CBS 8 News out of Montgomery provided excellent coverage of the HB642 judiciary committee hearing and the press conference we had before the hearing began. Get some tissue handy...Mrs. Jackie Phillips will make you squall.

SALEM, Oregon - The sad news has been confirmed. Jack Herer, author of Emperor Wears No Clothes and renowned around the world for hemp activism, has died at 11:17 a.m. today, Thursday April 15th 2010, in Eugene, Oregon.

Updates may be a little slow over the next few days, as members of Cannabis Culture's editorial staff will be in transit to the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo. Road trip baby!

A minor change in court processing procedures in Philadelphia, streamlining the handling of arrests for pot possession, sparked a major controversy recently that totally missed the most outrageous aspect of marijuana law enforcement.
Activism

I'm encouraging all stoners, potheads, dope fiends, viper girls, Doobie Brothers, Freak Brothers, ganja girls, reeferheads, drug-law reformers, and members of Parliament to be in Ottawa on PARLIAMENT HILL on APRIL 20 to SMOKE-OUT THE POLITICIANS all day beginning at noon.