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America’s Most Disturbing Drug War Prison Sentences

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:58:02 -0700

America’s Most Disturbing Drug War Prison Sentences
By Phil Smith, DRC Net

Battle For The States: Medicinal Marijuana Initiatives

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:24:58 -0700

The Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance Network, NORML and hundreds of US activists are achieving remarkable success in getting Democrats and Republicans in the statehouses to put forth legislation that undoes some the terrible wrongs of the Drug War. Legislation from Congress in Washington has been uniformly prohibitionist for two decades, and consequently the prisons have exploded with hundreds of thousands of drug-war victims.

Favorite Bud: The Cheese (Outdoor)

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:42:17 -0700

The Cheese is a very special phenotype of Skunk #1 that was found in the UK. In 2004, a really nice guy called ‘Big Buddha’ was at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam giving away samples of what he called “The Cheese”. The sample pictured here is a clone from an Afghani male crossed with The Cheese.

Glass Masters: Jason Lee

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:06:38 -0700

Jason Lee has been blowing borosilicate glass for about 12 years, and is well known for influencing more glass pipe makers’ work than other glass blowers. His inspiration comes from the technical and mathematic art of scientists and philosophers such as MC Escher, DaVinci, and Benoit Mandlebrot, who seemed to understand that the complexities of the Universe can be explained by simple means if a pattern can be found. Jason’s focus with patterning is to replicate that connection with the divine.

How to Hold a Pot Protest, Rally or March

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:38:35 -0700

Pot Protests. Reefer Rallies. Marijuana Marches. Whether it’s April 20th (known as 4/20), the first Saturday in May (Global Marijuana March), an impromptu response to a compassion club raid, or a legislature protest when critical cannabis laws are debated, making a public pot presence shows The Man that we’re not going to take it and, to quote Bob Dylan, "The times, they are a’ changing!"

Click here for a list of Rally Tools

How To Open a Cannabis Culture Hemp Store: Launching Your Own Retail Revolution

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:32:24 -0700

Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters, Vancouver BCI originally wrote this in August 1995 after I had been in cannabis retail activism only 16 months. It was first printed in Cannabis Canada #3, Fall 1995. At that time I had not yet had legal trouble.

How to Stage a Hempfest

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:21:10 -0700

In planning and organizing a hemp festival, or “Hempfest”, you must figure out many things: location, stages, bands and speakers, vendors, volunteers, insurance, local and state laws, stage electricians, security, bathrooms, advertising, sponsors and more. Seattle Hempfest, held over two days on a beautiful stretch of beach, has been the biggest marijuana legalization event in the world for over 15 years and is the model for aspiring hemp festival organizers.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: LEAP’s 2007 Agenda

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:37:07 -0700

Entering its fifth year of existence, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) continues to expand its message to North America and beyond. Our raison d’etre (“reason to be”) is education. LEAP is made up of criminal justice professionals speaking out against the failed war on drugs.

Rally Tools

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:47:00 -0700

There’s no financial reason to not protest insane, evil, monopolistic pot laws! You can organize a public rally with as little as $300 – below is a list of what you need, with approximate costs, in order to hold a “Basic Rally”.

- Posters, buckets, brushes, glue: $100-$200
- Signs and banners: $100-$200
- Press release & fax machine: Borrow
- Megaphone: $15/day rental
- Or better yet... Microphone and amp: $40-$90/day rental
- Hemp string/rope (for putting up banners): $10
- Garbage bags: $5

Retail Activism: Dom Cramer's Yonge Street Hempire

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:35:41 -0700

The cannabis movement has come a long way since 1994, the year of my initiation into the “cannabis culture”, when I founded Toronto Hemp Company (THC). I began humbly at the age of 20 while finishing a torturous stint at the University of Toronto and sharing an apartment with an old high-school friend. One day he showed me an Internet announcement by – and correspondence with – Marc Emery, then owner of a “revolutionary retail” Vancouver store called HEMP BC.

SAFER Colorado's Rocky Mountain High-jinx

heather — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:39:56 -0700

Could two people legalize marijuana in a state with more than three million people by relying on a rental car and less than a couple hundred thousand dollars? That hypothesis was tested last year when Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) Colorado tried to expand on its 2005 legalization victory in Denver by running a ballot initiative to make private adult marijuana use and possession legal statewide.

Steve Tucker: Forgotton Man

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:57:02 -0700

His one-bedroom flat, tucked into a sprawling Sandy Springs apartment complex, is furnished sparsely with a rocking chair, TV, computer, and a small picnic-style table that serves as both dining hutch and desk. The stark white static of the walls is interrupted only by three dream-catchers tacked to the Sheetrock. It’s the sort of spartan minimalism one might expect of someone who, until recently, had to content himself with staring at bare cinderblock.

The November Coalition: A Decade of Fighting For Those Behind Bars

heather — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:38:26 -0700

In early 1997 a handful of daring folks from the remote mountains of northeastern Washington State called for peace in the war on drugs. Nora Callahan, along with some local friends with loved ones in prison, began publicly demanding an end to what they termed as the “war on people” and formed the November Coalition.

Top Ten Worst Corrupt Cop Cases of 2006

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:04:15 -0700

On the most profound level, all drug law enforcement is an inexcusable intrusion on the privacy of citizens. There is no compelling moral or ethical justification for allowing agents of the state to arrest and imprison citizens for what they put in their bodies, or for selling to consenting adults what they choose to put in their bodies. That said, the least citizens of a democracy should expect is that if police are going to enforce the drug laws, they do it in a lawful manner.

Why Be NORML?

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:49:25 -0700

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is a nonprofit public-interest lobby that has, for more than 30 years, provided a voice for citizens who oppose marijuana prohibition. NORML represents the interests of the tens of millions of North Americans who smoke pot responsibly, and we lobby state and federal officials to abolish criminal penalties for both the recreational and medicinal use of cannabis.

Word Vaccine: Letter Writing as Activism

heather — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:09:16 -0700

William S. Burroughs theorized that language was a virus, and Rudyard Kipling called it a drug. I prefer to think of language as a vaccine, and I try to use it to vaccinate the Canadian public against prohibitionist propaganda. When someone reads a letter in a newspaper and learns something new, they are forever changed. If you receive a powerful piece of information, your life can never be the same again.