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A Daughter Grows Up in the Middle of the War on Drugs
Luke Scarmazzo In 2004, Mr. Ricardo Montes, Luke’s high school friend, was in a car accident and sustained multiple injuries including a severe fracture to his hand which required surgery. Because he developed chronic severe pain following surgery, his doctor recommended that he try medical cannabis. Luke was already a cannabis patient at the time. The closest medical cannabis dispensaries were located over 100 miles away in San Francisco.
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TEST TEST TEST TEST (GOOD TEST THO – copy and pasted, and author in, tho author needs an edit) -TEST TEST TEST When I was eight years old I played outfield on my elementary school’s Little League baseball team. I wasn’t the best player, but I enjoyed playing.
California Could See Cannabis Coffeeshops on the Beach
As with California adults who want to grow their own marijuana, the luck of Californians who want a convenient place to consume it varies from place to place. For adults in conservative jurisdictions who live close to a school, for example, the legal landscape will look a whole lot like prohibition from the vantage of their bedroom closet, blinds drawn, and smoke filtered through a tube of toilet paper with a napkin of fabric softener wrapped over one end.
Marco Pave Spreads Social Activism Through Music & Cannabis
The massive “cannagar” is practically billowing smoke as we pass it back and forth between us on the top-floor patio of a lodge in the outskirts of Seattle; roughly 12 grams of cannabis with 3 grams of rosin, all wrapped up in cured cannabis leaves — the cannagar is the perfect expression of decriminalization and the freedom that comes with it. My smoking partner — Memphis, Tennessee-based rapper and activist Marco Pavé — is relishing that freedom with particular gusto.
The Waldos, 420 & A Commemorative Beer
If you squint hard enough, at the right places, Marin County, California in 2018 can resemble the Marin County, California, of the early 1970s. If Hunter S. Thompson was right, and the ethos of “San Francisco in the middle sixties” was a great wave of different, resistant energy that would break, crash and recede into the hedonism, selfishness and cynicism that marked the decades to come, at least some of the refugee flotsam from that idealist crest survived.
Marijuana: An Instrument of Peace
When I first met marijuana I recognized that she was an ally and that we would have a long relationship. We’ve spent a lot of time together. You could say that it has been a long-term relationship. The poet Rick James described his affair with the plant: I’m in love with Mary Jane. She’s my main thing. She makes me feel alright. She makes my heart sing. And when I’m feeling low, She comes as no surprise. Turns me on with her love. Takes me to paradise.
Mary Mi Amor: A 420 Poem from Prison
Luke Scarmazzo, a former state-legal dispensary owner now serving 20 years in prison under federal prohibition laws, pens a poem to the plant he loves. On 420, Cannabis Now celebrates the wonders of marijuana — and remembers those who are still being punished through our country’s unjust judicial system.
5 Ways to Celebrate Your Best 420
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The 420 holiday is unlike traditional celebrations cut from the dangling appendages of the American way. And by this we mean it is the only day throughout the year that the cannabis community really has to mix and mingle with other Mo-Fo’s of the same mindset while chiefing out extensively on the weird science highs presently on the scene.
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The People vs. Marijuana | Cannabis Now
ome of you may be familiar with my story, for those of you who aren’t, I am serving 22 years in federal prison for running a state-compliant marijuana dispensary. In the federal system, with good behavior, I must serve 19 years of it. Although we have made significant progress with state-level marijuana law reform, there’s still much to be done. For starters, we must fight for changes at the federal level and demand that every man and woman serving draconian prison terms for marijuana be sent home.
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