Cannabis Chronicles

Here’s a bit of humor from the NY Times on the Clinton v. Obama drug comments made last week.
 
 
Sun, 16 Dec 2007
Source: New York Times (NY)
Author: Maureen Dowd
REEFER MADNESS IN IOWA
With the Iowa campaign in wild flux — and in the case of Hillary, acid reflux — The Des Moines Register decides to hold a [...]

As we weave our way through Cannabis History, it’s important to touch on 1967, and what was commonly referred to as the “Summer of Love”.  That was 40 years ago now, and to younger generations it may seem like ancient history.  But, to some of us, at the very least those times forever altered our [...]

In some humorous small town news from the US -
Marijuana left at police chief’s home
WINNECONNE – A voice mail message Winneconne Police Chief Peter Running received at his home assured him the package on his doorstep was nothing to fear; it would not explode.
Running found the package marked “fragile” a week ago wrapped in [...]

Remember when High Times did a little spell as a magazine not based around marijuana? It wasn’t that long ago, we remember it like it was yesterday . . .
High and mighty
After a brief stint as a slick, celebrity-driven version of the Nation, the pot-appreciation magazine High Times is back to its roots — [...]

Part four in the series, deals with the world of paid informants . . . 
Part Four: THE INFORMANTS
by Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty
They snitch at all levels, from the Hell’s Angel whose testimony across the country has made him a millionaire, to the Kirksville, Mo., informant who worked for the equivalent of [...]

Returning to our archival efforts, featuring stories from smaller weekly and alternative papers, we now would like to share a piece from Pasadena Weekly . . .
Bongloads of Justice
How getting caught up in a federal drug raid turned Pasadena comic Tere Joyce into a marijuana missionary
By Joe Piasecki
Tere Joyce finds humor in just about [...]

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 [...]

I’m usually passin’ by just around eleven o’clock
And if you let it cool you one time, you’ll be my regular stop
I’m your ice cream man, stop me when I’m passin’ by
See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy
lyric by Van Halen
This story is a little bit different take on the Good Humor® man, but [...]

Here at the Cannabis Chronicles our primary focus isn’t on covering sports stoners, or cannabis celebrities, those kinda folks seem to get plenty of attention on their own without our help. However, when a good story jumps up in our face, we can’t always resist.
For instance, when Michael Vick recently tested positive for marijuana, [...]

When Foggy was searching for illustrations to go with Dykster’s recent contribution to the Cannabis Chronicles, he ran across this nice little cartoon.
Remember now boys and girls, drug trafficking and illicit growing cartels destroy wilderness and harm wildlife.
Only YOU can grow your own, and put an end to this vicious cycle of destruction and terror!
This [...]

We recently ran across a wonderfully humorous and poignant site dedicated to the many different types of “Flame Warriors” who inhabit online communities.  The site makes for an interesting and funny read, and no doubt anyone with much experience will recognise more than a few of these characters.
Certainly, the Cannabis community has more than it’s share [...]

This site is designed to be a little bit of everything, with the kitchen sink thrown in for good measure. In our introductory essay we outlined a number of ambitions/dreams we have for this journal. Obviously, we’ve got a lot of different ideas for topics the Cannabis Chronicles could cover. Please excuse the pun, but [...]

We do cherish our own original copy of “A Child’s Garden of Grass”. Our’s is pretty well worn, but has survived the ravages of time intact and in decent condition.
A Child’s Garden of Grass is certainly unique as a book in it’s tongue in cheek look at pot culture in the ‘70’s. This is the [...]

The author of OnMarijuana.com put a fair bit of effort into recreating the text of a long out of print book that’s cherished as prime stoner humor by those who have copies. Although it doesn’t appear that he finished his ambition of recreating the text of the entire book, he did manage to archive three [...]