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Video interview with Mike Edison, author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, conducted by Mr.Media, Bob Andelman. http://www.mrmedia.com/?p=3768Video interview with Mike Edison, author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs,... more
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Funny marijuana comedy show. This part features the fastest blunt roller supposedly, anti-drug ads with talking rolling papers and a dog, plus a stoner event called the Cannabis Comedy Show and a High Times censorship article.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7EekxLFlAFunny marijuana comedy show. This part features the fastest blunt roller supposedly,... more
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So STUFF STONERS LIKE couldn’t believe our luck when we were lucky enough to score a chance at chattin’ with the illustrious Danny Danko recently! So without any further adieu…we present to you…the exclusive STUFF STONERS LIKE interview with High Time magazine’s very own…Danny Danko!So STUFF STONERS LIKE couldn’t believe our luck when we were lucky enough to... more
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Stay vegging under the sun because Kyle Kushman, the breeder who brought you Strawberry Cough / former High Times Cultivation editor, and Shiloh Massive, an OG grower from Eddy Lepp era whose crops were featured in the Canna Bible and flavors favored by Dr. Dre, are about to harvest a cultivation revolution through Veganic Earth Friendly Canna Culture. Veganic cannabis (Marijuana) cultivation is the future of conscious horticulture. It is beyond organic medical marijuana. Veganics utilizes enzymatic products, plant based nutrients, and microbials to create a living soil without the use of animal bi-products.Stay vegging under the sun because Kyle Kushman, the breeder who brought you... more
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It was forty years ago when I was sixteen years old. It was going to be another night at the Bitter End, the legendary Greenwich Village coffeehouse where I gloriously misspent my youth. It was the very beginning of that process. Two months earlier I smoked pot for the first time and a month later I bought my first bag of weed and went to the Bleecker Street club to watch George Carlin reinvent the comedic wheel. Carlin was a known quantity, a veteran funny man familiar to me for years from many television appearances who finally grew his hair, listened to the weed and gave his craft over to the counterculture.
Tonight was different. We were going to the Bitter End to watch a pair of unknown comedians whose shtick was soaked in weed. They had one album out but were still relatively unknown. Whereas Carlin was a comedian who turned into a hippie, it seemed as if Cheech & Chong were hippies who had turned into comedians.
Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin may have been unknown but they were also familiar. In 1970 there was an “Us” and a “Them” and Cheech & Chong were decidedly, unequivocally, without question two of “Us.” Cheech & Chong, like the culture they came to represent, turned out to be loosey-goosey, multicultural, shockingly crude, hysterically funny and most importantly – stoned! They were all about the marijuana and so were we, and their comedy gave concrete expression to our emerging stoner sensibilities. That first night at The Bitter End I was introduced to a collection of memorable characters which would be impressed forever on my freshly enhanced neural pathways. At the start of my marijuana journey, between the punch lines, Cheech & Chong were teaching me that I wasn't alone, that I wasn't wrong and that the best way to deal with disapproving authority was to laugh at it together. These were important lessons. Cultural resonance was commencing and it would last the rest of my life.
Four decades later and I am almost forty years stoned. That sixteen-year-old neophyte pothead has evolved into the Associate Publisher of HIGH TIMES and what began as a diversion has turned into a career – this weed thing seems to have worked out. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, 62 and 72 respectively, have released Hey, Watch This!, a concert film of their highly-anticipated 2009 reunion tour – and I approach that event with a doobie-ous critical eye. The standup shtick in Hey, Watch This! cannot be just a collection of skits and jokes pulled out of the closet for profit. I hold them to a higher standard. It must be nothing less than the empowering moments of my youth memorialized, preserved and digitized for all time. I have a lot of emotional currency invested in this film. A lame retread, a commercial repackaging would break my heart, while a collection of glittering gems that stand the test of time would reaffirm long-held truths. I place the advance screener in the CD drive, hold my breath and push the button.
Hey, Watch This! is a sparkling jewel of a film filled with a soft-green light. It succeeds not only as a document of Cheech & Chong’s seminal standup and a celebration of marijuana culture but also as an affirmation of my deep convictions. Earliest reports from industry insiders sniffed that Hey, Watch This! will only give stoners what they want but that anyone looking for something new will be disappointed - that is simply not true.
