We talked before about how Mexican cartel marijuana growers clear-cut trees, use poisons, heavy machinery, and industrial fertilizers, divert rivers and streams, start fires, trash the land, kill native wildlife and habitat, and use firearms and vicious dogs to guard their crops. We also noted that a small but dangerous percentage of American and Canadian […]
Who are the enemies of marijuana and what can we do to defeat them? Those are the important questions we’ll be answering in this article series meant to empower the marijuana community and defeat those who harm us. Our first installment deals with a very powerful enemy indeed: the Canadian federal government. For many years, […]
At a medical marijuana event, a man and his wife came up and quietly said they wanted to talk confidentially about how medical cannabis “cured autism” in their daughter. The woman held the hand of the 7-year-old girl who was the couple’s daughter. “Our daughter was diagnosed with autism,” the man said, “but look at […]
The United States government hates whistleblowers and activists. That’s pretty obvious when you look at high-profile cases such as that of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. It’s also obvious when you discover how the DEA targeted a Canadian marijuana legalization activist and vocal critic of the DEA named Marc Emery. Emery was based in Vancouver, Canada […]
Michigan’s medical marijuana freedoms are slowly but surely being taken away by politicians from both major political parties, by police and prosecutors, and by the ultra-conservative Attorney General Bill Schuette. We passed our medical marijuana law in 2008 and it was a good law that had a few flaws. One flaw was that it allowed […]
What do the Netherlands, Washington state, and Colorado have in common? Voters in all three places made major marijuana decisions in recent months, that’s what. Washington and Colorado “legalized” marijuana. For marijuana smokers who’ve long seen Holland’s cannabis coffeeshops and marijuana seed shops as prime destinations, September, 2012 elections in Holland brought especially good news… […]
The first time I used medical marijuana was after I’d been addicted to oxy, Dilaudid (synthetic heroin) and other prescription pharmaceutical pain drugs prescribed by my doctors. My need for painkillers started when a woman (she was texting while driving her Hummer) ran a red light and center-punched my car. I woke up after surgery […]
Daniel Rees, a professor of economics at the University of Colorado in Denver has co-authored a study with two other professors at the University of Oregon and the Montana State University, which concluded that while teen marijuana usage has increased since 2005, this increase has not been caused by the existence of medical marijuana dispensaries. […]
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