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Cynthia Nixon Advances Marijuana Legalization in New York
Sex in the City star and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon has stepped up her support of marijuana legalization, after news reports trumpeted her position, at first reporting she was...
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SSRIs increasingly prescribed during pregnancy, without much study on their...
Lead researcher Claudia Lugo-CandelasResearchers from Columbia University, the Keck School of Medicine, and the Institute for the Developing Mind in Los Angeles, have published a new study on how...
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The Shalala Shuffle: Former HHS Chief "Evolves" on Marijuana
Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala has become the latest Drug Warrior to "evolve" on marijuana.Shalala, who is now running for a Congressional seat in Florida, tweeted on...
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Barbara Graham: "Paying for a life of little sins"?
From the trailer for I Want to Live with Susan HaywardSusan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar in 1959 for her portrayal of Tokin' Woman Barbara Graham in I Want to Live.The film opens in a jazz club,...
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Miley Cyrus: Marijuana is My First and True Love
Miley Cyrus, who has famously taken a break from smoking weed, was asked about her hempen hiatus on Jimmy Kimmel's show last night. The exchange went like this:Kimmel: "You are no longer smoking I...
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Gayle King Outs Oprah, Plans to Try "A Marijuana Cigarette" with Amy Schumer
Gayle King, guesting on The Ellen Show, mimed smoking pot when the subject of Ellen's recent birthday party came up. Turns out the party smelled strongly like pot, and although Ellen said she doesn't...
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Will Roseanne Try Medical Marijuana on Her Comeback Season Finale?
An AARP Magazine interview with Roseanne Barr and John Goodman, who play the TV couple Roseanne and Dan Connor again in this year's wildly watched comeback season, says that the show will have them...
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Juno/Hera and the Asterion Plant
Juno by Rembrandt (1665)The month of June is named for the Roman Goddess Juno, known as Hera in Greek mythology.Hera's devotees wove garlands made from the asterion plant to adorn her statues,...
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Feds Squash Doctor Training on Cannabis for Pain
As reported by the Associated Press, The American Academy of Pain Medicine has cancelled its plans for a webinar in July aimed at training doctors on the use of cannabis instead of opiates for pain....
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New Archeological Finds Point to Ancient Cannabis Use, Despite Prejudice of...
“For as long as there has been civilization, there have been mind-altering drugs,” begins an article in the 4/20/18(!) edition of Science magazine.Alcohol was fermented at least 10,000 years ago in the...
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Candy Barr: Drug War Victim
The erotic dancer known as Candy Barr was born on this date in 1935 as Juanita Dale Slusher in Edna, Texas. After her mother died when she was nine, she was ignored by a new stepmother and sexually...
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Trump Administration Officials Try To Thwart Breast-Feeding Resolution
A front-page New York Times exposé by Andrew Jacobs reveals that the US used thuggish tactics in an attempt to derail an international resolution supporting breast feeding in Geneva this spring, no...
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Amazing Grace Jones Caught on Film in "Bloodlight and Bami"
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, currently in theaters and on Amazon Prime, captures the extraordinary artist that Jones is. No staid talking head-style documentary, this film is a visual statement...
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Yellow Journalism Pisses on American Icon Annie "Get Your Gun" Oakley
Annie Oakley as "The Western Girl"An episode of PBS's "American Experience" reveals that Annie Oakley, the first female American superstar who was born on this day in 1860, was smeared by William...
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Of Harold and Maude, and Hal
Maude turns on HaroldIt's probably no accident that Cameron Diaz's favorite movie as the title character in There's Something About Mary (1998) is Harold and Maude (1971).In the later film, Mary and...
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Women's Equality Day Honors The Struggle for Our Right to Vote
On Women's Equality Day, we celebrate suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul.It was once said in Washington that there were two signs of spring: the return of Congress to the nation’s capital and...
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Minuscule Amounts of THC Found in Breast Milk - Is it Harmful?
The headlines are reading, "THC Found in Breast Milk!" but like previous studies, a new study in the journal Pediatrics found THC in breast milk only at the nanogram level (on average, 9.5 ng/mL)....
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Finding Your Feet (and a Phatty)
Celia Imrie and Timothy Spall share a joint in British bohemia in Finding Your Feet. More news reports are coming out about how baby boomers (aka seniors) are turning back to marijuana, whether for...
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Kristen Bell: "Weed Rules"
I guess there's a reason Kristen Bell played Mary Lane in "Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical" (2005).The talented actress said on the podcast WTF with Mark Aaron, “I like my vape pen quite a bit,"...
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Of Beer, Boofing and Bar Mitzvahs: How We're Failing Our Young Men and Women
The Kavanaugh showdown this week raised questions to many about our culture and how it fails to instruct boys on how to treat women. Instead, as the book Raising Cain notes, we're letting boys figure...
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