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  1. Ron Strider

    How Cannabis Helped Understand Mental Illness

    Early 19th-Century France saw the genesis of an interesting if controversial approach towards understanding the origins and nature of psychosis. Jacques-Joseph Moreau was at the forefront of modern psychiatry. “Self-Experimenters: Sources for Study” is a 2003 bibliographical book authored by...
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    Breeder MIA - please help! Adolescent issues

    Hi Guys! I have been perusing these forums for months as anonymous, and it is time I reach out for help... I have done outdoor grows, -years- ago, and always have amazing success in my veggie and flower gardens - so...I don't really FEEL like a total newb! That said....I have a friend who...
  3. Ron Strider

    Pot Farmer's Dreams Go Up In Smoke During California Wildfires

    Andrew Lopas' plans to bring his marijuana business out of the black market with a legal, profitable and organic pot farm went up in smoke in the wildfires that have scorched Santa Rosa, California. After four decades of growing pot illegally, the 54-year-old saw an opportunity last year to...
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    Eschewing Cannabis For Wine, The Lebanese Way

    One of the poorest regions in the country has transformed itself by turning winemaking into multi-million-dollar industry Sitting among the vines of Sauvignon Blanc and Tempranillo growing on his spectacular farm in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Michel Emad remembers the not-so-distant time when...
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    Jack Splitt's Tragic Death And Bizarre Prosecution Of His Marijuana Provider

    Last year, we told you about the tragic death of Jack Splitt, the fifteen-year-old namesake of Jack's Law, a landmark bill that allowed young medical marijuana patients in Colorado, like him, to take their cannabis-based medication at school. More than a year later, Mark Pedersen, who made MMJ...
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    UK: Dealer's Automated Text Refusing To Sell Weed On His Birthday Is Brilliant

    Being a dealer is pretty risky business, and it's one that those in the profession take seriously. Well, at least this guy who informs his clients of his days off does, anyway. Twitter user @_Mandieeee recently received an automated text from her dealer informing her that she wouldn't be...
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    Hoodwinked by MMJ doctor who recommeded me with no license to practice

    I had a lot of trouble finding any doctors in Southern Illinois who would recommend MMJ. I finally called a dispensary and they referred me to "Pied Pheifer compassionate care clinic" , who upon contacting them, said they could recommend me in one visit, $260 cash only. I knew I was going into...
  8. Ron Strider

    The UK Weed Activists Lighting Up In Public

    This July, a member of Parliament stood up for the rights of cannabis consumers. In protest of government inaction over medical cannabis, Paul Flynn, the Welsh MP encouraged civil disobedience in the form of public cannabis consumption–a demonstration now scheduled for Tuesday, October 10...
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    MD: Montgomery County's First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Could Open In October

    A Potomac attorney said he's ready to open Montgomery County's first medical marijuana dispensary as soon as the state's first batch of pot products is ready. The shop, Potomac Holistics, will sell oils, tinctures and balms from a second-floor suite just off Darnestown Road in the Shady Grove...
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    UK: How Growing Cannabis Helped Me To Become An Expert Gardener

    Andy McConville has landed his dream job - and he owes it all to the fact he used to be a cannabis farmer. The 34-year-old horticultural specialist spent a decade growing weed for his own use at home. It was only when he suffered a mental health crisis about three years ago that he realized he...
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    One Oregon Cannabis Farm Is Setting Out To Be Entirely Carbon-Neutral

    Jesse Peters worries about the phone book. He worries about junk mail, and snack wrappers, and the brown bags his cannabis growers at Canby's Eco Firma Farms use to carry their sandwiches to work. And he's also lost a lot of sleep worrying about where to put his bedroom. Specifically, he...
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    UK: Former Tory Minister Suggests Legalising Cannabis Could Win Over Millenial Voters

    A Tory former minister has suggested legalising cannabis could help the party to woo young voters as he called for all drugs to be regulated by the Government. Ex-prisons minister Crispin Blunt said prohibiting drugs was "about as intelligent as the prohibition of alcohol in the United...
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    GA: Vote On Controversial Marijuana Proposal In Atlanta Set For Monday

    City leaders will take up the controversial issue of the decriminalization of marijuana in Atlanta on Monday after the proposal passed through a committee on September 26. City councilman Kwanza Hall introduced the measure back in March. It calls for reducing the penalty for possession of...
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    Wiz Khalifa Talks Frankly About Medical Marijuana At Thrival Innovation Festival

    When it comes to marijuana, Wiz Khalifa takes the high road. Since 2005, “Wiz Khalifa” has been former Taylor Allderdice student Cameron Jibril Thomaz’s stage name, and that’s about the only thing that hasn’t changed for the mind behind songs like 2010’s “Black and Yellow,” which became an...
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    IN: Medical Marijuana Advocates Hold Rally To Encourage Patients To Support The Issue

    Scott Cooksey gives his son Timothy 18 pills a day. The 19-year-old, who lives in Terre Haute with his family, has intractable epilepsy and Rubenstein Taybi Syndrome. The former causes Timothy to have seizures that cannot be controlled by medication, and he has a nerve stimulator in his...
  16. Ron Strider

    Disabled Marijuana Cultivators Face Eviction From Apartment

    In a bedroom of her Healy Terrace apartment, 65-year-old Susan Deschene created an elaborate growing room for three carefully cultivated marijuana plants in containers filled with ground-up coconut husks. For the pain-racked family and child counselor – who uses a wheelchair and whose health...
  17. Ron Strider

    Young Thug Arrested For Marijuana Possession, Tinted Windows In Georgia

    Rapper Young Thug was arrested in Georgia on Saturday for one count of marijuana possession and tinted front windows, a representative for the Brookhaven Police confirmed to Variety. The rep confirmed that the rapper – real name: Jeffrey Lamar Williams – is facing felony charges although he was...
  18. Ron Strider

    Al Franken Belatedly Gets Behind Liberalizing Marijuana Laws

    In a very funny book published earlier this year, Sen. Al Franken's long passages on drug abuse are still funny, but they're also dark as hell. When it came to alcohol, the senator apparently grew up in a sort of puritanical family, so his first drink came freshman year of college. After that...
  19. Ron Strider

    Fertile Soil: California Businessman Using Hemp To Boost NNY Economy

    While he didn't achieve the crop yield he hoped for this season, Marc P. Privitera has made good use of his time studying the results of the hemp he planted. A chemical engineer who specializes in hemp growth, Mr. Privitera owns a business development firm called PreProcess Inc. in...
  20. Ron Strider

    Canada: Dispensary Owners Are Already Fighting Ontario's Rules On Legal Weed

    Clint Younge was tormented by bullies as a boy in elementary school in Stoney Creek, Ontario, long before he discovered the power of cannabis. His classmates made fun of his nervous tics, a side effect of the high-dose pharmaceuticals he was being prescribed for ADHD. "Kids didn't know back...
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