Estoy Pacheco Rolls 11 Marijuana News Hits You May have Missed This Week...or Last!

News, views and reviews that may have slipped under your radar screen this week...and one anti-marijuana story included for the comments. We do have a voice!

Marijuana in Your Life: A Time Line
This Week in John English
10 Marijuana Recipes That Will Surely Enhance Your Weekend
Could Marijuana Replace Michigan’s Failing Auto Industry?
BBC Marijuana Hit Piece: “Should I Smoke Dope?”
America's thriving ganja industry
What are the nicknames for marijuana? Ask a Square
History Of Medical Marijuana Research Evidence Case Studies
Marijuana Mamas!
Hempola!
The marijuana subtext of Rocky & Bullwinkle
What are they smoking?! When scenes call for pot or cocaine, Hollywood turns to stash of faux drugs

Estoy Pacheco's week in weed will now be a regular feature...running once a week...thereabouts.

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Oakland: First in Pot Tax?

There's green to be made in green. Like a junkie looking for a fix city fathers can smell a dollar bill and Oakland is looking at a new revenue stream - marijuana.

The new tax measure is expected to add $400 000 to the cash-strapped coffers. As it is now the city charges just over a buck in tax for every thousand bucks sold at any of the four marijuana dispensaries in town. The proposed cash grab...tax...would up the ante to $18 per $1000 worth of retail weed.

This is where it starts to get surreal - the dispensaries are calling for the increased tax levy.

This is where it gets bizarre - one city councilor says that the revenue could save four or five jobs...police jobs!

Oakland residents will vote on the measure later this month.

Pothead Real Father to Michael Jackson Kids?

Us is claiming that Arnold Klein is the biological father of Michael Jackson's two children with Debbie Rowe. That's Arnold with the big pot leaf on his shirt. Klein is a dermatologist who was also Rowe's boss at the time.

Hapless Pot Smugglers from North of the Border

Usually our tales of hapless pot smugglers involve our southern border and include surfboards. This time around - in honor of Canada Day - we train our sites to our northern border.

A couple was arrested at the Niagara Falls border crossing for trying to smuggle an unspecified quantity of marijuana in the United States. Cops found five vacuum sealed bags secreted in the spare tire of the lovebirds car.

You figure that if you are going to go through the trouble of taking a tire off the rim, packing said tire full of weed and putting the tire back on the wheel you'd have the sack to be calm and cool at the border. Maybe the cops got suspicious when they saw all the cheesie dust on the wheel.

Happy Canada Day you crazy Canucks!