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Brian Dyin’

I realized young that in a foreign land

I would have been a criminal, a different kind of man…

Louis Armstrong Turns On The World: West End Blues & Muggles

On the morning of June 28, 1928, six months after Lil left him and the band, Louis Armstrong reconvened the Hot Five with Earl

Marijuana in Africa: The Story of the Bashilange

I urge my daughter to remember the Bashilange…
This post is dedicated to the Memory of Julian Stobbs, (1961-2020) of Dagga Couple, South Africa. R.I.P.

A Three-Minute History of NORML

This is a short video I made for NORML‘s 2020 online national convention. (transcribed below)https://youtu.be/ThPJuuR4iMEWhen Keith Stroup founded the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana

Drug Testing in the United States: A Short History II

During the first half of the 1980s, companies like Federal Express learned to fire employees on the basis of a single positive test despite a federal survey that found drug testing procedures to be in error at least twenty percent of the time.

Drug Testing in the United States: A Short History

There was a time not long ago when the idea of the government compelling any American citizen to take a random suspicionless drug test was unthinkable.

My Long-Lost Interview With Jack Herer Part 2

This transcript is excerpted from a longer conversation mostly concerned with the details of the emerging hemp industry, circa 1995. Most of this talk has

My Long-Lost Interview With Jack Herer Part 1

Preface: Recently, while working on another project, I found my long-lost interview with the legendary marijuana activist Jack Herer. Jack, of course, is one of