This man served 10 years in jail for selling gardening supplies, and his older brother died in prison. Is the War on Drugs worth this?

America’s Most Disturbing Drug War Prison Sentences

During the 1960s, the U.S. Army tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon. Meet the man who ran the program.

Whenever the subject of colors in cannabis comes up, I’m reminded of the time I was working with a grow partner near Errington in the central Vancouver Island region. We had been growing a variety of strains because we were determining what grew well in the area and had a bunch of clones that had to be tried out.It was a good grow year with plenty of sunny days, though not as much rainfall as we would have liked.

The wonders of macro photography have excited me since I first saw the amazing photography of Joop Dumas at the 1995 High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. (Macro means anything very large in scale, scope, or capability.) Dumas took incredible magnified photos with an electron scan microscope back in 1985, and to this day they are the gold standard for macro photographs in the cannabis world.

Although impossible to have a toxic overdose of cannabis, it is quite possible to consume more than necessary. When you smoke too much marijuana or eat too much pot food, you may have symptoms of ataxia/dizziness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, possible crying, and sometimes a sensation of dying. But don’t be concerned; ingesting too much cannabis is not fatal or injurious to any organs. The best antidote is to crawl in bed, turn off the lights and go to sleep; all will be normal in the morning.

Oakland hip-hop legend A-Plus would have no problem finding these three fine ingredients in his hometown of Oakland, California, a city with four approved medical cannabis dispensaries. Just a quick train or ferry ride away is San Francisco with over thirty dispensaries to choose from. Most dispensaries are worth visiting, but Oaktown is home to two of the best.