Doonesbury Supports Legalizing Marijuana
Gary Trudeau’s long-running Doonesbury comic strip is often entertaining, frequently topical, and sometimes controversial; with less than a week before our national election, Doonesbury has now begun...
View ArticleProposition 19-Turning Over a New Marijuana Leaf
Our country’s national election is less than two days away, and scores of races are really heating up across the country. Perhaps none of the ballot measures, however, are more contentious than the...
View ArticleSan Francisco Celebrates Its Victorious Freaks
The city of San Francisco was an exuberant sea of orange and black as local residents celebrated the World Series victory of their home town baseball team. Last night, just as we entered our downtown...
View ArticleVermont: Universal Health Care and State Distributed Cannabis
Lost this week amid the deafening cries for the bloody corpse of Osama bin Laden, is the fact that the state of Vermont has passed a single payer universal health care plan for all of its residents. On...
View ArticleLouisiana Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Marijuana Possession
The drug laws and penalties in our country are badly in need of reform. In a climate where scores of eminent law professors are calling for the legalization of cannabis, it is difficult to fathom that...
View ArticleUtah Attorney General Shurtleff Now Supports Legalizing Medical Marijuana
The state of Utah's Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, has just announced that he now wholly supports the legalization of medical marijuana. He has recently endured many months of intensive chemotherapy...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana and Nuclear Free World = Economic Sustainability?
Britain's Guardian newspaper just published two very astute articles on different topics which both relate to our collective economic future. The first post, "Germany is Right to Opt Out of Nuclear",...
View ArticleCongressmen Frank and Paul Propose End to Federal Pot Prohibition
New bipartisan legislation has just been introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, which would limit the role of the federal government in enforcing any prohibitions against...
View ArticleRon Paul Terrifies Right Wing Republican Establishment
Republican Ron Paul is the quintessential definition of an iconoclast. Although I frequently disagree with many of his extreme anti-government and racist views, I always admire his courageous lone...
View ArticleDr. Bronner’s Soap CEO Harvests Hemp in Front of White House
I have always adored Dr, Bronner's fantastic soap, but now I love it even more. The president of the thriving family owned company, David Bronner, locked himself in a metal cage in front of the White...
View ArticleSenators Try Once Again to Legalize Industrial Hemp & Support US Farmers
For the second time this year Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced legislation which would finally legalize industrial hemp; the proposed bill would exclude the crop from the definition of...
View ArticleNation’s First Hemp Constructed House Built in Asheville NC (Video)
Although it is currently illegal to grow hemp in the US for any reason, Asheville, NC construction pioneers Push Design and Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty have teamed up to construct the first hemp...
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