"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." --H.L. MenckenSTOCKBROKER USING UNCLE SAM'S MMJ FOR 20 YEARSThe Associated Press reports on stock broker Irvin Rosenfeld, who deals with millions of dollars while smoking up to 12 joints daily - marijuana he gets from the federal government to treat a rare bone ailment.

MORE FROM ALAN BOCK ON DRUG REFORMMARIJUANA ACTIVIST: POLICE PERSECUTING ME When Loretta Nall founded the Alabama Marijuana Party she cleaned out her house and thought she was safe. Now police are interrogating her children, looking for reasons to take them away from her -- all over a stem and some seeds.

ALAN BOCK ON DRUG REFORM DRUG REFORMERS REGROUP AFTER ELECTION DEFEATSALAN BOCK, author of "Waiting to Inhale" and Senior Editorial Writer at the Orange County Register, files an exclusive report with Pot TV on the national conference of the Marijuana Policy Project and Students for Sensible Drug Policies held last weekend in conservative Orange County, California.

ASK ED EXPOSES THE SECRET LIFE OF SPIDER MITESU.S. TARGETS POT USERS WITH NATIONAL RANDOM DRUG STOPSU.S. Border Agents have started randomly stopping traffic, in order to bust cannabis users and seize their vehicles. Cars and young people are being searched, without probable cause, up to 25 miles away from the border, especially in Michigan, California, and Texas.

ED ROSENTHAL INTERVIEW! BRITISH STUDY WARNS OF HEALTH DANGER OF CANNABIS"Smoking three pure cannabis joints is as bad for your lungs as smoking 20 normal cigarettes and marijuana is more dangerous now than it was in the 1960s," according to a "new" study in Britain. But millions of people have been smoking cannabis for decades now -- where are the bodies?

NEWS FOR THOSE TRAPPED BEHIND THE CANNABIS CURTAIN MAYOR HITS A HIGH ON POT-BUSTING STANDChilliwack B.C. Mayor Clint Hames got the biggest round of applause at an all-candidates meeting Wednesday night when he told the crowd of about 200 that he's "proud" of the city's effort to knock down home grow operations. "These are the folks we want out of our community," he said.

VOTERS REJECT DADDY WARBUCKS INITIATIVESDISAPPOINTING RESULTS PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF ASSESSMENT

POT LOSES IN NEVADA AND ARIZONA, WINS IN SF -- Full Report FridayRADIOACTIVE FERTILIZERS GIVE NUCLEAR BUZZBiochemist Paul Hornby measured the radioactivity of various fertilizers used to grow marijuana. The most radioactive were Shultz, Greenleaf, and Green Valley brands. DID WAMM RAID VIOLATE 10TH AMENDMENT?

VANCOUVER COPS JOIN MARC EMERY IN DENOUNCING ODD SQUAD LEADERA BANNER DAY FOR PROP. 215

MEDICAL MARIJUANA WINS A MAJOR COURT VICTORY! 9TH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS MEDICAL MARIJUANA A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled yesterday that the federal government may not revoke the licenses of doctors who recommend marijuana to their patients.WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY BLASTS POT ARRESTS