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 […]
Category: Politics
Ending the “War Against (Some) Drugs” means we all have to become activists on some level and learn how the political system works.
Ask Old Hippie: Why Is Marijuana Illegal, Anyway?
Dear Old Hippie, I’ve been smoking weed for awhile and always took for granted that it’s been illegal forever. Me and my buddies always assumed that it was because marijuana helps you think “outside the box”, since it certainly isn’t dangerous or unhealthy. But then I found out that it used to be legal. So […]
Obama To California Patients: Drop Dead
The gloves are off. Barack “of course I inhaled” Obama’s fake-progressive “health care for everyone, because we care” administration has now declared war on sick people in California. U.S. attorneys based in California sent letters to medical marijuana dispensaries here warning them that they must close within 45 days or face criminal prosecution. They also […]
Pot Smokers Are The Most Officially Oppressed Minority In America
“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 […]
Medical Marijuana Under Attack In California
(Originally posted at The 420 Times, but so important I want the news out everywhere) I just received an urgent call for action from Don Duncan, the California Director of Americans For Safe Access, one of the top national organizations working tirelessly to protect your right to use cannabis as medicine. The California legislature has […]
How Anti-Marijuana Arguments Warp Reality
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 […]
Mexican Army Finds 300 Acres Of 8-Foot Marijuana Plants
Reuters reports that a huge grow operation was found in Baja California, involving a crew of “dozens of men” and an estimated yield of over 130 tons of marijuana. They claim it’s the single largest “plantation” ever found in Mexico, a country already known for growing large quantities of weed and our top importing country. […]
“States Should Make Their Own Decisions”: Obama
Last Thursday, members of Congress submitted HB 2306, a bill that would end Federal prohibition of marijuana completely and allow each state to decide whether they wanted to ban it, regulate it, or simply legalize it. There’s been quite a lot of discussion since then about how it would work, whether it would work, it’s never […]
Eight States Have Banned Tylenol In Anti-Marijuana Hysteria
It’s called the Law Of Unintended Consequences, also known as “what happens when a bunch of ignorant legislators try to interfere with people’s lives without having a clue.” According to a press release apparently from the Retail Compliance Association (a trade association for sellers of “synthetic marijuana”, a.k.a. “spice”), eight states, including Texas, Wisconsin, and […]
Safe, Legal Access To Marijuana Is A Basic Human Right
…and it says so right in the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sounds pretty good […]