Vancouver-based sci-fi author who coined terms like "Cyberspace" and "The Matrix" reflects on dodging the draft in Canada, the sixties, drug use and his cannabis experience in this short excerpt from his documentary "There Are No Maps For These Territories".

Loretta Nall brings us footage of this forum on the real facts on medical marijuana with specialists, their attorney, patients, and question and answer session.

Your hosts The "Marijuana Men" Bill and Ben return to their patch and explain how to utilize the growing season and territory of outback Australia with Marc Emery seeds. Footage of the 2004 Nimbin Mardi Grass, bong-throwing and joint rolling contests & their Cannabis Cup. To see episode 1, where they explain how their patch is set up and more kangaroos, watch "Do You Grow Down Under?" http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3032.html

Evidence from Switzerland suggests that prescribing heroin can reduce crime and increase levels of employment among addicts. While still illegal in the UK, cannabis was downgraded to a category C drug in January 2004. Would drug legalisation really reduce crime overall, and would it make drug use any safer? The Show Link is at the bottom of the BBC page. Thanks to Nifty for telling us about this show. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/if/4075235.stm

(Audio Only). Dr. Albert Hofmann Dr. Albert Hofmann, Ph.D., Dr. Pharm.(Hon.), Dr. Sc.Nat.(Hon.), Head of the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Research Laboratories (retired), Division of Natural Products, Sandoz, Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, Member of the Nobel Prize Committee, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, Member of the International Society of Plant Research and the American Society of Pharmacognosy, is probably best known throughout the world as the inventor of LSD. Dr. Hofmann turned 99 on January 11, 2005.

Noam Chomsky talks about Bush's Drug War in an interview featured on the Free-Speech Network. http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/videoviewer.php?video_id=249&search_text=chomsky&searchmode=&page=0&content_type_id=

21st century Pot comedy. The Broadway hit Marijuan-Logues is now online! Check out these two quicktime clips on their site. A segment from Bill Maher and a comedy bit on medieval tokers! Thanks to rekast37 for telling us about this one. http://www.marijuanalogues.com/videos/

The late great Bill Hicks ponders God's creation of marijuana. prohibiting pot is like saying God made a mistake! http://www.rykodisc.com/video/BillHicks/qt_pot.html

A Child's Garden Of Grass is an expanded audio companion to Jack Margolis and Richard Clorfene's book of the same name. Radio legend Ron Jacobs suggested the spoken-word adaptation to Elektra head Jac Holzman, who loved the idea. Margolis was hired to do the writing and members of The Firesign Theater, among others, to do the voice work. http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7830

Created by Flex Your Rights and narrated by retired ACLU director Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. In an entertaining and revealing manner, BUSTED illustrates the right and wrong ways to handle different police encounters and pays special attention to demonstrating how you, the viewer, can courteously and confidently refuse police searches. http://flexyourrights.com/busted/clips.html