WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the grainy cell phone video, the scene is tense. Surrounded by onlookers, a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer points his unholstered gun at Renita Nettles who nevertheless continues to advance with blurry, if potentially deadly, objects in both hands. “Tase her!” one of the many onlookers yells. Firefighters carrying a heavy […]Read More
The perpetual-envelope pushing, extreme sport icon Travis Pastrana has received his fair share of gold medals over his record-shattering career that’s most commonly noted for his single handedly raising the already insanely high bar for X Games athletes (and yeah, he’s reportedly garnered lots of commas on his checks, along with too many broken bones […]Read More
In a new memoir looking back at his time in office, former President Barack Obama writes that a decision early in his first term to cut deals with congressional Republicans allowed him to ignore some Democrats’ calls for “less orthodox ideas” such as marijuana legalization. “Truthfully,” Obama writes in the new book, “just the act […]Read More
Studies have shown psilocybin has the potential to be a clinical treatment for depression and other behavioral health conditions, but researchers have struggled to understand how it works outside of a laboratory. That’s why Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research launched a study this fall to study ‘shrooms’ in the real world, […]Read More
You may have missed this study last month, possibly because you were drinking a tad too much in the lead up to Election Day. But Canadian researchers actually think you may have lowered your alcohol intake if you had just smoked a little marijuana. “Reductions in Alcohol Use Following Medical Cannabis Initiation” was published in […]Read More
Politicians likely fill you with anxiety these days. But rest assured, the gridlock only extends so far. This week in the US Senate both parties teamed up to just say no to crank (aka, methamphetamine). The opioid crisis — which has garnered more attention since its deadly grip extended to suburbs, country clubs, and the […]Read More
Midway through the new BET documentary “Smoke: Marijuana + Black America,” we’re introduced to Wanda James and her husband, Scott Durrah — both military veterans and established entrepreneurs — who faced astounding and absurd obstacles on their road to launching and running Denver’s Simply Pure, America’s first Black-owned marijuana dispensary (today, only 4 percent of […]Read More
On Election Day, there was one clear winner in America: drug reform. But drug reform was also a clear loser of this insane 2020 election cycle. Sure, voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota legalized recreational cannabis, even as South Dakota, additionally, and Mississippi legalized medical marijuana. But despite these triumphs for the […]Read More
WASHINGTON, DC — By now you’ve likely heard it’s a new day in America for marijuana legalization. You’ve heard wrong — at least when it comes to Congress and the federal government. Even after conservative and liberal states alike affirmed ballot initiatives during the election legalizing marijuana just a couple weeks ago, Republican senators are […]Read More
The Trump administration appears to have considered celebrities’ views on marijuana legalization and drug use to be relevant factors when selecting spokespeople to participate in a public education campaign on coronavirus prevention, internal documents show. From Seth Rogen to Kim Kardashian to Joe Rogan, drug policy views or experiences were apparently considered in the vetting […]Read More
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