The Atlantic Monthly Online has an article today that serves as prime example of the…

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NBC, CBS, ABC, & FOX happy to profit from marijuana, as long as nobody talks about legalizing it

by Russ Belville
Posted on August 3, 2009June 23, 2020

Marijuana legalization is the hottest topic in the media these days. MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, FOX, NatGeo, and CBS News have presented special features on marijuana business, medical marijuana, and the marijuana legalization movement. Google Trends is showing double the interest in searches and news hits for the term “marijuana legalization”.

Smoke wafts from a green glass Sherlock pipe rating on a white table next to an open prescription-style bottle of medical cannabis

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Rhode Island Challenges Federal Ban By Authorizing Cultivation And Sale Of Marijuana

by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
Posted on July 3, 2009June 18, 2020

While California is clearly at the vanguard of implementing major legal and policy changes in seeming conflict with the federal government’s 72-year old cannabis prohibition laws, in fact little ol’ Rhode Island is on the precipice of effectively breaking the federal government’s ban on the cultivation and sale of cannabis by joining New Mexico as the only states favoring medical cannabis laws to have state-sanctioned medical cannabis cultivators and retail outlets for qualifying medical patients.