Activism

The Internal Revenue Service has ordered Oakland's Harborside Health Center, the largest medical cannabis dispensary on the West Coast, to pay $2 million in taxes after ruling that the collective cannot deduct standard business expenses, such as payroll and rent.

Marc Emery’s friends and supporters are using one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s democracy outreach projects to get the president to weigh in on the pot advocate’s stay in a U.S. prison.

KEN Burns' new documentary on alcohol prohibition, premiering on PBS Sunday, reportedly begins with a Mark Twain quote: "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."

In the grotesque wars that pit Mexican armed forces and drug cartels against each other and civilians who get in their way, the Zetas cartel plays a fearsome role.