“We are not far from a time when pot will be hailed as a wonder drug.” The following is the text of a speech by Lester Greenspoon, M.D. recently delivered to the 2011 NORML conference. In 1967, because of my concern about the rapidly growing use of the dangerous drug marijuana, I began my studies […]

Our very own selection of our favorite celebrity stoners taken from celebstoner.com Barack Obama He is on number one because of this quote: “The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our hemp laws.” He will remain our number one all time favourite if he actually does what […]

A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of hemp and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, and with the ever-increasing size of this population, cases of Alzheimer’s disease are expected to triple over the next 50 years. Consequently, the development of treatments that slow or halt the […]

Here is a list of some of the negative effects of the ban on cannabis: The ban on hemp means that in addition to the coffeeshops and people who grow for their own use, an illegal market in hemp also exists. There is no possibility of control over this illegal market which leads to criminality, […]

The policy of ‘soft drug tolerance’ in the Netherlands is probably the most well-known example of a country attempting to regulate the use and sale of cannabis. Recognising that marijuana and hashish consumption cause very little social or personal harm, Holland’s laws were changed to differentiate relatively benign soft drugs from genuinely harmful hard drugs. […]