Tag: Cannabis
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All “Drug Raids” Are Racist Because Our Are Drug Laws Are Racist
I hope this isn’t a revelation: the “war on drugs” has never had anything whatsoever to do with drugs and everything to do with who’s using them. From its inception, the “war on drugs” was about one thing and one thing only: racism. That’s because virtually every bit of America’s current drug legislation owes its…
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Let’s Play “Desert Island Cannabis Strain”! I’ll Go First…
In the style of that great BBC radio show “Desert Island Discs” — where each week’s guest “is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a deserted island” — I propose a show where,…
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An Ode To Waking & Baking
My mind’s a blur when I awake, That is, until I let it bake. The coffee’s strong and dark and hot, A sip or two, a hit of pot. The caffeine “turns the lights on”, sure, But cannabis actually “opens the door”. There’s no magic here, no “hocus pocus”, Indicas make you sleepy; sativas give…
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Imagine For A Moment If They Stopped Selling Alcohol At Sporting Events & Sold Cannabis Instead
Someday — probably not soon but some day — Americans will get to attend live sporting events again. There’s something about watching sports and drinking that — maybe it’s habit more than anything — goes together. Or maybe we just think it does because we’ve never considered doing it another way. Human beings are like…
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Blunt Truth — Marijuana Prohibition Was ALWAYS About RACISM And Nothing But
From the get-go, every impulse to regulate cannabis has been based on racism. When the California Pharmacy Board amended the state’s Poison Act in 1913 to include marijuana in the “poisons” under its control, they were simply piling onto the racist legislation that began in 1875 when California passed America’s first anti-narcotics laws to “combat”…
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Question: What’s The Proper Cannabis Strain To Go With A Coronavirus Quarantine? Answer: Pretty Much ANY Cannabis strain
You know shit’s strange when real time is as plastic and fungible as time while you’re high. I don’t think it’s just me. The deeper we’ve plunged into the coronavirus quarantine, the weirder “time” has become. If you smoke as much dope as I do, you’re kinda used to thinking suddenly “Wait– where am I?…
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Since I Stopped Drinking Alcohol, I’ve Come To See Clearly — America Has A Problem With Alcohol
Want to know if Americans drink too much alcohol? Quit drinking for a day. Better yet a week — or a month. Better yet, quit drinking entirely. I wasn’t forced to quit drinking by the mood stabilizer that saved my life. Alcohol can increase the intensity of any side effects the lamictil causes but, by…
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The Cannabis Lifestyle: “Platforming” Vs “Cocktailing”
My day begins with cannabis and it ends with cannabis. That’s not hyperbole. Medically (and I keep up my prescription because — even though I do recreate with cannabis — it is, to me, first and foremost a legitimate “medicine” that successfully treats a host of very real physical and mental ailments. Consequently, I’m very…
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I Went To America’s First Ever Licensed Cannabis Café Yesterday – And It Was AWESOME!
As good as a deep, inky red wine pairs with a steak or champagne with oysters, it’s nothing compared to how well cannabis pairs with EVERYTHING. Not only does cannabis give you the munchies (there’s a reason it’s a great medicine for people with eating issues or whose appetites have been impacted by chemo), it…
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Cannabis & Productivity Go Together Like Cannabis & Feeling Good
I’ve written here before about my cannabis story. I wasn’t a fan in high school. Cannabis (if that’s what I was really smoking) put me to sleep. That didn’t appeal to me as a kid. So, I avoided cannabis in favor of alcohol, cocaine and, occasionally ecstasy. Depression made sleep hard to come by as…