The Criminal Court has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to life, after the court found him guilty of attempting to smuggle cannabis into the Maldives. According to police, the man was charged with attempting to smuggle drugs on October 2010. The… [Continue Reading]
Over 300 economists, including three Nobel Laureates, recently signed a petition that encourages the president, Congress, governors and state legislatures to carefully consider marijuana legalization in America. The petition draws attention to an article by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, whose… [Continue Reading]
On April 21, I taught what may have been my final class at Oaksterdam University. For the better part of the past 3½ years, I have lectured at Oaksterdam. My 90-minute class focused on the peer-reviewed science establishing the safety… [Continue Reading]
A California school known as the “Princeton of Pot” has reopened after a federal raid, but with a bare-bones staff of volunteers to teach the art of cannabis cultivation, after the crackdown crimped its funding and forced it to lay… [Continue Reading]
After two years of research, development and planning, we are pleased to announce the release of our brand new logo & website! Please tell us what you think and help us check the site for bugs, broken links, things that… [Continue Reading]
A life well-lived in the cannabis movement
Steve DeAngelo is an inspired leader, with close to four decades of activism and advocacy in the cannabis reform movement. His vision and leadership have been featured by news teams from around the… [Continue Reading]
“Dance with the One that Brought You” is the title of a well-known song. But the Urban Dictionary offers a deeper meaning: “The principle that someone should pay proper fealty to those who have gone out of their way to… [Continue Reading]
‘Weed Wars’ on Discovery Channel, about the medical cannabis industry, is part of reality TV’s growing interest in shows revolving around illicit substances.
“By selling the amount of cannabis that I’ve sold, I am now eligible for more than three… [Continue Reading]
When I started writing this column a little more than a year ago, I thought medical marijuana was a thinly veiled cover for folks who wanted to legalize the substance. Not that I opposed the notion, nor did I doubt… [Continue Reading]
Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that carrying small doses of drugs is not a punishable offense, torpedoing years of effort by the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe to criminalize the personal possession and consumption of drugs.
According to the… [Continue Reading]
Gov. Chris Christie gave the green light to New Jersey’s medical marijuana program on Tuesday, saying he believes the state’s narrow initiative would not run afoul of federal prosecutors.
New Jersey’s six approved dispensaries could be open by the end… [Continue Reading]
Once again, government servants have told Americans that marijuana ranks right up there with heroin. The Drug Enforcement Agency ruled last Friday that marijuana has “no accepted medical use” and will continue as a schedule 1 drug – the most… [Continue Reading]
When a person becomes a parent, their main goal is to care for and protect their child. When a parent has an autistic child, that goal becomes much more difficult. An estimated one out of 110 children are diagnosed with… [Continue Reading]
If you thought they were going to issue a formal apology after decades of flagrant dishonesty, you would be mistaken. But the DEA is at long last conceding Marijuana’s incredible medical value…by giving pharmaceutical companies exclusive permission to make pills… [Continue Reading]
What 420 Means to Us
420, 4/20, and 4:20! 420 means many things to many people, myself included. I first heard the term 420 when I was in my early 20’s, and had no idea what it meant until I… [Continue Reading]
Nirvana is a Cannabis seed breeder located in the heart of Amsterdam. In addition to offering their many fine varieties of hybrids through seedbanks, they also sell DIRECTLY to the customer. They offer a different “Weekend Whopper” (special) every weekend,… [Continue Reading]
I’ve been glued to the television and internet reports about the unfolding disaster in Japan. First an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near the island nation, then a tremendous tsunami washes ashore and leaves an estimated 10,000 dead and thousands more… [Continue Reading]
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, in cooperation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, recently announced a new anti-drug campaign that specifically targets marijuana. Instead of featuring horror tales… [Continue Reading]
Organized crime is back in business in Griffith as the mafia returns to its traditional ”grass-roots” operation in the Riverina district.
More than 30 years after the contract killing of Griffith anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay, police have finished a two-week… [Continue Reading]
The website of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), has acknowledged the cancer-fighting properties of marijuana’s active components, but stopped short of recognizing that oncologists may recommend cannabis as an… [Continue Reading]
