Over the past three years, manufacturers and retailers of so-called herbal incenses have popped up in all 50 states. It quickly became a multibillion-dollar industry built on products that had names like Crazy Eyes, Cowboy Kush, and Skull Killa.
I went into criminal justice because I wanted to serve the public. As a corrections official, I thought that by working with inmates I'd be able to help them reintegrate into society, making their lives better and our community safer.
CANNABIS CULTURE - In the face of unprecedented divisiveness over Washington State marijuana legalization Initiative 502, the cannabis community unites in Seattle for the world's largest pot protestival.
One thing you can bet we won't hear anyone talking about at the Democratic National Convention is marijuana. Nobody will be discussing how bad it is, how good it is or even acknowledging that it exists. Then, at the end of the day, a not-insignificant number of attendees will be getting high at every hotel in Charlotte and bitching about what a buzzkill Mitt Romney is.
CANNABIS CULTURE - They don't call the Canadian Prairies "grasslands" for nothing. Pot culture will overgrow the plains again this weekend at the 2nd Annual Prairie Medicinal Harvest Cup in Saskatoon on September 2 and 3.
Hollywood is known for being a liberal town, where conservatives like Jon Voight and Chuck Norris seem outnumbered by a cadre of Clooneys and Weinsteins. So when it comes to issues like the Drug War, it would logically follow that the thrust of movies touching on America's relationship with cocaine, marijuana and any other number of illegal substances would denounce the government's war on drug users and vilify the DEA.
CANNABIS CULTURE - People are saying that the principled, fictional anchorman Will McAvoy from the HBO series The Newsroom is affecting real-life news anchors. If life is to imitate art, this is a good place to start.
A database of everyone who has an Arizona medical-marijuana card is being well-used by employers and law enforcement officials, a report of database users shows.