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Behind the Scenes of The Culture High – Part 4

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein.

Part four of Jason Reed’s exclusive look behind the scenes of new and upcoming cannabis documentary, The Culture High.

Judges, Judicial Conduct and General Jackassery

Judge Bernie Kelly knows nothing about the science of cannabis.

You might have read about the latest outrageous judgement by Judge Bernie Kelly a member of the bench in the United Kingdom. She’s a judge in Derry in Northern Ireland in the event you don’t know, who decided to offer her medical wisdom on the subject of cannabis. It’s become an old story, crotchety old […]

Judge sends ‘slaves’ forced to grow cannabis to prison

Judge Richard Price sentences two Vietnamese victims of slavery to prison for production of cannabis.

A court has sentenced two Vietnamese men caught growing hundreds of cannabis plants in a Portsmouth house to a year in prison each after hearing they were ‘virtually slaves’.

Cannabis and Corporations: The Future of Weed

As you may or may not have heard there has recently been a major change in the Canadian Medical Marijuana program. The sitting Conservative government has decided that rather than leave Health Canada to grow low-quality medical cannabis in an old mine in Manitoba, that private industry should be licensed to meet the demand. This […]

Which cannabis model should the UK adopt?

Bluebird coffeeshop in Amsterdam, Holland.

Much of the world is reforming cannabis laws and legal weed will happen one day in the UK. Chris Roach looks at different various different legal cannabis models from around the world and asks which model might be the best for the UK.

Matthew Grove Humberside PCC living in Cloud Cuckoo Land

Matthew Grove, Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside .

Matthew Grove the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside wants to waste valuable police resources harassing peaceful cannabis consumers and says there will be no liberalisation of cannabis policing on his watch.

Street dealing rises in Maascricht following ‘pot tourism’ crackdown

Since the introduction of the ban on foreigners from buying cannabis in the coffeeshops of Maastricht in southern Holland, locals have complained of an increase in street dealing.