David Malmo-Levine has been writing about - and organizing civil disobedience involving - cannabis since 1993. He has a couple of websites: pot-facts.ca, involving facts that will help transform cannabis regulations from "hard drug regs" to "soft drug regs," and pot-shot.ca, a collection of his writings and publications and (soon) videos. David is an anarchist - he doesn't need any rulers thank you very much.
The following is a story that came about as a result of an interview I did with a reporter from the Maple Ridge News regarding the tobacco prohibition policy in Fraser Regional Correctional Center – the jail I recently emerged from after doing 4 months for herbal offenses. Below that is a link to anRead More
I was working in the pallet yard at Fraser Regional Correctional Center a while back - Jan. 25th to be exact - when I noticed one of the guards reading the Province newspaper. Just for a lark I asked him what my horoscope said. It read:
This article was written in Fraser but I chose to wait to publish it until after I was released - those who run the jail may not have taken my constructive criticism with a completely open mind.
I still believe there should be doctors and lawyers, but, to paraphrase the doctor in the movie Sicko, maybe they only need one or two cars instead of three or four.
The third installment of my continuing 'Words I Learned From Bad-Ass Gangsters In Jail" series: words and phrases I acquired while serving at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre.