Jerry Golick For many Canadians and Americans, 2015 seemed to be a real banner year for cannabis legalization. Dispensaries were blooming, LPs were producing, and a new majority government in Ottawa promised to legalize the recreational use of cannabis during its mandate. In the USA, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington were all set to follow Colorado’s […]
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Minister Ambrose on Medical Cannabis – Now in plain english
A Take on Nurse Rona, Canada’s (Gulp) Health Minister If you are not a Canadian, let me introduce you to Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Minister of Health and Nurse Ratched for the Harper Government, Canada’s ruling so-called Conservatives. On April 25 she was speaking with CBC host Stephen Quinn, responding to the Vancouver City Council’s […]
Some Thoughts on Thomas King Forcade
(High Times: Jan 1993) By Judith Stamps We remember Thomas King Forcade, if we remember him at all, as the creator of High Times, the Cannabis magazine that turned forty in 2014. We are unlikely to recall much more, however, as Forcade kept an aggressively low profile. His name never appeared on the masthead. […]
Latin America Says No To Drug War
By M. Allister Greene The tactics of the War on Drugs in Central and South America has formed a dust ring around it. But this dust is made up of blood, bones, drugs, money, and corruption. Many people from countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, and many other Latin American countries, met on […]
An Interview With: Elizabeth May
The Greens on mandatory minimums and legalization Cannabis Digest: Do you know anything about Hempology 101 in Victoria, or what we do as an organization? Elizabeth May: No We have been involved in the Victoria scene for 15 years. We are an advocacy group for hemp and marijuana—both sides of the cannabis coin. We have […]