Houston says low-level marijuana is not a police priority, but HPD records reportedly show misdemeanor marijuana arrests jumping from 29 to 405 in the same eight-month period. As voters prepare to decide the Houston Freedom Act on November 3, the city owes the public more than a slogan about priorities.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP: Operation Constant Gardener
Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →
Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie
In Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie, Pot Culture Magazine examines how asset forfeiture turned homes, farms, and businesses into defendants. Government records and Supreme Court cases reveal how marijuana enforcement gave law-enforcement agencies a financial interest in property taken from the people they targeted.
Canada’s Missing Weed Trail
Europe is seizing cannabis shipped from Canada by the tonne while Dutch police suspect illicit overproduction by licensed growers. Canada requires monthly industry reporting, yet public records do not connect a seized shipment to any federal licence holder. Pot Culture Magazine follows the documented route to the point where accountability disappears.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 21: The Decriminalization Lie
Is decriminalized weed legal? Cannabis Lies Vol. 21: The Decriminalization Lie exposes how lower marijuana penalties can keep the weed war alive through tickets, fines, police contact, illegal supply, probation trouble, immigration risk, and records. Pot Culture Magazine explains why decriminalization can be better than criminalization without becoming legalization or freedom.
Jamaica Still Makes Rastafari Ask Permission for Ganja
Jamaica says ganja can be a Rastafari sacrament, but the right still runs into police discretion and state permission. Transport and approved land remain traps too. Pot Culture Magazine examines Jamaica’s July 2026 sacramental cannabis review, the Troy Harrison case, Zion Yard, and why religious freedom still gets treated like a compliance problem.