Cannabis Corner
The Evil Empire strikes back, gets caught
This just in! The Evil Empire is plotting to launch a massive propaganda offensive against marijuana.
Fortunately, Dominic Holden, a journo at BuzzFeed News, has...
When pot legalization fails: Plan B’s and ‘consolation prizes’
Democrats emerged from the 2018 election with control of state legislatures in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Illinois and New Mexico, where Democratic candidates...
America goes to pot, discovers states’ rights
The American people don’t think much of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to repeal the Cole Memorandum and give U.S. Attorneys discretion to enforce...
Reefer Madness 2016 — ‘Los Angeles Times’ edition
The Los Angeles Times published an article last week that was a latter day incarnation of 1930s-style reefer madness.
The headline was “Marijuana: A potent...
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time...
Prohibitionists have spent more than 80 years trying to convince the American people that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol and tobacco. At first...
Pot enters presidential politics with a bang
If marijuana wasn’t an issue in the 2020 presidential campaign before the second Democratic candidates’ debate, it sure is now.
Two brutally blunt exchanges —...
Anti-pot Prop 139 missed the Alzheimer’s memo
There may be a major anti-marijuana initiative on the Colorado Ballot this November. Here’s what you need to know about it, and about a...
The election in three dots and a purple haze
It wasn’t a clean sweep, but marijuana initiatives did very well at the polls this year... Michigan’s voters legalized recreational marijuana by a 55.9...
Pot and the press: 100 years of fake news
Chris, a budtender in Steamboat Springs and an aspiring freelance writer, had a great post on The Weed Blog last week. It ought to...
The DEA’s tangled web
For the last 80 years the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its predecessor agencies have been lying about the risks of marijuana use and...
More whoopee (and babies) follow medical marijuana… and other stories
Legalizing medical marijuana leads people to make more whoopee -— and more babies... Researchers at the Universities of Connecticut and Georgia State did an...
Legalizing pot isn’t just about getting high
Good news! Marijuana arrests in the United States fell to a 20-year low last year!
Now for the bad news.
According to statistics compiled by the...
