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Raylan's goal is to illuminate the dark areas of cannabis lore and show the world there is no THC crazed monster lurking under the bed, waiting to steal our children. Cannabis is powerfully effective and safe. It should be treated accordingly. Raylan lives in Seattle.
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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.
Be warned: This was a hard story to read and it is difficult to write about. The tagline of the article reads: "Officers threw a flashbang grenade in my son's crib, and left a hole in his chest. It gets worse."
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 growing ubiquity and acceptance of cannabis?
An interesting piece was published on Cracked.com called "5 Insane Things I Learned About Drugs As An Undercover Agent." While a good read taken as a whole, there are two items on this list that really piqued my thoughts.
So, if addictions are like earlobes and all of us have them in some form or another, what, then, becomes the criteria for judgment when doing an apples to apples comparison of one addiction to another? Seeing as how we've all got our vices, our little nuanced pleasures that carry us through the day and smooth out the edges, what benchmark of judgment is most egalitarian?
I got to wondering if smoking itself engendered this effect, or if cannabis had a special property that made it work so well? Science to the rescue...
It's not as if you needed another log to toss onto your "DEA is the Devil" bonfire, but a new report from the Drug Policy Alliance casts them in an even more pejorative light (if you can believe it).
More evidence has come to light courtesy of a new study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that, despite prohibitionist fear-mongering, teen marijuana use has not increased.
Contrary to the anti-pot growing articles in circulation, I believe that properly stewarded cannabis plants are quite good at improving air quality and saving forests.
As we passed an elderly gentleman in a motorcycle jacket, sitting calmly by himself, openly smoking a joint, my son commented to us, "That's some stinky weed."
Cannabis is making more appearances on television than at any point in our history. Is this growing prevalence of cannabis on television the result of slackening social and legal strictures or is television finally catching up to the culture which it mirrors?
We, as a nation, are addicted to workplace drug screenings. This is clearly becoming a larger problem when it's affecting national security. The fact of the matter is that many, if not most,
Maureen Dowd of the NY Times recently traveled to Colorado on assignment and decided she would try a pot edible to see what all the fuss was about.
The Cannador has visual appeal, to be sure, but what really made me a believer was the functionality. Not only had the Cannador prevented the bud from drying out even further, it actually seemed to revive it.
One of my favorite stoner recipes to make is Potffles (pot waffles). Personally, I like my Potffles very strong so I use cannabutter and cannaflour, but that's the beauty of cooking with cannabis, you can easily adjust the amount you put in your food.
Roger Martin, founder of a Colorado organization aptly named Operation Grow4Vets believes that, "anyone who would deny treatment with marijuana to a seriously or terminally ill person is either incredibly uniformed, or simply lacks any measure of compassion for his or her fellow human beings."
A new lawsuit is being levied against the NFL by ex-players who say they were intentionally deceived by team physicians and are now suffering the ravages of the narcotics.
Jacob Lovaro, a 19 year old from Round Rock, TX, was arrested for making and selling brownies infused with hash oil. He now faces life in prison due to an obscure facet of Texas law that allows for the entire weight of the finished product to be factored into the punitive weight of the drug itself.
