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Dollars and Sense
Most of us are already aware that America’s marijuana prohibition is expensive to enforce—but we would struggle to quantify this. It’s clear that all those pot busts incur vast police, judicial and correctional costs, and that prohibition also blocks a potential cannabis tax [...]
Continue reading...Bitter Sweet
2. September 2010
Back in 2007, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, along with Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced a bill to increase the federal criminal penalties for selling candy-flavored drugs to children. The legislation was a response to reports that our nation’s playgrounds were under siege by [...]
Continue reading...Exene Cervenka
5. August 2010
Whether she’s performing at a benefit for flood victims, exhibiting a collage at an art show or writing letters to her senator, Exene Cervenka leads an active lifestyle three decades after founding seminal punk band X with her partner in [...]
Continue reading...A Touch of Class
5. August 2010
Pot and college have long been synonymous, but there’s been a new by-product of the loosening of marijuana legislation in many states of late: schools where the curriculum is devoted to the herb. These private “cannabis colleges” offer [...]
Continue reading...The Lung Haul
5. August 2010
Back in 1998, Dr. Donald Tashkin, a pulmonary specialist at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, was looking to prove that heavy smoking of cannabis led to increased risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [...]
Continue reading...Richard Lee Goes Worldwide
1. July 2010
California has long flirted with cannabis legalization, but always has failed to bring home the girl. Of the various efforts to end prohibition in the Golden State, perhaps the most heartbreaking was 1972’s Proposition 19, which was launched with great hope and fanfare, but was ultimately rejected by 66 percent of the voters. Even California’s groundbreaking [...]
Continue reading...What in the world will L.A.’s dispensaries do?
3. June 2010
For medical-cannabis dispensary owners—not to mention patients—living in or near Los Angeles, the phrase “June Gloom” is applicable to more than just the weather this year. Citing Article 5.1 of Chapter IV of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, city officials in early May sent a “courtesy notice” to 439 local dispensaries that registered [...]
Continue reading...Skullphone’s Dot Matrix Revolutions
3. June 2010
Over Easter weekend 2008, the street artist known as Skullphone enacted a corporate coup: on a half dozen Clear Channel billboards across Los Angeles, his black-and-white human skull talking on a cell phone appeared and ran on the boards for four days. The public has never been certain how the image appeared [...]
Continue reading...HERETIC, ZEALOT, TRUTH-TELLER
6. May 2010
NORML’s executive director recalls his long, stormy friendship with Jack Herer By James Lang Speaking by phone from his office in Washington, D.C., NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre describes the view from his window and what it says about the legacy of Jack Herer. “I’m looking out on K Street and watching people going about their [...]
Continue reading...Does New Mexico Have the Model Marijuana Program?
6. May 2010
New Mexico has always been, to conjure the band Genesis, a land of confusion. It has some of the hottest deserts in the nation, and great skiing. Even in the same geographical location, temperatures can veer wildly from deathly hot in the daytime to cold enough to kill you from hypothermia at night. The politics are [...]
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