So I started writing some news and features over at the great new site Weedist.com, and thought you might like to see what I’ve been up to in my first week: A medical study on how CBDV can reduce epileptic seizures Some comments on a generally favorable article in the NY Times about parenting and […]
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Asking Obama Some Hard Questions About Medical Marijuana
I just joined the staff of Weedist, and my first story was an exclusive, pull-no-punches video interview with Barack Obama about his medical marijuana policies and promises! Check it out here! Update: quite a few people are starting to weigh in on Obama’s hypocrisy… Another update: full transcript of the video interview.
In Which Felicity Has A Reset and Discovers Her Super-Power
This has been an odd week for Felicity. Things started off fairly normally last Saturday night when my dear wife took one of the new, relatively strong Canna Caps I made for her to fall asleep, as she’s been doing lately. Then, she decided to stop using all cannabis for 2 or 3 days, since […]
I Got So Excited About Obama Going On Reddit, But…
…this memetoon says it better than I could: Obama Did An AMA On Reddit And We Got Nuttin’, Honey
Monterey Summer Of Love 1967 Festival For 2012
Some cool people have put together a retro music event with a real festival feel at the very same stage where the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was held! I wasn’t at the original, but the movie about it was instrumental in getting me to Woodstock, and so it did manage to change my life in […]
Cool Sortable Cannabinoid Chart Lets You Decide How To Medicate
The cool new site Weedist.com got my attention by publishing this amazingly detailed chart that lists not only the cannabinoids in our favorite plant, but also their boiling temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, effects and cautions, and even terpenes and toxins for good measure. Best of all, you can click the top of any […]
Marijuana Was Legal At the Federal Level In The Sixties
This one is right out of Old Hippie’s infamous stash of little-known facts. In the process of doing some historical research, I found some interesting tidbits. Today is, at least according to one source, exactly 75 years since the U.S. House of Representatives passed the dangerous and illegal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, based largely […]
Let’s Ban the Bogeyman
It’s time to get medical grade cannabis out of the bogeyman’s realm and into the hands of patients. The bogeyman in this case is comprised of the following types of beliefs: that cannabis is evil or dangerous that THC is the only useful chemical component in cannabis that pharmaceutical science with one hand tied behind […]
Capsule Warning: The AVB Experiment That Went Wrong
A few days ago, after I wrote that article about AVB, I decided to eat some straight AVB, without benefit of a meal or extraction into oil, so it would just be the AVB itself with no lipids to help or hinder it. I wanted to see how that would affect the absorption speed and […]
Granny Storm Crow’s MMJ Reference List for July 2012
Granny Storm Crow has just released the new PDF version of her MMJ Reference List for July 2012, and as usual, it breaks all previous records. This time, it’s a solid 840 pages of links to medical studies showing the positive benefits of cannabis for medical use. Here’s her intro: 2012 is supposed to be a […]