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ReeferPoker.com Bad Beat Jackpot has surpassed an amazing $1 Million dollars.
In an unprecedented offer for reeferpoker.com affiliates, Reefer Partners (poker affiliates) are set to earn a piece of this huge Bad Beat Jackpot!

“The Bad Beat Jackpot reached $1 million just after 6 PM today, and it is growing to new highs by the hour”, explained Reefer Pokers’ Poker Room Manager Dave Ishere. “At Reefer Poker we want to award the affiliate(s) that send the jackpot winners to us with a slice of this action!”

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F. Aaron Smith, California policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project recently wrote an excellent article called; A Neglected Revenue Source For California – Marijuana, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, about the discussion of “Sin Tax’ to save California from dire strains straits.

New sin taxes are likely going to be part of the solution to our financial woes. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a nickel-per-drink alcohol tax increase last year. More recently, Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, introduced legislation to tack on an additional $2.10 per pack in cigarette taxes. Yet marijuana, California’s largest cash crop, is completely untaxed.

Eureka! What a concept for saving the Golden State and very fitting for the seal of California which features the Greek goddess Athena (Latin: Minerva), the goddess of wisdom. She should grace all the best reefer packs.

The marijuana crop is valued at $13.8 billion annually – nearly double the value of our vegetable and grape crops combined. Our state is the nation’s top marijuana producer. Indeed, the average annual value of our marijuana crop is more than the combined value of wheat and cotton produced in the entire United States.

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“Marijuana Inc: Inside America’s Pot Industry” – premieres Thursday, January 22nd at 9p | 1a ET.
ABOUT THE SHOW
CNBC’s Trish Regan goes behind the scenes to explore the inner workings of this secretive industry, focusing on Northern California’s “Emerald Triangle,” now the marijuana capital of the U.S. In this scenic pocket of America, the pot business, much of it legal under state law, now makes up as much as two-thirds of the local economy.
Visit the CNBC website and/or preview the show.
Note: Make sure you take the CNBC poll, which was last at 98% in favor of marijuana legalization.

Bambu Rolling Papers & Roc-Elle Records present
The Bambu Band of the Year FINALS – Feb 12, 2009 @ 7PM
Hundreds of bands submitted to the Bambu Band of the Year competition, and four preliminary rounds later we are ready to choose the winner. Come see the finalists battle it out to be named the 2009 BAMBU BAND OF THE YEAR! The winner will receive cash, Bambu promotion and advertising all year long, and the chance to sign with roc-elle records!
Featuring VICIO, THE CHOSEN, THE COMMUNICATION CORPORATION, and CAPTAIN COCONUT!
Celebrity judges & drink specials TBA!
Buy your tickets in advance at the Santo’s box office (no fees!) or at Ticketweb.com to save some dollars and represent for your band of choice! The top advance-selling band gets 1st pick on set times. Tickets: $10 adv/$15 dos
Presented by www.bambu.com & www.roc-elle.biz

The 1st Annual Alberta Cannabis Cup was held this past October at private residence near Calgary. According to insider reports the sold-out event was a smoking success, with the festivities commencing at High Noon and rockin Midnight, allowing plenty of time for the 200 judges that paid $250 for the very serious task of sampling each of the 10 medical-grade cannabis strains that were entered. Each Judge was presented with a handsome wooden collectible case containing a hand-blown glass pipe, commemorative lighter, grinder, wraps and 10 small zip-lock bags with choice little nugs of the strains entered to win the (soon to be) prestigious Alberta Cannabis Cup.
The event included exhibits from head-shop merchants, a glass blowing demonstration and several speakers on medical marijuana plus discussions about the state of affairs related to marijuana legalization in Alberta and Canada. For dinner, arguably the world’s best beef, Alberta grain fed, was served at a Bar-B-Q steak dinner prepared by “Bongs and Such”, then the evening featured live rock music from the band “Pale Rider”.
Afgani Bull Rider won first place in the 1st Annual Alberta Cannabis Cup.
The reason this report is 3 months late is because I just found out about the 1st Annual Alberta Cannabis Cup from the Urban Grower who attended and made a cool video report. Next year for sure we’ll promote this great event and hope it grows to become world-famous, like the hospitality of Alberta’s 420 citizens. For more info see Canadian Cannabis Coalition and Calgary420.

