Imminent Collapse…
…and the age-old contest between cooperation and competition – or why this pothead is a libertarian socialist instead of just a socialist-hating libertarian or a libertarian-hating socialist.
Prison Blog #30 (Newsletter #6)
Sunday, February 12: The cruelties just pile up here at D. Ray James. Jodie just visited me and there’s a new rule: NO Holding Hands! Wow! After being able to hold hands during the entire visits at Sea-Tac FDC in Seattle, and during Jodie’s first five visits to DRJ, we could hold hands the entire visit. This new rule is very distressing and disappointing.
Vote Dana! Tommy Chong and Dana Larsen Team up for Two Fundraisers
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.
Kind Words: The Return of the Prodigal Mama
I started my career at Cannabis Culture when Marc Emery hired me just over a decade ago to be an assistant to Dana Larsen, then Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.
Police Are Twice As Likely To Sexually Assault You And Five Times As Likely To Murder You
IT’S true! According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, between January 2010 and September 2010, 31 kops per 100,000 committed homicide and 73 committed sexual assault. In comparison to 100,000 of the general population (this includes blacks, whites, Mexicans, gang members etc) only 5 citizens committed homicide and 29 committed sexual assaults.
Prison Blog #29 (Newsletter #5) – The madness continues
February 8-14: On January 6, Warden Booker told me I was to be reinstated to my job in the law/reading library. After three weeks of waiting and going to the library daily in any case, I saw on the call-out sheets (daily assignment sheet) in late January that I was assigned to pick up garbage on the compound in the afternoon and evening.
Prison Blog #28: Injustice & Cruelty As A Laughing Matter
I remember Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Justice Minister in the twilight of Paul Martin’s Liberal government, commenting that Canadians had developed a culture of tolerance for marijuana use in the nation. This was on the heels of the Senate Committee urging marijuana legalization, my 2003 Summer of Legalization Tour across all ten provinces of Canada, and our 6-3 Supreme Court loss attempting to find Canada’s marijuana prohibition laws unconstitutional.