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just how does lsd affect your consciousness?

December 1, 2020December 20, 2015

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JUST HOW DOES LSD affect human consciousness? This question has puzzled users and investigators for more than seventy years. Personally, I have been more amazed and filled with joy wonder awe at the Universe/Void/God than puzzled by the how of these things. [Continue reading]

on being toked and stoked

May 6, 2018October 19, 2014

EARLIER THIS YEAR, I responded to a posting on my Facebook page—it was an inquiry concerning my reputed stokedness now that I am legally a senior citizen—and in a somewhat derisive tone passed the whole thing off: “I was stoked once, but I forget when.” [Continue reading]

reefer sanity in Idaho: “I smoked weed and nobody died ”

April 25, 2018January 14, 2014

WE’RE NOT TV-WATCHERS in my house, so unless something outrageously happens, we are not up on what’s happening with contemporary commercials. That means that I occasionally see a spot from the Super Bowl because of the extraordinary attention those commercials get in the making and in the viewing. [Continue reading]

home-grown is the way it should be (amen!)

August 6, 2018January 8, 2014

THE TEASER USED TO LURE READERS to William Rivers Pitt’s thoughtful editorial on legalized and home-grown pot titled “Homegrown” is a pair of questions:“What is more caustic to this society: marijuana or thousands upon thousands of people consigned to the tender mercies of the penal system? [Continue reading]

hundreds of deaths due due to pot smoking in colorado!??!

June 29, 2018January 7, 2014

ON JANUARY 1, 2104, Colorado celebrated the first day of legal marijuana sales. The entire day was covered by various media outlets, large and small, reporting on the lines of jubilant customers. Alas, the next day, The Rocky Mountain News carried the headline “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization.” [Continue reading]

new york to allow medical marijuana?

August 6, 2018January 5, 2014

ACCORDING TO THE FOLKS over there at CBSNews, “New York would become the 21^st state to allow medical use of marijuana under an initiative Gov. Andrew Cuomo will unveil this week. Cuomo plans to use administrative powers rather than legislative action to allow a limited number of hospitals to dispense marijuana for certain ailments. [Continue reading]

david brooks conservatives marijuana (“been there done that”)

May 7, 2020January 5, 2014

DAVID BROOKS’ latest editorial (January 2, 2014) features the rather inane title of “Weed: Been There. Done That.” At least that’s how it appears on The New York Times website, the original publisher of Mr. [Continue reading]

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