Riverside County businessman Stewart Hauptman's latest venture gives new meaning to the term "recreational drugs." Until recently, he sold marijuana for medical use from a souped-up RV he parked outside a Norco clinic.

He refurbished a 1985 Pace Arrow motor home, installing display cases, a baked-goods section and other amenities. He named the operation the Lakeview Collective-on-Wheels and parked the converted RV in a lot outside the clinic, where people were being evaluated for medical marijuana use.

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Rototom Sunsplash ist der Name des größten europäischen Reggae-Festivals. Es findet in einem Zeitraum von neun Tagen jedes Jahr Ende Juni oder Anfang Juli im Parco del Rivellino bei Osoppo in der italienischen Provinz Udine statt. Im Februar 2010 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass das Festival ins spanische Benicassim umzieht.

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Sunsplash 2010 wird dieses Jahr in Benicàssim, Spanien, vom 21. bis 28. August stattfinden!

ONCE again, there are indications that Jamaican music is at a crossroads. The latest signal has to do with the relocation of the Rototom Sunsplash and the reason behind.

After 16 years as one of the major summer reggae festivals in Europe, Rototom Reggae Sunsplash, has moved from Italy to Spain because the authorities (in Italy) have accused the organisers of promoting the use of marijuana via reggae music and Rasta culture.

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A new location for a new adventure, with reggae, sea, sun and unity. Located between Valencia and Barcelona on the coast, Benicàssim boasts 300 days of sun per year and is easily accessible from all over Europe via plane, train, bus, car or boat. What's more, many people have already begun organizing bus trips from many cities.

The Exodus has just began.

Sunsplash 2010 will be in Spain in Benicassim from 21 to 28 August

O pium harvesting has just begun in the area where the Canadian Forces operate in Afghanistan, with boys and men collecting the drug that has become a primary revenue source for the Taliban.

"We know that in some of the areas, the profit does make its way into insurgent hands," said Canadian Forces Maj. Wade Niven, whose area of command in eastern Panjwaii district contains two villages where poppies make up a third to a half of the cropland. "The Canadian national policy prevents us from doing too much about it."

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Back in February This blog reported on an interesting page stumbled across on the UN Office of Drugs and Crime's website Youthnet pages. Coming from one of the bastions of prohibition this was an almost alarmingly sensible page about cannabis use, risks and laws. The section on laws was particularly striking as it was an unambiguous critique of the failed enforcement approach to managing cannabis risks, and made a rational and eloquent argument for the decriminalisation of the possession and use of cannabis.

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Im Jahr 2009 wurde der EBDD und Europol über das EU-Frühwarnsystem für neue
psychoaktive Stoffe eine Rekordzahl neuer Drogen offiziell gemeldet. Dies geht aus dem EBDD–Europol- Jahresbericht 2009 zur Umsetzung des gesetzlichen dreistufigen Verfahrens hervor, mit dem Europa neue Substanzen überwacht und auf diese reagiert.
Laut dem Bericht, der heute veröffentlicht wird, wurden den beiden Agenturen im Jahr 2009 insgesamt 24 neue psychoaktive Substanzen zum ersten Mal offiziell gemeldet. Dies ist die höchste Zahl von Substanzen, die bisher jemals in einem Jahr gemeldet wurde. Sie ist fast doppelt so hoch wie 2008 (13). Alle neuen Verbindungen waren synthetischer Art, darunter zwei Stoffe mit medizinischen Eigenschaften. Eine vollständige Liste der gemeldeten Substanzen ist im Anhang des Berichts enthalten.

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This incredible movie, Part 2 of "The Principle of Pot", is about Marc's marijuana freedom-fighting career and Canada's cannabis legalization battle. It uses tons of media, interviews, and old news footage to document the story of MARC EMERY and how CANADA almost legalized cannabis! MUST-SEE!

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