Let The States Decide Their Own Marijuana Policies
A bill to repeal marijuana prohibition and end the federal criminalization of personal marijuana use is introduced in Congress for the first time in US history.
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Buy and Sell Virtual Marijuana With New ‘Weeds’ Facebook Game
The producers of Showtime's Weeds have partnered with Marc Ecko to build a digital platform that could eventually alter the show's story
‘No Knock Raid’ Musician Lindy says ‘Catastrophic’ Drug War Must End
CANNABIS CULTURE - Lindy, the Canadian musician behind Reason Magazine's "No Knock Raid" video, discusses the tragic consequences of the Drug War, libertarian politics, and Marc Emery with CC writer and activist Peter Jaworski.
Reefer Madness: Alive And Well In The Federal Government!
Almost as if on cue from a movie director, the head of the Judiciary Committee in the US House of Representatives, ‘conservative’ Republican from Texas Lamar Smith, has provided both cannabis law reformers and the general public a typical up-close view of why the US Congress—the creator of Cannabis Prohibition laws in 1937 and later the Controlled Substances Act of 1970—rarely seems to work the way it was intended.
Lebanese Police Destroying Marijuana Fields Attacked
Lebanese anti-drug police on missions to destroy marijuana fields in the Bekaa Valley came under attack at least twice on Monday, the first day of annual eradication efforts aimed at the valley's deeply-embedded trade in hashish.
First Charges Handed Down After Medical Pot Raids
Three medical marijuana providers were arraigned Thursday in the first criminal case stemming from a series of federal raids that placed a chill over a once-booming pot industry and preceded sweeping changes to Montana law.
Police Shut Down ‘Paraphernalia’ Vendors at Tacoma Hempfest
CANNABIS CULTURE - In what organizers are calling "an absolute travesty of police fuck-upery", several glass vendors at the Tacoma Hempfest were shut down and given paraphernalia citations by off-duty police officers hired by the city to work security for park events.
Hackers Unearth FBI Report on ‘KopBusters’ Filmmaker Barry Cooper
Computer hackers with the group 'Lulz Security" have unearthed a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) intelligence assessment of Barry Cooper, the former Texas narcotics officer who turned against the drug war and began setting up hidden camera stunts looking to catch corrupt police in the act.
Marco Renda and Treating Yourself Go International
I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd-Annual Treating Yourself Medical Marijuana and Hemp Expo in Toronto earlier this month for Cannabis Culture, and it was exactly that: a pleasure.
Cannabis Culture News LIVE: NDP vs. Conservatives – Drug War Politics in Canada
CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. On today's show: Canada's Official Opposition Party, the NDP, is going toe-to-toe with the governing Conservatives with the adoption of a new drug resolution at the NDP National Convention. Nicole Seguin of End Prohibition joins the show in-studio to talk about the politics of the Canadian Drug War.
