The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime released a report yesterday calling for the decriminalization of casual and addict drug use and personal cannabis production.
A UN report says Canada is the leading supplier of ecstasy in North America as well as a major producer and shipper of methamphetamine for markets around the world.
A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of marijuana died in custody over the weekend, and officers are not saying how or why.
Washington state is facing some tough decisions on which taxes to raise or which services to cut. Yet residents should be extremely frustrated by Attorney General Rob McKenna’s push to extradite a Canadian activist to Seattle, where residents will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute and imprison him, money which could be better spent on teachers or keeping taxes low.
Hydroponic cultivation—the growing of plants without soil—is a science as ancient as the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon and as modern as a future NASA mission to Mars.
Marijuana remains illegal even though public attitudes are clearly changing on this topic. It is illegal even though 100 million Americans have smoked it and suffered little if any negative side effects.
100 Mile area farmers are on the cutting edge of local diversification. They’re working with industrial hemp, a crop that was grown for thousands of years before the government banned it.