Birthdays matter in public policy, and the government’s move to raise the legal age for alcohol and tobacco to 21 and cannabis to 25 has brought the issue into sharp focus. Medicine gives us good reasons to intervene early but public health requires us to do rather more than change …
Read More »Not condemning: Can our country contrive to convert cannabis cultivation into hard cash?
“Police burned millions of dollars worth of marijuana plants,” announced a newspaper headline last week, not for the first time. Not for the first time, we dismissed the story simply as the drug rings at it again and went on with our business and our lives. But what if we …
Read More »Adios Two Pull; weed-loving reporter steals Anil’s thunder
A marijuana-loving public figure has become an internet sensation after walking off the job with a shrug and “f**k it.” Mr Live Wire is thinking that former Sport Minister Anil Roberts probably wishes he could redo his resignation letter right now. KTVA reporter Charlo Greene decided that her time was …
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