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How on Earth could they have had the gall to charge you with assault. Where was the victim? Someone actually called the police because you pulled out an unopened pocket knife while looking for your keys -- incredible.

I would not advise moving to southwest Oregon. Those are very conservative counties that have opted out of having any recreational or medical dispensaries in their counties. You need to look at counties in the Willamette valley, especially the greater Portland area, where there are well over a...

Additional info on Dr Hill: THE PARSONS COMPANY, INC. His claim to be unbiased towards cannabis is undermined by his warm embrace by NIDA and his research to promote nabilone, while demonizing the cannabis plant, to provide Big Pharma with a patentable and profitable revenue stream .

Hill is preaching the dogma of reductionist medicine. That real medicine must be based on isolated, purified active compounds that can be patented, FDA approved and dosage controlled by MDs writing prescriptions. This is of course necessary when administering synthetic compounds to patients that...

Actually, Bernie is proposing the complete descheduling of cannabis, effectively ending Federal prohibition of cannabis completely. The summation of Bernie's position on cannabis in this article kind of buried that most important fact at the end of the summation. What Bernie is proposing is...

The thing about coffee is that it contains a real neurotoxin, caffeine, that certain plants (coffee tree, tea cacao tree) developed as a natural insecticide. Cannabis, to the contrary, is neuroprotective and yet it is on schedule one of the CSL while caffeine is entirely unregulated. Caffeine...

In a just and sane world we would not need a special dispensation from the government and a doctor to purchase cannabis. No more than we would purchase and consume any other herbal supplement, or food for that matter. I should be able to plant cannabis in my backyard garden this spring along...

Not one of candidates on the Republican side, or Hillary, has said anything remotely suggesting they support legalization at the Federal level. Sanders has not only said that he would move toward full descheduling of cannabis from the CSA, he has also authored a Senate bill to legalize cannabis...

I usually avoid getting into political discussions on the internet because they tend to be divisive and because politics is about power. Power over others is a brute fact of reality on this planet but it is also inimical to life on this planet. Sure politics is a more benign way to distribute...

It is for this reason that cannabis has suffered the unprecedented persecution and slander of prohibition, like no other plant ever has. Not because it was in anyway bad for us but because it is extraordinarily good for us. We have just begun to witness the dawn of the healing and liberating...

Thanks for bumping this up to the top. Great and inspiring read. Another testimony to the miracle that the healing herb cannabis is. A miracle that is not just for a select few but potentially for all who partake of it, including other non-homosapien living beings who have been healed and...

This is one of the most moving and eloquent testimonies on the healing miracle that is cannabis that I have read. It is because cannabis is a miracle, that it is illegal. The world is dominated by powerful interests that place the wants and desires of a few over the needs of the many. Cannabis...

Marinol is a drug with plenty of bad side effects. A nice cannabis indica tea, made with butter and slow boiled for 30 minutes, provides deep restful sleep and helps keep the sleep apnea away. The former is a schedule III drug and the later is schedule I. The only food/medicinal herb on...

Morality is often used to oppress and exclude. Empathy, compassion and healing trump morality. Jesus the liberator and healer was about freeing those oppressed by holier than thou religious leaders who used a morality bludgeon against those who needed acceptance and healing. Jesus was condemned...

There is no really scientifically precise and consistent definition of what a drug is vs. a herbal/dietary supplement within the Federal government. This is the FDA definition of a drug: A substance recognized by an official pharmacopoeia or formulary. A substance intended for use in the...