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Tonight I was contacted by a colleague I’ve worked with on a number of projects, who is a bit more well-connected in the marijuana activist community than I am. He had gotten a surprising and very frank and heartfelt email from Steve Kubby, saying that Steve was planning to leave not only the entire marijuana […]
October 1, 1937 was the sad day that the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 took effect, turning the harmless cannabis plant overnight from being a useful source of fiber and medicine to the evil devil weed and assassin of youth. Well, not really, but that was the effect. And the Federal government lumbered on for […]
This one is right out of Old Hippie’s infamous stash of little-known facts. In the process of doing some historical research, I found some interesting tidbits. Today is, at least according to one source, exactly 75 years since the U.S. House of Representatives passed the dangerous and illegal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, based largely […]
by Scott Morgan, July 12, 2012, 10:28pm Reprinted from StopTheDrugWar.org by permission One month ago, Eric Holder testified before Congress that the Dept. of Justice is only targeting medical marijuana businesses that violate their state’s laws. Anyone who didn’t realize it was a lie should be getting the message right about now. The federal government is moving to […]
A week or two ago, I wrote about the U.S. Government’s almost spotless record of lying to the American people. Now it’s time to put some of that into the context of how they’re lying and misleading the public in their latest War On Medical Marijuana In California. One month ago, the four California-based U.S. […]
It’s here, as promised. The full, slightly revised PDF version of last week’s series of articles, with 4 dozen clickable footnotes. The official title of the paper is The Top 5 Myths About Medical Marijuana and you can get it just by clicking on the link. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew. No, […]
Guest post from the Marijuana Policy Project. I am disgusted today — OH In the latest move of the Obama Administration’s incomprehensible attack on medical marijuana, U.S. attorneys announced today that they will begin to prosecute media outlets that publish advertisements for medical marijuana! It seems that when it comes to medical marijuana users, or the states in which […]
Because of our diversity and direct democracy, California has always been a “test state” for many new ideas and political reforms. The Federal government is now targeting California and its Medical Marijuana patients to create a test case out of us. They are afraid to change the status quo. But it is not just Medical […]
“I’ve had all I can stand, and I can’t stand no more!” — Popeye This quote does not refer to my well-known inability to stand up after having too many edibles, but my frustration with the current state of politics as it concerns cannabis users. We are treated as a laughingstock, even by a president […]
There is such a thing as disagreement, where two sides have different opinions about facts. And then there are times when one side has complete and utter disregard for not only the facts, but the nature of reality itself. Ironically, though drug warriors have been attempting to paint marijuana users as unstable mentally for decades, it’s […]