CANNABIS CULTURE – An ongoing series from Cannabis Culture regarding the applicability of UNDRIP “traditional medicine” rights of Indigenous people to the use and the economies of psychoactive and psychedelic plant drugs. Part 1 was all about cannabis…
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Traditional Medicine Part 4: Blue Lotus & Red Lotus
CANNABIS CULTURE – An ongoing series from Cannabis Culture regarding the applicability of UNDRIP “traditional medicine” rights of Indigenous people to the use and the economies of psychoactive and psychedelic plant drugs. Part 1 was all about cannabis…
More Supreme Disappointments
CANNABIS CULTURE – The Supreme Court of Canada rejects Quebec home-grow rights – judges and attorneys on both sides of the argument assume cannabis is a hard drug worthy of tight regulations and instead focus on jurisdictional arguments. “Civilization,…
Dr. H. H. Kane and the 19th Century “Hash-Heesh” Smoking Parlors of NYC
CANNABIS CULTURE – “Wasting of the muscles, sallowness of the skin, hebetude of the mind, interference with coordination, failure of the appetite, convulsive seizures, loss of strength, and idiotic offspring, seem, from all accounts, to be the uniform …
What Bill Weinberg Misunderstands About Hemp Ethanol
CANNABIS CULTURE – “Now that hemp has finally arrived at its long-sought status as a legal crop and commodity, to what extent will it deviate from the utopian vision that animated the advocates who fought for it a generation ago?” – Bill Weinberg, HEMP…
Five Questions With Green Party Candidate Scott Bernstein
CANNABIS CULTURE – British Columbia is holding a snap election. In my riding of Vancouver-Kingsway, I finally have a chance to vote for a real progressive drug peace activist, who is saying all the right stuff about drug policy. I asked Scott Bernstein…
COVID-19, Cannabis & Herbal Medicine Part 2: Gain-Of-Function
CANNABIS CULTURE – A DEEP dive into the relevant facts – and predictions for the near future – regarding the pandemic of 2020. “We are men of groans and howls, Mystic men who eat boiled owls, Tell us what you wish oh King, Our magic can do a…