High Times Magazine was excited to receive a reply from the White House to their appeal to reschedule cannabis. Unfortunately, the response from Obama’s drug czar was stale, obstructive, and generally pathetic. High Times August 2015 issue comes with the president on the cover with the admonition, “Legalize Marijuana” and […]

It’s no wonder most Coloradans still support marijuana legalization: the new policy keeps bearing fruit, and particularly so for the state’s schools. Numbers released this week by the Colorado Department of Revenue reveal that tax revenue from legal marijuana sales has been exceeding expectations, totaling $13.7 million in just the […]

The Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform in California has announced the hiring of political consultants Joe Trippi and Jim Gonzalez, as well as the company Progressive Campaigns Inc. to handle the gathering of petition signatures for what will be the ninth initiative filed regarding marijuana laws in California. Trippi is […]

Safe Streets, a nonprofit started with the mission of stopping crime before it occurs, is inadvertently pushing a plan that will only create more crime and endanger the very citizens the nonprofit wants to protect.The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was designed to tackle the mafia, giving the […]

On Tuesday, President Obama made a powerful call for criminal justice reform while speaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in Philadelphia. In what the Washington Post called the “formal launch of one of the president’s last major legislative campaigns,” Obama made the case that such reforms are long overdue and […]

While four US states and the District of Columbia have begun treating marijuana as a legal commercial and personal crop, other nations in the Western Hemisphere are feeling the pull toward marijuana law reform. The South American country of Uruguay lead the way with its legalization plan, followed by Jamaica’s […]

Senator Elizabeth Warren says it is time for the federal government to study marijuana, and she doesn’t stand alone. On Monday, a group of U.S. Senators led by Elizabeth Warren released an open letter to federal officials asking them to work together to facilitate research on marijuana’s effects. “Federal agencies […]

Last month, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota legalized the sale and use of marijuana on tribal land. Now the tribe is poised to convert a bowling alley into a marijuana cultivation and processing facility with an adults-only onsite lounge for cannabis consumption. Marijuana is strictly illegal […]

If your dog dies suddenly, your horse goes blind, your 1-month-old baby vomits for 24 hours straight, and you develop a chronic cough, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, diarrhea, and bleeding from the lungs, then, according to Oregon State Senator Jeff Kruse, it’s evidence that you’re just succumbing to the […]

The 4th Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference (OMMBC) kicks off in Portland at the downtown Hilton, September 12th to the 13th. The OMMBC has sold out in previous years in both Ashland and Eugene and heads to Portland for the first time. I am proud to help organize the OMMBC as it always […]

Louisiana made some progress towards marijuana reform last month, when Republican Governor Bobby Jindal signed two bills: one which provides access to medical marijuana to qualified patients, and another which reduces criminal penalties for certain marijuana offenses. According to The Times-Picayune, these new laws “represent more progress on reforming marijuana […]

Presidential candidate Barack Obama was a skilled orator that could bring grown men to tears. His hope and change speeches and “Yes We Can” rhetoric inspired millions who thought that we would be electing a progressive president who would tackle the serious issues of the day. In retrospect, it appeared […]

If you had the money, time, and desire, you could go to some sort of cannabis friendly event almost every day of the year. This is my attempt at keeping an up to date list of most of the major (more than 500 people, or some sort of culturally cool […]

Weed and seeds! More strain talk with Master Grower Bushido! We discuss how to identify a strain, how to get the seeds out, and how to stabilize a phenotype. And some other stuff. Enjoy.

On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law making it possible for medical marijuana patients to receive organ transplants. This law, called the Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant Act, protects patients from discrimination as they go through the process of receiving an organ transplant. The law’s enactment makes […]