So many writers warned us about techno-tyranny. Now it's good vs evil.

During 2025 regulated cannabis is set to become New Jersey's 3rd largest industry. Weed sales within NJ's borders will surpass the global sales of all the agricultural products produced on every farm in the Garden State.

Val Kilmer was a good human. And a pretty funny guy. He was also a regular client onboard our Santa Fe, NM Learjet... Some weeks we'd have separate flights for Val, Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine or other celebrities...all back and forth to Burbank.

Thank you Cory Booker! Truly proud that my votes in New Jersey help send this human to the US Senate. Always outspoken on cannabis legalization, here's Senator Booker meeting with marijuana reform activists in 2017.

my latest OPED for Marijuana Moment and NORML looks at 11 years of marijuana arrest data in Pennsylvania = it's costing taxpayers billions to arrest cannabis consumers with a few grams www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania...

I just listened to more than a dozen New Jersey medical cannabis patients testify about improving the program to the NJCRC...unaffordable prices were the biggest issue. Here's some tracking on those product prices across multiple states headynj.com/dispensary/p...

“Governors now appoint cannabis commissioners and even adjust taxes. Each candidate should have a clear picture for how they will grow and improve the programs,” Goldstein said. [ newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/24/g... ]

"When you're going through Hell, keep going." - attributed to improvised wartime rally speeches by Winston Churchill

A tyrant is shutting down our government to loot the public coffers. The ultra-rich have put our country on a war footing with our friends, while embracing our enemies. This is the history of humans again and again. However, America is always The People, never 'government.' We can do better.

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -- it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine - The American Crisis

What's in your ouid? Potency levels listed on regulated cannabis labels are not accurate... www.app.com/story/news/l...

day 60 of living with the first AI-assisted tyranny

"New Jersey residents face some of the highest regulated prices in the country and inconsistent product safety. Allowing a few personal gardens won’t hurt the billion dollar industry,” = me about Steve Sweeney supporting medical cannabis home grow www.marijuanamoment.net/former-new-j...

former NJ Senate President and now gubernatorial candidate Steve Sweeney endorsed medical home cultivation yesterday - this is a big shift as he previously opposed any homegrow legislation www.instagram.com/p/DHUFsf_B19...

“Lab shopping has been endemic in the industry,” = my quote Cannabis consumers and registered medical patient implicitly trust product labels ... despite little oversight www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2025/03...

NEW = independent lab testing reveals serious safety issues with New Jersey's regulated cannabis supply Pre-rolls had very unsafe mold/pathogens Pre rolls tested for potency (THC) failed with levels 1/3 or 1/2 of what was on the label info www.safeleafsociety.com/data-1/proje...

7 leaf clover = extra lucky

Choosing cannabis over alcohol = Going green for St. Patrick's Day! #StPatricksDay #cannabis #ouidbebetter

the jig is up on the "hemp" scam projectcbd.org/hemp/intoxic...

S1393 - a bill that would allow medical cannabis home cultivation in New Jersey just gained another important cosponsor - Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez of Camden County

Next week will mark a full year since I was invited to the White House by Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable on cannabis justice. By now we would have been working on national, federal legalization with a Harris admin. So far, Donald Trump has ignored the plant, again.

lazy, ineffective leaders tend to make war on the poor

Tyrants always appear popular, until they are deposed by We The People.

New Jersey residents oppose S4154 - a bill from Senate President Scutari that would restart prohibition norml.org/act/new-jers...

What could be happening: "President Harris announces plans for national cannabis legalization" vs what's actually happening...again: "Donald Trump completely ignores cannabis" #alt47

Tyranny requires treason. Freedom requires action.

Don't buy any corporate cannabis today.

New Jersey Senate President Nick Scutari went from a champion of cannabis reform to our worst enemy. www.nj.com/marijuana/20...

there are (at least) 201 possible conflicts of interest for New Jersey elected officials in regards to regulated cannabis ... how many do you think Senate President Nick Scutari has crossed? www.nj.gov/ethics/statu...

SOLD OUT = New Jersey's medical cannabis patients are done waiting for broken promises www.nj.com/marijuana/20...

Quakers know how to deal with tyranny www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Feb 22, 2021 = Four major cannabis reform laws are signed by Gov. Murphy after 2.8 million voters pass a constitutional amendment, Police stopped arresting 100 people every day for cannabis possession. April 21, 2022 = Sales of adult-use cannabis begin from 8 medical marijuana dispensaries.

New Jersey marks 4 years of legal cannabis tomorrow. My quotes: “We’ve avoided nearly 150,000 cannabis-related arrests in New Jersey since 2021. That is a huge win,” “There is no logical reason to keep arresting people for growing a few cannabis plants at home.” headynj.com/politics/nj-...

so, Gov. Hochul was that an offer for the Meadowlands? We'll consider cash or kindbud. - South Jersey

now that spambots have been loaded onto the IRS computers we can expect to get text messages from Miriam078746539 to download "hot pics" with our 2024 tax returns

Good news: key New Jersey Democrat - Senator Joe Vitale - just cosponsored the bill that would allow medical cannabis home cultivation www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...

Moderate Democrats + MAGA Republicans = 32 people still getting arrested every day for cannabis possession in Pennsylvania

just spoke with Cannabis, she is definitely anti-fascist

some info on ownership diversity in New Jersey's regulated cannabis businesses

if you haven't yet ... watch the TV show "Occupied"

Just image how different this month would have been with President Harris. #alt47

American Federalism is meeting the greatest challenge that everyone always predicted = a corrupt run of totalitarian Executive Power. Will our ship correct this sickening list towards fascism? Only if we act. Only if we act.

Today's meeting of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission starts at 11AM www.youtube.com/channel/UCAJ...

"Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed: Sow it everywhere..." - President George Washington, letter from Philadelphia to Mt. Vernon in 1794 #PresidentsDay #Philadelphia #hemp #cannabis #marijuana #revolution #SowItEverywhere

PBS and NPR are among the last news orgs w/o a paywall. That alone is worth preserving.

from 2017 when @billy-penn.bsky.social sat in on my #ValentinesDay "Marijuana in the News" class at Temple... and it was all about cannabis, sex, and relationships billypenn.com/2017/03/14/w...

Billionaires = simultaneously enjoying and destroying the American dream.

In order to regulate cannabis some States completely ignore the federal government. NJ, NY, MD, OH, etc now have completely in-border supplies of a new agricultural commodity with sustainable tax income potential.

the tyranny has launched: - a trade war - a culture war - an international land grab - top-down loyalty cleansing in the armed forces

Tyranny = using the Office of the President as a weapon against The People.