Category Archives: Activism & Advocacy
HAPPY 420 DAY: “Happy 4/20! Here’s Some Shit to Read While You’re Stoned” / Mother Jones ☮

Happy 4/20, all you potheads. So, just wondering, have you ever really looked at all these stories we’ve written on your favorite subject? If not, what better time than now?
- A map of where you can smoke legally
- Behind the pricey ad campaign pushing “craft, small-batch, sustainable” pot
- How to get a pot card without really trying
- A veteran pot grower’s back-to-the-land adventure
- All cannabis start-up parties should be like this one
- An interview with marijuana visionary Steve DeAngelo
- The conference where guys in suits pitch marijuana start-ups to other guys in suits
- Why techies love weed
- How much electricity did it take to grow that joint?
- How high is too high to drive?
- The price of weed in every state
- Your marijuana could be killing this cute, furry animal.
- The farmers market that sells cannabis
- The fight that broke out the last time California tried to legalize pot
- An aerial tour of Emerald Triangle pot farms
- The New Dealers: A recessionary tale for 4/20
h/t: Mother Jones
HAPPY 420 DAY: “Hippie Music and Pictures” / “420 Revealed: A Day of Peace” ☮
HIGH TIMES Editor-in-Chief Steven Hager visits ABC News to explain the origin and significance of 420 in this 2002 interview.
CANNABIS: “Federal Agents Raid Colorado Marijuana Growing Ops” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: “Noam Chomsky on How the U.S. and British Invasion of Iraq Caused the Syrian Refugee Crisis” ☮
h/t: truthdig
In this video MIT professor, anarchist, political philosopher and renowned linguist, Noam Chomsky, discusses the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and Israel. He also talks about the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighbouring states as well as the European continent.
How does the military industrial complex of Germany affect the security of the populations of the countries in the Arab world?
Do military and arms exports promote stability in the region?
What are the roots of the refugee crisis that the European Union as well as neighbouring countries to Syria and Iraq are facing?
All of these questions and more are addressed in this video.
INTERVIEW: “Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein to Voters: Time to Leave ‘Abusive Relationship’ with Democratic Party” ☮
HAPPY HITCH DAY! “Christopher Hitchens Tribute” / Great Minds ☮
CANNABIS: “NJ Lawmaker Wants Women to Smoke Weed for Menstrual Cramps” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: “Democracy Spring: Disrupting the Status Quo” / RT America / Simone Del Rosario, Lee Camp, and Kai Newkirk ☮
CANNABIS: “Politicians Use False Stats to Keep Marijuana Illegal” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian ☮