Cannabis Chronicles

In an earlier posting here at the Cannabis Chronicles called Roundup Woes, we detailed a bit of the economic problem agrochemicals giant Monsanto is having with the production of it’s leading herbicide. While further researching Fusarium fungus for our recent series of journal entries called Fusarium Attack, we discovered another significant problem with the [...]

As we mentioned in our last journal entry, as a scientist trained specifically in the field of fungus species like Fusarium, Jeremy Bigwood is uniquely qualified to speak against the ill considered development and use of biological herbicides in the War on Drugs. Here’s an article he penned for In These Times just two [...]

The earlier articles in our series on the use of Fusarium as a bio-herbicide in the drug war focused on the debate as it happened circa 1999-2002. This entry helps to bring the story more up to date, it comes from a website called the Narco News Bulletin which we discovered while researching “Plan [...]

The following take on the escalation of the drug war through the use of biological herbicides comes from CounterPunch, a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter with a radical attitude who advertises that: “Nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they’ve found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, [...]

The Cannabis Chronicles ongoing archive of stories documenting the history of efforts to use Fusarium as a bio-herbicide weapon in the drug war now continues with another entry that originated in the New York Times . . .

Drug War Awaits Attack of Killer Fungus
By JIM ROBBINS

July 18, 2000
Dr. David C. Sands holds out a [...]

This journal entry begins a series we are calling “Fusarium Attack”, which will detail some of the history behind wrong headed efforts to employ the Fusarium fungus as a bio-control agent in the war on drugs.
The first article in this series that we’ll add to the Cannabis Chronicles archive is from the New York Times [...]

While we’re on the topic of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the annual Hash Bash. With a history stretching all the way back to 1972, it’s one of the longest running pro-marijuana demonstrations in North America.
Here’s coverage of this year’s event, as originally reported by [...]

In a story we are calling “Let’s Go Blue Green!”, in honor of the University of Michigan’s famous sports cheer, it was reported that marijuana plants were discovered for the second time this year in that school’s botanical garden. The story was picked up by the Associated Press and reported pretty widely, [...]

As is so often the case, some of the best coverage we’ve found concerning the Black Tuna gang comes from a weekly publication. Last month (June ‘08), the Miami New Times, covered Robert Platshorn’s release from prison with the article that actually inspired the Cannabis Chronicles’ in depth coverage/archiving of material on the Black [...]

In addition to coverage in the mainstream media, the alternative media caught on to the Black Tuna Gang story too. High Times, the oldest and most well established marijuana magazine in North America, (sorry Marc - your Cannabis Culture is a relative newcomer,) also covered some of this fish tale.
The first High Times article [...]

In somewhat the same tradition as Howard Marks, there’s a website authored by the man who was tried and convicted on a variety of charges related to his marijuana smuggling operation known as the Black Tuna Gang. Also in the tradition of Mr Nice, the Black Tuna kingpin has authored a book about his [...]

We were well known at Cannabis World for our tag line about learning and growing, “If you are learning as you grow, then you are growing too.” And, in all honesty, that’s much more than just rhetoric, it’s really the way we live. Despite being well into “middle age”, we still consider ourselves [...]

We’re not sure whether to categorize this one as Cannabis related art, or under the Cannabis as Business category . . .

Here’s a look at an old commercial cannabis variety we used to call “Old Faithful”. This picture from 2002 or 2003 shows the variety in all it’s multi-branched glory , grown in 2′x3′ utility containers without drainage, a unique style that evolved at the bird’s nest.
The individual who gifted the clone to Foghorn was [...]