Throughout most of the country right now it is graduation season. Across thousands of colleges and high schools, scores of new graduates are celebrating remarkable academic accomplishments with their families, all while planning for a future full of hope and possibility. YOU on the other hand went to law school, so your graduation felt either like…
Most Ridiculous Celebrity Lawsuit of the Week: Vanderpump Rules Star Sued for Smoking Too Much Weed
I have been cursed with some of the worst neighbors in creation. I chalk it up to karma for torturing my neighbors during those first ear-piercing years as I learned to play the drums. My parents knew better and relegated me to the pool shed in the backyard, so those unlucky enough to reside on…
Weed Golf Is Real, Spectacular, and Involves Foxes
When the organizer of the 420 Games asked me to attend his golf event in San Jose last month I immediately tried my best to politely turn him down. On the surface playing golf represented a surrender of my ideals, a public declaration that I was willing to join the moneyed elite of society, and…
And The Award For The Stupidest Use Of RICO Goes To…
As we approach the three year anniversary of Colorado and Washington’s grand experiment of legalizing recreational cannabis, the emerging consensus recognizing the failure of the war on drugs has never been more apparent. Record tax harvests and a massive reduction in dollars spent on drug enforcement has pleased fiscal hawks, and public health advocates in states…
Protecting Medical Weed After 2016
As the year of weed progresses and the idea of “adult use” (the focus group politically accepted means-tested term for “recreational”) cannabis becomes a mainstream policy goal in many states across the country, there is certainly cause to celebrate. Fewer people facing the devastating the effect of criminal penalties are a net benefit for society, and…
Hey Ohio, It’s Time To Be Both Responsible And Bold About Weed
A few days ago radio hosts Bryan Quimby and Brett Pain of the infamous Street Fight Podcast discussed the “Responsible Ohio” initiative, a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow adult use cannabis in the Buckeye state. Like many denizens of glorious Ohio, Brett and Brian are obviously happy about possibly having legal access to weed.…
Four Employment Tips For A Successful Pot Business
In the weeks after dueling pot-themed cover stories from Newsweek and National Geographic, those involved in the world of legalized marijuana sales are now feeling a sense of mainstream acceptance. Even CNN’s pot-business reality teevee show mainly displays what a mundane sort of economy will develop once legal adult use is a reality throughout the…
The Greatest 4/20 Of All Time: How The Marijuana Reform Movement Took Out The Pablo Escobar Of Prohibition
Each political movement has its own unique cultural history and esoteric narrative for use in recruiting new members and/or enlightening outsiders to the reasoning behind their cause. This is true with the American cannabis community. A visitor to a NORML meeting will find that every member can recite a graduate level history of prohibition from…
Driving Miss Mary Jane: Stoners No More Dangerous Than Drunks
You would not expect a federal agency to announce to everyone that it’s safe to drive while stoned out of your gourd, but that’s more or less what happened last week. The full paper is available online and is full of helpful charts and tables showing the relative risks of various drugs, both legal and illegal.…
Why Can’t Long Beach Be More Like Berkeley Where Medical Marijuana Is Concerned?
Yesterday, the city in which I live, Long Beach California, held a “study session” concerning a long-delayed proposed city ordinance related to the regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries. Activists in favor of expanding access for patients inside of the city have been largely excluded from the process of shaping this ordinance, in favor of relegating the development…