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What to tell your child about marijuana
Marijuana-use issues for children should not be confused with the freedom-of-choice debate for adults. As with tobacco, most users start young, when they are vulnerable and don’t understand the risks. I never met a cigarette smoker who was glad he or she had that first butt. As parents, we want to protect our children, but
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America’s Stoned Kids: guinea pigs of cannabis legalisation
Denver, the setting of this spliffy documentary, is The Mile High City in more ways than one Professor John Marsden. Photograph: Unknown/BBC Marijuana use on TV has been growing like hydroponic plants under fluorescent light and a Baby Bio sprinkler. Back in finger-waggy 1990, we had a preachy one-off spesh called Cartoon All-Stars To The
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The U.S. Is Changing Its Mind About Marijuan
Most Americans now think that marijuana should be legalized. A new paper for the Brookings Institution by Bill Galston and E.J. Dionne draws attention to this startling shift of public opinion: Support for legalization has surged by almost 20 percentage points in less than a decade and by 11 points in the past three years. According to
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A Starbucks for Pot? National Chain of Marijuana Stores in the Works
If one newly converted pot-smoking visionary has his way, the Washington-based company he created will become the Starbucks or Coca Cola of the cannabis industry. He even has plans to import marijuana from south of the border–currently illegal according to international law—and he’s apparently got the president of Mexico on board. Jamen Shively is probably
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Want To See What A B-Real Rolled Big Joint Looks Like?
” “ I, like you, wasted hours of my youth listening to classic Cypress Hill lyrics and thinking in a smoke affected voice, ”Yeah man. This is the quality shit right here.” But then I’d get called an “idiot” by my mother for getting black ink on my lips after sucking on a pen and
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How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Marijuana
For nearly a century, the United States has been one of the fiercest advocates and practitioners of marijuana prohibition in the world. At the height of the America’s anti-pot fervor in the 1950s and ’60s, one could even receive life imprisonment for simple possession of the drug. But the puritanical fervor that once dominated
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Seriously, man — cannabis comic Tommy Chong now says feds should legalize, tax marijuana
Tommy Chong, left, and Richard “Cheech” Marin arrive May 6 at the 6th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic in Toluca Lake, Calif. Chong, who with Marin celebrated pot smoking in comedy routines and movies, says marijuana should be legalized at the federal level. (The Associated Press) To have stoner comic Tommy Chong come out for
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Legalising medicinal cannabis is a leap forward for compassion
There is a large amount of rigorous research evidence for medical marijuana. Rusty Blazenhoff A NSW Parliamentary Committee has recommended legalising the use of medical use of marijuana for people with terminal conditions. This is an approach that should be embraced nationally. For some years now, people seeking cannabis for medicinal purposes have contacted me every
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Platinum OG Kush
Smell: Sweet and sour. Taste: Pungent exhale, very bomb. High: Euphoric body high, rather high in thc A solid OG. This is one for those who have lots of pain and/or insomnia. A great “before bedtime” smoke as this one will put you out. This bud was so sticky, I felt compelled to lick my
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Who Will Get High Off The Marijuana Gold Rush?
Over the past few years, the perennial debate about the legalization of marijuana has become a permanent conversation held at the periphery of medicine, law, andinvestment. The dialog has been forced there because of THC’s status as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, but was brought into the spotlight when California passed the Compassionate Use
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Why Country Music Stars Should Join the Marijuana Majority
On average, HuffPost readers probably aren’t the biggest aficionados of country music. Still, many readers here understand the need for establishing responsible marijuana policy. When it comes to reversing archaic pot prohibition laws across the United States, the most regressive region is the same place where country music prevails most predominantly. In my opinion, one
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Colorado’s new growth industry: pot
Tamar Wise, co-head of the science division at Dixie Elixirs & Edibles, makes sure the tri-combs are intact on a marijuana bud for the right dosage to be used for marijuana-infused products in the kitchen at the facility in Denver, Colo., in December 2012. / Los Angeles Times Two hedge-fund partners — monogrammed shirts,
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Cyrus takes aim at marijuana image
Singer and actress Miley Cyrus has distanced herself from a photograph that shows her smoking what appears to be marijuana joint. An image seemingly showing the former Disney star surrounded by smoke accompanied by the caption “High as [expletive]” was posted by a user called “Mileyxxcyrus” on photo-sharing website Instagram on Tuesday. The snap was
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Pot tourism in Colo.? Marijuana regulators OK idea
DENVER (AP) — Marijuana tourism is on the way to Colorado, under a recommendation made Tuesday by a state task force to regulate the drug made legal by voters last year. But Colorado should erect signs in airports and borders telling visitors they can’t take pot home, the task force recommended. Colorado’s marijuana task force was assembled to
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