Category - CBD News

Mike Tyson’s fight against Roy Jones Jr was a great promotional success for the boxers and perhaps even more for the marijuana legalization movement. Not so much for journalism. As USAToday reported it, “Mike Tyson said he smoked marijuana right before the fight… Absolutely...

From National Review Magazine / March 24, 1997 – “CORRECTION: In “For the Record” (Feb. 24) NR reported that Pope John Paul II wanted the Italian government to ban tobacco as a hard drug. In fact he was talking about marijuana. So the Pope is right about...

A long time ago, I was asked by someone new to the marijuana controversy how they could tell the difference between a prohibitionist and an anti-prohibitionist website. And who can they believe? It was actually very easy. A prohibitionist website never links to an anti-prohibitionist site...

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the FBI has raided homes and offices of officials the Los Angeles suburbs suspected of corruption in the issuance of local retail licenses for recreational marijuana. The Times reported, “Since California voters legalized recreational...

There hasn’t been much about the pandemic that is even vaguely amusing, but the cheers for Sweden’s pandemic policies from the American right are at least bemusing.  Sweden chose to avoid the “lockdown” that most of the rest of the world, including its Scandanavian neighbors, have...

When the Texas Legislature begins its regular biennial session next year, marijuana legalization, both medical and recreational, is going to be a topic. The state’s budget is going to face a massive deficit, hammered by both the pandemic and the collapse of the price of oil. Texas has far...

As an old white guy who grew up in the “Old South”, I really didn’t think a lot about the statues of old white guys in our parks, etc. On the other hand, I remember having total contempt for a small “monument” on the Texas Capitol grounds, “For States Rights and Our Southland.”  Not...

What a coincidence! America has a little less than 5% of the world population but 25% of the world’s prisoners and the world’s Covid cases. Here in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave (Pause for tears and laughter) we have far more people (per capita) in prison than any other...

At a NORML conference sometime back in the 1980s I met a guy named Jack Herer, who looked and sounded somewhat like an Old Testament Prophet. He actually owned a headshop in the San Fernando Valley, but he was telling us that “marijuana” was really something called “hemp”. Even...

There are some uses for cannabis that are medical, such as relief from nausea from chemotherapy, but others that may seem to be possibly “recreational”, such as enjoying listening to music. But for Seniors, is that really so clear? According to a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation...