CANNABIS CULTURE – The eruption of La Soufrière, a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, has devastated the local Rastafari community who have been unable to receive any financial relief from the government.
Under the leadership of previous United Nation’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s regime, member states which legalized or even considered legalizing cannabis were called out and admonished for violating decades-old international drug treaties.
Canada’s new Liberal government is pushing its pot-friendly ideas on the rest of the world, and one government backbencher hopes the country could be a driving force in getting the United Nations to reconsider its treaties that ban the drug.