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Cannabis Strains: From Slang to Science

    (image: modernman) As medical marijuana hits the mainstream, and sales representatives from Licensed Producers make their way into physician’s offices and medical forums to pitch their wares, an important conversation about cannabis strain names and marketing is taking place within the medical community.    At this year’s Family Medicine Forum, physicians on both sides of the […]

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A Review of High Times’ Forty-Year Self-Published History

  In 1974, late activist Thomas Forçade invented and began publishing the pro-marijuana magazine, High Times.  This year the magazine turns forty.  In honour of its birthday Forçade’s Trans High Corporation has published the retrospective:  High Times:  A 40-Year History of the World’s Most Infamous Magazine—self-styled both a “visual history” and a “coffee table book.”  […]

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Steven Hager’s Temple Dragons:  Transformative Security in the Age of Cannabis Activism

    The 1960s counterculture fostered movements for organic food, natural childbirth, civil rights, participatory democracy, and new concepts of community based on non-violence, non-commercialism and unfettered joy.  Activists of this era created change by altering frames of reference, frames that determined how they and others understood the world.  They invented consciousness-altering events: street theatre, […]