Among critics of the federal prohibition of marijuana — a diverse and bipartisan group that includes both criminal justice reform advocates and Big Alcohol — the American Legion and its allies stand out. For more than a year, the stalwart …
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When Your Teenager Asks, ‘Did You Smoke Weed?’
Adolescents sometimes raise important topics by putting adults on the spot. When asked if they have ever used marijuana, many parents feel surprised, defensive or wary. But with new research confirming that parents who provide direct information, guidance or advice …
Read More »Marijuana Crop Is Burning in the California Wildfires
Fatal fires that have consumed nearly 200,000 acres in Northern California, devastating the region’s vineyards particularly in Napa and Sonoma Counties, are also taking a toll on a fledgling industry just months before its debut: recreational marijuana. Many of the …
Read More »Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No.
McMinnville, Ore. — “This is hostile territory. Everyone hates us.” I was riding up a steep hill near Highway 18 one August afternoon when Richard Wagner blurted out what his lawyer had told me weeks earlier: No one wanted to …
Read More »Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here. If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board.
LAYTONVILLE, Calif. — From the sky they look like citrus groves, neat rows of lush emerald-colored plants set amid the hills of Northern California. But as a police reconnaissance helicopter banked for a closer look on a recent afternoon, the …
Read More »The Cheap Charms, Altered and Otherwise, of Portland, Ore.
The trick was figuring out where to get high. Even in Portland, Ore., where marijuana was legalized for nonmedical cultivation and use in 2015, it’s still illegal to just light up on the street, as well as in most hotels. …
Read More »Make Pot Legal for Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury
The explosion that wounded me during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2010 left me with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. In 2012 I was medically retired from the Marine Corps because of debilitating migraines, vertigo and crippling …
Read More »Pot Was Flying Off the Shelves in Uruguay. Then U.S. Banks Weighed In.
The pharmacies selling pot were doing a brisk business. After Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana sales for recreational use last month, some of the pharmacies struggled to keep up with the demand. Then …
Read More »Is Canada Ready for Legal Marijuana?
MONTREAL — Black-market marijuana has been very good for Michael. For 22 years, he has grown and sold the stuff in and around Montreal. An illegal activity punishable by up to life in prison, selling the pungent bounty that he …
Read More »Tiger Woods Had 5 Drugs in His System After Arrest, Police Report Says
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a D.U.I. charge earlier this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the …
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