, young adults in baggy jeans and baseball caps smoked alongside aging hippies.

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Die kalifornische Initiative «Tax Cannabis 2010» strebt per Gesetz «die Regulierung, Kontrolle und Besteuerung von Cannabis» an, vermeidet aber tunlichst das Wort «Legalisierung». Laut dem Volksbegehren würde den über 21-jährigen Kaliforniern der Besitz von maximal einer Unze (28 Gramm) Gras sowie der Hanfanbau auf einer Fläche von höchstens 1,5 auf 1,5 Metern für den Eigenbedarf erlaubt. Der Verkauf von Cannabis an Minderjährige und in der Nähe von Schulen wäre weiter strafbar, ebenso wie das Autofahren unter Einfluss von Haschisch. Innerhalb dieses Rahmens hätten die einzelnen Bezirke die Kompetenz den Anbau, Vertrieb und Verkauf von Cannabis genauer zu regeln.

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If you spend enough time up in the Emerald Triangle — an area in Northern California comprising the adjoining counties of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity — you might notice a few things. There's the crab fisherman selling you fresh crabs from his boat with a lit joint hanging from his mouth. There's the jingle on the local radio station with the chorus "Going to jail sucks!" (It's an ad for a bail-bond agency, which runs right after an ad for a hypdroponic-growing store.) If you're in the Triangle in October, at the start of the harvest season, you might notice people standing by the side of the road with cardboard signs that read "Looking For Work", or signs simply depicting a hand-drawn pair of scissors. You might notice that locals call hundred-dollar bills "Humboldt twenties" and complain about how expensive everything is, or their use of the verb formation "getting flown," meaning one's property has been buzzed by a DEA helicopter (e.g., "We got flown a bunch of times this summer, so we knew a bust was coming").

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We are offering a forum for awareness, education and advancement of the hemp industry and medical cannabis community. Our objective is to educate the public on the differences between industrial hemp, medical cannabis and recreational cannabis, and to show the public the benefits of each.

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