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12/05/2016

Steve Kerr, head coach of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, believes “it’s only a matter of time before medicinal ma*****na is allowed is sports leagues.”

10/14/2016

Despite all of the progress, a cautionary tale:

"And a disproportionate number of those arrested are African-Americans, who smoke ma*****na at rates similar to whites but are arrested and prosecuted far more often for having small amounts for personal use, according to the study."

The arrests last year took place even as social attitudes toward the drug changed. A disproportionate number of those arrested are African-Americans.

10/12/2016

"Because if punk is good for anything, it’s for telling pig-headed racists like Donald Trump to f**k right off."

The 5th track from the 1982 album by Bad Religion. The physical form of this album can be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/How-Could-Hell-Any-Worse/dp/B...

10/11/2016

Support for Proposition 64 is polling at nearly 60 percent, and the measure has drawn support from leading politicians and newspapers that opposed it in 2010, including Democratic Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

As many as five states could approve its recreational use this November, potentially signaling a point of no return for legalized pot.

10/05/2016

Medical ma*****na could be coming to Virginia in 2017 if Gov.Terry McAuliffe has it his way. The governor shared his support for *****na during an interview with WTOP radio last week and said he’d like to a statewide program for medical patients...

Gov.Terry McAuliffe said he’d be ready to sign a bill legalizing medical cannabis in Virginia as soon as 2017, but didn’t think state lawmakers would back him up.

09/29/2016

"If I speak up, I’m a shrill nag. If my weight fluctuates at all, I’m a gross, inconvenient fatty. If my husband cheats, it’s on me. If I try to defend or salvage my marriage, I’m a stupid dupe. Men like Trump and Giuliani have advanced ideas like these so the women in their lives will be cowed, thin and compliant, while if they err, they’re swashbuckling and strategic. The idea that we should trust men who hate us in private to protect us in the public sphere is the ultimate insult to our intelligence."

They think they can tell us we're dumb, fat, nagging bad wives, and that we'll still trust them.

09/27/2016

I'd like to thank the DC police officer who respectfully told 3 minors smoking pot in an alley that they were too young and would need to wait until they're 18. Of course the law prohibits possession by anyone under 21 and smoking in public is also a no-no. But the point is: he didn't arrest them or confiscate their stash even though he could have.

09/27/2016

Yesterday in Boston, TV station WGBH assembled a panel to conduct an in-depth discussion about ma*****na legalization, specifically, the ballot question Massachusetts voters will answer this coming November.

09/27/2016

How did I miss this?

Don't bogart that spoon, man. Lemme get a hit off that cone, dude. Pass the bowl ... of ice cream? Could Ben and Jerry's, the counterculture snack empire gone mainstream, be planning a ma*****na-infused ice cream? "Makes sense to me. You know, combine your pleasures," co-founder Ben Cohen said in an...

09/22/2016

Tending to Luscious Jackson ahead of harvest. Happy

09/22/2016

Truly disturbing abuse of power.

Schedule I is a science-y looking smokescreen, one that allows the DEA to do virtually whatever it feels like. Which is often completely indefensible.

09/22/2016

This is typical of how drug scheduling works; to some extent, the law creates its own medical facts by foreclosing research avenues that might otherwise be explored. But it can only do this by stunting our knowledge and perhaps delaying the development of useful new medicines.

The criteria​ for banning a drug exist to make congressional and DEA determinations look scientific, even when they are not.