Should we laugh or cry? Comedian Stephen Colbert's analogy hits the mark on the absurdity of Jeff Session's cannabis views. Colbert was responding to the following Sessions comment about combatting violent crime: I realize this may be an unfashionable belief in a time of growing tolerance of drug use. But too many lives are at stake
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran an illuminating and sad little story on government marijuana, which is pot grown under the oversight of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The government marijuana photographed and featured in the story is a sample distributed to a researcher for use in ongoing clinical studies for treatment of military
How refreshing: a politician who thinks sensibly about cannabis. Prime Minister Trudeau is correct: you don't need to enjoy marijuana or want access to it to support its legalization. Legalization speaks for itself. It's good for the economy as it creates jobs and generates tax revenue. It's good for those that use cannabis medicinally and/or recreationally and
White House Press Secretary and public enemy Sean Spicer is anti-science and a liar. His attempt to link cannabis to the opioid crisis in this country directly conflicts with the actual evidence. First off, marijuana is not an opioid. Opioids are highly addictive and neurologically dangerous, whereas cannabis is neither. Second, and as we wrote
Dr. Hurd, the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Addictive Disorders at Mount Sinai, speaks here to cannabis' medicinal properties. She has extensively studied whether marijuana can help ease withdrawal symptoms in heroin users, and her work was published in the journal Trends in Neurosciences this past Thursday. Dr. Hurd's work
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA)'s recently proposed taking a "less punitive" approach to players' "recreational" cannabis use, DeMaurice Smith astutely points out that a player's cannabis use should not simply be assumed to be for "recreational use." In a recent survey, 42% of surveyed NFL players stated they knew a teammate who became a painkiller
Musician and well known cannabis consumer Willie Nelson is right on the nose with this recent quote. Though legalizing marijuana has undoubtedly increased access to it (and in a multitude of forms that aren't just smokable flower), making marijuana illegal again in all states would not cause all consumers to stop dead in their tracks
Despite our strong dislike of Jeff Sessions' views on cannabis, he actually makes a very good point here. It is indeed a concern that Congress has made the possession and distribution of marijuana an illegal act, as that is definitely not something "desired any longer." With over half the country supporting legalization of recreational marijuana and far
Cannabis medicine maker and educator Chrystal Ortiz' ideology on pot touches on two important points: that cannabis should be freed and that humans should be free to experience it. Cannabis grows naturally, but with stigma and misinformation attached; enough stigma and misinformation to keep it federally illegal and away from many who could benefit from
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has a perspective on cannabis to which we all should subscribe: open-minded, supportive, and adverse to stigma (just the way Kerr coaches). Though Kerr himself has used marijuana medicinally and did not find it effective for his own pain, he is still able to identify that a) cannabis
