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Missouri Man Released From Prison After Serving 11 Years for Possessing One Pound of Weed

SpeedWeed

In February of 2007, Robert Franklin was busted by the Missouri Highway Patrol after he chucked a one-pound brick of marijuana out of his SUV window in an attempt to avoid arrest. All across the country, advocacy groups like the Canna Convict Project and the Last Prisoner Project have sprung up to help current inmates find freedom.

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People who Changed Pot Forever – Steve DeAngelo

Leaf Science

Abruptly woken from their sleep, a very young Steve DeAngelo and his brothers were hastily ushered into the family car and driven away at speed. I found couches to sleep on but I realized very quickly that it was not sustainable”. In 2007 Steve opened the first commercial medical cannabis testing lab in America. Steve DeAngelo.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

Authors of texts may use more surreptitious, and sometimes unconscious, literary devices such as rhetoric, trope, metaphor, or juxtaposition—techniques that evoke moral positions, predictions of possible effects, and prescribe solutions (Entman 1993 ; Johnson-Cartee 2005 ; Weaver 2007 ). Conditions most frequently mentioned.