UPDATE: Marijuana is now legal in Oregon. The Oregonian has been live tweeting the revolution. The War on Marijuana has caused too much pain for far too long. Every cannabis law reform advocate has their activist origin. Mine started in the dorm room at the University of Missouri, witnessing first hand an […]

“FREE JEFF MIZANSKEY!” became a rallying cry for the amazing activists at Show-Me Cannabis and civil libertarians across the nation. In fact, anyone that cares about fairness and justice can’t justify a nonviolent marijuana law offender spending longer in prison that rapists, robbers and even some murderers. The tragic plight of a nonviolent […]

Modern-day generations can always look back and admire their superiority of past generations in a number of fields. We can deem many practices as “barbaric” and can be thankful that we live in better times. I remember being horrified as a child about the fact that people actually enslaved other people, […]

Michele Leonhart, fanatical, rogue DEA administrator, is forced out by sex scandal. Oh, happy day! Supposedly resigning, hopefully we will find that she was sacked as Drug Enforcement Agency head by the president who should have never appointed her. We will report further as more details of her “resignation” become […]

New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s candidate to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, is a disappointing choice.  She will set back desperately needed criminal justice reform. If, at this point in American history, the criminal justice system needed an aggressive prosecutor at the helm, Loretta Lynch would be […]

I attended my first Passover seder last night, a social justice seder organized by the Jewish drug reform organization, Le’Or, and I was both touched and inspired by the experience. Oh, and it was great fun as well. The readings and questions posed to us, took me back to why […]

In the “Please Say It Ain’t So” category, President Obama increased 2016 funding for the drug war in his next budget. Wait, haven’t we determined, by all measures, that the War on Drugs has failed? And haven’t we realized that dismantling the drug war is a great place to save […]

There has always been a tug of war when it comes to the government’s responsibility to ensure public safety and privacy concerns. We can all agree that ‘bad guys’ need to be caught, but at the same time that doesn’t give the government the right to do whatever it wants […]

Sunday morning, February 15… The 2nd International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) has kick-offed in San Francisco at the beautiful Hyatt Regency. I’ll be using the hashtag #ICBCSF as I provide updates on the ol’ Twitter feed. ICBC Executive Producer Alex Rogers gave an overview of the conference, explaining the concepts […]

An historic meeting of the minds occurred today at the International Cannabis Business Conference today.  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R) met for a few minutes with “Freeway” Rick Ross and Chief Petitioner for the Oregon Measure 91 legalization campaign, Anthony Johnson. Amazing times we live in when a convicted drug dealer, […]