The film contains many (but not all) of the dank duo's most beloved bits that somehow manage to be both intact and updated. The structure and substance of the routines remains the same – the punch lines are all there and the audience howls at each familiar line – but the careful listener with discern the upgrade – call it Cheech & Chong 2.0. There are plenty of references to dotcoms, digital technology, modern-day dank and George W. Bush. A huge digital screen behind the boys enhances the performance and during the first bit – “Two Guys In A Car” – the addition of a synchronized road clip in the background provides a sense of terminal velocity that the original standup left to the imagination. We’ve come a long way from the Bitter End.
There’s more music in their modern show than ever before, including performances of the 1985 hit, “Born In East L.A.” and a sing-along of the title song of their first film, “Up In Smoke.” Over the years Tommy Chong had become an accomplished blues guitarist, a skill that now lends his “Blind Mellon Chitlin’” bit an air of authenticity that the old act didn’t have. In fact, Chong’s blues sound is so good, it is far too short. It would have been nice to see him extend the riffs more than he did.
There is additional new material in short setups and blackouts used to cut and pace the performance. The boys offer running commentaries as an aging gay couple and as a couple of aging stoners in the balcony watching the show. Tommy Chong’s wife, Shelby, is also on hand as virtually a new member of the team who gives an extended anecdotal introduction to the act and, most funny, plays Fifi, the infamous love interest of Ralph and Herbie, the butt-sniffing dogs.
The world has changed much since the dank duo last performed. Medical marijuana is legalized in fourteen states with more to come. California is on the cusp of legalization and cannabis has gained a cultural acceptance that no one would have predicted. “Our long nightmare is over,” Tommy declares early in the film, “Cheech & Chong are back together!”
I tend to agree.
http://hightimes.com/entertainment/rick/6367It was forty years ago when I was sixteen years old. It was going to be another night... more
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You may have heard such terms as Beasters or beasty buds once or twice before, phrases referring to the thick, heavy sinsemilla grown in western Canada, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, or BC (hence the name). Over the years, the reputation of Beasters has climbed steadily as new varieties have been produced by BC breeders—strains that compete every year in the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, and whose seeds are now popular in seed banks in Canada and all over the world.
Not surprisingly, most of these strains are developed in, and well-suited to, outdoor climates. But you may be taken aback just a bit by precisely where and how some of these seed companies are doing it. As the New York City slickers from the HIGH TIMES cultivation department navigated our way from city to island, it quickly became evident that there was going to be a lot more here than we had previously expected.
For Starters
To begin with, growing in BC is done in an overly beastly climate that comprises the moist, mountainous rain forests of northern Vancouver Island. Shocked as we were, it’s true – Vancouver Island is, in fact, the northern-most rainforest (technically called a temperate rainforest biome) in the world. And rain it does.
Unfortunately, for bud growers, this can cause problems in the flowering stages and shorten the grow season by a few weeks, severely affecting yields. The good news, however, is that the climate – when all is going according to schedule – can create the perfect breeding grounds for seed production and strain stabilization.
Forget the fact that, when trekking through the forests to the isolated grow patches, you’ll enjoy some unbelievable scenery with thrilling opportunities to spy on bears or lick Jurassic-sized slugs (turns out this gives better visuals than licking frogs). And forget the fact that you can make the two-hour drive over a winding dirt road – traversing both cliffs and rivers – and never cross paths with another living soul. Forget these nice things, that is, because at the end of the day, this is about hard work in even harder terrain.
The grow sites afforded here are only accessible at certain times and simply cannot receive all the attention that these breeders would like to give their crops. Then again, this is outdoor growing in BC, where the question from season to season is: Do we grow for bud, or do we grow for seed? The answer depends not only on the long-term weather forecasts, but also on the current marijuana markets.
For breeders in BC, there’s certainly a higher passion involved. Up here, more emotion goes into a farm than it would some skeleton house with a blown-out hydro operation. As Mr. Danko and I set out with our hosts and tour guides from a couple of local seed companies, I sensed immediately that these were my kind of people. I looked on, watching families load into the trucks, talking harvest talk and hyping up hopes for the various strains of fungi that we might also encounter on our journey through the dense forests. Despite the rain, it was beginning to look like a beautiful day….
