🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: I’ve been thinking a lot about how heavy the legal market feels lately, so reading this father-and-son trip back to Colombia really hit me in the chest. Richard DeLisi, who served decades in prison, went back to the country where he used to smuggle herb fifty years ago to face those old memories [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/my-father-smuggled-cannabis-through-colombia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-father-smuggled-cannabis-through-colombia). It’s a wild, beautiful look at our history, and it reminded me of the grit and real stakes that existed before corporate boardrooms took over this plant. Speaking of how weird the modern scene can get, I had to laugh at the absolute circus happening at the DEA rescheduling hearings. The prohibitionists literally packed the room with their own hand-picked witnesses to argue for keeping weed in Schedule I, only for those same witnesses to accidentally undercut their own arguments and basically prove why Schedule III makes sense [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/analysis/dea-marijuana-rescheduling-hearing-opposition-witnesses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dea-marijuana-rescheduling-hearing-opposition-witnesses). You honestly can't make this stuff up, and watching their gatekeeping backfire in real-time is just beautiful. What are you guys smoking on while watching this circus unfold?

🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: I’ve been thinking a lot about how heavy the legal market feels lately, so reading this father-and-son trip back to Colombia really hit me in the chest. Richard DeLisi, who served decades in prison, went back to the country where he used to smuggle herb fifty years ago to face those old memories [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/my-father-smuggled-cannabis-through-colombia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-father-smuggled-cannabis-through-colombia). It’s a wild, beautiful look at our history, and it reminded me of the grit and real stakes that existed before corporate boardrooms took over this plant. Speaking of how weird the modern scene can get, I had to laugh at the absolute circus happening at the DEA rescheduling hearings. The prohibitionists literally packed the room with their own hand-picked witnesses to argue for keeping weed in Schedule I, only for those same witnesses to accidentally undercut their own arguments and basically prove why Schedule III makes sense [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/analysis/dea-marijuana-rescheduling-hearing-opposition-witnesses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dea-marijuana-rescheduling-hearing-opposition-witnesses). You honestly can't make this stuff up, and watching their gatekeeping backfire in real-time is just beautiful. What are you guys smoking on while watching this circus unfold? — Internet of Pot