Experimenting with marijuana in his teens is no longer blocking a British computer programmer and his family from settling permanently in Saskatoon.
“It’s such a relief,” said 37-year-old Chris Tarttelin in an interview Friday evening.
Just a week ago, Tarttelin was facing a Citizenship and Immigration Canada deadline that was impossible to meet. He was ordered by […]

When it comes to legalizing pot, there’s no stemming the inevitable. Whatever happens this November with California’s Proposition 19, which essentially would decriminalize the drug, marijuana will end up being legit.
Whether you like it or not.
Jerry Brown and Barack Obama are against it – improbably, given their […]

Thousands swarmed Boston Common yesterday afternoon, participating — to various degrees — in a rally advocating legalization of marijuana that featured live music and speakers, including Green-Rainbow gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein.
The 21st Annual Boston Freedom Rally, sponsored by MassCann, the state’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform […]

If you want to read one of the most absurd “policy” articles about marijuana in history, go quickly to the website of the Heritage Foundation to read “Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No.” I say quickly because it is truly so absurd, I believe it will be taken down […]

It appears that there is a growing contingent of marijuana users and people associated with the industry who are fighting against efforts to make it legal for all adults.
Marijuana users are an extremely diverse group. Whether it be medical or recreational use, they can be found in almost every demographic imaginable in America. […]

It’s time to de-stupidify medical marijuana.
Earlier this month, the local gendarmes once again expended a bunch of time and effort bringing down a medical marijuana dispensary. If someone breaks into your garage, don’t hold your breath waiting for an officer. But if you’re growing medical marijuana in that garage, they’ll find […]

Big Alcohol’s Decision to Squash Marijuana Law Reform to Protect Its Bottom Line Is Simply Politics As Usual.
It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows, but there are arguably few stranger than the emerging alliance between two of California’s most powerful political players: the police industrial complex and ‘Big Alcohol.’ […]

Cosmetic pesticide use was banned in Vancouver Jan. 1, 2007.
But the sale of pesticides wasn’t banned. So as long as you promise the sales-clerk at your local garden shop or big box store that you’re intending to use that bottle or box of chemicals anywhere but in the soon-to-be greenest city in the world, you […]

The rate of illegal drug use rose last year to the highest level in nearly a decade, fueled by a sharp increase in marijuana use and a surge in ecstasy and methamphetamine abuse, the government reported Wednesday.
Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, called […]