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CHEECH AND CHONG ON WWE RAW

Cheech and Chong appeared on WWE Monday Night RAW here's the footage, it's great to see the duo back together! Oh an check it out Tommy's wearing a free marc shirt!

LIL WAYNE GOES TO JAIL

Famous stoner rap star Lil' Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, is due to be sentenced today to a year in jail after previously pleading guilty to a weapons possession charge. His plea agreement calls for him to be in carcerated in NYC’sfinest jails rather than in a state prison. Now the trick is to treat him like a common inmate.

“It’s a challenge,” said former New York City jails head Martin Horn. “It’s not about setting a celebrity on a bed of roses, but it is about an obligation to every inmate to keep him safe.”

Of course, Lil’ Wayne isn’t the first celeb to face time behind NYC’s jail bars. Associated Press points out Foxy Brown did eight months in a Big Apple city jail for probation violations. Due to threats made against her, she was held in protective custody in a private cell for much of her stay and had access to a day room.

Right now it looks as if Lil Wayne’s jail duty may go a similar route. Defense attorney Stacey Richman said her client would ask for protective custody and attention to his dental problems, but otherwise won’t expect any special treatment. Dental problems were the reason his sentencing was postponed from mid-February to this week.

“If Wayne had his druthers, he would not beasking for anything for himself,” Richman said.

Citing an anonymous prison guard, MTV says Lil’ Wayne’s days behind bars will include 4 a.m. wakeup calls and 3 p.m. dinners.

“He’ll be housed with inmates who are classified in his category, and he’ll be allowed to watch television, go into the day room and congregate with people of his classification,” the guard told MTV.

The guard also said Lil’ Wayne will probably do his time in the Eric M. Taylor Center at Rikers where he will be segregated from most of the jail’s prisoners.

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"HEADS" VS. "FEDS": THE DEBATE OVER MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION "FEDS"

by Robert Stutman,

The issue of legalization/decriminalization of cannabis is so interesting because it encompasses so many other issues: states' rights vs.  federal rights, doctor/patient relationship, democracy vs.  republic, etc. No matter which side of the issue a student is on, my guess is that the issue itself is far more complex than they first thought. I understand that the vast majority of college students are in favor of legalization of marijuana  that is nothing new.  For the past three decades, the vast majority of college students have been in favor of legalization of marijuana, and 15 years later the vast majority of those same students have been against legalization.   (Continued at cannabis coalition) DENVER'S VOTER INITIATIVE DOES LITTLE TO CURB MARIJUANA CITATIONS by John Ingold, More than two years after Denver voters approved a measure making minor marijuana crimes the city's lowest law-enforcement priority, city officials continue to prosecute marijuana cases at a steady clip.  Denver city attorneys last year prosecuted 1,696 cases in which possession of less than an ounce of marijuana was at least one of the charges. In 2008, 1,658 cases were prosecuted.  In 2006 - the year before the initiative was approved - prosecutors handled 1,841 marijuana cases. Police citations for possession of small amounts of marijuana continue unabated as well.  Figures for citations and prosecutions were released last week at a meeting of the city's Marijuana Policy Review Panel.   (Continued at Cannabis Coalition)