CONTINUED>>> http://hightimes.com/grow/nico/6307You may have heard such terms as Beasters or beasty buds once or twice before, phrases... more
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In 1995, medical marijuana was illegal in all 50 states, national support for making marijuana legal hovered around 25 percent, and the sitting president denied that he had ever inhaled. Marijuana prohibition was more or less an accepted fact of American life.
At the same time – 15 years ago next month, to be exact – three unpaid staffers working in three separate bedrooms formed a new organization for the express purpose of reforming America’s marijuana laws and ending the costly, ineffective and downright silly prohibition of marijuana that’s been on the books since 1937. By the end of its first year, the Marijuana Policy Project had a modest 237 dues-paying members, and the dream of ending marijuana prohibition still seemed distant.
Today, MPP is the nation’s largest marijuana policy reform organization, with more than 29,000 members nationwide, 40 full-time employees, and headquarters on Capitol Hill. Fifteen years since its founding – the anniversary of which will be celebrated at a Washington, D.C. gala on January 13 – the Marijuana Policy Project, through lobbying, outreach and grassroots efforts, has helped to guide this nation’s marijuana laws away from insanity and ever closer toward common sense.
Since MPP was formed, national support for ending the disastrous policies of marijuana prohibition has nearly doubled to an all-time high of 44 percent, according to a Gallup poll; medical marijuana is legal in 13 states, and our current president not only admitted to inhaling, but directed his administration to take the first positive steps toward marijuana reform that the federal government has made in nearly 30 years.
For perhaps the first time in MPP’s brief 15-year history, the end of marijuana prohibition may actually be on the horizon. But there is still much work that needs to be done.
Despite the decriminalization of marijuana in 13 states (Massachusetts became the most recent in 2008 when its voters passed an MPP ballot initiative with a whopping 65 percent “yes” vote), hundreds of thousands of Americans are still being arrested for marijuana offenses every year. In 2008 alone, U.S. law enforcement made 847,863 arrests for marijuana charges – 89 percent of which were for possession. That means that an American was arrested on marijuana charges every 37 seconds.
Although there are now 13 states with medical marijuana laws (the most recent passed in 2008 in Michigan, where voters overwhelmingly approved MPP’s ballot initiative), seriously ill patients who live in 37 other states still face arrest and imprisonment for treating their conditions with medical marijuana. The Obama administration signaled an encouraging change this fall when the Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to back off patients in states with medical marijuana laws, but marijuana itself remains a Schedule I drug under federal law. (In a historic move, the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest and generally most conservative public health group, last month recommended that this classification be reconsidered.)
And our nation’s drug czar, who many reformers view with cautious optimism as potentially more enlightened than his predecessors, still insists that “marijuana legalization, for any purpose, remains a non-starter” that it is in neither his nor the president’s vocabulary.
But for all these hurdles, there are just as many encouraging signs.
This month, Pennsylvania’s state legislature will hold its first-ever hearing on a medical marijuana bill. Iowa’s Board of Pharmacy concluded a series of four such hearings in November. MPP staffers testified at both. As we approach 2010, nearly a dozen different states are in varying stages of considering medical marijuana legislation, and several (New Jersey and New York) are poised to pass such laws in coming months.
And then, of course, there’s the big question: Which state could be the first to undo the chains of prohibition altogether, and set a positive example for the rest of the nation by taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol? Last month, California’s state assembly held public hearings on a bill that would do just that. Next month, a Rhode Island study commission is expected to issue a report to the state Senate that could be a step in that direction. At the same time, MPP’s Nevada chapter is rallying support for a proposal to tax and regulate marijuana in that state, and more than half-a-million signatures have been collected in California to place a tax and regulate measure on the 2010 ballot.
Against these events, editorial boards across the nation are calling for an end to marijuana prohibition, and major news outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post are beginning to forecast seismic changes in national marijuana policy.
Fifteen years ago, such progress seemed unimaginable. With perseverance, a little luck, and your continued support, perhaps in another 15 years, supporters of marijuana policy reform will be able to look back on the end of marijuana prohibition entirely – and have the legal option of a celebratory toast with a substance safer than alcohol.
http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6055In 1995, medical marijuana was illegal in all 50 states, national support for making... more
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Reclaiming his throne as Amsterdam's self-crowned "King of Cannabis," Arjan of the Green House took home this year's award for top coffeeshop at the 22nd Annual HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup. Green House, one of Amsterdam's best known shops, along with its affiliated seed company, has won more Cannabis Cups than anyone else, including back to back awards for top coffeeshop.
