I have heard a lot of speeches and read a lot of articles that talk about the future of the marijuana industry. I’ve heard many
With the social justice movement gaining more and more momentum, the word “shaming” continuously gets thrown around a lot. There is fat-shaming, skinny-shaming, slut-shaming, virgin-shaming,
Something that has troubled me since I started this blog is the way most people are treated in the marijuana movement and industry. I have
By Amber Iris Langston Please join Show-Me Cannabis, Change.org and the entire movement to #FreeJeff from Missouri prison in a unified action of support today!
Last Saturday the New England Conference of United Methodist Churches, a group representing 600 congregations in six Northeastern states, voted in favor of Resolution 15-203,
While legislative and legal breakthroughs surrounding medical marijuana are certainly things to celebrate, the hard truth is that low income and disenfranchised communities have seen
Earlier this month I posted an article about the Minority Cannabis Industry Association. I think it’s a fantastic organization. The Minority Cannabis Industry Association is
Marijuana prohibition is a very racist public policy. Many minorities in the marijuana activist movement have referred to marijuana prohibition as part of ‘the new
Most of our laws work very differently for wealthy people and people battling poverty. Wall Street executives that endanger the world’s economy don’t see any
Thanks for supporting Measure 91. This Sunday, the second-largest daily newspaper in Oregon joined the largest daily newspaper in Oregon to get behind the movement
I had an interesting talk with an anti-marijuana fan recently. The person, unaware of my blog or frequency of marijuana consumption, asked me how I
A preventable tragedy occurred in Ferguson, Missouri last weekend. An unarmed teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer. If this
Now that the United States has celebrated its Independence and hard-earned freedom on July, 4th, it is important to remember that there is still much
The war on drugs is a war on poor people. Rich people consume drugs as much as poor people do proportianetly, however, rich people are
A broad coalition of Christian leaders have taken the occasion of the holiest day on the Christian calendar to release a statement calling for the end of
Today is one of my favorite days of the year – Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today is a day that America reflects on MLK’s
A proposed law would make medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington, D.C. give 2% of their profits to a program to provide cannabis to the poor.
Courtesy of The Joint Blog A new report released by the London School of Economics and Political Science has found that minorities are drastically more likely to be stopped,
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the ‘March on Washington’ led by Martin Luther King Jr. As described by Wikipedia: “The March on Washington for
By Sam Branson It’s over four decades since US President Richard Nixon declared a so-called ‘War on Drugs’ in the hopes that military action and
It breaks my heart to know that there are people facing execution for cannabis. I can’t express in words how sad that makes me feel.
By Meghan Ralston, Drug Policy Alliance Today, dozens of countries around the world join in the global ‘Support Don’t Punish’ protest against the international war on drugs.
Religious Leaders To Develop an Action Plan to Decriminalize Drugs, Reduce Mass Incarceration, and Eliminate Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests Nashville – This June 13-14,
By Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director The American Civil Liberties Union released a new report affirming NORML’s historic data that minorities are disproportionately arrested (and most certainly prosecuted and, worse,
