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CANNABIS CULTURE - It's been announced that prominent Bollywood actor and former member of the Indian Parliament Amitabh Bachchan will play the pivotal role of Meyer Wolfsheim in the upcoming 3D version of The Great Gatsby.

City Lights, the London, Ontario bookstore formerly owned by imprisoned marijuana activist Marc Emery, has contributed hundreds of titles to a local prison book drive.
Activism

Former actresses are doing it. New York Times journalists are doing it. Screenwriters are doing it. Writing about marijuana, that is. With the changing legal times, and the jaw-dropping reality that pot has become a $35 billion legal industry in the U.S., the subject is drawing a motley crew of authors exploring everything from agriculture and big business to socioeconomic norms and the joys of toking.