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The 710 Cup is going to be a two-day cannabis and music celebration in Denver, CO, brought to you by Grassroots California & Hitman Glass. This “multiday celebration of cannabis concentration” is scheduled to begin on July 10th and will last all weekend until the 14th. Vendors will include seed companies, dispensaries, glass blowers, clothing companies, painters, arts & crafts vendors and tons of musical artists. Late-night parties are also going to be held at The Gothic featuring some great headliners from across the country. Dabs Of Denver Event On 7/10 On Wednesday, 7/10 …

A pro-pot group by the name of “Fire It Up Kansas” is hosting a cookout this afternoon at Sedgwick County Park in Wichita, Kansas. However, this BBQ is going to smell a little better than most. The group plans to light up cannabis legally this afternoon because they want state lawmakers to decriminalize cannabis. While most pro-pot groups are pushing for medical marijuana legalization, “Fire It Up Kansas” believes that is not enough. “I’m tired of seeing people destroyed, seeing children grow up without parents, tired of being looked at as idiots,” Diana Golden, one of the organizers, told …

Scotch Plains 2-year-old toddler, Vivian Wilson, suffers from sever epilepsy with horrible seizures. Her parents were put in a tough situation when they couldn’t find a psychiatrist who would sign off on the consent form, which was the only thing preventing Vivian from being eligible to receive medical marijuana in New Jersey. “I’m talking about one little girl in Colorado going from having hundreds of seizures a week to now being off all her pharmaceutical medications and having about three seizures a week.” – Meghan Wilson “She’s very pattern sensitive,” her mother Meghan Wilson explained to …

The Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s “Day of Direct Action” rallied in Washington Monday in protest of the Obama administration and the war on drugs. On Monday, Rev. Jesse Jackson took the stage in front of a reported crowd of 500 at a rally that called on President Obama to take “direct action” and act on the following agenda: Intensify efforts to eliminate the disparity in sentencing between powdered and crack cocaine. Issue an Executive Order eliminating the War on Drugs and replacing it with a national initiative that treats drugs and drug addiction as …

According to a group of leading scientists, the outlawing of psychoactive drugs such as cannabis and psychedelics is the worst case of scientific censorship of modern times. The paper, Effects of Schedule I Drug Laws on Neuroscience Research and Treatment Innovation (abstract only), was published today in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience and was written by Professor David J. Nutt of Imperial College London, Leslie A. King & David E. Nichols. The authors argued that the outlawing of drugs such as cannabis, psychedelic mushrooms and other psychoactive substances has thwarted research into the potentially …

Vincent “Tripp” Keber, CEO of the Denver-based Dixie Elixirs medical marijuana edibles company, plead guilty to misdemeanor marijuana possession in Alabama last month. According to the Denver Post, Keber was arrested on May 18th while attending the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama. He was found with a small amount of concentrated marijuana which was originally mistook for cocaine by his arresting officers. Keber will be just fine if he can stay trouble-free and abstain from using marijuana for the next two years. He will also be required to submit to random drug …

Many doctors, whether they are for or against advising people to use medicinal marijuana, choose not to endorse smoked marijuana as a medicinal therapy. Many of these same physicians make the argument that there are two prescription cannabinoids available, Marinol and Cesamet, that patients should be ingesting orally in contrast to smoking raw cannabis. However, these doctors fail to recognize one thing…patients can grow their own cannabis and ingest cannabinoids without the help of pharmaceutical companies! So why aren’t they suggesting patients do so? If a physician doesn’t believe that smoking …

A recent poll in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 76% of doctors would recommend the use of medical marijuana. The poll about the recommending of medicinal marijuana by physicians was conducted during a live debate that occurred on the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) website. Doctors were given a theoretical case study in which a 68-year-old woman has breast cancer metastatic to the lungs and the thoracic and lumbar spine. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy and reports having low energy, minimal appetite, and substantial pain in her spine. She has …