The second-annual installment of Canada's largest marijuana and hemp trade show was a three-day, pot-packed event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and Cannabis Culture was on location to record and document the reefer madness sanity.

I've been watching a lot of Al Jazeera lately – now that the 24-hour live stream is available on the net – and happened to catch this report about a new video game based on Mexican cartel violence and the Drug War.

Who have been the main beneficiaries of the United Nations' 50-year international treaty to prohibit certain drugs? These thank-you videos to the UN from (fake) organized criminals give us a few illustrations of the rich and powerful monsters created by prohibition.

A new and hilarious episode of The Simpsons stars an animated version of stoner icons Cheech and Chong, and is loaded with more reefer references than ... well ... a Cheech and Chong album.

BC NDP leadership candidate Dana Larsen and new NDP member Tommy Chong will team up for two days of fundraising, beginning tonight with a film screening and live performance at the Rio Theatre in downtown Vancouver.

Whether it's overseas in foreign countries like Iran and Malaysia, where drug trafficking is punished with the death penalty, or here at home in North America, where police SWAT teams kick down doors with guns blazing, the Drug War Executions continue.

It's time for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff to start treating the prohibition of marijuana and other drugs as a serious political issue.

There are only a few days left to become a member of the BC NDP in time to vote for cannabis super-activist Dana Larsen as leader of the party. Sign up before January 17 to be eligible to take part in the leadership election.

There is a hidden killer lurking in the shadows of your mother's kitchen spice rack.