Mike Adams

Mike Adams’s Marijuana Misfit: Two Years of Terror is out now.

The problem with Biden’s soft stance on cannabis

Indiana When Joe Biden directed a review into the classification of cannabis two years ago, no one – not the stoners nor the industry – expected a volte face from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the agency with the last word on the drug’s status. It has, after all, rejected countless attempts in the past.

Kremlin crack-up: who’s out to get Putin?

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This week: In his cover piece for the magazine Owen Matthews writes about the power struggle at the heart of Russia. He is joined by Jade McGlynn, specialist in Russian Studies at the Monterey Initiative, to discuss whether Putin might be running out of time (01:00). Also on the podcast:  Has America’s pot policy gone

Why America’s cannabis experiment failed

Indiana Once cannabis legalisation in the US started being taken seriously a decade ago, the majority of liberal Americans supported it. It just seemed like common sense. No longer would pot users have to rely on street dealers, so criminal organisations would wither away. At the same time, states would benefit from billions in tax