Rapid Fire Marketing (Pink Sheets: RFMK) d.b.a. Medical Cannabis Management (MCM) (http://medicalcannabismanagement.com) has received an enormous amount of inquiries from business owners and investors leading up to this month's election, which could make cannabis legal in the State of California. Proposition 19, which will allow the recreational use of cannabis in the State of California, is expected to pass this week. As a result, businesses that are positioned to handle this exploding sector are poised for rapid growth.

Proposition 215, passed in November of 1996, already makes medical cannabis legal in the state of California and is being considered in other states. MCM is in the business of providing full service marketing, consulting and management services to this newly emerged industry, which includes medical doctors, cultivation and cannabis dispensaries. Many of the businesses MCM is seeking to manage are run by small business entrepreneurs. MCM's plan is to integrate tailored management services with dispensaries as well as helping physicians with marketing and office space to manage increasing patient loads

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Britische Forscher haben eine neue Drogen-Rangliste vorgestellt - Alkohol liegt auf Platz eins, was die Zerstörungskraft für Mensch und Gesellschaft angeht, noch vor Heroin und Crack. Die Wissenschaftler fordern ein radikales Umdenken im Umgang mit Drogen.

Geht es um Alkohol und Tabak, greift David Nutt gern zur verbalen Keule. "Das Drogenbewertungssystem ist durchweg krank und willkürlich", ist einer der Sätze, die von dem Pharmakologen der University of Bristol überliefert sind. Schon 2007 machte er mit einer Untersuchung über das Schadenspotential von psychoaktiven Substanzen auf sich aufmerksam: Nicht illegale Drogen wie Cannabis, LSD und Ecstasy, sondern Alkohol und Tabak seien die wirklichen Gefahren für Mensch und Gesellschaft.

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In Kalifornien wird bei den Kongresswahlen auch über einen Antrag zur Lockerung des strikten Marihuana-Verbots abgestimmt. "Hangover"-Star Zach Galifianakis nutzte seinen Auftritt in einer Talkshow für ein klares Statement: Er zündete sich vor laufender Kamera einen Joint an.

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Californians will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2 for the historic vote on Proposition 19, the ballot initiative to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana - and Cannabis Culture will be webcasting LIVE from Yes on Prop 19 Headquarters in Oaksterdam!

Tune in to CC on the evening of November 2 to watch our LIVE webcast from the center of the storm, activist Richard Lee's Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California.

Californians will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2 for the historic vote on Proposition 19, the ballot initiative to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana - and Cannabis Culture will be webcasting LIVE from Yes on Prop 19 Headquarters in Oaksterdam!

Tune in to CC on the evening of November 2 to watch our LIVE webcast from the center of the storm, activist Richard Lee's Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California.

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Californians who plan to cast ballots are turning against Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, according to the Field Poll, which found likely voters were opposed to it, 49% to 42%.

That’s a reversal from last month, when the poll found likely voters favored it. Among those polled, 9% are still undecided, a figure that has been relatively unchanged for months.

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California cities and counties could conceivably issue clouds of bonds backed by more than $1 billion a year in marijuana-related tax revenue if Proposition 19 passes Tuesday, transforming a decades-old pipe dream into reality.

Prop. 19 would legalize marijuana under California law, but not federal law, permitting local governments to tax commercial production, distribution and sale of the drug in the Golden State and allowing anyone over 21 to grow, sell and smoke pot. The option comes at a time when California is beset by funding shortfalls.

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Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than heroin or crack cocaine, a study claims.

Scientists have found that alcohol is the most harmful drug overall and three times as harmful as cocaine and tobacco, according to a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to both users and to wider society.

Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the new analysis, led by the controversial sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.

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