Occasionally the iron heel comes down on people who are widely respected and/or have the resources and will to fight back effectively. “The feds have…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
For many years the relationship between the federal government and the jurisdictions that decided to tax and regulate cannabis was essentially "don't ask, don't tell." This discreet arrangement ended in the winter of 2010-11 when Oakland's plan to license four huge indoor grows became national news.
“Carl Oglesby dies at 76; led Students for a Democratic Society,” was the headline on the obit in the LA Times. The description of SDS…
“Medical cannabis activists” and “drug policy reform” advocates are complaining bitterly that they have been double-crossed by Barack Obama. The Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board…
Marian “Mollie” Fry, MD, and her husband Dale Schafer, an attorney, have begun serving five-year terms —ostensibly for the crime of Cannabis cultivation (growing plants), but actually for the crime of political organizing (educating people).
Every TV station from San Diego to Crescent City has run a segment in which a reporter with a hidden mike visits a local MD…
Amenities turn into luxuries as you suffer a class fall. Buying fresh-cut flowers and newly published books requires more “discretionary” income than you have. You…
“Marijuana's Role in the Tucson Shooting” was the extremely misleading headline on an article by Joe Califano that the Huffington Post ran Jan. 21. Why…
This is to nominate Lillian Hellman, the playwright, for inclusion on VeryImportantPotheads.com . The site is run by the highly competent Ellen Komp, whose biographical…
Imagine having to attend a public hearing at which a psychiatrist to whom you told the unguarded truth discourses on your “anti-social personality disorder.” That…
The Medical Board of California is trying to revoke the license of a pro-cannabis doctor -for using cannabis. A hearing held in Los Angeles this…