Jeremiah Vandermeer

Jeremiah Vandermeer

Holland's cannabis café culture will be dealt another blow on Friday as the Dutch government decides that the strong marijuana currently sold in coffee shops should be classed in same category as heroin and cocaine.

The gruesome concomitants of the war on drugs were on display yet again last week in Mexico, where gangs continue to terrorise the public with impunity. The decapitated body of a crime-awareness blogger was found in Nuevo Laredo, the third of such killings to occur in the city over the last month.

Marc Emery’s friends and supporters are using one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s democracy outreach projects to get the president to weigh in on the pot advocate’s stay in a U.S. prison.

KEN Burns' new documentary on alcohol prohibition, premiering on PBS Sunday, reportedly begins with a Mark Twain quote: "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
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