Frankfort Finally Gets NORML: The Inaugural Kentucky Cannabis Conference March 2024
Photos Courtesy Of The Author Entering the Kentucky Cannabis Conference is a daunting experience. Images from the book “The Human Cost of Marihuana Prohibition” by presenter Tamara Lyn Netzel, line the walkway leading to the conference hall. The photographs documenting the ravages of the criminal injustice system are a stark reminder of the reality that…
Black Hempstory Month: Origins of Western Prohibition
There seems to be no end to shameless conspiracy theories about the origins of cannabis prohibition. Among the most disseminated are that William Randolph Hearst wanted to ban hemp to protect his vast timber holdings and that the DuPont corporation wanted to eliminate competition to their newly patented thermoplastic – nylon. The evidence supporting both…
Medical Cannabis in the Hemp State? No Relief in Sight
Holy smokes, Joe Biden pardoned all those convicted of federal marijuana violations and started the process of rescheduling cannabis? Maybe now I can get medical cannabis—or even adult-use cannabis—in my home state! Kentucky is one of just 13 states that still criminalizes all marijuana use and possession. Simple possession is a misdemeanor with a potential…
Encyclopedia Brownweed & The Case of the Missing Stash
Bueno Verde is the stoniest little town in all of California. And nobody was stonier, or smarter for that matter, than Raefer Bogart. But nobody ever called him Raefer (except his lady), and you better not call him “Bogart,” because nobody was more generous with his reefer than Raefer. Everyone in town called him Encyclopedia…