Cannabis

Will California turn to drugs to solve budget deficit?

Californian Democrat Tony Ammiano has launched a bill aimed at legalising and taxing the use of cannabis

Plus:

The annual 420 event at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where protestors meet to smoke cannabis

President Obama could make himself very popular by abandoning the war on drugs, says Alexander Cockburn

Only authoritarian regimes use drugs to sedate people. So why is the cannabis lobby promoting the same idea?

PIC OF THE DAY
Red-shirts asleep on the job