With a strain called Super Lemon Haze, Green House bested 28 other shops in a tightly contested vote by more than 3,000 judges from all over the world. Expert judges arranged by HIGH TIMES magazine, including California medical marijuana providers the Berkeley Patients Group, judged a separate competition among cannabis seed providers.Reclaiming his throne as Amsterdam's self-crowned "King of Cannabis,"... more
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FEATURES
CHU KNOW IT!
By Carl Schreck
Journey to Kazakhstan’s legendary Chu Valley, where potent pot grows wild and the locals make up to 6,000 tons of high-quality hash every year.
PSYCHEDELIC DESERT TOADS
By Elise McDonough
In the Sonoran Desert, there lives a strange toad called Bufo alvarius, whose venom contains the natural entheogen 5-MeO-DMT. Drying and smoking the venom brings on an intense psychedelic experience that can change the user’s reality forever.
INDOOR GROW SPECIAL
By the HIGH TIMES Cultivation Department
Whether you’ve grown 10,000 pot plants indoors or are making the leap for the first time, HIGH TIMES’ all-new official guide to indoor marijuana growing will give you the information you’ll need to raise a crop of spectacular plants, from seed to harvest, time and time again.
THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
Story & photos by Freebie
The Mothership sets a new standard for commercial-warehouse grow ops. Pay attention, all you attic growers and backyard fanatics: That pot factory you always dreamed of is only a few blocks away.
RICK SIMPSON'S HEMP-OIL MEDICINE
By Steven Hager
Why is the Canadian government persecuting him, why does the media ignore him, and where is the American Cancer Society when you need them?
THE HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: ALANIS MORISSETTE
By Dan Skye
She’s one of the top female recording artists of all time. But Alanis Morissette is more than just a rock star: She lives her life according to her own ever-evolving code, which includes an unabashed affection for cannabis. Check out Alanis in the gardens of NoCal!
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HIGHWITNESS NEWS/BUZZ
Edited by Dan Skye
Wrestling vixen tokes up; Mexico decrim; Rhode Island rules; Boston Freedom Rally; Peltier denied; Glass major; Bottle bats; Brownie buzz; Knight of rock; Showbuzz; San Diego dispensaries raided; Justice in Colorado; Marijuana: the Real Smart Drug; HIGH TIMES Stony Awards; Easy Star All-Stars; Blazed and Confused; Black Dahlia Murder; Reviews; Band of the Month; Miss HT; Almost Infamous; Brain Damage Control.
GROWORLD
Edited by Danny Danko & Nico Escondido
Pix of the Crop; Cannabis Clinic; Munchies; NORMLizer; Freedom Fighter; Ask Dr. Mitch; Growroom Security; Gear/Hot Products; Dear Danko; Grow Quiz; Tip of the Month.
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The secrets of teen stars made it onto the cover of 'Tiger Beat,' which means they're in 'We've Got You Covered,' Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of the glossies. Also includes photos from the frontlines, Rivers vs. Leno, Abdul vs. DeGeneres, Griffin vs. Winfrey, 35 years of weed, Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, Joe Mantegna and Jason Alexander, baby names, 2012, Iran's nuke threat, goodbye to some Conde Nast titles, sex changes, and pest control!
We've Got You Covered is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of We've Got You Covered, Conor Knighton catches you up on everything you need to know about what's in this week's magazines. For more We've Got You Covered visit: http://current.com/groups/weve-got-you-covered/
and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.The secrets of teen stars made it onto the cover of 'Tiger Beat,' which... more
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This week on infoMania Mo'Nique, Mo Problems, doctor shows get a check up, Bryan looks at hip hop's gay problems, Sergio counts down the top five music videos on iTunes, and Brett investigates YouTube's dipping community.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infoMania Mo'Nique, Mo Problems, doctor shows get a check up, Bryan... more
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If you love weed, odds are you've fantasized about moving to Amsterdam and working at a coffeeshop. Well this Spring, HIGH TIMES Senior Editor Bobby Black got to live out that fantasy when he spent a week working at two of Holland's coolest smoke spots—Amnesia and Barney's. In this unprecedented exposé, he'll take you behind the smoke and mirrors to reveal first-hand what it’s really like to work in a Dutch coffeeshop.If you love weed, odds are you've fantasized about moving to Amsterdam and... more
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As the Senior Editor of High Times Magazine, David Bienenstock has traveled the world writing about marijuana. He has interviewed everyone from growers to dealers to prisoners to politicians, which means he knows just about everything there is to know about pot.
