Prohibition propagandists like the Joker to my Batman, Kevin Sabet of Project SAMUEL (Smart Approaches to Marijuana Use… Except Legalization), are desperately crying out to the media for attention to this report from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that explains how Colorado youth aged 12-17 now […]

Bernie Sanders campaign has long been ridiculed by the political establishment and even by some fellow progressives. Well, they can stop laughing now. The Vermont Senator’s remarkable climb in the polls has crescendoed to unprecedented heights in the latest CNN/WMUR poll that has the anti-establishment candidate defeating frontrunner Hillary Clinton […]

Political victories are easy to see, but there are often underlying cultural events that shape our progress.  Spannabis, one of the world’s leading cannabis festivals, is an example in Spain. Most of the cannabis community is likely unaware that tens of thousands of revelers attend the event every year, making […]

“How long? Not long, because ‘no lie can live forever.’” On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I find myself contemplating how long it will take us to establish full marijuana legalization in America. Speaking on March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama, about the struggle for black civil rights, Dr. […]

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has always dominated the unscientific online polls and done well in many focus groups that have asked debate viewers who won the Democratic primary debates. However, the mainstream political pundits and talking heads have overwhelmingly declared Hillary Sanders the winner. Following last night’s debate in South […]

President Obama has appointed Joe Biden, who recently lost his son Beau to brain cancer, to head a “moonshot” to cure cancer. It turns out that cannabis may well be a key to fighting cancer; it is  likely that the VP’s drug war blinders will cause him to ignore marijuana’s anti-tumor powers. Many […]

As the Democratic candidates square off in a debate tonight in South Carolina, polls have shown that the race has been tightening in Iowa and New Hampshire, and potentially even nationally. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been expected to win the Iowa caucus, but recent polls show that she is in a […]

Advocates seeking to legalize marijuana have to suffer through insults and negative stereotypes that are hurled against us by prohibitionists and even those that are simply on the fence on the issue. Fortunately, the tide is turning for the better as marijuana has moved more into the mainstream and cannabis law […]

Let’s play a mind game. See if you can discern the differences between the following two scenarios: SCENARIO ONE: It’s a cold and lonely night. You can’t remember feeling worse in your life. If you could just get something, anything, to treat your ravaging sickness and ease your enormous pain. […]

Many Oregon medical cannabis patients can’t afford dispensary prices. Over 40% of all patients qualify for a low-income discount on their state application. I know that roughly half of the 230 patients I have helped connect with a grower qualify for one of the low-income discounts. A large fraction of […]

Personally, I have been so happy to see great polling news for Bernie Sanders that has been flooding my social media streams these days, along with crucial endorsements of the Vermont Senator from progressives at Democracy for America, MoveOn.org and The Nation magazine. Sanders surging in Iowa, New Hampshire and nationally has brought out attacks […]

IOWANS HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO TACKLE CANNABIS LAW REFORM THIS YEAR Greetings from the greater Fort Dodge area. Welcome to 2016. Are we ready to stand and make a difference? Do we have the courage to speak up? Law makers are in session once again as of the 11th of […]

I’ve only been superficially engaged in the story happening in West Idaho – er, Eastern Oregon – with Ammon Bundy and the armed Oregon militants holed up in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Mostly, I’m following the #YallQaeda and #VanillaISIS hashtags on Twitter, which aren’t really fair comparisons to the […]

Congressman Blumenauer has been undoubtedly one of our nation’s greatest leaders on cannabis law reform. Not only has Blumenauer been an outspoken champion for sensible marijuana laws, but also an effective policy maker. The progressive Oregon Democrat has reached across the aisle to work with the libertarian-leaning Republican Dana Rohrabacher […]

The Attorney General of Kentucky announced that his state will receive $945,114 as part of a Department of Justice settlement with Millennium Health, one of the largest urine drug testing laboratories in the United States, for its part in drug testing fraud against Medicare. Washington State will reap $426,000; Arkansas […]