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 my kids about cannabis?
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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 drugs.
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 no negative health effect on lungs.
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 80 year olds, are recieving long-term oxygen therapy, they are coming in with very advanced forms of emphysema, and even awaiting lung transplant.
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. He's always blathering on that if we think Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are bad, we have no idea how apocalyptic Big Cannabis will be.
"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.
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 troubling situation, or helped to battle anxiety and depression.
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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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 public health than cigarettes.
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 good chance that you do as well, being a Weedist reader. As with any strong statement, there are a bevy of supporters and denouncers alike.
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 completely justified in vilifying legal cannabis.
Cigarettes Lose Another Point to Cannabis
I hear it is common for former cigarette smokers to have a very strong reaction to the smell once they've quit. When she asked me to bring her a little bit of marijuana to smoke later
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 to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, is a mild stimulant with a lesser physiological dependence rating than tobacco or alcohol.
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 data published online ahead of print in the International Journal of Cancer.
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Tobacco Industry Once Had High Hopes for Marijuana Business
Newly discovered documents from tobacco company archives a t UC San Francisco show that major companies in the cigarette industry investigated joining the marijuana business in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Starbucks Aims to Sell Liquor, But Where Are the Hash Lattes? The Onsite Double Standard
Starbucks wants to sell liquor now. There is an alternative. Instead of serving booze, Starbucks could consider making hash lattes.
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2014.03.12)
Here's the latest news on corrupt cops and law enforcement around the United States from the past week, as of March 12, 2014:
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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 most harmful