Cannabis Chronicles

One things we learned long ago as activists, is that it’s important to listen to every side of an argument.
Let’s say for instance you are a “flaming liberal”, a tree hugger, and an avowed supporter of women’s liberation, and gay rights. It might seem senseless for a person of those leanings to listen to [...]

Since yesterday’s journal entries focused almost entirely on drug war battles in Colorado, we’ll look to that venue again this morning, to tie up a lose end or two, and to archive another of the current spate of grow operations being attributed to Asian gangs. By no means is this a new issue, in [...]

Since we mentioned Cheech and Chong in our previous post, we thought we’d give our readers a bit of background, because it dawned on us that some of our readers might not even have been born when this comedy duo was at the height of their success. Life certainly has changed a bit in the [...]

Continuing with today’s focus on the battles faced by medical marijuana patients, we now move to Colorado, where the state motto is: “Nil sine Numine” - Nothing Without Providence.
The following story originally appeared in the Colorado Springs Independent.
Smokin’ medicine:
Supporters believe marijuana’s medicinal value is worth all the battles
by Joshua Zaffos
James and Lisa [...]

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There have been a large number of journal entries here at the Cannabis Chronicles regarding western North America, alternately referred to as the “wet coast” in Canada, and the “left coast” in the US. In our eyes California is the epicenter of where today’s “weed wars” are being played out, but that [...]

Ever wish you could work for High Times (or maybe a marijuana magazine that doesn’t advertise fake buds)?
Here’s a recent historical (and perhaps hysterical) look at the culture of the magazine High Times, from an individual who didn’t consider writing about pot to be his life’s ambition. It was originally sourced from New York [...]

The following article, sourced from the Willamette Week Online, further details the growing problem of gang involvement in the Cannabis business. We’ll reserve our own editorializing until after the news excerpt.
Canadian Bakin’
Our neighbors to the north are making Portland a hotbed for big pot grows.
BY JAMES PITKIN
The Canadians are coming, and they’re bringing [...]

Ask most any left coast Canadian where the current epicenter of North American cannabis culture resides, and Vancouver (aka Vansterdam) is your likely answer. Within Canada, it would seem that Toronto may very well be giving Vansterdam a run for our money in terms of being cannabis friendly, or so we’ve been told. [...]

It appears that the DEA intends to “up the ante” in their continuing fight to prevail in the war on drugs. The following story is originally from the Santa Barbara Independent.

Feds Target S.B. Medical Marijuana Shops
Up in Smoke?
Thursday, September 27, 2007
After enjoying years of relatively hassle-free business, Santa Barbara’s medical marijuana scene is [...]

One of the issues that is of great concern for us here at the Cannabis Chronicles, is the increasing involvement of gangs and organized crime in cannabis production and sales. As we’ve mentioned previously, it seems to be an unintended consequence of prohibition, the more valuable an illicit herb crop has, the more [...]

The following article was originally found at Willamette Week Online. It’s a nice change of pace, the story of a festival that wasn’t impaired or obstructed by an oppressive police presence. That doesn’t mean nothing happened, and that there wasn’t at least some controversy, but hey, nothing’s perfect.
Hidden At Hempstalk
At Hempstalk, stoners [...]

Today we are revisiting the topic of the increasing environmental destruction brought about by illicit guerrilla growers farming our public lands. In Canada such non-private places, whether federal or provincial, are often referred to simply as “Crown land”. In the U.S., such lands can fall under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service, and other [...]

In depth coverage of the cannabis culture by mainstream media is fairly rare.  Most newspapers and television news broadcasts use pot and stoners as fodder for laughs, rather than any kind of topic worthy of serious discussion.
Fortunately, that’s changing, at least to an extent.
In a previous posting here at the Cannabis Chronicles we brought our [...]

A new start-up blog recently appeared on our radar screen, it’s titled “the potheads plan for self improvement“, and it begins with an interesting and introspective essay from the blogs owner / author. Here’s that entry excerpted for our readers here at the Cannabis Chronicles.
Introduction
September 15th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
My ten year relationship with cannabis [...]