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Weed Between the Lines

Opioids, cannabis, scientists and money, lots of it

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The numbers are compelling. As Americans seek more relief from pain and companies come up with ever-stronger drugs to ease discomfort, so do mortality rates rise for the growing number of patients who use opioid pain relievers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

From paraphernalia to high art

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There has long existed a divide between high art and craft. Devoid of utility, art is free to speak on its own terms, as...

Pot: A bridge between generations

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In the past, I went to great lengths to hide my cannabis habit from my parents. After smoking, I had a ritual of using...

Commercial cannabis at six months: The sky hasn’t fallen

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We are just past the six-month point in the state’s roll-out of commercial sales of cannabis, and from all indications, it’s been an unspectacular but successful half a year, especially for a state whose social experiment has been under local and international media ...

The missing link

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Marijuana is suspended in a strange legal and cultural limbo, somewhere between recreational drug, illegal Schedule I substance and legitimate herbal medicine. It’s a...

Moving on from marijuana

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Remember the summer before ninth grade when you would sit around a circle at camp getting stoned with the other counselors and talk about...

My cannabis poll is better than yours

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Next time you read or watch a news story about a survey or poll, stop reading or turn it off. It doesn’t mean anything. It won’t help you understand anything. You’re better off watching videos of parkouring goats or hawks knocking drones out of the sky...

A historic Congressional cannabis vote … or not?

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The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment to the 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill (HR 4660) passed Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or the Department of Justice from using taxpayer ...

A mind-altering substance

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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...

That one time in Nebraska

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This is a picture of me, stopped at a red light, with two marijuana plants in the back of my truck. They needed to...

January pot politics roundup

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Looks like 2019 is shaping up to be a new level of hell that none of us were prepared for. In this week’s episode...

Hanging up the K-9 harness

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Cannabis legalization has made many drug dogs “obsolete,” bringing about early retirement for K-9 police officers everywhere