Penalties

Questions and Answers on Cannabis (39 & 27)
Can Increases in Cannabis Use Be Attributed to Reduced Penalties for Possession of the Drug? Has cannabis use increased since decriminalization? Answers with references. full story
Mayerthorpe Marijuana Connection Inappropriate, Top Cop Says
Marijuana not to blame full story
Operation Green Merchant
The DEA does a nationwide takedown full story
Hydropanic
International authorities consider another attack on the hydroponic industry, while stakeholders try to eliminate any weedy connections full story
A Long Walk To Freedom
US Marijuana Party president runs for Governor of Alabama full story
Emery Fights Back, DEA expands attack
Activist engages in "epic battle" as seed customers worry full story
Emery, global war, & sovereignty
Arrest of seed merchant is tip of a melting iceberg full story
BCMP Decries Loss of Canadian Sovereignty
Help free Marc Emery from American tyrany full story
Ending fear
Why so much fear and anger in the USA? full story
Sex, Drugs, and Activism
Busted sexpot shop owner stands erect full story
Tremors follow Raich ruling
Medpot shake-out in California full story
Vancouver: The New Cannabis Reality
Television and celebrations in a Canadian summer for stoners. full story
UK cannabis opponents go bonkers
Drug warrior Brits and those who love them full story
Pot refugee granted bail in B.C.
Case adjourned until Sept 30 full story
Boje free ? for now
Famed activist-refugee faces late September court hearing full story
Renee Boje ordered out of Canada
Famed activist-refugee faces deportation and US imprisonment full story
Grow guru on world's most progressive TV show
Ed Rosenthal does interview on Democracy Now! full story
Alabama's pot prisoners
The President of the United States Marijuana Party reports on the prisons down south full story
Lynn Wood jailed
Pregnant Mom with 3 children jailed for one year for St. John, New Brunswick Med-Pot Store full story
The passion of Corby
What the Indonesian smuggling case really means full story
Beware new federal drug laws
Senseless Sensenbrenner's society of snitches full story
Drug war in Afghanistan
Poppies, pot, and war politics full story
Victory -- marijuana will remain legal in Alaska!
Prison for possession bill killed by activists full story
Death for pot
Australian woman faces death penalty for pot charges in Bali. full story
North American lockdown
Government spies, fences and vigilantes on their way full story

Friday, 20 November 2009
2:19pm in Vancouver - 1 min till 4:20 in Nashville

It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. 'Beware of that man,' quoth the Swallow. 'Why, what is he doing?' said the others. 'That is hemp seed he is sowing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else you will repent it.' The birds paid no heed to the Swallow's words, and by and by the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and of the cords nets were made, and many a bird that had despised the Swallow's advice was caught in nets made out of that very hemp. 'What did I tell you?' said the Swallow.

-- Aesop, c.550 BC