Looking to make that perfect tee shirt statement? Want to let the world know that you are in favor of the legalization of marijuana? Say It Phree Tees can help you out.The online shop has a whole line of “420 Phriendly” designs. Styles from the attractive “Pot IS Medicine” caduceus design (pictured at right) to The Original Green Man (perfect for that hard-to-buy-for Pagan on your gift list) is available.Everyone from experienced ganja gurus to the greenest n00b is showing their allegiance to “Mother Nature’s Greatest Gift” with these stylin’ tees.And while you’re rockin’ your sartorial splendor, you’ll also be helping a good cause. Say It Phree donates .00 from each tee shirt sold to support the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).”This includes every tee that we sell, not just our 420 Phriendly line,” said the Say It Phree guy himself, Dylon Whyte.

They might have an easier time finding unicorns.The University of Washington says it is looking for people who want to quit pot.The UW School of Social Work’s Innovative Programs Research Group is looking for 70 “marijuana-dependent adults” in the Puget Sound area to participate in a clinical research trial testing approaches for people who want to stop using cannabis, reports KING5.com.The university says research has shown that nearly 3.6 million Americans use pot on a daily basis.Unfortunately, UW then puts its reputation as a center of higher learning in serious danger by absurdly claiming that “between one-third and one-half of those are dependent.”

The BC Civil Liberties Association has filed a complaint against the Victoria Police Department for muzzling one of its officers, reports ‘A’ News.Constable David Bratzer was scheduled to speak at a harm reduction meeting in Victoria Wednesday night representing the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).Bratzer says the War On Drugs is not winnable and is doing more harm than good.But the Chief of the Victoria Police Department doesn’t want Bratzer to share those views.

The total amount of marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) nearly doubled from 2008 to 2009, according to numbers disclosed by the agency as part of their budget request for 2011.Meanwhile the cultivation of cannabis in Mexico rose 35 percent in 2009, to nearly 30,000 acres, according to a report released by the U.S. State Department.Marijuana seizures by the DEA went from 1,539 metric tons in 2008 to 2,980 metric tons in 2009.

​Medical marijuana would be taxed an ounce and sold at county-licensed “compassion centers” that would grow and sell marijuana to qualified patients and caregivers under a bill passed Tuesday by the Hawaii State Senate.The bill to allow the sale and taxation of medical marijuana, Senate Bill 2213, was passed by lawmakers as they try to add up enough money to stop the state’s projected .2 billion budget shortfall, reports Richard Borreca at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.The marijuana bill, after provoking debate on the Senate floor, eventually passed 20-4.”I don’t think this is helping to alleviate the drug problem,” said Sen. Norman Sakamoto (D-Salt Lake/Foster Village), who had evidently wandered into the wrong debate.Windward Oahu Republican Sen. Fed Hemmings said the FDA should test medical marijuana before people sell it.

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​According to Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron’s estimates, reducing the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana to a civil fine would save Rhode Island about .1 million per year in reduced expenditures on police.Miron also estimates that taxing and regulating marijuana would save the state roughly .5 million per year in reduced expenditures on police, prosecutors, judges and prisons. Taxing and regulating marijuana could also generate about .6 million per year in tax revenue, according to Miron.Miron will testify Thursday before Rhode Island’s Marijuana Prohibition Study Commission and explain how changing the state’s current medical marijuana policies could save tens of millions of dollars annually, and possibly even generate additional tax revenue.

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​A pro-legalization Canadian police officer has been ordered by his department’s leadership not to show up at a drug policy event where he was scheduled to speak on Wednesday.Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, an international group of cops, judges and prosecutors who oppose the “War On Drugs,” is criticizing the gag order from the Victoria, British Columbia Police Department that limits the freedom of speech of one of its officers.Officer David Bratzer, who volunteers with LEAP while off duty, was ordered not to speak at an official, City of Victoria-sponsored event on harm reduction scheduled for Wednesday night at 7 p.m.Even though the event is scheduled outside his regular working hours, management from the Victoria Police Department, without Bratzer’s knowledge, informed city staff that he was being “withdrawn from speaking.” Then on February 24, a senior officer at the department directly ordered Bratzer not to participate in the event.

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​New Hampshire’s House is considering decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults, a year after the Legislature voted to legalize medical use of the herb.Governor John Lynch, who vetoed the medical marijuana bill last year, also opposes the bill to decriminalize a quarter-ounce (seven grams) or less of cannabis, according to the Associated Press.The Legislature’s attempt to legalize medical marijuana last year fell just two votes shy in the Senate of overriding Gov. Lynch’s veto. The House successfully overrode the veto.

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