This message was sent out this morning by Greg Manning, Sasha Shulgin's personal assistant and caretaker, to the extended friends and family of the Shulgin family and was also posted on Facebook. All right, community: these people are our family, and it's time to step up and help out someone whose gifts to us have been immeasurable. If you can, please help Sasha and Ann. Info below.

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PLEASE HELP, SASHA NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Hello Everyone ~ This morning on the way to the hospital for a scheduled test, Sasha had a stroke. He has been struggling for six months with an ulcer on his left foot that won’t heal, hoping to avoid amputation. Sasha & Ann have been in serious financial trouble for some years, and the coming medical bills will be a burden they can’t bear alone. Please, express your gratitude for all the work that Sasha has done, for everything he has given to the world, and give something back. Think of all the ways that your life, and the lives of others, have been healed, transformed, and bettered by this wonderful man. He needs your help now. No amount is too small or too large. Please give until it feels good...not until it hurts.

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Die neue konservative Regierung in den Niederlanden will den Zugang zu Coffeeshops auf registrierte Mitglieder beschränken.

Marihuana ist in den Niederlanden offiziell zwar illegal, darf in bestimmten Cafes jedoch offen verkauft werden. Auch der Besitz geringer Mengen des Betäubungsmittels wird von der Polizei nicht verfolgt.

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The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively block foreigners from buying the drug.

If the idea ever becomes reality — it would be legally complicated and politically divisive — it would be the latest of the country's liberal policies to be scrapped or curtailed as the Dutch rethink the limits of their famed tolerance.

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Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Dutch government plans to prune liberal marijuana policy by making cafes 'members only'
Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit?
Coffee shop tourism may go to pot
Amsterdam to ban tourist marijuana trade