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Mike Gray

Another ally has gone —Mike Gray. Among his creative accomplishments was a series of newspaper ads...

Anslinger’s Climb

By Fred Gardner America’s original Drug Czar, Harry Anslinger, was born in 1892, the eighth...

L-12 The Year of the Concentrate

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cannabis ‘Oil’ • “Dabs” Gaining Popularity by Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD • UCSF Hosts “MMJ1300A” —A CME Course for Doctors * SCC Study of Crohn’s Patients: a template for clinical research? • The...

Add Medicinal Plants: Foxglove

Foxglove yields the invaluable heart drug digitalis. The medical properties of foxglove had been...

A Sacred Day: 4/20

Today —we addicts call it “four twenty,” as in 4/20/13— is sacred because it is the day we can...

Preludes

Cannabis was introduced to the Americas by Slaves The Remarkable William Brooke O’Shaughnessy Cannabis Americana The Problem With Cannabis as Medicine in 1926 Roosevelt Ends Alcohol Prohibition Thelma White and the making...

The Prohibition of Marijuana

Narrated by Fred Gardner Act one, scene one of “Prohibition ’37,” a tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, U.S. industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing a...

Sativex Moved to Schedule 4 in England

April 10 GW Pharmaceuticals’ stock almost doubled on the news that the British government...

Trichomes Triumph Over Bedbugs

April 10 By O’S News Service A paper published today in The Journal of the Royal...

Author: Fred Gardner