Feb 16, 2009

Social Media Explorer Kat FrenchThere are a lot of challenges in working with social media: helping clients understand the space, finding smart and meaningful ways to employ social technologies, and measuring the effectiveness of your efforts, for example.  One big and often-discussed issue is how the “always on” aspect of social media can lead (Read More)

Feb 16, 2009

Submitted by Your Obama Update from blog: Editor's Note: The following guest post was written by Kevin Merritt, the CEO and founder of blist, a Web-based list manager and spreadsheet that was used on www.Change.gov, the Obama Administration's transition Website.President Barack Obama was sworn into office as our nation's 44th president. Despite running into a few t (Read More)

Jan 30, 2009

Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. Hicks was scheduled to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman for the twelfth time, but his entire performance was removed from the broadcast -- the only occasion, up to that point, in which a comedian's entire routine had been cut after taping. (Read More)

Feb 01, 2009

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Jan 26, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: Screening his latest project, ""Marijuana: It's Time for a Conversation", Steves will present the short film on the popular and commonly illegal drug - also known by it's latin nomenclature Cannabis sativa or slang terms such as weed, pot or ganja. On his frequent travels abroad, Steves observed how the use of marijuana was (Read More)

Jan 30, 2009

Submitted by Leximo from Digg: Several La Salle County, Ill., jurors shook hands with an emotional Loren J. Swift after finding him not guilty of a marijuana charge that would have sent him to prison. The 59-year-old was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. The state police drug task force arrested him in 2007, at his home, where (Read More)

Jan 30, 2009

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular You can't hide from Google Earth - some marijuana growers in Switzerland found that out. While using Google Earth, Swiss police just happened to find a two-acre marijuana plantation hidden inside a corn field. . (Read More)

Jan 24, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: According to deputies, all three admitted to smoking marijuana at home. They were taken to the county jail on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and maintaining a dwelling for drug use. (Read More)

Jan 25, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: Gotta love a conspiracy, especially if it's controversial! It's old news, but who knows...with our current energy crisis, hemp could make a comeback to fuel cars, just like Henry Ford predicted! It's also always good to be armed with a good story. (Read More)

Jan 26, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: The medical marijuana industry has already put $11-100 million in the state treasury, depending on whose numbers you use. In Marijuana Inc.Thursday night, CNBC reported California “collected more than 11 million dollars in sales tax revenue, 300 thousand from just one Oakland dispensary alone". (Read More)

Jan 26, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: A bill that would require registered medical marijuana patients involved in a traffic accident or pulled over for a traffic infraction to submit to a blood test for THC or face revocation of their medical marijuana registration card got a hearing in the Montana legislature Tuesday. (Read More)

Jan 28, 2009

Submitted by Hcarlgolden from Digg: It is hard to imagine liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and conservative Minority Leader John Boehner as soul mates on any discernible level, however, on the issue of marijuana law reform, for entirely different reasons, they’re two peas in a pod. (Read More)

Jan 29, 2009

Submitted by Leximo from Digg: Everett police said a 24-year-old man picked the wrong place to try to deal drugs — a stall in the police station restroom. Police Sgt. Robert Goetz said the man was overheard Wednesday using a cellular telephone to try to sell Oxycodone, a prescription painkiller, and other drugs. (Read More)

Jan 29, 2009

Submitted by Leximo from Digg: Two Florida men reportedly stiffed in a $450 marijuana deal were arrested after claiming to have been robbed at gunpoint on La Salle Street, Fort Pierce, according to arrest affidavits released Thursday. . (Read More)

Jan 27, 2009

Delicious/jolinarodriguez Lest anyone forget their undying hatred of and scorn for medical marijuana patients, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), currently still staffed by officials from the Bush Administration, has acted quickly and cynically to undermine and disregard statements made by President Barack Obama. (Read More)

Steve Elliott
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Reality Catcher/writer/social media political activist and strategist/medical marijuana patient. Damned liberal. NSFW. Hey now. Welcome home.