Category: Cannabis

Give Peace a Chance

I’m sharing this because I initially wrote it over 20 years ago and it still a useful indictment of our failed War on Drugs today.

The Entheogen Review, Summer Solstice, 1995

The following essay first appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue of Legalese, the student publication of the University of Houston Law Center. It also ran in the University of Houston student publication the Daily Cougar. The author has generously made it available to the public — it may be photocopied and sent to officials and policy-makers concerned with decisions related to The War on Drugs.

The Muslim Case for Drug Law Reform

Recently here in Texas Representative David Simpson a tea partier and conservative Christian published a blog post entitled: The Christian Case for Drug Law Reform in concert with his filing of a bill that would strike the word “Marihuana” from the Texas Criminal code. That inspired me to cover the same topic in Islam which I have been pondering for at least well basically for the entire time that I have been practicing Islam. Here goes:

Cannabis Has No Accepted Medical Use?!

This is my first blog post.  I figured I would tackle an issue that’s been stuck in my craw for a long time. Currently cannabis (I prefer this term over marijuana with all the negative racial history that accompanies it) is in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.  This is the most tightly restricted […]