At 420 rallies across the world people come together in the name of peace and, as Bob Marley sang, One Love — and to stand against racist laws that keep one of nature’s most versatile plants illegal. But at London’s Hyde Park 420 Cannabis Rally 2026 the police were intrusive, provocative and certainly out toContinue reading “The Criminalisation of Cannabis”
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THE FIRST FRENCH CANNABIS CAFE
When Napoleon Bonaparte’s French troops were occupying Egypt at the end of the 18th century they discovered cannabis, liked it and brought it back to France with them, where it’s use and effects excited both psychiatrists and artists. The war to conquer Algeria from 1830-47 brought more hashish into France. Psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau studied useContinue reading “THE FIRST FRENCH CANNABIS CAFE”
