An email just arrived from YouTube with the subject line “We have rejected your content.” Years ago I used Garage Band to sync graphics with some songs and put them up online. Never tried to drive traffic to the site and forgot about it. Now this blast from the past…
Over time the graphics have gotten out of sync, but The Ballad of Grinspoon & Guy holds up! I’ll try to find out what “Community Guidelines” we violated. Telling the truth about history?
In 2003 O’Shaughnessy’s broke the news about GW Pharmaceuticals’ special ingredient: Cannabidiol (CBD). In the same issue we ran Dr. Lester Grinspoon’s warning about “the pharmaceuticalization of marijuana.” When GW’s CEO, Dr. Geoffrey Guy, said that Grinspoon’s piece hurt his feelings a bit, I reminded him that praise from Grinspoon would have done his company no good with the FDA. He got that and we stayed on pretty good terms.
