Global Ganja Report

Resisting the Eradication Regime, Defending Your Right to Cannabis

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Know The Law

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Global Ganja Report and tagged cannabis, cocaine, law, USA.

Global Prohibition Regime

Although levels of tolerance for cannabis vary widely worldwide, nearly every nation on earth is a party to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which establishes uniform “schedules” for controlled substances—with our favorite herb in the most restrictive schedule. Nations may establish their own enforcement policies, in consultation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Medical Marijuana: The Struggle for Herbal Healing

cannabis edibles Over the past generation, an informal alliance of activists, cultivators, entrepreneurs and medical professionals have struggled to redefine how the United States views the cannabis plant. Victories at state and municipal levels have created a new field of medicinal treatment for a wide variety of ailments in California and other mostly western states. Medical marijuana marks the starkest point in the divide between an industrial model of healthcare and a millennia-long tradition of herbal self-treatment—because nowhere else has the federal government been so intransigent.

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The View from Wesleyan

Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Smokey Tony and tagged cannabis, culture.

Wesleyan Cannabis Culture As you walk towards Foss Hill (often called The Hill, or Foss), a miniature hill at Wesleyan University, you are greeted by the prestigious Olin Library on your left and by rugged Hewitt (one of the many dorms on campus) on your right. Both buildings give the impression of a well known academic space.

The Rainbow Gathering

Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Bill Weinberg and tagged cannabis, counterculture, democracy, features, festivals, psychedelics, public lands, sacrament, United States.

Every year since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light has been holding its Summer gathering in the National Forests of the United States, bouncing to a different state each year, from coast to coast. A loose network of hippie tribes that celebrate their diversity, the Rainbow People caravan cross-country for the annual back-to-nature affair that starts building in June and climaxes with a silent meditation for world peace when the rest of America is setting off fireworks on July 4.