“Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes.” –Conan O’Brien Though meant to be humorous, there is a lot of truth to this joke. Like it or not, higher level arguments regarding the

Terence McKenna, psychedelic philosopher extraordinaire, is credited with saying, “Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.” Count regulators, legislators, law enforcement and the media among the paranoid as well. Thankfully, common sense and evidence-based thinking are starting to make inroads in the ongoing war on drugs, but this past week

Singer-songwriter and nine time Grammy award winner John Legend speaks good sense when it comes to marijuana, having said the following in a Huffington Post interview last year: I think we need to legalize marijuana. There’s no good reason to continue prohibition, and we need to consider ending prohibition in general. I don’t know if

For around fifty years, James Garner was a leading actor in television and film. Turns out he was also smoking marijuana during that entire time and he had this to say about that in his memoir: I started smoking marijuana in my late teens. I drank to get drunk but ultimately didn’t like the effect.

I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn’t call myself a pot-head. We wouldn’t call her a pot-head either, just as we don’t call someone who enjoys a daily glass of wine or bottle of beer an alcoholic. And more and more of the country

This was truly the week that was timely for cannabis quotes.  That being the case, we cannot resist discussing two of them. “Do you want to hit this?” A common enough question for us lay people, but a man asked President Barack Obama that very question in a Denver bar this past week when the