Photo: Jeanie Mackinder |
Bastard’s stoned out of his gourd! Look at him! |
Michael Bublé, he of the wholesome image and music, may just be a regular guy after all.
Photo: Jeanie Mackinder |
Bastard’s stoned out of his gourd! Look at him! |
Michael Bublé, he of the wholesome image and music, may just be a regular guy after all.
They may have been the first weed dealers.
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Evidence suggests that Bronze Age Yamnaya tribespeople established a cannabis trade between Europe and Asia 5,000 years ago. Native to the Caucasus Mountains (roughly), the Yamnaya were horse-riding, cattle-herding nomads who traveled along what later became the Silk Road.
While neighbors Indonesia and the Philippines escalate their wars on drugs, Thailand may reform its famously harsh laws.
Can you find weed growing in the wild? Green Rush Daily investigates.
The Cannabist interviews joint rolling artist Tony Greenhand.
Eugene Monroe, who got cut from the Baltimore Ravens this year after he became the first active NFL player to call for MED use, has retired from the league. He’s one of jocks included on the Men’s Journal list of 18 cannabis activists in sports. The only woman is mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey. Earlier this year The New Yorker discussed “ The athlete’s case for cannabis.”
Tabloid stories about the dangers of drugs appear to fuel greater drug use. Gatherings where everyone stays sober are becoming trendy.
Agneya Singh, director of “ M Cream,” a movie billed as Bollywood’s first stoner flick, says India should decriminalize.
This weekend’s Enchanted Forest Gathering, a rave in northern California, was among the first U.S. festivals to have a MED dispensary on site. Alcohol was not sold.
Clothing company Patagonia, has made a short film ”Harvesting Liberty” to support industrial hemp legalization.
Michael “Dooma” Wendschuh, the central figure in my story “ Ebbu and the rise and fall of a modern weed dealer” has a new cannabis company. According to its LinkedIn page, Toronto-based Province Brands is a “global luxury brand” creating products “which do not feel like marijuana products.”
Some schoolchildren in the U.K. are gardening with cannabis compost.
West Coast Leaf |
Crisis? What crisis? |
It was bound to happen once marijuana legalization started looking like a real possibility. The prohibitionists and the drug warriors never go down without a fight; they always find an angle. This time, as at least two states — Colorado and Washington — are looking at legalization measures on November’s ballot, the new bugaboo is driving while high.
Clear Cannabis Law Reform |
Judge Alan Goldsack has decided he’s on a moral mission to wipe out cannabis cultivation — and he’s ignoring new reduced sentencing guidelines |
A senior British judge, ignoring new reduced drug sentencing guidelines, has jailed six men for growing marijuana.
Addiction Inbox |
The sad tradition of inaccurate, sensationalistic cannabis reporting continues in the United Kingdom’s tabloid press. Deeply clueless reporter Tamara Cohen at the Daily Mail plumbed new depths of silliness on Tuesday with the breathless headline: One cannabis joint ‘can bring on schizophrenia’ as well as damaging memory.
Photo: CNBC |
Trish Regan, CNBC: “The government stands to make a lot of money in the marijuana business thanks to the tax revenue and licensing fees it generates” |
Photo: Gold Speculator |
Did Kentucky Senate hopeful Rand Paul tie a college girl up and try to force her to take bong hits? |
A new article profiling Kentucky Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul’s college days makes the allegation that Paul and a friend once kidnapped a classmate and tried to force her to smoke marijuana.
“He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They’d been smoking pot.” After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him,” the woman recalls. “They blindfolded me and made me bow down to ‘Aqua Buddha’ in the creek. I had to say, ‘I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.’
Photo: CanIdoit.org |
Don’t ask me why they do it, but Brits traditionally mix their cannabis with tobacco. But they’re just like Americans in another way: Most of their politicians are reactionary cowards. |
The chairman of the Bar Council for England and Wales, Nicholas Green QC, has said it is “rational” to consider “decriminalizing personal drug use.”
Photo: 4&20 blackbirds |
“Just get me some more reefers… NOW!” |
Graphic: Cannabis Culture |
Professor David Nutt: “We’re going to focus on the science” |
An independent group, designed to give “politically neutral” information in the United Kingdom about the risks of drugs, is being launched.