Top 20 for 4/20 Women and Weed Movies (Part 2)
I don't like many of the "Stoner Movies" that people like to list: I much prefer a good movie that has a pivotal scene involving pot's power to transform, and connect us to each other and our deeper...
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SF Mayor Recommends Netflix and Chill for 420 Revelers
If you're going to San FranciscoBe sure to wear some flowers in your hair...But not this year. And don't smoke your flowers there either, this 4/20.To be clear: 4/20 will not be tolerated this year.Do...
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RIP to the Heavenly Shirley Knight
The accomplished, sensitive, and exquisitely beautiful actress Shirley Knight has died at the age of 83.Knight appeared as Heavenly Finlay in the 1962 movie Sweet Bird of Youth, based on the Tennessee...
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Chrissie Hynde Remembers the Kent State Shootings
It's 50 years today since the Kent State shootings, when the National Guard shot 67 bullets at college students, injuring nine and killing four.A 15-year-old Hynde in her Ohio backyard. One student who...
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Review: "Grass is Greener" from Netflix
The Netflix marijuana documentary “Grass is Greener” is a milestone in the form, told from the perspective of the African-American community that has been so hard hit by the War on Drugs.Directed and...
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Mothering and Marijuana
While we're all homebound during the COVID crisis, the usual "Mommy Needs Her Wine" memes have proliferated, with lines like, "Can anyone recommend a good breakfast wine?" and the ominous prediction,...
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Something to Watch if You're "Bored to Death"
From the opening credits of "Bored to Death"I was feeling a little, well, bored to death while sheltering at home, so it seemed like the kiss of Kismet when I noticed that Amazon Prime is running the...
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Of Jean Seberg, and Jeanne d'Arc
I thought it was a little over the top that the opening scene of the Amazon film Seberg showed actress Jean Seberg being burned at the stake while playing Joan of Arc. But after watching the movie,...
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The Tommy Chong Bong Song, Johnny Cash, and Me
Hear the Tommy Chong Bong Song.It was September 2003, and Tommy Chong was being sent to prison for selling bongs.I'd written so many articles about people being caught up in our unconscionable war...
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Watch How Phyllis Schlafly Ruined Everything on "Mrs. America"
Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan debates Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly in Mrs. AmericaThe F/X series Mrs. America (now on Hulu) is an eye-opening, skillfully produced and acted story of the women...
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Cannabis Used to "Stimulate Ecstasy" Found at Ancient Shrine - To The Goddess...
Two altars found at the Arad shrine on display at The Israel Museum. An altar at a Judahite shrine dating to the 8th century B.C. was used to burn cannabis for ecstatic effect, researchers report. The...
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"Killer Mike": Nixon-style Villainizing of Hippies & Blacks over Marijuana at...
Rapper and Atlanta-based activist Michael "Killer Mike" Render lit up Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and not just with his million-dollar smile. At the end of the segment, after a discussion...
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Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
I watched Michelle Alexander's 2010 book The New Jim Crow change the debate about drug policy and racism in the US. This year, on its 10th anniversary, we have a chance for a greater transformation. At...
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50 Years Ago: Barbara Streisand Turns On The Owl
In the 1970 film The Owl and the Pussycat,Barbra Streisand plays Doris, a struggling model/actress living in New York who turns a few tricks to get by. When nerdy would-be writer and bookstore clerk...
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RIP Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Marijuana Reform Pioneer
Dr. Grinspoon's pioneering book, from back when "marijuana" was spelled with an "h"Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a pioneering advocate for marijuana reform, has passed away one day after his 92nd birthday, aka...
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Paltrow Power Puffs in "The Politician"
Gwyneth Paltrow Plays a Candidate Who Definitely Does Inhale in The PoliticianTaking a break from weightier and fascinating shows like Who Killed Malcolm X, The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, and Who Shot...
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Hear Hugh Downs on Hemp
Hugh Downs with Barbara Walters in 1969.NBC NewswireToday we hear the sad news that Hugh Downs has passed away at the age of 99.Born in Akron, Ohio on Valentine's Day in 1921, Downs served in the Army...
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Johnny Depp Admits to Initiating His Daughter with Marijuana
Lily-Rose and Johnny DeppLawyers for the UK tabloid The Sun are trying to smear Johnny Depp as a bad parent who "encouraged" his 13-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana during a trial brought about by...
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Trump Clemency Grantee Alice Marie Johnson Responds to Stone Commutation
Longtime, tremendously hard-working prisoner advocate Amy Povah of the Cando Clemency Foundation clued me into this story on her Facebook page. Please support her and other groups working for prison...
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Women Increasingly Find Marijuana Smoking "Morally Acceptable"
Women aren't buying into the propaganda anymore.According to the latest Gallup poll, 70% of Americans say that it is morally acceptable for adults to smoke marijuana, an increase of five percentage...
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