Historical Rambles on Cannabis It is instructive to re-visit the role that news sensationalism has played in demonizing cannabis. I paid the topic a visit this week. Sensationalism, we will recall, is the conscious use of exaggeration, manipulative language, dramatic photos, lies, and fabrications, the news equivalent, we might say, of using explosives. Some of […]
2017 promises changes that border on the torrential, some good, far too many, bad. Astoundingly good is the promise of Cannabis legislation in Canada, or at least new steps in that direction. Not good is the Trudeau government’s demonstrated sympathy with Canada’s hyper regulated, hyper securitized Licensed Producers, set, if they get their way, to […]
Stephen Calabria Cannabis clinics across the state of Minnesota on Monday opened their doors for the first time to patients suffering from intractable pain, heralding a small yet real step in the state and nation’s progress in approaching medicinal cannabis. The Minnesota medical cannabis law first went into effect on July 1, 2015, but was […]
