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This story was forwarded to me by a friend on the Rez. Looking at the email addresses in the header it's amazing to see the name of a Chief and a high ranking elected tribal leader. One of the comments:
This contribution represents my sentiments exactly. I offer it to those of you who are teachers, especially parents, and ask you to read it to your students now that this "holiday" is upon us. Please pass it on. You might consider making this an annual event. It is called waking up the Americans - So here is the story of Thanksgiving from another perspective... Read more... (16 comments, 3660 words in story) by Cannabis
A dozen years ago a couple of friends and I were just sitting around on a rainy evening and we got a phone call. Never guess who it was....
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I just received an email from the Drug Policy Alliance. Members of Congress are circulating an important Dear Colleague letter. For more please read below:
Members of Congress are rallying support to end an unjustifiable monopoly on the production of marijuana for research purposes in the United States. You can urge your Member of Congress to assist in ending this bureaucratic hurdle which impedes much-needed medical research, and support the University of Massachusetts-Amherst's application to produce marijuana for FDA-approved research. Email Congress right now! more... Read more... (334 words in story) by Cannabis  The past three weeks have been pretty devastating, so I have not posted a diary in quite a while. I still collected marijuana news, but I just could not bring myself the write a diary that would just get lost in things that are so much more important. But, it also gave me time to think and reflect about the things that have been said by our elected officials about African-Americans. Even though things may have looked like they have changed in this country in the past 70 years we really have not come that far from testimony at hearings for the Marijuana Tax Act made by Harry Anslinger that marijuana had a violent "effect on the degenerate races." With all of the heavy stuff that has been going down in the past few weeks I thought that I would start off with some humour... Read more... (4 comments, 835 words in story) by Cannabis Read more... (447 words in story) by Cannabis
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Lest I be accused of being a single issue blogger here is something that has not appeared on the radar of many news outlets: Dems Say Some Roberts Papers a Problem
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., had discovered a "large volume" of unreviewed and unreleased Roberts documents that were filed under a code instead of under Roberts' name. Additional employees from the Archives have been sent to the Reagan library to review the documents to determine what or how much can be released, officials said. There is also the question of the... Read more... (309 words in story) by Cannabis Crossposted at dKos Another week has passed and again there were many noteworthy things going on in the cannabis realm. This will be a low graphics version. We will start this week with a lie. Not a big lie, mind you, just another in a series of lies meant to support the Big Lie about marijuana. This one comes from ONDCP Spokesman Tom Riley in this August 21st AFP story Thousands of pot lovers defiantly light-up at US hemp festival about the Seattle Hempfest. The quote follows... Read more... (2 comments, 955 words in story) by Cannabis Crossposted at dKos Well, it's that time of year again. There are marijuana festivals being held from coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada. One of the biggest and the oldest is the Seattle Hempfest. Today and tomorrow an estimated 150,000 people will converge on Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle. The theme this year is education, so I will take this opportunity to share some news and information to educate us all.
First off, I have had a number of comments that the way I spell marihuana is wrong. Well, it's not the most common spelling, but it is the spelling that is used in the legal definition of marihuana and hey, it got your attention, didn't it. Add it to your spelling checker and get on with life. So, onward through the fog... Read more... (8 comments, 670 words in story) by Cannabis Crossposted at dKos This week, as always, I have been doing a lot of reading on Cannabis related subjects. I no particular order here is a sampling of what I have been reading. There was this little gem from August 10th at DEA Watch:
I have read a lot of stuff, so there's more at the jump... Read more... (19 comments, 1198 words in story) by Cannabis In an interesting story, Pursuit of drug case all smoke, no fire, by Joel Connelly of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer notes that:
With an ill-advised statement politicizing the case that also misspelled Emery's first name, the DEA boss may help transform a publicity seeker into a Canadian martyr. Seeking to stop his extradition to the United States -- where he faces charges of trafficking in marijuana seeds -- Emery's legal team could use Tandy's words to telling effect: Their client is being prosecuted for his beliefs. more below the fold... Read more... (2 comments, 561 words in story) by Cannabis Simply put mycoherbicides are fungi that kill living things. They are being used as biological warfare agents in the drug war. Please check out mycoherbicide.info for more information. Izzy has done some great diaries on mycoherbicides. This is a subject well worth your time to unterstand, so please go read and recommend Izzy's diaries: today's Drug Warriors Take Aim at the Planet: Pt. 2 and yesterday's Drug Warriors Take Aim at the Planet. Comments >> (2 comments) by Cannabis Read more... (5 comments, 251 words in story) by Cannabis OK, this is my first diary, so I hope that I get all of this stuff right. My handle is "Cannabis" because I want to bring more attention to this plant and things that surround it. No, I don't smoke it, but the War on (Some) Drugs has had a profound effect on me and I want to share it.
So, Marc Emery has been arrested at the behest of the American DEA. Here are a couple of the better stories on this: Read more... (9 comments, 171 words in story) |
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