FROM SCOTT: On Thursday, June 18th 2009, I Woke up to police officers banging on both my front and back doors. It looked like the game Grand Theft Auto when the player has a 5 star criminal rating for killing cops, just police everywhere. Dozens of police officers, for what? a marijuana grow in a private residence.
The winner of the award for Perfect Description of the Reason Behind Marijuana Prohibition and the Nazi Holocaust and Every Other Historical Barbarism goes to Toronto narc Paul McIntyre speaking last week on CTV news about the nightly raids on pot gardeners: “We’re paid to go out every night to keep arresting these guys.”
I recently had a conversation with a marijuana activist leader working the Washington DC beat. He complained to me that people where I live, Northern California, have unrealistic expectations regarding marijuana law change. He said that we shouldn’t expect any major changes during the first part of the Obama administration, he has too many other, more timely problems and can’t afford to to use too much political capital- we should just wait, be patient.
With a career spanning more than 30 years working as a Cannabis Activist, Author, Connoisseur, Breeder, Dealer, Political Leader, Growshop Owner, and Coffeeshop Pioneer, Wernard Bruining has given cannabis culture his all.
Conservative Gulag Minister Rob Nicholson is pressuring the Senate to pass Bill C-15 (mandatory minimums sentences for marijuana!) before it breaks for summer.