It’s December 6 today, I've got 4 months until I get my transfer-back-to-Canada application to the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. It’s 580 days to go if I serve my entire sentence here in the US federal prison system (up to July 9, 2014) with 1,010 days now served – that’s 33 months done, 19 to go (on a 60-month sentence, I'll serve 52 months with my good time credit).
A notorious checkpoint in West Texas – notorious, at least, to the pop musicians and celebrities who have been stopped there for drug-related arrests – has another notch in its belt.
CANNABIS CULTURE - In the second instalment of "Music To Take You Higher," CC's Dale Rangzen features Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, and Lukas Nelson in his look at work by artists and musicians through the ages who loved smoking pot.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which aired Saturday night on HBO, opened with Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner pronouncing, "I believe in the magic of rock and roll, the magic that can set you free." Yet the industry so inspired by marijuana doesn't mind that its fans who feel the same aren't so free.
CANNABIS CULTURE - It's jam night at the Vapour Lounge in downtown Vancouver. The host, Adam Bowen, is onstage with a group of scruffy funk rockers, pounding out the bass line and singing improvised lyrics.
CANNABIS CULTURE - If anyone's worried that being happily married and critically successful has taken the edge off of Todd Snider’s agitated perspective, one listen through ‘Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables’ will be enough to put those fears to rest. He’s obviously not one who believes in mellowing with age and this time out Snider’s got his sites set on nasty lawyers, corrupt investment bankers, desperate pensioners, and the evils of organized religion.