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As a freelancer, my favorite place to work from is my couch. It’s kinda the best because I get all the snack breaks I...

Despite the fact that 33 states have legalized medical marijuana, and a handful have passed laws allowing for adult recreational use, marijuana is still...

Dear Dan: Can I still be considered sex-positive if I personally do not have sex? I’ve never had sex or masturbated—all my life, any...

As we say out West, all hat and no cattle. At the start of the year, legalization of recreational marijuana in New Jersey and New...

Twenty years ago (in 1995 probably) I was sitting in on a panel discussion at the University of Colorado Boulder on the drug war...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Adriana Martinez and Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Nigerian author Wole Soyinka reworked the ancient Greek play, The Bacchae. In one passage, the god Dionysus criticizes King Pentheus, who...

ARIES March 21-April 19: In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only 5 percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for us to receive just 7 percent of the net profits...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa writes that in the Arab world, to say a mere “thank you” is regarded as spiritless...

How many times have you heard the argument that cannabis should remain illegal because it is a “gateway” drug, described as one that increases the risk that a user might try other, harder drugs...

It’s a nice thought to imagine the end of the cannabis prohibition being a single event. It would be a satisfying final concession from...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Aries author Marge Piercy writes, “The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.”...