“Daily marijuana use among U.S. college students highest since 1980” reads the headline from the University of Michigan heralding the release of the latest data from the Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF). “Daily marijuana use among the nation’s college students is on the rise,” they tell us, “surpassing daily cigarette […]

Jim Webb, the former Senator from Virginia, may well be the Democratic 2016 candidate of choice for cannabis and drug war reformers. Webb’s candidacy is currently little know and seldom mentioned. This may change if Hilary Clinton’s campaign continues to melt down. Hillary Clinton’s marijuana policy is unclear and certainly […]

Massachusetts, with its progressive marijuana laws and voters, is certainly on the short list of states most likely to legalize cannabis in 2016. In fact, USA Today named Massachusetts the #1 state on its list of those most likely to end prohibition within its borders as the newspaper points out […]

The tough reality for a family in Mexico is yet another example of why medical cannabis needs to be legal globally. Four out of five Americans agree that medical marijuana should be legal, yet in the majority of the country, and the rest of the world, sick adults and children […]

“Time to celebrate!”  Steve Wessing is all smiles at The Other Spot Thursday night, where organizers are already hard at work preparing for this year’s upcoming Hempstalk only hours after a 3-1 vote to overturn a permit denial, with Amanda Fritz voting against. As one of the original core staff […]

Yesterday, I tried to shred the framing around drinking alcohol that portrays it as somehow different and separate from “doing drugs”. Today, let’s think about the concept of “hard drugs” vs. “soft drugs” and understand where exactly alcohol fits in that dichotomy. To most people, marijuana is considered a “soft […]

I shed happy tears when I first heard that Jeff Mizanskey got paroled and I was happy to have more tears of joy when I saw my Facebook feed full of photos of Jeff surrounded by friends, family and cannabis law reform advocates. It is amazing how a rallying cry […]