Should I Roll A Spliff Or A Jay?
How many times have you heard that statement? Probably way too many to count! Jesus, I can hardly imagine the amount of times I have heard this. However, it is an important question to ask before...
View Article#SSDP2014: Safety, Knowledge, And Passion
Currently, I am attending the 2014 Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference in Washington D.C. Over the past couple years I have been to many conferences in D.C., and throughout the United States,...
View ArticleEven More Proof That Marijuana Does Not Lower Your IQ
Social media will once again be flooded by legalization activists claiming the relative safety of marijuana as compared to legal drugs like alcohol. According to Christopher Ingraham, a Washington Post...
View ArticleOregon, DC, And Alaska Have A Chance To Save Big With Marijuana Legalization
An argument that doesn’t seem to have the weight it should among the legalization crowd is the amount that would be saved if the Drug War is ended. This argument should have a particular weight with...
View ArticleMarijuana Reform – Far From Hopeless, But Not Inevitable
In South Dakota, I am hard at work with Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Students For Liberty in order to educate others in truthful marijuana and drug education. Specifically, I am working to...
View ArticleWhat Happens After Marijuana Legalization?
My last article written was about staying away from believing marijuana legalization is inevitable, as that kind of thinking will only stall legalization efforts. However, I do not think it is crazy to...
View ArticleOklahoma Republicans Step Up for State’s Marijuana Rights
Recently, Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado concerning legalized marijuana. According to Jon Bruning, the Attorney General for Nebraska, Colorado is at odds with federal law, which...
View ArticleMedical Cannabis In South Dakota
As of today, 23 states across the United States have legalized medical marijuana for patients who need it. The uses for medical marijuana can range from treating seizure disorders to alleviating...
View ArticleWomen Of The Cannabis Movement: Stacia Cosner, Deputy Director Of Students...
For the past several months, an important conversation has been discussed more and more in the cannabis movement/industry: women and feminism. This is a discussion I not only find important, but one...
View ArticleShould Marijuana Be Legal Just Because it is Safe?
Working with Students for Sensible Drug Policy and writing for the Weed Blog, I am constantly surrounded by legalization activists. My Twitter feed, my Facebook news feed, and casual conversations at...
View ArticleMarijuana Policy Project Reports Rise In Marijuana Arrests
Nobody gets arrested for marijuana anymore? Really? This is what marijuana activists hear a lot these days, as it is a way to diminish their work in drug policy reform. People that support drug policy...
View ArticleMarijuana Resort hosted by Native American Tribe in South Dakota
Since I live in South Dakota, this is incredibly exciting! I recently wrote that South Dakota has some of the worst drug policy laws in the United States, but we also have something that only a few...
View ArticleAre Dangerous Pesticides In Your Marijuana?
It seems that the talk of the cannabis industry right now is pesticides being used by growing operation in Colorado. Over the past few years, the marijuana industry has gone fairly unregulated on how...
View ArticleIs North Korea 420 Friendly?
North Korea is home to one of the most oppressive governments of the Earth today. In the country, there is absolutely no private ownership, and everything belongs to the state. It is estimated that...
View ArticleRand Paul’s Enlightening Words To Jeb Bush About Marijuana
During the second Republican Debate, the topic of marijuana was brought up and Rand Paul started the discussion like this: “I think one of the great problems, and what the American people don’t like...
View ArticleIs Marijuana Shaming A Real Thing?
With the social justice movement gaining more and more momentum, the word “shaming” continuously gets thrown around a lot. There is fat-shaming, skinny-shaming, slut-shaming, virgin-shaming,...
View ArticleSo What if People Would Abuse a Medical Marijuana System?
As an activist, there are a plethora of excuses you hear day today about why medical marijuana should not be legal, and one that always stands out to me is: “people will abuse medical marijuana.” Their...
View ArticleMarijuana’s Baptists And Bootleggers
The Baptist and Bootleggers theory is an economic idea that two very different groups of people with two very different goals will both push for very similar regulations and laws. Baptists being used...
View ArticleAnother Halloween Passes By And Kids Still Not Dropping Like Flies From...
Every single year. It happens every single year. There are millions upon millions of articles online about how concerned parents should be about their children’s candies. This concern has been going on...
View ArticleNew Approach South Dakota Submits 16,000 Signatures For Medical Marijuana
Over the past half year, I have been periodically posting about a medical marijuana petition drive happening in my state, South Dakota. Well it seems New Approach South Dakota has done it! New Approach...
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