Showing posts with label cannabis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cannabis. Show all posts
Friday, April 30, 2021

"The Marijuana Conspiracy" and The Research Dodge

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The Canadian film " The Marijuana Conspiracy ," released in the US on 4/20, illustrates in part the absurdity and politicization o...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Women Surpass Men Supporting Marijuana Legalization in New Poll

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A new national poll from Quinnipiac University found a record high 69% of Americans support marijuana legalization, and that 70% of women s...

Jocelyn Elders Co-Authors Oped Slamming AMA's Position on Marijuana

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Elders depicted at the 2016 Oakland Museum "Altered State" exhibit Former US Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders has co-authored an ope...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Hemp Wins the Superbowl

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An Inside Edition story reveals that 43-year-old quarterback Tom Brady's health regimen includes a daily blueberry breakfast shake with...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Nabataean Incense and the Goddess Al-Uzza

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Watching the series Sacred Sites of the World , I learned of the city of Petra in modern-day Jordan with its Nabataean  Temple of the Winged...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

"Party Girl" Turns 25

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Posey puffs and gets inspired at the library in "Party Girl"  The recent 25th anniversary of the 1995 Indie film "Party Girl...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Raiders Sign Player Who Quit over NFL's Marijuana Policy

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The Las Vegas Raiders have signed former Dallas Cowboy David Irving, 27, who announced he was quitting the NFL last year in opposition to th...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Tokin' Woman Kamala Harris Gets VP Nod

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Harris talking pot on "The Breakfast Club" Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has named California Senator Kama...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Women's Visionary Congress 2019

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After a three-year hiatus, the Women's Visionary Congress held a gathering in Oakland, CA over the weekend, hostessing 23 activists, re...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Martha Gellhorn, Leonard Bernstein, and the Ballerinas

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Looking up war correspondent and third wife to Ernest Hemingway Martha Gellhorn after seeing the spotty-at-best 2102 film Hemingway and Ge...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Sex Differences In Pain Relief with Cannabis

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Photos by Larry Utley of a bipolar woman experiencing pain relief with cannabis. Her face is shown pre-treatment (left) and at...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014

RIP Joan Rivers, Forever Outrageous

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UPDATE 10/15: Rivers is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory. Joan Rivers, a breakthrough artist ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: "Life of Crime" with Jennifer Aniston

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UPDATE 12/15: See deleted scene from Life of Crime where Aniston's character tries grass for the first time.  Tokin...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Why Take Marijuana (or Alcohol)? Researchers Want to Know

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Maybe I'm just trying to make up for the bikini shot I posted last night (hey, it had pot leaves on it!) but...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Beauty in a Bhang-Leaf Bikini

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Dutch model and TV personality Sylvie van der Vaart (aka Sylvie Meis) has been spotted in a pot-leaf bikini (left). Sylvie ma...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Macy Gray Gets Stoned

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Macy Gray has brought her distinctive voice and style to a new single, "Stoned," now available on iTunes, from her fo...

Amy Tan's Wild Past with Pot

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Novelist Amy Tan on NPR's  "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" spoke about the time, at the age of 16, she was arreste...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Feds Drag Feet on Cannabis Studies While States Legalize It and Comics Joke About It

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I just caught a 2006 Saturday Night Live episode in which Seth Myers reads a story about a study finding cell phones don'...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

"Meme Queen" Susan Blackmore on Cannabis

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UPDATE 10/15: Blackmore is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory. I just got clued in (by the erudi...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Russian Hemp Honored in Statues and Stories (Yet, Still Repressed)

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I've been informed that in between sheaves of wheat depicted on the Peoples Friendship Fountain in Moscow are sunflowers...