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Out with the old: Rethinking marijuana as a gateway drug
For generations of Americans, marijuana’s description as a gateway drug was embedded into drug prevention education lessons. The federally endorsed D.A.R.E. program that ran...
Just how many Americans smoke pot?
Last Wednesday was 4/20, so this week is an excellent time to consider the eternal stoner questions: Just how many Americans smoke pot? And...
Trump says it out loud: Prohibition doesn’t work
President Trump last Friday said aloud what every U.S. president since Harding has known about prohibition but has rarely been willing to say —...
The return of three-dot journalism… politics never sleeps edition…
Deep in his heart... he does believe... that they’ll smoke legal pot someday... New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week said “I believe we...
A mind-altering substance
A few weeks ago I went to the U.N.’s Special Session on drugs where I saw, for the first time, just how important Colorado’s legalization...
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
Banking on it
The Safe and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act has a long history on Capitol Hill. First introduced to the House in 2017 as...
‘An environmental crime’
The illegal grow operations John Nores with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Marijuana Enforcement Team would break up were all different....
Drifting in space and time
In 1916, Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted ripples in the fabric of space known as gravitational waves. Just as accelerating electrons create...
From Russia, with hash
With Brittney Griner’s Russian detainment, the U.S. finally has a meaningful reason to pass cannabis reform—but it won’t
War to end the war on pot — latest battles
The next battle in the war to end the war on marijuana will be fought on June 26 in Oklahoma.
June 26 is the date...
A cautionary tale for ‘unKind’ towns
If Colorado towns like Longmont that have banned pot shops want to know what the long-term consequences might be, they should consider Boulder’s experience...
