On the one hand, marijuana is practically legal—more mainstream, accessorized, and taken for granted than ever before. On the other, kids are getting busted in the city in record numbers. Guess which kids.
Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada want American-style mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana users and growers, and Liberals in the House have already given the green light. Is Bill C-15 about making Canadians safer, or making bigger profits for organized crime?
Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Pot activist David Malmo-Levine, founder of the Vancouver Herb School, has been slugging it out with Canadian authorities and fighting for plant freedoms in a B.C. courtroom.
Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco - but you won't hear it in the corporate media.