In 1988, I started working for High Times. That lasted nearly 20 years. After leaving HT, I founded CelebStoner. A few years after that I was hired to edit Freedom Leaf. Not bad for a music journalist who started getting stoned in high school.
Roseanne Barr was back in the news this week with the revival of "Roseanne" on ABC. Her support of Donald Trump and his far-right agenda is a major part of the show's storyline. Trump clearly approves.
"I'm a recreational pot smoker," two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand told me 15 years ago. "It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue and a choice issue."
To Dennis Peron, who passed away on Jan. 27 at 71 years of age, all marijuana use was medicinal. It should be etched on his tombstone.
In August, a cannabis controversy erupted over Roger Stone's planned speech at the CWCBExpo scheduled for Sept. 13-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. On Sept. 6, the event announced that Stone had been removed from the speaker's lineup.
