There is no point in discussing the "whys" of cannabis prohibition primarily because there are no actual valid, salient reasons involved. Discussions of corporate greed or white racism do not have any discernible bearing on why cannabis remains illegal in our modern, 21st century world.

Americans have wanted cannabis relegalized since before the Nixon Administration. Americans have worked and worked since then to get the cannabis plant relegalized and to stop the all-out war against it and the people who are caught with it. read more...

Well, now we know why federal officials chose to release the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on a day when the Republican convention’s climax and a string of hurricanes is likely to keep it out of the headlines. The survey pretty much dynamites Office of National Drug Control Policy chief John Walters’ claims of success in reducing marijuana and drug use during his tenure, which he’d like us to attribute to his aggressive policies , and particularly ONDCP’s near-obsession with demonizing marijuana. read more...

BERWYN HEIGHTS - When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes. read more...

Scratch a pothead and ask them why marijuana is outlawed, and there's a good chance you'll get some version of the "hemp conspiracy" theory. Federal pot prohibition, the story goes, resulted from a plot by the Hearst and DuPont business empires to squelch hemp as a possible competitor to wood-pulp paper and nylon. read more...

Why I - and a Surprising Number My Friends - Smoke Pot

Ahh, cancer. One learns so much from being diagnosed with a death-sentence disease.

Of course, 95 percent of it is stuff you would rather not know, but that other 5 percent is downright interesting. For example, America's Next Top Model is much more fun to watch when you've lost 15 pounds without trying. During chemotherapy, vanilla smells good, but vanilla wafers taste disgusting. And eyelashes really do have a purpose. read more...