Sweet Leaf Tribune is an informational web-based magazine about marijuana law reform and cannabis culture. You will find information about everything from medical marijuana to recipes for ‘baked’ goods and stoner how-to’s, and most likely anything else you can think of about the wonderful Sweet Leaf! The main goal here is to disprove myths about marijuana from the past several decades, and keep everyone up-to-date on the progress of Marijuana Law Reform and the Cannabis Culture in the United States. It is written from the point-of-view of a 23 year old female from Upstate, New York.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

– Jimmy Carter

Hi, my name is Ally and I smoke marijuana. I’m very passionate about the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana for responsible adults and medical use. I’ve been smoking marijuana for five years now and I don’t see any reason why this miracle medication should be illegal when it’s so incredibly helpful. It has done nothing but good for me: I have chronic back pain, depression and anxiety problems, and hardcore insomnia. Marijuana allows me to live my life like a normal person – it helps with the pain, levels out my brain, and helps me to sleep at night. Why should I have to fear for my safety because of it?

Sweet Leaf Tribune was born in October 2008, though the site was originally hosted at a different domain* starting in April 2008. It is hosted by WP Webhost and run entirely on WordPress with the help of some pretty nifty plugins. The rest of the credits are listed below.

* Sweet Leaf Tribune was originally Take Me Nowhere, which has since been turned into my personal blog.

Credits:

• The current theme is based on FREEmium by Paul Kadysz and Dariusz Siedlecki.
• All files are uploaded using FireFTP, a Firefox addon that can be found here.
• All coding is done, by hand, using Macromedia Dreamweaver
• The header image and link banners were made, by me, in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
• The header font, Pharmacy, can be found here.
• The brush used in the header was made by ADarkerStock and can be found here.
• The post images belong to their respective photographers; I found them using Google Image Search.