The Denver alt-weekly WestWord picked up on my article about Dr. Christian Thurstone, worried that the kids are getting “Higher and Higher” these days and before we know it, they’ll be shooting up THC.
The Denver alt-weekly WestWord picked up on my article about Dr. Christian Thurstone, worried that the kids are getting “Higher and Higher” these days and before we know it, they’ll be shooting up THC.
Older readers will remember the parody PSA on Saturday Night Live around 1976 where Chevy Chase rolls up a doobie, takes off his belt, ties of his arm, and repeatedly stabs the joint at his veins, as Dan Aykroyd intones “Why do you think they call it dope?” Dr. Christian Thurstone thinks it’s soon to be real.
For years now, we have been lobbying for marijuana legalization with frames like “treat marijuana like alcohol” and “tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol” and “marijuana is safer than alcohol”. Setting marijuana in a frame alongside alcohol has molded the public’s understanding of the drugs to think of them similarly.
There will be a press conference (Facebook Event Link) for the Idaho Three (Lindsey & Josh Rinehart and Sarah Caldwell) on the steps of the Statehouse in Boise this Monday at 2pm Mountain Time.
How tragically absurd. If your child has access to a lethal machine that kills someone, it’s just an accident. If your child has access to a non-lethal plant that heals someone, it’s child endangerment
Four young boys, ages 11, 10, 6, and 5, have been taken by the State of Idaho Child Protective Services from their families. Three prominent marijuana activists are now fighting for their children and their freedom. If you can help financially support these brave activists, please visit http://rad-r.us/IdahoFund to donate.
I was thrilled to see SWAT being used for its actual purpose for once! Not serving marijuana warrants and drug warrants to overwhelmingly peaceful people who will be flooding Denver this 4/20 to experience freedom!
I can’t help but go back to that June night in the hotel room in Slidell, Louisiana, and ask, “If it had been a case of beer instead of pot and a pipe, wouldn’t the Hakken family still be together?”
Increased blood THC concentrations are strongly associated with increased crash risk, but there is no direct correlation between driving impairment and THC concentration.
Jeremy Echols tells his story as a father who found medical cannabis to be an effective treatment for his son Alex, who suffers from severe autism rage.
West Alabama Narcotics Task Force announces record bust of 74 astudents at University of Alabama, mostly for marijuana. Meanwhile, 1 in 5 college females will be sexually assaulted, many go unreported because students don’t feel safe reporting them. Plus, Alabama reduced first-time alcohol lawbreaking to a student sanction involving no law enforcement involvement.
Should Grandma Smoke Pot? The controversial television show produced by former pot smuggler and founder of The Silver Tour, a nonprofit teaching seniors about medical marijuana, Robert Platshorn, will air in prime time at 7pm on WHDT-TV.
Brave Mykayla will be live in our 420RADIO RoLLaJaY Studios, Tuesday, January 29th at 3pm Pacific, taking your calls with her parents, Erin Purchase and Brandon Krenzler, and her sister Rylie.
Our friend Cheryl Shuman appears tomorrow on The New Ricki Lake Show (Thur. Jan. 10 at 2pm in Portland on KATU) with Erin Purchase and Brandon Krenzler, parents of Brave MyKayla Comstock, the 7-year-old medical marijuana patient in Oregon battling leukemia.
Ricki Lake conducts a daytime exclusive interview this Thursday with Erin Purchase and Brandon Krenzler, parents who have made national headlines with their controversial decision to administer medical marijuana to their 7-year-old daughter Mykayla who is battling an aggressive form of cancer.
These are three of my friends in the marijuana movement. Sadly, only two of them are free. That’s Keith Stroup, Rev. Eddy Lepp, and Tim Pate from the 2007 Oregon Medical Cannabis Awards. Eddy Lepp needs our help again!
Shocking video of police performing public cavity searches on two Texas women over a littering accusation; “Radical” Russ’s Top 5 Marijuana Moments of 2012; music by Carlene Davis and Trinity
The new Monitoring the Future study shows marijuana use down in every grade level for every frequency except 12-grade monthly use, which rose 0.3 points; Cannabis Q&A with Dr. Mitch Earleywine; Top 5 Cannabis Science Stories of 2012; music by Bing Crosby
Under suspicion of littering and the smell of pot, two women are publicly searched for any contraband marijuana they might have been hiding under their breasts, in their colons, or up their vaginas.
The latest Monitoring the Future survey is out. Like any collection of statistics about marijuana, the drug warriors will spin them to advance the agenda of drug-testing, discriminating against, locking up, and re-educating adults who choose marijuana over martinis, Marlboros, Midol, or morphine.
