So you think you're a connoisseur, what with your cans of Beluga, Kobe steaks and stash of 1998 Dom Perignon? Think again if you haven't gotten your hands on cannabis caviar, a new kind of top-shelf marijuana popping up at Colorado dispensaries that sells for the astronomical price of $1,400 an ounce -- nearly four times the average price of other high-grade strains.

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The ad airing in the Bay Area and L.A. features a former L.A. County sheriff's deputy who says that the fight against the drug has led to drug cartels. An opponent calls the ad misleading.

The campaign to legalize marijuana in California kicked off this week, just days after the initiative made the ballot, with a radio ad saying many law enforcement professionals know marijuana laws have failed and calling the measure "a common sense solution."

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Die Drogenberaterin der britischen Regierung Dr. Polly Taylor ist zurückgetreten, da sie der Regierung nicht mehr traut und hat der BBC ihre Erklärung zum Rücktritt übermittelt. Da er sehr interessant ist und auch auf die hiesigen Verhältnisse anwendbar ist, machen wir hier den Volltext auf Deutsch.

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VIENNA -- Afghanistan is not only the world's largest supplier of opium, it also is the global leader in hashish production, the United Nations said Wednesday.

The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said it estimates that 10,000 to 24,000 hectares (24,700 to 59,300 acres) of cannabis are grown in Afghanistan every year and that this is used to make an estimated 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hashish annually.

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The larger of the two seizures occurred at World Trade Bridge when CBP officers processed a 1997 International tractor hauling a 1997 Trailmobile trailer driven by a 36-year-old Mexican national from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico carrying a commercial shipment of auto parts. CBP officers referred the manifested shipment of 20 cartons of auto parts for an X-ray scan that resulted in an anomaly detected within the trailer. A closer inspection of the trailer led CBP officers to the discovery of 362 bundles of marijuana co-mingled with the shipment. The bulk load of marijuana weighed a total of 10,661 pounds and is valued at $10.6 million.

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Kalifornien machte mit einer Volksabstimmung 1996 den Weg für die Legalisierung von Medical Marihuana frei; jetzt hat die Initiative “Tax Cannabis” die nötigen Unterschriften beisammen, um den legalen Konsum für alle über 21 auf die nächste “Ballot” zu hieven – und diese Wahl könnte einmal mehr bahnbrechend werden. Denn der “Medical Marihuana”-Initiative sind mittlerweile 13 US-Bundesstaaten gefolgt. Bei einer Umfrage im vergangenen Jahr zeichnete sich eine Mehrheit von 56 % für eine solche Gesetzesänderung.

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MPP's Sarah Lovering appears on KTTV Fox in LA to discuss the reasons to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. Today a ballot initiative, TaxCannabis 2010, was approved that will give California voters the chance to allow adult possession and cultivation of marijuana for recreational purposes. 03/24/2010

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I'll bet that some social economists out there hope voters will approve the initiative to legalize marijuana in November, if only to see how the marketplace reacts. Proponents are talking about added tax revenue of $1.4 billion a year, which no doubt would trim the state's deficit – some day – and perhaps create tens of thousands of new California jobs, some day. Those numbers are just guesses – the truth is no one has the first clue how this might shake out.

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