Tag: Blunt Truths
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Cannabis + Creativity = Productivity
The first time a budtender told me that sativas would give me mental energy, I looked at him like a dog asking a question. Say what? What does that even mean — “mental energy”? If you’ve never experienced cannabis — or only ever experienced indicas (which make up the overwhelming majority of cannabis strains) — […]
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The Same Racism Used To Justify White Supremacist Violence Was Used To Make Cannabis Illegal
I’ve searched Google & Wikipedia. I’ve searched the whole internet (every single tube of it). I even cracked an actual book. There’s no evidence anywhere that racism ever did anything good for anyone. Yet here we are, hostages of America’s racist soul. I’ll warn ya right now — there’s a whole shitload of irony coming. […]
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Dispatches From The War On Drugs — Is That Marijuana We Smell? Or “Surrender”?
I took marijuana to an airport yesterday — out in the open. Here’s what happened… I never imagined I would become a warrior in the War On Drugs. I definitely never imagined that cannabis would touch my life so profoundly that I’d take up its cause with a Kamakazi’s zeal. For reference’s sake — I […]
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It’s CRIMINAL That Cannabis Was Ever Criminalized
I believe — actual life experience being my data set — that my life is better in myriad ways with cannabis IN it than WITHOUT it. If I separate my personal experience with cannabis from cannabis’ story here in America (its demonization and prohibition for entirely racist reasons), I see a natural product — minimally […]
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If […]
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If […]
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It’s Time For “Benefit Of The Doubt” Journalism To Be Put To Sleep
Dear American Main Stream Media: I’m going to give you “the benefit of the doubt” here and assume that the REASON you employ “benefit of the doubt” journalism isn’t because you’re malicious assholes but because you suck at your jobs. While I know that, on the surface, “benefit of the doubt” journalism is just you […]