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April 13, 2015
04/13/2015
When Should You Talk to Your Kids About Cannabis?

When Should You Talk to Your Kids About Cannabis?

As a parent and cannabis supporter, the following question has been put to me by various people: what is the appropriate age to have a talk with...
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March 2, 2015
03/02/2015
New Study Supports What We All Knew: Cannabis Is the Safest Drug

New Study Supports What We All Knew: Cannabis Is the Safest Drug

A study recently came out backing up what pro-cannabis advocates have known (and been screaming at naysayers) for decades: cannabis is safer than booze, tobacco and other...
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January 26, 2015
01/26/2015
Cannabis Study Finds No Negative Effects on Lung Health Over 20-Year Period

Cannabis Study Finds No Negative Effects on Lung Health Over 20-Year Period

We’ve all heard the same old rhetoric about smoking and how bad it is for your lungs. Well according to researchers from Emory University, smoking weed has...
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January 12, 2015
01/12/2015
UK Doc Tries to Blame Cannabis for Poor Lung Health

UK Doc Tries to Blame Cannabis for Poor Lung Health

The claims in the article appear, on the patina, to be fairly damning of cannabis. Among them, reporting that people in their 30’s have the lungs of...
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December 3, 2014
12/03/2014
Sabet Weeps as Cannabis Culture Thrives

Sabet Weeps as Cannabis Culture Thrives

Big Cannabis is really a non-factor in regards to legalization. Sabet, for his part, has used this argument as one of the main stilts of his rhetoric....
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November 19, 2014
11/19/2014
“VAPE” Is Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year

“VAPE” Is Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year

Every year, the people at the Oxford Dictionary anoint one word that they deem to be a new or otherwise culturally important sign of the times.
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October 13, 2014
10/13/2014
Reefer Madness: 20 Year Study Likens Cannabis to Heroin

Reefer Madness: 20 Year Study Likens Cannabis to Heroin

For every article that comes out trying to lambast cannabis, I can find plenty more that show how cannabis alone has saved a life, helped with a...
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September 22, 2014
09/22/2014
New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

While cannabis use in the general population has showed a steady increase (unsurprisingly in our softening cannabis culture), it has leveled off among teen users.
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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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July 31, 2014
07/31/2014
NY Times Calls on Feds to End Marijuana Ban

NY Times Calls on Feds to End Marijuana Ban

The New York Times editorial board put out a call for the federal government to end the ban on marijuana. Obviously, I agree and there is a...
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July 16, 2014
07/16/2014
Sh%t The Feds Say: Weed Becomes More Dangerous When Legal

Sh%t The Feds Say: Weed Becomes More Dangerous When Legal

There is just something fundamentally unjust about demonizing a thing of which you have no experience. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, feels...
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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 30, 2014
06/30/2014
UK Bans Khat (Herb Safer Than Tobacco)

UK Bans Khat (Herb Safer Than Tobacco)

The UK government recently scheduled khat as a class C controlled substance, making it illegal to possess, grow or use. For some background, khat, a plant native...
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June 24, 2014
06/24/2014
Study: Habitual Marijuana Smoking Not Associated With Increased Risk of Lung Cancer

Study: Habitual Marijuana Smoking Not Associated With Increased Risk of Lung Cancer

Subjects who regularly inhale cannabis smoke possess no greater risk of contracting lung cancer than do those who consume it occasionally or not at all, according to...
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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 3, 2014
04/03/2014
Starbucks Aims to Sell Liquor, But Where Are the Hash Lattes? The Onsite Double Standard

Starbucks Aims to Sell Liquor, But Where Are the Hash Lattes? The Onsite Double Standard

At the Leaf, Jeremy Daw makes a good point about the decision of Starbucks to choose to go with the more destructive choice of drug, alcohol. “There...
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March 13, 2014
03/13/2014
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2014.03.12)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2014.03.12)

More prison guards gone bad, another Philadelphia cop gets in trouble, a Kentucky narc has problems, and a DC-area cop gets her hand slapped. Let’s get to...
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March 13, 2014
03/13/2014
WSJ Poll Results: Weed Is Less Harmful Than Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar

WSJ Poll Results: Weed Is Less Harmful Than Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar

A new NBC News / WSJ poll asked Americans which one of the these four substances is most harmful for your health. The answers, in order of...
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February 25, 2014
02/25/2014
The Implausible Case Against E-Cigarettes

The Implausible Case Against E-Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum describes the main arguments against e-cigarettes: that they lure kids into smoking and prevent smokers from quitting.
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February 3, 2014
02/03/2014
How Did J.R.R. Tolkien Feel About Cannabis?

How Did J.R.R. Tolkien Feel About Cannabis?

It is not a new theory that the “pipe-weed” from Tolkien’s Hobbit and LOTR is actually cannabis. I thought I would do a little research on the...
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