It looks like pot. It smells like pot. But it’s hemp, marijuana’s legal cousin, and it’s taking over the Bluegrass state. Across the rolling hills of Kentucky, which just two decades ago was the most tobacco-dependent state in the country, farmers are planting less of the crop after growing health concerns shrunk demand. Instead, they’re […]
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Hemp Is The New Tobacco For Kentucky Farmers
It looks like pot. It smells like pot. But it’s hemp, marijuana’s legal cousin, and it’s taking over the Bluegrass state. Across the rolling hills of Kentucky, which just two decades ago was the most tobacco-dependent state in the country, farmers are planting less of the crop after growing health concerns shrunk demand. Instead, they’re […]
Radical Rant: Even Tobacco Smoke-Free Bars Are Ridiculous Abridgments of Freedom
I understand the concerns about indoor smoking, but I don’t agree with them, even for tobacco. I think we’ve gone too far into trying to Nerf the world so nobody is ever threatened by anything anywhere. Read article here: High Times
Study Finds More Young People Think Marijuana Should Be Legal Than Tobacco
A new study has found that people think tobacco is more harmful than marijuana, and most think the latter should be legalised. The survey of 1000 people found that ‘over half of young people think cannabis should be legal, whilst 50.9% think that tobacco should be illegal.’ This comes as more research into the medical […]
Big Tobacco Feared Healthy Marijuana…Still Does
The latest paper from the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UC San Francisco shows that tobacco company executives of the 1970s feared legalized marijuana as a product that would become a healthier alternative to their tobacco cigarettes and considered … High Times
Teen Use Of Alcohol, Tobacco Falls To Historic Lows
Adolescent consumption of alcohol and tobacco fell to historic lows while self-reported annual use of cannabis held steady, according to survey data released today by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor — which has been sampling teens consumption of various licit and… High Times
Canadians Can Grow Tobacco for Personal Use; We Should Be Able to Do the Same with Cannabis
via chycho Knowing full well the devastating consequences of America’s War on Drugs, the very same day that Washington State and Colorado legalized the recreational use of Cannabis, the Harper Government introduced “tough new mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana” – a change in the law that even the judiciary is resisting. The government followed-up this […]