Upside Down Reasoning In Oz

Researchers based out of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia have been doing some research into cannabis use among the Aboriginal population in the far northern, tropical area of Cape York. The researchers reported their findings at the Tropical Medical Conference in Cairnes last weekend. The researchers stated, presumably with straight faces, that marijuana was [...]

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MO Good News

Missouri may become the first state to fully legalize cannabis if supporters can round up 100,000 to 160,000 signatures by early May of 2012. An association called Show-Me Cannabis has given two proposals to the Missouri Secretary of State that would change either the legal statutes or the actual state constitution in order to regulate [...]

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Born Under A Bad Sign: MM in D.C.

Image via The medical marijuana movement in the District of Columbia passed a major milestone of its gestation on Sunday when The Department of Health finished accepting 82 applications to cultivate and dispense MM inside the beltway. The July 17th deadline, however, arrived four days after The Department of Justice sent a letter to U.S. [...]

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DEA Decides Marijuana Has No Medical Value [Still gets you Righteously High Though]

A decade ago, marijuana advocates filed a petition with the DEA to lower the drug classification of marijuana from schedule I (the highest) to III, IV, or V. They finally got around to ruling, and it isn’t good. Flying in the face of extensive research to the contrary, the DEA  ruled about how you would [...]

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Portugal The Prime Example of the Effects of Decriminalizing Drugs

What’s good homies, before I start I just need to say, this is the greatest news I’ve heard in awhile. So Portugal celebrated 10 years of drugs being decriminalized on July 1st this year, and things could never be better. Most people believe if drugs in general were available to the public for recreational use [...]

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Anarchy Thy Name is Mary Jane: The New War Against The War On Drugs

Image via Link It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote on here how the current temperament of hostility shown toward citizens who legally acquire medical marijuana could possibly lead to a bigger battle in the upcoming elections in the United States. Well, it seems that marijuana activists, bloggers, educators, scientists and plenty of you out [...]

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Synthetic Marijuana Changed to Avoid Ban

Did you hear? Synthetic pot is has been banned by the DEA. Not that any HMJ readers would care because smoke the real ish! But for those poor souls that don’t frequent this website at least 20 times every hour on the hour, maybe synthetic marijuana was a nice way around the whole illegality of [...]

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Texas Politician Roadblocks Legalization

From one of the fine states whose classrooms teach creationism in science class comes Representative Lamar Smith, currently the primary obstacle to federal legalization of marijuana in our country. The Texas Republican has said “Decriminalizing marijuana will only lead to millions more Americans becoming addicted to drugs and greater profits for drug cartels who fund [...]

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Two Michigan State Supreme Court Cases With Medical Marijuana

There are two cases involving medical marijuana being sent to the Supreme Court in Michigan. One makes sense and the other not so much. You be the judge. The first case that took place in Oakland County with a man who was stopped with marijuana, but didn’t meet with his doctor yet. The People vs. [...]

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5 Best Evil Dictators To Get High With

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at Weed Maps. Dictators are bad people, sure. But they also tend to be either really fun-loving or full of crazy ideas, and either way, that makes us wonder what it would be like to get high with them. Here’s our top-five list of the best [...]

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