Weedists: Meet Ken Unger “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Kenneth Unger is a disabled Navy...
The Just Say Now federal marijuana rescheduling pledge program is alleging that Facebook censors marijuana activism… again. Just Say Now is a program of Firedoglake (FDL) media group in...
Denver Police arrested an elderly medical marijuana patient with more marijuana than he was allowed. A LOT more. Edward Bogunovich, 87, was arrested for growing more than...
Prompted by Libertarian 2012 POTUS nominee Gary Johnson‘s statement in Seattle last week that marijuana will be legalized by 2016, Examiner.com writes “by going to pot, Gary Johnson has assured he will...
Longtime marijuana advocate and weedist Bill Maher reviews Doug Fine‘s latest book Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution. Read Bill’s great thoughts at...
Infamously, America’s federally created Cannabis Prohibition marks its seventy-fifth anniversary this August 2, 2012. The so-called ‘great failed social experiment’ of Alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s barely...
Read at the Huffington Post about the “made in the USA” hemp scarf Obama has for sale in his re-election campaign store. Rather ironic since American farmers...
NORML is spearheading a mail campaign to the U.S. Parole Commission who has prohibited Robert Platshorn from both criticizing the now unpopular government prohibition policies and from educating willing...
Sarah Eyre at xoJane writes on the unwarranted social stigma that mothers can’t responsibly use marijuana to relax in the evening but it’s acceptable to drink wine...
The Kickstarter Project: The Culture High has reached their goal of raising $190,000! This is a huge step toward bringing more awareness to the problem of the...
Governing.com ponders what kind of federal response and ultimate showdown we may see after the November elections if at least one of the three states (Colorado, Oregon...
Well, just when I was sure that people were awakening from their prejudiced and fearful assumptions about marijuana, I decided to check and see what Mitt Romney...
Racism and marijuana go back to the early days of prohibition. New York City is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last...
Seattle’s Responsible Marijuana Project has started a PR campaign to get Mayor Mike McGinn, Police Chief John Diaz, City Attorney Pete Holmes and U.S. District Attorney Jenny Durkan to...
Harborside Health Center is organizing a protest of President Obama’s July 23rd Fundraiser in Oakland, CA. For those weedists in the San Francisco Bay Area, come out...
In 2008 alone, Appalachia grew four billion dollars worth of marijuana. Read at the Washington Post on the lifestyle and economic realities of this green region and...
Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, writes a great piece on the rapidly growing support amongst the people and local politicians to end marijuana prohibition. Read Paul’s deep insights...
Weedist was created to help bring cannabis out of the dark shadows of our society. After 75 years of Federal prohibition, the level of reefer madness misinformation...