In all of cannabis culture lore there remains a place at the pinnacle of mystique, Thailand. For good reason this Far East tropical paradise holds reverence to both the young dude’s and the old Stoners, it’s the fabled Thai Stick, popular during the late ’60′s and early ’70′s, consisting of premium buds of a high-grade sinsimlla which were skewered on slender bamboo sticks, bound with thin string known as “rasta hair” and dipped or dusted with opium.
The Thai Stick is a thing of legend but I can personally testify that it did exist, however having been to Thailand, where I never found a Thai Stick, I did come across great strains of sticky sinsemilla (for cheap) and can also promise that there still remains as much mystique as any young Dude or old Stoner could ever hope to find anywhere on the planet.
The land of a thousand smiling faces, as it’s often called, is also famous for beaches, girls and food, not to mention the culture, which is ancient and mysterious and adds even more intrigue to your trip. Everyone should have a plan to get to South East Asia someday, even if you can’t make it happen, you can still dream about it, have the plan to go, if you win the lotto or happen to inherit a fortune from a long lost uncle, in which case I suggest that you ought to immediately head to Sensi Paradise Beach Resort on the Island of Koh Tao

The Urban Grower is a weekly Internet only show hosted by a Canadian named Remo who will help teach you everything you need to know about growing weed and to help you grow up to two pounds per light. In episode 1 he interviews a grower in Vancouver, B.C., who owns a legal grow-operation inspected and licensed by the Canadian Government.
Urban Grower started sharing his videos on YouTube in 2006 and now has 156 which showcase grow operations all over the world and feature fabulous footage of hybrid strains of cannabis in California, Amsterdam and from growers across Canada. The quality and consistency of the Urban Grower has attracted over 6,000 subscribers at YouTube.com/.
Check out www.urbangrower.com

Who would have guessed that Reefer and Poker could work together to build a budding online community? A team of online poker marketing pros had a hunch and a dream, so they planted the proverbial seed in the fertile ground of the web, then tended the little start-up with constant attention, poured on some love and sweat to the plant in the early stages, then blasted that baby with 18 hours of energy every day, from a group of focused mega-watt marketers. No wonder Reefer Poker is Smoking the Competition!
Special thanks also goes to High Times Magazine, the Marijuana News Network, StonerRock, Celebstoner and Grasscity, and the 821 Reefer Partners (affiliates) for helping Reefer Poker reach 20,000 registered players in less than 10 months.

Greetings from Cannabis Tipo Forte staff!
Full of joy we announce a special edition of Cannabis Tipo Forte: with the 2009 edition we will celebrate ours fifth birthday!
It seems almost incredible, but after five difficult and tormented years we are still here, full of the high power of our cannabis passion!
We are proud to introduce you a new edition of the one and only Italian fair dedicated to the world of the cannabis! We are happy to scream worldwide that the new sparkling edition of Cannabis Tipo Forte will be held May 29-31, 2009.
Location of the event remains the pleasant structure of the Palanord, situated in the beautiful green of the Parco Nord in Bologna. As always, great Master of Ceremonies will be the charismatic surgeon Fabrizio Cinquini, who’s guiding all of us towards a luminous future of knowledge, culture and cannabis freedom!

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Zig-Zags are often mentioned in hip-hop culture, usually for their relationship to marijuana. Artists such as Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill and Kottonmouth Kings have all used references to them in their songs. In addition many artists and musicians, such as Dr. Dre and Afroman, have used Zig-Zag products in their album art to represent reefer smoking.
The Zig Zag Icon
In the 19th Century, during the battle of Sevastopol, a French soldier (also known as a “Zouave”) had his clay pipe broken by a bullet. He had the brilliant idea of rolling his tobacco in a piece of paper torn from a bag of gunpowder.
In 1894, the Braunstein Brothers perfected the process of interleaving papers in a zig-zag manner and introduced a cigarette paper booklet under the name Zig-Zag®. In 1900, Zig-Zag gained international recognition when they were awarded a gold medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris. Today, Le Zouave and Zig-Zag are known throughout the world for over 100 years (plus rolled more reefers worldwide than any other brand).