Cannabis Chronicles

Please remember boys and girls . . .
Wilderness is for wildlife . . .
Gardens are for growing . . .
Pot growers find animal’s presence un-’bear’-able
By Heather Whittle
10 Sep 2008
It seems Smokey has expanded his horizons to crack down not only on forest fires, but on drugs, too.
Last week, the Garfield County Sheriff’s [...]

We’re not sure if other’s would consider it a “vacation” or not, but due to a variety of circumstances beyond our control, our online presence will likely be pretty scarce for at least a few weeks.  We’ll be taking a break from writing, and hoping to have a few moments to smell the roses.
The one [...]

As reported earlier this week in Time Magazine, based on a study published in the Public Library of Science, the residents of the the US had among the highest levels of use of all recreational/illicit drugs in the world. Here’s the story itself . . .

Friday, Jul. 11, 2008
An American Pastime: Smoking Pot
By [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As was detailed in the previous entry here at the Cannabis Chronicles, a movement was started in the late 1990’s to use Fusarium fungus as a bio-herbicide to exterminate both Cannabis and Coca. Our archival coverage continues with another article from 1999, this one from a magazine called the New Scientist.

Operation Eradicate
* 11 September [...]

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 [...]

On more than one occasion we’ve expressed our love of smaller alternative media, so this posting should come as little surprise to folks who read the 3Lb’s Cannabis Chronicles. It’s just another in a long line of posts documenting coverage of marijuana issues by non-mainstream media.

Feds Cry Wolf (Again)
by Daniel McQuade
The pot [...]