Cannabis News And Brews planned in Two Rivers on December 14, 2019
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Cannabis News And Brews planned in Two Rivers on December 14, 2019

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Cannabis News And Brews Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 1 PM – 3 PM Kurtz’s Pub & Deli 1410 Washington St, Two Rivers, Wisconsin 54241 Do not miss this local activist networking event! Pick up blank signature forms for distribution locally. Come down and sign for support and say high to the NORML crew! Meet…

Representative Jeffrey Mursau Assembly District 36 (R – Crivitz) talks to police about pot
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Representative Jeffrey Mursau Assembly District 36 (R – Crivitz) talks to police about pot

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Representative Jeffrey Mursau Assembly District 36 (R – Crivitz) talks to police about marijuana. Rep. Mursau joins Rep. Swearingen to meet with the Florence County Sheriff Department and discuss the issue of marijuana. Rep Jeff Mursau serves the following areas: Forest County:Town of BlackwellTown of FreedomTown of LaonaTown of LincolnTown of NashvilleTown of WabenoCity of Crandon…

Rob Swearingen and the Tavern League playing ball
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Rob Swearingen and the Tavern League playing ball

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Tavern League Has Capitol Clout More than $2 million in campaign donations helps explain state’s weaker laws on drunk driving. This trade and lobbying group has generated more than $2 million in spending on campaign contributions and lobbying over the past 10 years to promote the interests of bar and restaurant owners on alcohol regulation, licensing, taxes,…

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Support behind closed doors more NORML than you know.

ByNORMLNox Posted on Updated on

So I had an opportunity to talk with a long time family friend who has an addiction issue. I asked him if he would be willing to support our cause and sign a document notifying his representation of his choice’s about Medical Marijuana, Industrial Hemp, and Complete Legalization. He said “No, because it’s addictive. I’d…

Ken Burns’s Prohibition — coming to PBS the Fall of 2011
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Ken Burns’s Prohibition — coming to PBS the Fall of 2011

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble,…

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DWI court saves

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I worked 2+ decades in alcohol/drug detox/rehab and agree 100% that “DWI Court” is money well spent. In mental health it has been shown that community support prevents most hospitalization and 72 hour holds (and costs in money and quality of life that go with them). Government spending is out of control and citizens are…

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Retired Surgeon editorial on alcohol and marijuana

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Community Columnist – Is legalization of pot on the way? December 20th, 2010 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Whoever you are, I thank you for consuming my allotment of the 32 gallons of alcoholic beverages each Wisconsinite guzzles every year. I couldn’t have done it on my own. We have cheeseheads, but our beer bellies are the…

Run Johnny Run from Kentucky to Wisconsin will the ‘King Of Pot’ be caught?
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Run Johnny Run from Kentucky to Wisconsin will the ‘King Of Pot’ be caught?

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

Recently The Independent Reporters covered the ongoing saga of Run, Johnny Run.  The main stream media and National Public Radio carried the story, along with Unconstrained News on what is now becoming somewhat of a folk legend.  John Robert Boone as been called an outlaw, fugitive, criminal , hero and a friend.  The Kentuckians known…

Is marijuana a liability?
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Is marijuana a liability?

ByJay Selthofner Posted on Updated on

As published in the Berlin Journal Newspapers and affiliates on Thursday, October 7th, 2010.  Issue Number 40 Is marijuana a liability? As a financial representative, working in the field of insurance and investments, my profession taught me a great deal about the importance of education, goal setting and systematic approach to problem solving, including risk management….

Tax and Cannabis
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Tax and Cannabis

ByNORMLRoy Posted on Updated on

Your July 20 Guest Column about people hating tax and the marijuana advocates want to be taxed caught my eye. Americans sure do hate tax, but our greed can make us overlook the need for government to be funded. Study the USA Alcohol Prohibition. As for pot advocates wanting to be taxed … maybe they…

Adults See Alcohol, Cigarettes Riskier Than Marijuana
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Adults See Alcohol, Cigarettes Riskier Than Marijuana

ByNorthernWINORML.org Posted on Updated on

Americans view alcohol and cigarettes as more dangerous than marijuana. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that just 17% of Adults rate use of marijuana as riskier than drinking alcohol. Fifty percent (50%) say alcohol is more dangerous, while 26% rate the two as equally risky. These findings are consistent with a survey last August. Even…

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We’ll drink to that – Article by Steve Prestegard

ByJessica Struzik Posted on Updated on

Archived for Posterity: We’ll drink to that by Steve Prestegard Originally published in Marketplace Magazine on 7-16-2010 Washington Post columnist George F. Will recalls Prohibition, and not fondly (nor should he): Daniel Okrent’s darkly hilarious Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition recounts how Americans abolished a widely exercised private right — and condemned the nation’s fifth-largest…

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Tavern owner offers opinions and observations

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As a business owner and employer I see people self medicate everyday with alcohol, which is obviously considered acceptable. People use alcohol for different reasons. I know people go to a bar just to drink and have a good time, I would consider that recreation. I know people go out to the bar to socialize…