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RIP Randy Givens

From Chris Conrad: I’m saddened to bear the news of Randy Givens’ passage in San Francisco Feb. 5, 2013 at age 73 after years of poor health. Randy was a real character in the San Francisco activist scene. He was a...

Good Physician Barred from Practicing Medicine

By Joanne Benzor, MD It’s been tough at times, juggling medicine and motherhood. I never wanted children until I hit 30. Then I wanted four of them. I had four kids in seven years while being in solo practice that didn’t include...

Generals Grant and Lee Agreed…

Vancouver-based hemp historian Chris Bennett has discovered an issue of a journal published in the...

Proposing a new classification: “Cannabis Indoor”

By DJ Short Most of the lines of cannabis offered today to medical users —and to cultivators, as...

A Little-Known Positive Development

By O’Shaughnessy’s News Service California’a Department of Social Services (DSS)...

The Farmers Market Model

By Paul Meyer, MD An innovative approach from Michigan: the not-for-profit Genesee County...

‘Whatever Happened to Hemp?’

“The hemp issue bridged the gap between the late ‘80s and the explosion of interest in...

Old Home Week at the NORML Conference

Trim, white-haired Tom Hayden gave a talk at the NORML conference in Los Angeles Oct. 4. NORML is...

Paternoism

As Issac Campos notifies us in Home Grown, the American war on marijuana didn’t start with Harry...

Author: Fred Gardner