As many veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan return from wars in the Middle East, they find themselves victims of another, the War on Drugs. This video has adult language and is not suitable for viewing in front of children. By Sam Sabzehzar | Septemeber 28, 2011 For David Herrick, who saved many lives as [...]
The three-day cannabis festival will highlight many industry speakers and provide a platform for a peddle-powered stage for the nearly twenty bands set to perform at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. By Sam Sabzehzar | September 27, 2011 With a plethora of pot advocates, there will be an equal amount of eco-friendly food, clothes, [...]
Now that harvest season is upon us, it’s more important than ever to take every measure to protect the quality of your crops as medical cannabis patients are demanding stricter quality control. By Kat Young | September 27, 2011 THC will rapidly degrade after a cannabis plant has been cut down if exposed to heat, [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | September 26, 2011 Charles Shaw’s Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System, dives deep through the threshold of the defense for the drug war as it surpasses any argument for continuing a failed policy that has sadly harmed the lives of [...]
In our third segment of the International Association of Cannabinoid Medicine’s 2011 Cannabinoid Conference in Europe, Naturopathic Doctor Michelle Sexton discusses the Endogenous Cannabinoid System from the perspective of pain management, inflammation, and toxicity, and how dis-ease may be modified by the use of Phytocannabinoids. By Dr. Michelle Sexton | September 26, 2011 IACM Program: [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | September 24, 2011 The Cannabis College in Amsterdam is a wealth of information aimed to empower the most naive native, or curious traveller, depending on your ‘reason’ for travel. As Rick Steves recently said in Seattle, “One of the places I like to go to is a place called ‘high,’ and [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | September 23, 2011 We met up with Congressional Candidate Norman Solomon while the author of War Made Easy was on Uprising Radio, with Sonali Kolhatkar, at KPFK Pacific Radio in Los Angeles. The author and activist shares with us his thoughts on why the War on Drugs is a war that [...]
By Sam Sabzehzar | Published in Patch.com In what will soon become one of the closest-watched court cases in medical cannabis history, Long Beach Superior Court sets the stage for a series of ongoing protests that highlight an injustice to all medical marijuana patients, providers, and advocates. As medical marijuana patients poured out of the [...]
Published in RT | September 22, 2011 Drug abuse is now responsible for killing more Americans than car crashes, reveals a new report from the Los Angeles Times. An ongoing surge in prescription drug abuse has helped put the tally of Americans killed by narcotics — legal or otherwise — at a figure more substantial [...]
By Don Duncan | Published by Americans for Safe Access The RAND Corporation, an influential public policy think tank, issued a report this week debunking the commonly-held misperception that medical cannabis dispensing centers (MCDCs) attract crime to the neighborhoods in which they are located. In what the authors call “the first systematic analysis of the link between medical [...]
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