Efforts to impose medicinal cannabis plant limits in Washington State are meeting with resistance, enough to convince legislators to allow more time for criticism and commentary.

A reported in Alberta has finally done the math and concluded that if a third of Canadians confess to using cannabis, and over half of Canadians support legalization, they can't all be stereotypical potheads.

Given promises by both U.S. presidential candidates to wean the U.S. economy off of foreign oil, perhaps the next administration will reconsider the "holistic way of hemp."

Insite, the supervised injection center in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, remained in the news even as the ruling minority conservatives misrepresent the center, and attempt to close it down. While Insite is derided as not helping addicts to "get off of drugs", Onsite, the detox center in the same building as Insite, cannot meet demand. And now, the same organization which runs Insite and Onsite (the Portland Hotel Society) has plans for another facility, called "Offsite". For addicts with no home, no family, and few skills, Offsite will be a place for recovering addicts to "take care of horses as part of a long-term recovery program".

Newspaper readers in Kenya learned that students engage in rioting because they abuse drugs. The Daily Nation newspaper in Kenya reported this week that recent student unrest is to be blamed on "drug abuse... A parliamentary committee investigating the recent wave of unrest in secondary schools was told that the abuse of drugs and other substances among students was rampant."