Cannabis Chronicles

LUI Day 57
here’s a look at the LUI’s on Day 57 . . . the fert mix for these babes was mixed up on Day 56 and allowed to “brew” for a day . . . using 5 gallon plastic gas cans that were bought specifically for gardening . . . [...]

Plan Colombia
Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Rogue States, 2000
In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). Colombia receives more US military aid than the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The total for 1999 reached about $300 million, along with [...]

Excerpt from Carol Deppe -Maternal Inheritance

The pericarp, the outermost layer of the seed, is maternal, not embryonic tissue. So it’s phenotype reflects the genotype of the mother, not of the embryo the seed contains. Some other genes whose products operate at the very early stags may also show maternal inheritance – in other [...]

The following editorial was originally sourced from the Victoria Times-Colonist . . .
THE DANGERS OF KEEPING POT ILLEGAL
Last week’s seizure of a Hells Angels clubhouse in Nanaimo is a welcome sign the province is acting on its much-ballyhooed B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act, passed last year to give the government the power to seize [...]

One of our best friends in the Cannabis Community suffers from terrible migraine headaches.  When migraines become extreme or frequent, it’s disabling to say the very least. In fact, one of our original breeding efforts was made as an attempt to help with the terrible pain of migraines.
Obviously, migraine headaches remain a topic of [...]

Now we turn our “eagle eyes” back to the left (or west (or wet)) coast, where happenings in Humboldt continue to attract news stories . . .

Gold From Green In A Gray Area
You might be surprised who profits from the semi-legal marijuana trade
Story and photos by Bob Doran
A gentleman with a neatly trimmed beard [...]

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, [...]

We’ve been meaning to write up our remembrances of a few members of the cannabis community who sadly have passed from this world, but our best intentions haven’t been able to motivate us to do the hard work of creating proper “marijuana memorial” postings. So, instead of starting off the remembrance category with some [...]

While there are a number of informational resources that catalog and archive cannabis news coverage, it seems that pictures are never saved. That’s not terribly surprising, pictures require significantly more storage space and bandwidth than do just words. That’s a fairly sad development in our eyes, since pictures can often capture a moment [...]

As we said in the previous posting, it comes as no real surprise that Colorado law enforcement decided not to obey the will of the voters, but instead to continue to enforce older outdated laws. And it should also come as no great surprise that such a decision ended up costing the taxpayers money [...]

Today’s topic is the problem of North American law enforcement officers (and their friends) deciding on their own which laws to observe and enforce, often in an attempt to thwart the obvious will and intent of the voters. We first touched on this problem with a single posting last week (ditching democracy), and now have [...]

We’ve already chronicled a couple of articles from Los Angeles City Beat in prior postings here, and today we’ll add another. Since the theme for today is about law enforcement refusing to recognize or honor local laws that reduce or relax penalties on pot, it’s time to bring out the third installment from that [...]

Our series on the perils of being a pain doctor continues with a another excerpt from Reason Magazine. With this journal entry, we’ll be looking at the case of Dr. Paul Heberle, another physician in the crosshairs of the US DEA. . . .

“The Doctor Wasn’t Cruel Enough”
How one physician escaped the panic over [...]