The highly influential Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is asking shoppers to boycott Wal-Mart for firing Joe Casias, a 29-year-old cancer survivor and LEGAL medical weed patient from Michigan with an inoperable brain tumor. He worked at the mega chain for five years, but was fired after testing positive for THC during a drug test. In 2008, he was named Associate of the Year, but a spokesperson for Wal-Mart says the company can discriminate all it wants, even if the medicine is legal: Read more »
The Marijuana Policy Project calls bullshit on the AP and a researcher’s claim that “The increase of teens smoking pot is partly because the national debate over medical use of marijuana can make the drugs seem safer to teenagers.” |MPP|
According to this new report from the CDC, prescription drugs that contain opioids—basically all the good ones—are killing people at record rates. Fatal poisoning from crowd favorites like Vicodin and OxyContin have tripled from 1999 to 2006 and as MPP notes, drug deaths are now even outpacing “auto accident fatalities” in at least sixteen states. |MPP|
Although their legalization ad was banned by certain networks, the Marijuana Policy Project is still getting plenty of face time—even on Fox News! With the country facing financial ruin there’s really no logical arguments against regulating pot like alcohol and tobacco. But that won’t stop people like Calvina Fay, of the Drug Free America Foundation, from trying her best to propagandize the subject. Unfortunately for her and opponents of legalization, the MPP’s adept spokesperson Bruce Mirken obliterates the rhetoric. Watch the debate for yourself below and enjoy the increasing trend of anti-legalization pundits getting vaporized by silly things like facts, figures, and basic common sense.
The very successful Marijuana Policy Project smartly funded a very uncontroversial ad targeting cash strapped California that argues the economic advantages of taxing and regulating the weed industry. Stupidly, the common sense video was rejected by “two ABC affiliates and one NBC TV station” in that state. Witness the modern day Reefer Madness after the jump. Read more »
Don’t mess with Montel’s marijuana! At the Marijuana Policy Project’s Awards Gala in NYC Monday night, Montel Williams, very candidly, discussed his absolute need for the herb to help him deal with the pain of MS. In a heart wrenching monologue that one would expect from talk show guests, Montel described how his “feet burn,” is “in pain 24 hours a day,” and the only thing that gives him relief is the good weed.
After the jump, the video of the voice-cracking marijuana medic bearing it all.
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