“Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis” reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy, cancer, and many other illnesses both mental and physical.

“Clearing the Smoke” includes extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics.

General Barry McCaffrey is best known for being in charge of the failed drug war while Clinton was in office. During his time as the Drug Czar he also offered Tv stations financial incentives (using tax dollar money) to smuggle anti drug messages into their television programming. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that the ONDCP had violated domestic propaganda and publicity prohibitions by preparing prepackaged news stories that did not disclose to television viewers that the government had produced them and had illegally spent appropriations to develop, produce and distribute the covert propaganda. Due to a three year statute of limitations the GAO opinion (B-303495) was limited to fiscal years 2002, 2003 and 2004 however its detailed analysis of the core legal issues involved is applicable to the McCaffrey era ONDCP propaganda scandal. During his time in office the use of all drugs increased across the board. In 1996 22.1% of respondents to a poll stated that they had used illegal drugs compared to 28.4% in 2001. Even though drug usage rates increased while he was the Drug Czar he has since found a new source of income by spitting the same tired propaganda on news outlets. Generally he is used as the voice of prohibition and I personally feel he does a great job since he still believes the same propaganda he used in 1997 will work today. He’s a very soft target in any debate and he could probably get cut down by an 8th grade debate captain. Here’s some of his greatest hits.

Crime is among the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States. Drug trafficking has led to corruption, which has had a deleterious effect on Mexico’s Federal Representative Republic. Drug trafficking and organized crime have also been a major source of violent crime in Mexico.

Mexico has experienced increasingly high crime rates, especially in major urban centers. The country’s great economic polarization has stimulated criminal activity in the lower socioeconomic strata, which include the majority of the country’s population. Crime continues at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in Monterrey, Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo, Michoacan, and the state of Sinaloa. Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime. Low apprehension and conviction rates contribute to the high crime rate.

In this documentary Ross Kemp follows some of the most dangerous drug running routes on the US/Mexico border. A grim reminder of what has happened since Calderon decided to “take on the cartels”. It’s not rocket science. The more enforcement. The more fractured the drug gangs are. This may seem like a good thing to those fighting “The Drug War” however there are some very serious consequences which have come as a result. The escalation of violence from the Mexican government has destabilized what were previously gang turf. This means that as the police take control of one section, the gangs must move into someone elses turf in order to continue their business. The second effect is that by decreasing supply the police are also raising the price of the products so the gangs end up making more money off of a product if there is more stringent enforcement.

“When We Grow…This Is What We Can Do” is an educational documentary concerning the facts about cannabis. In this feature length documentary we explore everything there is, from industrial hemp to medicinal cannabis use, from the origins of cannabis prohibition to the legality of growing equipment.
A film by Seth Finegold and presented by Luke Bailey.

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Professor David Nutt
Peter Reynolds (Head of the Legalize Cannabis Alliance)
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Dr Oz devoted an hour of his show to the medical marijuana debate. Surprisingly, the discussion wasn’t the typical bullshit we generally hear from the mainstream media. Montel Williams as well as other medical marijuana patients discuss their illnesses and how they find relief by using medical marijuana.

Canada’s $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada’s national economy that it can no longer be ignored.

CannaBiz unfolds in Grand Forks, BC, a small border town nestled in the Kootenay Mountains, where draft dodgers planted the first BC Bud in the 1960s. After the pine beetle chewed through what was left of the forest industry, marijuana became the backbone of the local economy.

In secret forest plots, basements, barns and high-tech underground bunkers, growers nurture some of the world’s most potent bud. Most of the marijuana here, and in the rest of Canada, is destined for the US market, where a pound of premium weed sells for a street price of $4,500.

Across the country, formerly laid-back marijuana growers now live in fear of armed thieves, and smugglers take huge risks to cross the beefed up American border. Conflicted police and RCMP officers like Harland Venema continue to fight a seemingly futile battle.

In Grand Forks, Brian Taylor, once nicknamed the marijuana mayor, is campaigning for medical marijuana as a prescription for economic prosperity. Ex con Sam Mellace dreams of supplying medical marijuana nationally through Shoppers Drug Mart outlets.

The United Nations recently celebrated the 100th birthday of the international war on drugs. As it did so Mexico moved even closer to becoming a failed state. Last year, over 6300 people died in the drug turf wars which are ravaging the country and spilling over the border into the United States. British MP Ann Widdecombe and Steve Rolles from the Transform Drug Policy Foundation joins Sir David to discuss whether it is time to reconsider the war on drugs.