Anslinger’s Climb
By Fred Gardner America’s original Drug Czar, Harry Anslinger, was born in 1892, the eighth...
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Category: Second Column
Add Medicinal Plants: Foxglove
Foxglove yields the invaluable heart drug digitalis. The medical properties of foxglove had been...
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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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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Sativex Moved to Schedule 4 in England
April 10 GW Pharmaceuticals’ stock almost doubled on the news that the British government...
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