A request by NORML under the Official Information Act has revealed police had a secret meeting with Internal Affairs departmental heads, and asked them to try to get marijuana law reform magazine Norml News completely banned.

UPDATE: WE HAVE JUST LEARNED TODAY THREE ISSUES OF NORML NEWS HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED R18. THIS APPLIES TO THOSE THREE ISSUES ONLY, HOWEVER A COMPLETE BAN IS STILL POSSIBLE. WE INTEND TO APPEAL THE DECISION, WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

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Der Cannabis-Verkauf in der Stadt Zürich soll nach dem Willen des Parlaments legal werden. Das Stadtparlament überwies nach einer emotionalen Debatte ein Postulat für einen Pilotversuch. Die Regierung hat nun zwei Jahre Zeit dieses zu prüfen.

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Though unwilling to support legalization, Palin clearly has some sympathy for marijuana users on privacy grounds and sort of gets the fact that marijuana enforcement is a stupid distraction from important police work. But you can't have it both ways. As long as police and prosecutors hold the power to pursue and punish people for pot, they'll continue to do so, and they'll say they were just doing their job when some poor soul gets their dog shot over a dimebag. There exists a rather fundamental incompatibility between prohibition and politenes

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Sarah Palin says she doesn’t support making marijuana legal, but during an appearance on Fox Business News this weekend, she agreed with fellow panelist Ron Paul that police have better things to do than arrest nonviolent marijuana offenders.

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Volunteers across the state are working to collect 25,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot repealing medical marijuana; hundreds of people have already signed their name on the petition.

Dozens of people in billings joined the fight Monday night in an attempt to repeal Montana's medical marijuana laws. Petitioners with 'Safe Kids, Safe Community,' led the fight; collecting signatures for the initiative they hope will make the November ballot. It's a battle medical marijuana caregiver Mark Higgins says is unnecessary and extremely harmful. "There's no need to repeal it and to make people have to suffer," Higgins said," it's like here you can have your candy; oh we're taking it away! You can't do that to people! You just can't mess with their lives that way!"

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The numbers from a new LA Times/USC poll shows that the percentage of voters in California who have tried pot are also the voters who say they're likely to approve the ballot initiative to legalize the drug in the state, according to the Times.

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"When Marc was arrested, he had $11 in his bank account," said his wife, Jodie, 25, who has co-edited Emery's magazine, Cannabis Culture, and served as his deputy in the Marijuana Party of British Columbia, which he founded. The party took 3.5% of the vote in the 2000 elections and made cannabis a must-address issue in every election since.

Emery won few friends in President George W. Bush's administration when former drug czar John Walters, apparently seeking to stamp out rumblings of marijuana decriminalization among Canada's then-ruling Liberal Party, addressed the Vancouver Board of Trade in 2002.

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Today, Marc Emery's wife Jodie sent out a tweet saying the Prince of Pot has been in solitary confinement for a week. He's detained in the Federal Detention Centre SeaTac in Seattle, Washington.

His crime? According to Jodie, he unknowingly broke a rule by having a phone call recorded in Canada for a prison podcast.

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Russia urged NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday to crack down harder on drug production and smuggling, and offered to help put a security ring around the country.

The international community should classify Afghan drugs as a threat to peace and security because they have become an important source of funds for the Taliban and other insurgent groups, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said in a speech.

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