It’s been over 30 years since Greg Wilkin graduated from CSUN and a lot has happened since he walked the campus as a college student. Recently, Wilkin, decided to take a negative experience and transform it into a promising business venture. The alum has created a program to help people cut down or stop their marijuana use. Wilkin designed The Chronic Coach 90 day turnaround program out of his own experience. “I thought it was basically harmless and I had… Read more

It looks like marijuana, but it’s not. It’s hemp. To the unfamiliar eye, hemp can be easily confused with marijuana just as hemp fabric is mistaken for cotton in clothing. Underneath the confusion, hemp is a versatile material that can be used to make products such as gasoline, fabric, soap or protein powder and has a lessened environmental impact. “As we transition from a hydrocarbon based economy to a carbohydrate based economy, hemp will be a part of the solution,”… Read more

This year’s Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival brought together a variety of music fans from all walks of life with one common interest in mind: decriminalizing marijuana. The festival featured three stages with a variety of music genres ranging from hip hop and reggae to ska and electro-house music. The main stage, the Smokeout stage, primarily featured hip-hop and reggae artists such as Damian Marley and Nas, as well as headlining band Incubus. The Indonesia stage featured an eclectic array of… Read more

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance that will shut down hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries within the next few months. Medicinal marijuana use is legal, but any move around this subject spurns greater debate of the legalization of recreational marijuana use in the city and state. There is an enormous amount of information to analyze that supports both sides of the argument. Examples include cost of regulation, tax revenue potential, a possible rise or decrease in… Read more

Marijuana legalization is an issue that has been present in California politics for years. Just now, however, it is coming to a head, as the possibility of its full legalization looms before us in 2010. Until recently, those politicians who outwardly supported marijuana legalization have been ignored or even discounted as “potheads” who then faded into obscurity. Three hundred thousand signatures have been gathered in the last month alone, however, which means that the legislation could easily be on the… Read more