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October 30, 2014
10/30/2014
Longitudinal UK Study Shows No Relationship Between Moderate Adolescent Cannabis Use and IQ

Longitudinal UK Study Shows No Relationship Between Moderate Adolescent Cannabis Use and IQ

A 20 year longitudinal study has recently found that moderate cannabis use in adolescence has no association with detrimental effects on educational and intellectual performance, although heavy...
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October 6, 2014
10/06/2014
Resigning AG Holder Open to Cannabis Rescheduling

Resigning AG Holder Open to Cannabis Rescheduling

Departing Attorney General, Eric Holder, is showing greater and more direct support for rescheduling cannabis than just about any other official I can think of.
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August 28, 2014
08/28/2014
Are Cigarettes More Dangerous Than Marijuana?

Are Cigarettes More Dangerous Than Marijuana?

Despite the controversy surrounding marijuana not being FDA approved, medical experts insist there is increasing evidence to suggest that smoking marijuana is less of a detriment to...
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August 1, 2014
08/01/2014
Cracked.com a Bit Off on Legal Weed

Cracked.com a Bit Off on Legal Weed

I love Cracked.com. The articles are well researched, interesting and almost always hilarious. One article, titled, “5 Reasons Legalized Marijuana Might Be Bad for Pot Smokers,” sort...
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July 9, 2014
07/09/2014
Cigarettes Lose Another Point to Cannabis

Cigarettes Lose Another Point to Cannabis

My wife and I took our son on a road trip a few weeks ago. It was just a short trip to the other side of the...
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June 25, 2014
06/25/2014
Cannabis Workplace Smoking Rooms?

Cannabis Workplace Smoking Rooms?

While the once omnipresent employee smoking lounge has been all but obliterated in the American workplace, is it possible that such a place could reemerge with the...
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June 4, 2014
06/04/2014
Tobacco Industry Once Had High Hopes for Marijuana Business

Tobacco Industry Once Had High Hopes for Marijuana Business

Newly discovered documents from tobacco company archives at UC San Francisco show that major companies in the cigarette industry investigated joining the marijuana business in the late...
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April 22, 2014
04/22/2014
Prohibitionists Have Goregasm Over Student’s Death

Prohibitionists Have Goregasm Over Student’s Death

This is a follow up to my piece on Levi Pongi, the 19 year old student who tragically fell to his death in Denver a couple of...
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March 24, 2014
03/24/2014
Project SAM Hyperbole: Seattle Students Love Marijuana

Project SAM Hyperbole: Seattle Students Love Marijuana

In normal shit-peddler fashion, the visionaries over at Project SAM recently tweeted the following: Spike in MJ use seen in Seattle public schools: http://t.co/BiUKGFVIDX — Project SAM...
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March 3, 2014
03/03/2014
UFC Fighter Jessica Eye Stripped of Win for Cannabis

UFC Fighter Jessica Eye Stripped of Win for Cannabis

Upon defeating her opponent in a UFC bantamweight bout, pro-fighter Jessica Eye was given a drug test. She failed the test. The punishment dished by the UFC...
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January 7, 2014
01/07/2014
Psychology of Quitting, Why I Cannot Foresee Giving Up Cannabis

Psychology of Quitting, Why I Cannot Foresee Giving Up Cannabis

A friend of mine is trying to quit smoking cigarettes and I asked him how it was going. He was having a bad day and was really...
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December 24, 2013
12/24/2013
Prohibitionist Crusaders React to Teen Drug Use Survey

Prohibitionist Crusaders React to Teen Drug Use Survey

Resident breastplate-nipple Gil Kerlikowski and Prohibitionist Jr. Woodchuck Kevin Sabet have reacted in truly glorious form to the new teen drug use survey, citing a statistically miniscule...
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December 16, 2013
12/16/2013
10 States Most Addicted to Cigarette Smoking, Guess How Many Permit Cannabis Use

10 States Most Addicted to Cigarette Smoking, Guess How Many Permit Cannabis Use

Health.com recently used “government data on smoking (and quit) rates, smoking bans and restrictions, cigarette taxes and sales, and deaths attributable to smoking” to identify the top...
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October 15, 2013
10/15/2013
“Excuse Me, Are You Smoking Weed?”

“Excuse Me, Are You Smoking Weed?”

“Excuse me, are you smoking weed?” This is what my roommate said to me as he was walking down the front yard and saw me chilling having...
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June 21, 2013
06/21/2013
Study: Cigarettes’ Thirdhand Smoke Causes DNA Damage

Study: Cigarettes’ Thirdhand Smoke Causes DNA Damage

A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke from cigarettes, the noxious residue that clings to...
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June 19, 2013
06/19/2013
You Don’t Need Prohibition to Help People

You Don’t Need Prohibition to Help People

A new Centers for Disease Control study has found the US rate of tobacco usage dropping again: ATLANTA (AP) — Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government...
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May 6, 2013
05/06/2013
Study Adds to Evidence That Cigarettes Are a Gateway Drug to Marijuana

Study Adds to Evidence That Cigarettes Are a Gateway Drug to Marijuana

The Pediatric Academic Societies’ (PAS) most recent study of 315 college students “supports the theory that cigarettes are a gateway drug to marijuana” because they found tobacco...
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March 29, 2013
03/29/2013
Study: Significantly Better Health Outcomes With Smoking Cannabis Than Tobacco

Study: Significantly Better Health Outcomes With Smoking Cannabis Than Tobacco

Adults who inhale cannabis report significantly better health outcomes than do those who smoke tobacco or a combination of both substances, according to exploratory survey data to be published...
By: NORML
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February 26, 2013
02/26/2013
Cannabis Is Part of Our Society

Cannabis Is Part of Our Society

Felicity @ BeyondChronic grapples with most cannabis prohibitionists’ excuse to keep alcohol and tobacco legal because they’re “part of our society,” yet ignore the fact that millions of Americans use...
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February 20, 2013
02/20/2013
How to Make A Cigarette Spliff

How to Make A Cigarette Spliff

It’s pretty neat how many ways there are to consume cannabis. We can use tinctures, edibles, topical lotions, and vaporizing- all of which have many variations and...
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