All posts tagged "reefer madness"
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Culture
Reefer Madness Is Back
June 4, 2024The cult classic, now being retold as a musical, premiered May 30 in Hollywood and will...
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Legal
Medical Cannabis User Challenges Urine-Test Regime for Workers
April 14, 2023Rights for medicinal cannabis users in the workplace haven’t kept pace with the law in states...
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Culture
Why the Stoner Stereotype Keeps Shifting
December 29, 2022Consistently blamed for an inconsistent list of societal hills, cannabis remains a powerful front in the...
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Culture
Murderer Won’t Stand Trial Because ‘Cannabis Use’ Caused Psychosis, Court Rules
January 5, 2020This is what it looks like when reefer madness wins in court.
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Joint Opinions
Harvard Professor Writes Questionable Defense of Trump’s Reefer Madness
September 28, 2019Kevin P. Hill offers a signal-boost of the U.S. Surgeon General’s cannabis advisory that nobody needed.
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Medical
Yet Another Pot-Psychosis Link Claimed: More Reefer Madness?
March 25, 2019Once again, a scientific study with questionable assumptions linking cannabis use to psychiatric maladies gets widespread...
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Joint Opinions
The SAM Old Half-Truths About Cannabis Legalization
March 1, 2019New Project SAM poll finds only 11% support for marijuana prohibition.
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Books
In a Tired & Skewed Refrain, ‘Tell Your Children’ Links Cannabis Use to Madness
January 9, 2019Does cannabis make you crazy? One new book is arguing yes, and is ignoring most of...
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Politics
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign
November 7, 2018Sessions is being replaced by his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker who will serve as acting...
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Politics
Jeff Sessions Resigns & the Cannabis Industry Celebrates With Caution
November 7, 2018At Trump’s request, the famously anti-cannabis attorney general Jeff Sessions resigned today.
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Strains
Stop Saying ‘Skunk’ & Just Say Cannabis
June 16, 2018In the United Kingdom, any cannabis with more than 10 percent THC is referred to as...
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Culture
Casual Cannabis Use on TV Is Becoming Common
April 14, 2018Marijuana on television appears to be normalizing, as media companies start to accurately portray the realities...
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Cannabis
Report After Report: Legal Pot Doesn’t Increase Youth Use
April 6, 2017It's the enduring war cry of the prohibitionist: think of the children! But recent reports (along with dozens...
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Cannabis
False Alarm: There Was Never THC In Colorado Town’s Water
July 26, 2016Officials now say the initial test was a false positive but did not specify what method...
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Joint Opinions
Children Accidentally Exposed to Pharmaceuticals 375% More Often Than Cannabis
March 26, 2016An issue often reported in the news is children accidentally eating their parents edibles, but how commonplace is...
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In The Magazine
The United States of Prohibition – History Set to Repeat Itself
March 14, 2016By the time the 21st Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933, alcohol’s 14-year position as...
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Legal
CO Launches New Cannabis Awareness Campaign For Minors
August 23, 2015The State of Colorado, which has operated a successful cannabis industry for over the past year...
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Medical
Study Debunked: Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis
March 16, 2015The newest in what some would consider to be a long line of media smear campaigns...
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Legal
TV May Help Shape Adults’ Attitudes Towards Cannabis
November 18, 2014Although television can sometimes get a bad rap, lots of people find that zoning out in...
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Joint Opinions
The Return of Reefer Madness
September 17, 2014There was a time not so long ago, around the turn of the 1930s, when the...