marijuana

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/10/19
  

  Why Don't We Consider Cannabis Part of the American Herbal Renaissance

  by Nick Johnson

  From pill bottles to produce sections, modern medicine and agriculture have effectively distanced our relationship to the plants that matter most to us. 

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• 11-11-15
  

  This Is What’s Really Interesting About Ohio’s Vote Against Marijuana

  by Emily Dufton

  The big fear about legalization is that the pot business is ripe for corporate exploitation.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  7-14-15
  

  A More Historic Act of Clemency

  by Zach Hidin

  Commuting the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders may seem historic. But history sets the bar higher still.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4-20-15
  

  How 4/20 Became 4/20

  by A.J. McCarthy and Rachel Stewart

  Probably not the way you heard.

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• SOURCE: Ohio State Department of History
  May 2014
  

  The secret history of pot (it was made illegal in rapid response to Mexican immigrants smoking it)

  by Stephen Siff

  The speed with which Americans are now considering legalizing marijuana has taken everyone by surprise. But in the midst of this shift in public opinion and state law it is worth remembering the speed with which marijuana was made illegal.

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• 1-27-14
  

  You Won't Believe What Anti-Pot Crusaders Said About Weed in the 1970s

  by Emily Dufton

  Reefer madness, eat your heart out: One congressman from the '70s sais that youth marijuana use will leave America "with a large population of semi-zombies."

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• 1-20-14
  

  Why is Hemp Illegal?

  by Bradley J. Borougerdi

  The real reason hemp is illegal may surprise you -- it has everything to do with Orientalism.