In a story that’s worthy of a Cheech and Chong skit, a guy calls in a complaint to the cops about his stolen wallet, only to have his stoned roommate answer the door when the police finally arrive . . .
Wow dude check out the joint I just rolled . . .
I thought [...]
Our beloved Loonie hit’s a 50 year high, and of course the biggest effects are felt by who else? - drug smugglers . . .  :roll:
U.S. dollar deterring Canadian marijuana smugglers
By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian - Nov 12, 2007
WHITEFISH - For years, backpacks crammed with cash have slipped north into Canada, followed closely by hockey [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>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 — [...]
And now for part 3 in the series . . .
Part Three: INNOCENT OWNERS
by Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty
The second time police came to the Hawaii home of Joseph and Frances Lopes, they came to take it.
“They were in a car and a van, I was in the garage. They said, [...]
News from earlier this summer, excerpted from the Metro Times - Detroit’s Weekly Alternative . . .
Prescription pot
Drive under way to make medical marijuana legal in Michigan
by Curt Guyette - 6/13/2007
Rochelle Lampkin knows she’s breaking the law when she lights a joint and takes a few tokes, but she doesn’t feel like a criminal.
“Sometimes,” she [...]
Here’s another journal entry that attempts to capture, in both pictures and words, some of the poisonous atmosphere that’s been created by the drug war. The following story is originally from 2005, although as we’ve been pointing out lately, if you just change a few names and dates, everything is pretty much the same [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>The following story isn’t directly cannabis related, but it is a part of the drug war at large, and as such it impacts medical marijuana users. While we likely wouldn’t advocate legalization of harder drugs such as heroin and cocaine which have relatively high toxicity and abuse potential, we certainly would prefer a harm [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>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 [...]
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 [...]
Today we have the distinct pleasure of introducing our first “Guest Entry” here at the Cannabis Chronicles, as well as introducing another cannabis related forum to the “link library”. We feel quite fortunate that Mrs Fly agreed to give the Cannabis Chronicles a nice perspective on Grasscity’s forums, because it’s not a community we are familar with [...]
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