All posts tagged "reefer madness"

Legal

Medical Cannabis User Challenges Urine-Test Regime for Workers

Rights for medicinal cannabis users in the workplace haven’t kept pace with the law in states...

Culture

Why the Stoner Stereotype Keeps Shifting

Consistently blamed for an inconsistent list of societal hills, cannabis remains a powerful front in the...

Culture

Murderer Won’t Stand Trial Because ‘Cannabis Use’ Caused Psychosis, Court Rules

This is what it looks like when reefer madness wins in court.

Joint Opinions

Harvard Professor Writes Questionable Defense of Trump’s Reefer Madness

Kevin P. Hill offers a signal-boost of the U.S. Surgeon General’s cannabis advisory that nobody needed.

Medical

Yet Another Pot-Psychosis Link Claimed: More Reefer Madness?

Once again, a scientific study with questionable assumptions linking cannabis use to psychiatric maladies gets widespread...

Joint Opinions

The SAM Old Half-Truths About Cannabis Legalization

New Project SAM poll finds only 11% support for marijuana prohibition.

Books

In a Tired & Skewed Refrain, ‘Tell Your Children’ Links Cannabis Use to Madness

Does cannabis make you crazy? One new book is arguing yes, and is ignoring most of...

Politics

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign

Sessions is being replaced by his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker who will serve as acting...

Politics

Jeff Sessions Resigns & the Cannabis Industry Celebrates With Caution

At Trump’s request, the famously anti-cannabis attorney general Jeff Sessions resigned today.

Strains

Stop Saying ‘Skunk’ & Just Say Cannabis

In the United Kingdom, any cannabis with more than 10 percent THC is referred to as...

Culture

Casual Cannabis Use on TV Is Becoming Common

Marijuana on television appears to be normalizing, as media companies start to accurately portray the realities...

Cannabis

Report After Report: Legal Pot Doesn’t Increase Youth Use

It's the enduring war cry of the prohibitionist: think of the children!  But recent reports (along with dozens...

Cannabis

False Alarm: There Was Never THC In Colorado Town’s Water

Officials now say the initial test was a false positive but did not specify what method...

Joint Opinions

Children Accidentally Exposed to Pharmaceuticals 375% More Often Than Cannabis

An issue often reported in the news is children accidentally eating their parents edibles, but how commonplace is...

In The Magazine

The United States of Prohibition – History Set to Repeat Itself

By the time the 21st Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933, alcohol’s 14-year position as...

Legal

CO Launches New Cannabis Awareness Campaign For Minors

The State of Colorado, which has operated a successful cannabis industry for over the past year...

Medical

Study Debunked: Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis

The newest in what some would consider to be a long line of media smear campaigns...

Legal

TV May Help Shape Adults’ Attitudes Towards Cannabis

Although television can sometimes get a bad rap, lots of people find that zoning out in...

Joint Opinions

The Return of Reefer Madness

There was a time not so long ago, around the turn of the 1930s, when the...

Medical

Cannabis and Mental Illness: How Reefer Madness Heals the Mind

Photo by Prensa420/Flickr Despite the 1930’s Reefer Madness fear and smear campaign, as well as the...