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Grateful Dead SF Shows a Historic First for Legal Weed

AUDIO – FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN – July 22, 2025 - For the first time in history, fans at next month’s Dead and Company shows in Golden Gate Park will be able to purchase cannabis legally, according to Robby Saady, a vic... Read More...

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Cannabis Risks Spotlighted as Celebrities Push for Marijuana Reform

VIDEO – MIKE’S MANDATE – July 1, 2025 - Journalist and author Alex Berenson explains the dangers of cannabis as celebrity athletes call on President Donald Trump to reform marijuana laws. CONTINUE@Fox ... Read More...

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More Seniors Are Getting High

NOT HEALTHY – June 20, 2025 - Where are the calls for senior-focused prevention? This is no different, after all, from a near-50 percent jump in teen use over two years. The fact that these are in general older peopl... Read More...

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Cannabis Use Can Double Risk of Heart Deaths

NOT HIGH NOW – June 17, 2025 - Cannabis use may double the risk of dying from heart disease and increase the risk of stroke by 20%. While previous studies have linked cannabis use to cardiovascular pro... Read More...

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Marijuana Use By Older Adults Climbs to New Highs

STILL AT WOODSTOCK? – June 3, 2025 - In 2023, roughly 7 percent of adults 65 and older reported using the drug in the past month. Researchers found marijuana use among older adults who are college-educated, higher-in... Read More...

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Want to Quit Alcohol? Stay Away From THC!

NO MARIJUANA MARTINIS? – March 19, 2025 - Swapping one addictive, mind-altering substance for another isn’t harm reduction; it is exploitation and a tried-and-true marketing tactic of the addiction-for-profit i... Read More...

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Young People Aren’t Drinking Alcohol: They’re Sipping Cans of THC

NO LUNG CANCER – May 18, 2025 - Instead of ending a long day with a glass of wine, 26-year-old Bre Giglio pulls out her favorite THC drink, which contains a cannabis compound and gives her a soothing buzz... Read More...

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‘I smoked weed like it was crack’: The addiction crisis no one’s talking about

PUFF THE MAGIC DRAG ON – April 27, 2025 - It was fun in the beginning. As a high school student in San Diego, Zach would get high with his friends at an abandoned construction site next to his school. Afterward... Read More...

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D.C. Shuts 50th Weed Shop Amid Cannabis Crackdown

GET DRUNK INSTEAD? – April 24, 2025 - The city is moving aggressively to shut down the once-thriving gray market — a matter of public safety, and also essential for the legal medical cannabis industry to ... Read More...

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‘Days before he died he told us marijuana had ruined his life’ Laura Stack on losing her 19-year-old son

BEWARE – April 2, 2025 - Laura Stack’s oldest child Johnny died by suicide in 2019 after years of struggling with cannabis-induced psychosis. Now she travels the world warning young people of the dangers of the... Read More...

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Pro-marijuana Group Airing Ads Around White House and Mar-a-Lago

BONG BONG BONG – April 1, 2025 - President Donald Trump as a candidate vowed to decriminalize marijuana and make it easier for weed companies to obtain bank accounts and for universities to research the drug. N... Read More...

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Can Legal Weed Make You Sick?

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE – March 24, 2025 - Zarha Ruiz, branch chief of environmental compliance and manufacturing safety at the Department of Cannabis Control. For cannabis, unlike for brownie mix or Tylenol, th... Read More...

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Alarming Heart Risks for Marijuana Users

EVEN THE STONED DIE YOUNG – March 18, 2024 - The retrospective study found that cannabis users under 50 were more than six times as likely to experience a heart attack compared to non-users. Meanwhile, th... Read More...

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Weed Use During Pregnancy Triples Risk Of Behavioral Problems In Kids

AUDIO – CREATE BAIL MONEY FUND? – March 13, 2025 -“Cannabinoid ingredients can cross the placenta and enter breast milk, potentially affecting brain development,” senior researcher Rosa Alati, head of population hea... Read More...

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New Drug for Mitigation of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms

AUDIO – HIGH-Ho – Feb. 14, 2025 - The CDC reports that among individuals who use cannabis, approximately 3 in 10 have cannabis use disorder. The risk of developing cannabis use disorder is even higher for individual... Read More...

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Schizophrenia Cases Triple Due to Heavy Cannabis Use

WEEDS IN THE WIRING – Feb. 4, 2025 - Experts say the new study, which looked at more than 13.5 million medical records of all individuals aged 14 to 65 between 2006 and 2022, adds to growing evidence that heavy... Read More...

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Frequent Marijuana Use May F**k Up Your Memory

VIDEO – WHO AM I? – Jan. 28, 2025 - An example is checking your blind spot when driving down the road,” Gowin said. “When you look back in front of you, you need to remember what you saw in the blind spot before you... Read More...

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Allison Holker’s Daughter Breaks Silence

TALKING ADDICTION – Jan. 11, 2025 - In videos shared by The Shade Room from Weslie Fowler’s Instagram livestream, she speaks openly about everything, from the current state of her family after Stephen “tWitch” ... Read More...

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Massive Study of Young Brains Puts “gateway drug” Theory Into Doubt

RETHINK IT – Jan. 6, 2025 - The gateway drug theory and many other ideas about drug use have been put into question in recent years as more resources are dedicated to understanding substance use, which has been highl... Read More...

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More Teens Using Dangerously Potent Pot for Intense Highs

“People can become psychotic.” – Dec. 22, 2024 - Heidi Lawrence’s daughter was 14 when she began dabbing—heating and inhaling the fumes from powerful globs of marijuana extract. By 15, the girl couldn’t resist the qu... Read More...

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Elton John’s Broken Yellow Brick Road

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING – Dec. 11, 2024 - “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally,” he said. “Legalizing m... Read More...

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Where does that leave marijuana?

TIME WILL TELL – Nov. 11, 2024 - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to come to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or reverse. The Biden administration has moved to ease longtime ... Read More...

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes – Cancer Risk

POT IS SO OBSOLETE – Nov. 15, 2024 - Cannabis is a “genotoxic” substance because it damages a cell’s genetic information, which can lead to DNA mutations, accelerated aging, and cancer. To make matters wo... Read More...

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Exposure to Weed in the Womb Can Increase Addiction to Opioids Later in Life

HIGH MODERN FAMILY – Nov. 13, - 2024 - As many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug to help with morning sickness, lower back pain or anxiety. Evidence has been growing, however, to sugge... Read More...

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Marijuana Home Delivery Begins in Arizona

HOME SWEET HOME – Oct. 29, 2024 - Officials with the Arizona Dispensaries Association said the new delivery program is expected to expand access across the state. “We are thrilled that the department of health’s p... Read More...

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Will 5 States Legalize Marijuana and Psychedelics This Week?

ECSTASY ON THE BALLOT – Oct. 30, 2024 - The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics i... Read More...

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Musical Youth – Pass The Dutchie

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 50,272,624 views - June 17, 2022 - As featured in Netflix’s series Stranger Things, season 4. CONTINUE@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyUa63NM1E ... Read More...

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America’s Embrace of Marijuana

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Harris Pledges to Help Black Men by Legalizing Marijuana

IT’S ABOUT TIME – Oct. 14, 2024 - According to FBI data, U.S. law enforcement agencies made roughly 217,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses last year. Black Americans, who make up 13.7 percent of the U.S. popu... Read More...

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Can America’s Divide on Weed be Receding?

HOPE SO – Sept. 11, 2024 - Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia — representing 53% of the nation’s population — have legalized marijuana. The Justice Department in May proposed to reclassify marijuana from... Read More...

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