A Message of Hope for the New Year
Kevin Zeese has long amazed me because of the number of things he does to make a better world. Mondays he does a radio program with Margaret Flowers called Clearing the FOG, which is one of the best...
View ArticleThe War on Weed Is Winding Down But Will Monsanto Be the Winner?
The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic...
View ArticleMonsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA) is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive,...
View ArticleDebtors Prison Not a Tale of Charles Dickens
Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination — employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps...
View ArticleVermont Governor Blows Smoke With Legal Marijuana Veto
Vermont, of all places, offers the latest example of how marijuana makes people crazy, the people in this case being the Republican governor and most of the Republican Party. For all the “Reefer...
View ArticleDeviant Diva: Schapelle Corby Returns to Australia
In his work on celebrity, Daniel Boorstin drew a firm line under a field that has since become the mirror of its own study, in industry within media studies. The modern celebrity, he surmised, is...
View ArticleNeighbors Shut Down Illegal Cannabis Grows
Sonoma County, Northern California — One of the United States’ top four cannabis-growing counties is Sonoma County, California. In 2016, it became legal for adults to consume marijuana in California....
View ArticleCannabis Cultivating Re-Visited
Sonoma County, California — Readers of this reporter’s August local and national articles on unpermitted cannabis growing expressed both appreciations and appropriate criticisms. Their feedback has...
View ArticleJust Say Yes to Conscious Awareness
Since its inception the war on drugs has psycho-actively altered the global perception of drugs and even the definition of what drugs are. The mental fog over American minds was induced via decades of...
View ArticleRural Petaluma Neighbors Challenge Cannabis Industrialization
Sonoma County, California — “No Pot on Purvine” read a catchy flyer appearing in a rural Petaluma neighborhood in Northern California, announcing an October 8 meeting. It almost got cancelled, because...
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More Seeds For Transformation Planted This Week
The Trump Administration continues to plant more seeds for the coming era of transformation that we have written about in recent newsletters, Preparing for the Coming Age of Transformation and Ensuring...
View ArticleHow Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the US government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while imposing huge penalties on banks for accepting...
View ArticleA Public Bank for Los Angeles? City Council Puts It to the Voters
California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street but from the Federal Reserve. Voters in Los Angeles will be the first in the country to weigh in on a...
View ArticleA Debate for Auditor: What the Papers Wouldn’t Say
Why does the Green Party elect so few people in the US while similar parties have elected representatives across the globe. Some have suggested it is the way Greens organize or problems with the...
View ArticleFreedom in One Word
Now that Heath Care legislation has passed, the obvious question for opponents is this: Now what? My answer is best summed up with just one word: Marijuana. No, I don’t mean that you should go out and...
View ArticleFeds Says Cannabis Is Not Medicine While Holding the Patent on Cannabis as...
For those who believe in marijuana and cannabis freedom, the future has never been brighter. Right now there is an awakening to the benefits of cannabis for medicinal purposes, specifically something...
View ArticleIs Arizona the Future of American Cannabis?
A story grows in Arizona. The state’s legal landscape shifted drastically in 2010, when voters marginally succeeded in legalizing the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (Prop 203, commonly). According to...
View ArticleOppression of African Americans is Not a Liberal Invention
Over the last few years the killing of unarmed African Americans including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott and Freddie Gray by agents of the state have generated...
View ArticleConfessions of an Unrepentant Scofflaw
Peter Coyote is speaking from within electronic maze of my 46″ Magnavox flat screen television set. The program is a three part series called “Prohibition”. Public Broadcasting Service. An expose’...
View ArticleCreating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA
The outlawing of narcotic drugs at the start of the Twentieth Century, the turning of the matter from public health to social control, coincided with American’s imperial Open Door policy and the belief...
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