Even though cannabis is enjoying a moment around the world as more countries loosen up prohibition, there’s a bit of the opposite happening in Spain. Holland is famous for its cannabis cafes, dating back decades now, but Barcelona’s manifested...
As more states legalize, the impetus to legalize at the Federal level keeps building momentum. However, it may be that the state that housed the very Constitutional Congress that created the U.S. could be the next state to legalize...
While it’s possible that cannabis will be legalized in the next few years, that doesn’t mean that “illegal” growers will get a pass. In fact, a powerful Congressional committee is considering more effective ways of catching and prosecuting anyone...
It's a big problem in the world of legal marijuana. In states where the drug is allowed for any adult use, public consumption of any kind is banned. That means stoners may only use their cannabis on limited private...
In the days of peak pot prohibition, ad campaigns were run that attempted to paint “stoners” as lazy losers who were constantly de-motivated after smoking weed. While the anti-pot campaign messaging has morphed over the decades since the 1920’s,...
A former cop in California admitted taking at least $14,000 in bribes from drug traffickers in exchange for various services that would not look out of place in the movie Training Day.
Rudolph Petersen (an admittedly much less cool name...
Should people who do a crime that is illegal one year but not the next remain in jail? While we’re obviously talking weed here, there is some precedent. Unfortunately, not a good one. Back in the prohibition days --...
States across the nation continue to carry the wide sweeping duty of wiping out old marijuana convictions for many citizens that have long been hindered in their lives by past criminal records following them around. In recent years there’s...
Often for pot smokers, legalizing weed sales is only half the battle, especially if you’re a tourist making use of another jurisdiction’s more relaxed cannabis laws. Sure, you can buy pot, but then what?
Lighting up anywhere that you do...
There was once a prevailing theory that mere access to drugs, or even exposure to them at any level, would warp the teenage mind to the extent that a kid was compelled to “try reefer” or whatever drug you...
