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Madison Margolin

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Psychedelic Jewish journalist. Author, Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass & Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground

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Madison Margolin’s Biography

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I’m a New York/Los Angeles-based journalist, with a specialty writing about Jews and drugs. I also cover science, culture, and policy. My writing appears daily in Jane Street Journal, and has been featured, among other places, in Motherboard/VICE, Playboy, the LA Weekly, High Times, Rolling Stone, Times of Israel, the Forward, Inverse, and the Village Voice, where I had a column on cannabis. I’ve also appeared on KPFK’s The 420 Files, the High Times podcast, KNCE’s Wake Up Taos, and other shows…

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Was Moses tripping when he saw the burning bush? Should you try?

Was Moses tripping when he saw the burning bush? Should you try?

NEW YORK - Spiritual leader Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert, a nice Jewish boy from Boston. But in 1963, the…

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Can Medical and Recreational Weed Coexist?

Can Medical and Recreational Weed Coexist?

On November 8, constituents in nine states will vote on medical or recreational, known as adult use, marijuan…

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What's Really Inside Your Cannabis Vape Cartridge? - MERRY JANE

What's Really Inside Your Cannabis Vape Cartridge? - MERRY JANE

Nearly every week it seems like there's a new vape product on the market. Even though dried cannabis flowers …

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Why the Architect of New York's Medical Marijuana Law Is Already Trying to Change It

Why the Architect of New York's Medical Marijuana Law Is Already Trying to Change It

On a frigid March morning in downtown Albany, where church spires loom tall and traffic lights dangle from wi…

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Kosher Internet: A Niche, But Necessary Market for Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Kosher Internet: A Niche, But Necessary Market for Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Jonathan was 20 when he left orthodox Jewish school, or yeshiva, and got his first computer: a ThinkPad lapto…

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Trichome Israel: Inside Job

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By Madison Margolin Verified
| newsbudz.com
NewsBudz is your go-to app for daily cannabis news, covering everything from medical marijuana breakthroughs to recreational cannabis trends and legalization updates. Our platform aggregates content from over 30 top-tier cannabis news outlets to deliver a curated stream of the latest headlines, insights, and developments across the marijuana and hemp industries.
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Trichome Israel: Inside Job

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By Madison Margolin Verified
| Cannabis Now Verified
Once upon a time, Jerusalem was known to be the Amsterdam of the Middle East. As the through route of the cannabis trade from Lebanon to Egypt, the Holy Land became decked with hashish dens and coffee shops, frequented by cannabis aficionados of any creed or race. As such, the legacy of cannabis culture has deep roots in a region riddled with wounding that runs just as deep, demanding a medicine to treat it.
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Cannabis/Drug Books of 2023

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By Sean Howe, Catherine Hiller, Willie Nelson, Madison Margolin Verified
| CelebStoner
• Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times and the Paranoid End of the '70a By Sean Howe High Times finally has a biography. Tom Forçade founded the magazine in 1974, five years after arriving in New York from Arizona as the self=professed king of the underground press. He ran with Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and the Yippies, then turned his back on them. He believed in revolutionary politics but was so often deranged even Hunter S. Thompson said Forcade was too wild for him.
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