Take Marijuana Out of Drug War

Americans like wars: the war on poverty — we lost that one when a bigger war came along. In 1971, while losing the war in Vietnam, President Nixon declared a war on drugs. The two wars got mixed together in some unpleasant ways. American soldiers began using drugs in Vietnam as a way of deadening […]

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Could Pot Stop This Baby’s Seizures?

Toronto parents struggling with baby Kaitlyn’s Dravet syndrome call for clinical trials here after miraculous results in Colorado. Kaitlyn Pogson has lived through more seizures than calendar months. The 9-month-old’s epilepsy sends her tiny body into convulsions that last up to an hour.  Right now they happen every three days, but as she grows the […]

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MJ-Infused Faith Challenges Definition of Religion

Sixty-four-year old Roger Christie, a resident of Hawaii’s Big Island, although most recently of Cell 104 at Honolulu Federal Detention Center, is a Religious Science practitioner, a minister of the Universal Life Church, ordained in the Church of the Universe (in Canada), an official of the Oklevueha Native American Church of Hilo, Hawaii, and the […]

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