CANNABIS CULTURE – Matt Brown* and Natalie DePriest were both busted for their pot stash while away from home in 2011, but their stories take incredibly divergent paths from there. Brown laid low at a friend’s house for a while, got a good attorney, an…
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Zoom Call With My Patron Saint (Tommy Chong, Spirituality & End of Life Emotions)
CANNABIS CULTURE – I was so excited the afternoon I was told that I would get to interview Tommy Chong. I immediately sat down and started coming up with specific questions so as to maximize my time with this legend. I was so meticulous and had all my …
Out In the Cold – Harm Reduction Non-Profit Vows to Fight Despite Eviction
CANNABIS CULTURE – As opioid overdoses skyrocket in the province, the BC Supreme Court has ruled that a nonprofit helping more than 200 Downtown Eastside Vancouver residents with harm-reducing cannabis has to vacate the building from which it operates….
How One Man’s Psychedelic Journey May Change the Face of Schizophrenia Treatment
CANNABIS CULTURE – “It is well understood that people with schizophrenia should not take large dosages of psychedelics because it is destabilizing,” says Mark Haden, Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)…
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…
Corporate Cannabis Struggles While Craft Producers Thrive
CANNABIS CULTURE – Financial experts blame price wars with the legacy market, increased competition, and unexpected consumer disinterest in Cannabis 2.0 products for the plummeting stocks of corporate LPs like Aurora and Canopy. However, with the numbe…
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…
Cannabis Cultivators Suffer Devastation as Wildfires Rage in the West
CANNABIS CULTURE – Wildfires are still ravaging the western portion of the United States, where nearly 60 percent of the cannabis industry’s operations are located. This is potentially a crushing blow to smaller cannabis cultivators who don’t have the …
New Zealanders Eye Opportunities as Vote on Cannabis Legalization Nears
CANNABIS CULTURE – New Zealand is set to vote next week on the legislation of a new adult use cannabis program. Activists, people and politicians have argued the legal framework will create opportunity where once there was only despair. “I hope to see …
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…