Dan Biron, a veteran television director with Channel 1, yesterday announced he is running for mayor of Jerusalem on the Green Leaf Party (Ale Yarok) ticket. Biron officially presented the list to the elections commission yesterday, making him the first candidate to do so. The rest are expected to so today.

from: Ha’aretz

To:

Members and Supporters of the Green Leaf Party

Dear Friends,

After considerable deliberation and for personal reasons, I have come to the conclusion that I will not be able, to the best of my abilities, to fulfill the function of the chairman of the Green Leaf party. For this reason I have decided to temporarily pass the position of the chairman, for the coming three months, to Shlomi Sendak, one of the founders of the green leaf party.

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You can Still Have Your Joint, but Only if it’s Pure

By Frederik Hartig

In July, the Dutch government will introduce a nationwide smoking ban in bars, cafes and restaurants, aimed at protecting workers. But it will also make life a lot harder for the country’s infamous coffee shops, where customers will only be allowed to smoke pure cannabis.

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Would you say this film represents a warped view of Arcada’s grow community? Interesting that the Gyllenhall family made this one - we’ll have to contact them privately and see if they’re interested in our work here in Israel.

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By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent

“And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking.” Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
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from IMDb: Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae’s apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy…

 The Green Leaf Party strongly sympathizes with the fate of our good friend and ally, Marc Emery, who sponsored the Joint Arab/Israeli Conference for Marijuana Policy and Peace. We would like to express that support by asking our members to sign the petition to FREE MARC EMERY!

‘Prince of Pot’ given prison time

B.C. man says U.S. sentence is a political muzzle

By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER

A Vancouver marijuana activist, whose arrest and pending extradition for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet outraged many Canadians, says he’s cut a deal with federal prosecutors in Seattle and is going to prison.

U.S. authorities portray Marc Emery, dubbed the “Prince of Pot,” as a major drug trafficker who pocketed millions of dollars and fueled organized crime.

But Emery, 50, says the prosecution was politically driven and designed to muzzle his vocal opposition to laws criminalizing pot.

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this just makes me happy. you gotta love how many musicians have taken a stand for legalizing marijuana.

sometimes we all have bad days and we need to hear about good things. thanks ben! anytime you want to come to Israel, members of the Green Leaf Party will be happy to burn one down with you.