CBC - Canada's $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada's national economy that it can no longer be ignored.

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Effective today, NBC will stop paying for Andy Richter's medical marijuana, and medical Jack Daniels

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Here is the complete transcript of the monologue

THERE WERE SO MANY RAIN CLOUDS TODAY I COULDN’T SEE THE USUAL DARK CLOUD HANGING OVER NBC.

IT WAS SO WET GILBERT ARENAS PULLED A WATER PISTOL ON HIS TEAMMATES. THAT’S HOW WET.

IT WAS SO WET, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS PUT ON RUBBERS. THAT’S THE FIRST TIME THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.

IT LOOKS LIKE CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA. YOU THOUGHT GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE! “THE PURPLE HAZE AND THINGS SUCH AS THAT.” (ARNOLD VOICE)

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Criminals with convictions for offences such as indecent assault and drug dealing are knowingly being licensed to operate as taxi drivers, an investigation by the BBC programme Inside Out West Midlands has revealed.

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A TV show dedicated to the promotion of medical marijuana — complete with plant cultivation tips and cannabis cooking lessons — will debut in San Diego tonight.

The first episode of “Cannabis Planet” includes a segment critical of the raids carried out against local dispensaries last fall.

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After close to five years offline, pot.tv is re-streaming. Pioneering video streaming in the year 2000, Marc Emery initiated and funded the production of hundreds of original videos, to the tune of $16,000 a month in streaming costs alone, discussing the latest information on cannabis medicines, politics, cooking, growing, history and activism. Pot.tv served as an incredible educating and unifying force for Canadian, American and International pot-activists.

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O'REILLY: We found out that in San Francisco, which leads the league in marijuana clinics, medical marijuana clinics, a lot of hard-core drug addicts go in there, buy the pot and sell it to kids so they can buy their heroin and meth and everything else.

CHONG: Sell it to kids?

O'REILLY: Yes.

CHONG: Where did you get that information?

O'REILLY: We got it from our undercover people.

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