On this day six years ago, Reason Magazine published a piece on drug war propaganda, and how the US Government was attempting to connect terrorism and drug use.
Terror Tactic
The government blames drug users for the violence created by its disastrous policies.
Jacob Sullum | February 8, 2002
The federal government has told many outrageous lies about [...]
We’d prefer not to be perceived as “attacking” our new science “friend”, or his “study” using 12 individuals to try and prove the so called “addictive” effects of Cannabis. He personally seems well intentioned enough, even if we do consider him hopelessly naive when it comes to the harsh reality of being used as [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>On this day - 5 years ago in drug war history . . .
Confronting the Empire
Noam Chomsky
Delivered at the III World Social Forum, February 2, 2003
We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique – a moment that is ominous, but also full of hope.
The most powerful state [...]
When reading news stories from across the pond, we see constant reference to the phrase “cannabis factory”. The news reports almost always read something to the effect that the police have closed xx number of factories in the last 12 or 18 months, and they closed another today . . .
In Canada they’d be referred [...]
Here’s another “blast from the past” . . .
In an 8 year old article from Salon.com that’s been stored away at the bird’s nest as a part of our personal archiving project, we learn that there’s no escaping the drug war, it even directly touches the television we view . . .
Washington script doctors
How [...]
Here’s a story that should wake up the folks who worship at the altar of the pharmaceutical industry . . . their products can make people seriously ill or even kill if used improperly . . . cannabis never killed anybody . . . and good homegrown herb is safe for most anybody!
Second drugs mix [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>We made our own opinions on the Emery extradition situation pretty clear in a previous post. Here’s a story from the National Post that seems to share our own viewpoint . . .
Friday, January 04, 2008
A matter of national sovereignty
Colby Cosh, National Post Published: Friday, January 04, 2008
On Dec. 31, the [...]
The DEA hates “bad” drugs like marijuana, but their soon to be former chief executive apparently isn’t above using tired old beer commercial advertising phrases to describe her time with the organization . . .
DEA Chief to Resign, Take Motorola Job
By LARA JAKES JORDAN - The Associated Press -Monday, October 22
WASHINGTON — Drug Enforcement Administration [...]
Wen now continue with Rand Clifford’s compelling tale on the background behind the criminalization of Marijuana, with part four, titled “Rope and Dope” . . .
King Hemp IV: Rope and Dope
By Rand Clifford - October 1, 2007Imagine…YOU are the legend, William Randolph Hearst. You unleash an old Mexican slang term—an alien, scary and [...]
Now we move on to part three of today’s feature . . .
King Hemp part 3: We Got Mugged—So Let’s Get Hemp Back
By Rand Clifford June 30, 2007
Prohibition of cannabis hemp was a mugging, a twisted and diabolical assault on the rights, health and well-being of Americans unparalleled in our history for [...]
Part two of today’s “feature”, originally penned by a fine gentleman by the name of Rand Clifford . . .Â
King Hemp part 2: Battle Lines: Natural, Or Synthetic…Life, Or Death
By Rand Clifford June 25, 2007
Hemp is about life, renewal and future, power to The People…most everything America’s embedded fascist regime is not [...]
Today’s “feature” is another multi-part essay that’s been waiting in the wings for a while here in the Cannabis Chronicles newsroom. It was originally sourced online from OpEdNews.com . . .
King Hemp part 1: From DEA Deadly Birdseed, Toward Power To The People
By Rand Clifford - June 17, 2007
 America was just [...]
A police officer goes to a psychologist for an exam, and while taking part in a word association test, can’t help himself from responding with the word “sophisticated” after the good doctor says - “marijuana” . . . sound far fetched?
Well, think about it for a moment.
The following phrase has become a consistent refrain in [...]
Believe it or not, we actually found this article at PoliceOne.com, a online news source that bills themselves as: “The News That Law Enforcement Trusts” . . . It’s not anything special in terms of a story, just your typical large scale grow-op in an apartment complex, but it’s not everyday [...]
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