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On the road again… Off to visit my folks in Quincy, Illinois and Indianola, Iowa. I’ll stop in when I can. Everybody have a wonderful holiday season, and if you’re traveling, be safe (be safe regardless). There’s eggnog in the … Continue reading
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Teen Marijuana Use Doesn’t Cause Brain Damage
… but alcohol does. Today in Medical Daily Perhaps in response to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington last month, more teens are lighting up than ever before. However, one study suggests that parents have less to fear … Continue reading
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Beer drinking linked to Mosque burning
Linn claimed that he had consumed 45 beers in the 6 hours before leaving his Indiana home to set fire to the mosque, which he had discovered while working as a truck driver. Clearly we have to make beer illegal. … Continue reading
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Study: Teens not so stupid, after all
AP: Teens’ views on dangers of pot fall to 20-year-low Teenagers’ perception of the dangers of marijuana has fallen to the lowest level in more than 20 years, a new study says, prompting federal researchers to warn that already high … Continue reading
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The politics of Presidential pot statements
Note: This post is about the dirty underbelly of political maneuvering regarding federal cannabis politics. If you want to believe that people don’t make statements for political purposes, skip this post. As everyone knows, President Obama made a statement of … Continue reading
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Sullivan on Pot
Andrew Sullivan has a great piece today discussing David Frum’s article/follow-up regarding cannabis legalization. Frum on Pot Andrew gets to the right stuff very quickly, rightly criticizing the emphasis on nit-picking details, when the big picture is ignored completely. What … Continue reading
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A quick fisk
Our subject for this one: Mandy Saligari: Why Legalisation of Drugs Won’t Work in Huffington Post UK. According to her bio “Mandy Saligari is the Clinical Director and founder of Charter Day Care, Residential and Counselling treatment facility in Harley … Continue reading
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Oakland’s got guts
Oakland Insists It Can Defend Medical Pot Club SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The city of Oakland renewed demands to stay forfeiture proceedings against a local medical marijuana dispensary whose business it defends as a matter of state’s rights. Though the … Continue reading
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Legalization is not a stark alternative
David Frum drinks Kevin Sabet’s kool-aid: David Frum on the Perils of Legalizing Pot It’s a bizarre article that really demonstrates that Frum (to be most charitable) has done no research on the subject. For instance, he imagines a legalization … Continue reading
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Cannabis leaves are discovered to contain rare flavoalkoaloids with possible medical potential: September 25, 2026 -- Scientists studying the chemistry…