Check out www.revelinnewyork.com for more videos and for David's personalized city and culture guide to New York.As the Senior Editor of High Times Magazine, David Bienenstock has traveled the world... more
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If you do more than smoke marijuana then you have heard of Jet Baker. The singer, songwriter, and all-around NORML guy from Texas has been ubiquitous in counter-culture circles. Performing at a NORML event in Austin, Texas this weekend Jet took time out from his busy schedule to talk with Estoy Pacheco.
This is part I of that interview - the making of a pot star.
EP: You are doing a gig for NORML in Austin, Texas this weekend. How did that come about?
Jet: I saw my name on the flyer for the party. A friend of mine showed it to me. Soon after I was asked by TXNORML to perform at the event. They said they knew I’d do it if I was in town.
They were right.If you do more than smoke marijuana then you have heard of Jet Baker. The singer,... more
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After reviewing a new political advertisement calling for the full legalization of marijuana in America, NBC’s highly rated Today Show took on a debate of the issue. High honors go to Marijuana Policy Project’s Aaron Houston for presenting our side's common sense arguments, including reminding the rest of the world that marijuana is far safer than alcohol. Make no mistake, we are winning this debate, and a new poll out today showing the highest support ever recorded for legalization proves the point!After reviewing a new political advertisement calling for the full legalization of... more
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Ms. Wilde made it onto the cover of 'Maxim,' which means she made it into 'We've Got You Covered,' Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of what's in the glossies. He reads them so you don't have to. Also includes the future of America, Attorney General Eric Holder, Bush torture policies, Sarah Palin, tips on how to stay young, Jesse James, the war on drugs, Soulja Boy, lubes, greases, and granny pubes.
We've Got You Covered is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of We've Got You Covered, Conor Knighton catches you up on everything you need to know about what's in this week's magazines. For more We've Got You Covered visit: http://current.com/topics/88829107_weve-got-you-covered/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Ms. Wilde made it onto the cover of 'Maxim,' which means she made it into... more
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This week on infoMania Judge Sotomayor gets judged herself. The news has some super helpful summer hints. Dating advice has Sarah confused. Online demo reels have Brett entertained. And Lauren Conrad's new novel has Ben engrossed.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infoMania Judge Sotomayor gets judged herself. The news has some super... more
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A lot of people think that the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful opponents to marijuana’s legalization. They don’t realize that these companies stand to make billions of dollars off of the chemical compounds contained in marijuana in a legal regulatory climate. The reality is that the current restrictions on marijuana make scientific research on marijuana-related pharmaceuticals too expensive to pursue, and the restrictive regulatory climate concerning anything related to marijuana creates too much uncertainty about future sales and profits to justify developing marijuana related drugs. Even if marijuana were legal and widely available, there would still be a valuable market for a marijuana-based painkiller that was 50 to 100 times more powerful than the herb itself.
Many others think the alcohol industry is another potential opponent to marijuana’s legalization. However, they realize that the popularity of alcohol has withstood the test of time, not to mention marijuana’s immense popularity over the last several decades. Legal marijuana is not a threat to their profits, and if it were, they would just enter the business themselves.
But if not the pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, what are the greatest obstacles to marijuana’s legalization? Here’s a list of the top ten obstacles. They can all be overcome, but they all represent formidable opponents to marijuana reform.
#10 - Conservative opposition to the Obama Administration. A cautionary note – there are many conservatives in favor of legalizing marijuana, and not just dedicated libertarians. For example, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, wrote a superb article in favor of marijuana reform in 2001. But there aren’t many conservatives who support the Obama Administration. For example, also turn to the National Review, particularly their popular blog, The Corner, for a good sampling of conservative criticism of the President, his agenda and his policies.A lot of people think that the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful... more
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