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American Man Could Get Death for Importing Hemp Seed Oil into Egypt
February 04, 2011 – WASHINGTON, DC – The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), the nation’s leading trade organization working to promote non-drug industrial hemp, learned last week of the plight of Mostafa Soliman, an America citizen who has lived in the U.S. for 40 years and was wrongly imprisoned by Egyptian authorities on December 30, 2010…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Users To Lobby Canadian Parliament Monday
January 30, 2011 – A group of medical marijuana patients, producers, and advocates is planning to meet with Members of Parliament, media and other government officials on January 31 in an effort to draw attention to “the serious and unnecessary obstacles that the Harper Government has placed” in the path of medical marijuana users in…
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Will You Join The Great American [Toilet] Paper Boycott?
January 27, 2011 – The Great American Paper Boycott is a cause begun by environmentalist and musician Lloyd Hart as a way to halt deforestation in the United States. Excerpts from the cause’s Facebook page: The Great American Paper Boycott is about halting deforestation. We at The Great American Paper Boycott are challenging all the…
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Grassroots Activists Head to the Nation’s Capital to End Prohibition of Hemp and Cannabis
On April 20th, 2011 the “Overgrow the Government” movement is staging a rally in Washington D.C. to demand an end to cannabis prohibition. As of this writing the Facebook page for the rally has over 1,100 people signed up to attend and another 1,000 “maybe attending.” They are looking for one million people to come…
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Prop. 19 Backers Plan New Marijuana Legalization Effort
November 4, 2010 – Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and return to the ballot in two years. “We have a debate that was just heard around the world, and the conversation has only just begun,” said Dale Sky Jones,…
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Marijuana Legalization: Not If, But When
November 3, 2010 – California’s marijuana legalization initiative, Proposition 19, didn’t win a majority of votes yesterday but it already represents an extraordinary victory for the broader movement to legalize marijuana. What’s most important is the way its mere presence on the ballot, combined with a well run campaign, has transformed public dialogue about marijuana…
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Canadian Pot Activist Marc Emery Gets 5 years in U.S. Jail
September 10, 2010 – Canadian pot activist Marc Emerey has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds south of the border. The 52-year-old Vancouver resident learned his fate on Friday afternoon in a U.S. district court in Seattle. His sentence also includes four years of “supervised release” following his…
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Hemp Advocates Turn Up the Volume
May 18, 2010 – Industrial hemp advocates will talk for hours about the strength and versatility of hemp fibers, the health benefits of its seed and the injustice being done to the Oregon and U.S. economies because the crop isn’t being grown domestically. Last summer, Oregon became one of 16 states to legalize the growing…
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Canada: 2000+Expected to Protest Prohibition on Parliament Hill
April 10, 2010 – Ottawa, Canada- For at least 10 years now, when the Peace Tower’s clock turns to 4:20pm on April 20th, huge crowds of youth, adults and seniors gather in the Nation’s Capital on Major’s and Parliament hills to protest the prohibition of Marijuana. There is rarely any media coverage for this event…
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Colorado: Youth Factor Heats up Medical Marijuana Debate
March 8, 2010 – The divisions between the pro- and anti-marijuana crowds at the state House Judiciary Committee meeting were already clear last week when the young man who described himself as a recovering heroin addict approached the microphone. As the man spoke about marijuana use leading kids to harder drugs and fears that medical…