Category: Cannabis
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Today’s Cannabis Work Cocktail Is…
Every now and then I like to share a particularly good cannabis experience. One of the great revelations of my life was that cannabis makes me work more productively. It focuses my very hypomanic mind without dulling it. My go-to daytime strain is Durban Poison. It delivers a steady, even focus that comes on quickly…
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The Hardest Part Of Cannabis Legalization Is Overcoming The Mountain Of Bullshit & Lies
Poor cannabis. There’s bad press and then there’s the hatchet job that America’s first drug czar, Harry Anslinger, did to it. When Anslinger first got hired in 1930, marijuana was hardly on his radar. Few Americans knew what it was. Fewer still smoked it (though many Americans benefited from its presence in various medicines). The…
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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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The Remarkable Pleasure Of Coffee & Cannabis
I love mornings. I didn’t used to love them but these days my day doesn’t so much “start” as spark to life. My morning routine feels a lot like the lights suddenly going on inside a factory. That’s the caffeine in the coffee of course but even more than that? It’s the cannabis. I hope…
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When It Comes To Cannabis, I’m Strain Specific
I approach cannabis from the point of view of “What do I want cannabis to do for me right now?”. In the world of legalized cannabis, that should be the operating principle. To think cannabis is only good for “getting high” is very old fashioned thinking. And very misinformed. While the labels “indica” & “sativa”…
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Why Are We All So Addicted To Our Own Bullshit? Easy — We’re Addicted To It BECAUSE It’s “Ours”…
I almost learned the hard way how addicted I was to bullshit. My bullshit nearly killed me. For real. Long story short, I kept a secret from myself for 45 years — that I was molested (twice) when I was 14. If I think of my hypomanic mind as a black box theater filled with…
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An Ode To The Civilizing Influence Of Cannabis
As I write this, I’m waiting for the final bowl of my nighttime meds (I started with Skywalker then finished with a bowl of Godfather with a little Afghani sprinkled on top. In a few minutes the combined effects of those strains should fuse into a feeling of delicious, creamy sleepiness that I can surrender…
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I Made A Terrific New Friend Yesterday — My Diametric Opposite
I am not making this up. I met my diametric opposite a few days ago. We kinda it it off. By yesterday, when we parted ways, I couldn’t get him out of my head. Come the fall, my daughter will matriculate at UC-Davis. Despite the havoc Prop 13 wreaked upon California’s educational system, our state…
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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…