Marijuana has always had a place in the American counterculture — from the Jazz Age to the Digital Age. Nowadays, the U.S. scene is as chaotic as ever, caught in a netherworld between budding legality and the antique stranglehold of reefer madness repression.

Antique Stranglehold is the name of my new band, btw…

To make things more confusing, the line between the square establishment and the radical underground is as blurry as ever. This video recaps the shared history between the green stuff and the last three residents of The White House.

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Cures what ails ya

In an early episode of the Coincidence Control Network podcast, co-host Joseph Matheny and I commented on federal threats to crackdown on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries. As this new article in Rolling Stone points out, this is the kind of arrest-the-sick policy we’d grown to expect from George W. Bush, but which we never dreamed of from Barack Obama.

Framing the Obama administration’s new approach, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske famously declared, “We’re not at war with people in this country.”

Reporter Tim Dickinson continues:

With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush’s record for medical-marijuana busts. “There’s no question that Obama’s the worst president on medical marijuana,” says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. “He’s gone from first to worst.”

Read the full article here.

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