Related Articles
Early 20th Century Hemp Paper
By Ted Smith In 1916, the USA Department of Agriculture published Bulletin #404, announcing to the world an important new discovery in hemp processing. This discovery should have lead to a huge wave of interest in hemp, but ironically it was the trigger that lead to Reefer Madness as I will discuss in a later […]
Jah Bless You Healthy Cannabis
by Ted Smith To the tune of “God bless you merry gentlemen” Jah bless you health-y can-na-bis, let free-dom pave your way, Re-mem-ber Ter-ry Park-er, Was cleared one hap-py day, To save us all from leg-al troub-les, And stop the war some-day. O, Tidings of cookies and buds, cookies and buds, O, Tidings of […]
Normalizing Cannabis Culture: A Few Cultural Hurdles
Judith Stamps As we start to think about legalizing cannabis, it is useful to consider the mental and social barriers that are likely to keep 35% of Canadians hostile to it. Some hurdles are likely to remain for at least a generation, maybe even two. Here are four worth examining. 1. We lack confidence in […]