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Tax and Regulate Cannabis 2010, the California ballot initiative that would legalize and regulate marijuana in California, submitted about  700,000 signatures today ensuring its place on the November ballot.  California would become the first state in the U.S. to legalize, regulate and tax cannabis for adults 21 and over if passed. Richard Lee, an Oakland cannabis entrepreneur and founder of Oaksterdam University is sponsoring the bill along with Jeff Jones, Executive Director of the Patient ID Center, formally known as the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative.  The two have been instrumental in helping to revitalize downtown Oakland through cannabis based businesses.  Oakland is now known as “Oaksterdam,” the Amsterdam of the West.

Iv'e spent all morning watching footage of this horrific incident. These people have suffered and lost everything in a matter of seconds. Homes, churches, and hospitals crushed. Haiti needs to be completely re-built, this will cost millions upon millions. Already many countries have sent supplies and money to help in any way that they can, but will this be enough?

Before the quake over 80% of Haiti people are living underneath the poverty line. 78% of the population live on 2$ a day, its a very poor country. Due to the recent deforestation, their forests have been cut down, leaving them with little building materials, and fuel. What could REALLY save these people?

 Send them hemp seeds. With it they can re-build stronger homes, bridges, feed the hungry,  and clothe the unclothed. If Haiti were to grow hemp, they could sell it to the world! Hemp production would provide thousands of jobs, and money to a country that really needs it...

New Jersey Assembly recently passed the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act becoming a major medical cannabis victory for the North East joining Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maine.  Governor Jon Corzine, who leaves office on the 19th, said he would sign the bill into law which would make New Jersey the 14th state to legalize cannabis for medical use. The new legislation would be the most restrictive medical marijuana law in the country, only allowing for patients with a terminal illness or debilitating condition, such as cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, glaucoma, Crohn's disease, muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease, but not for chronic pain. This will exclude many people who may need the medicinal herb.

2009 was an action packed year for cannabis reform and media coverage. Here is  a list of the top cannabis, marijuana, and hemp stories of 2009

Medical

Obama Administration: Don't Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions
http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/192
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvUziSfMwAw
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7998

Many Teens See Medical Cannabis As Alternative Treatment Option
http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/content/4/1/7