Heylo / Phil Donley Laurel Friesen graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in environmental chemistry, and her plan was to go to medical school. However, she realized cannabis had healing properties that scientists had not explored, and that working with traditional medicine was not going to allow her to explore them either, so she […]
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Cannabis Guide 2020: Surviving COVID with Weed (and Cannabis Hand Sanitizer)
Laurel Friesen graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in environmental chemistry, and her plan was to go to medical school. However, she realized cannabis had healing properties that scientists had not explored, and that working with traditional medicine was not going to allow her to explore them either, so she charted her own path. […]
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NY Attorney General Sues NRA for Fraud, Self-Dealing, and Other Alleged Illegal Conduct
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, on the right, will have to pay back millions if New York’s attorney general gets her way. Oh yeah, and his organization will be dissolved. Scott Olson/Getty Images From the Washington Post: The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in a decades-long pattern […]
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Portland’s Yale Union Arts Center Gives Its Building and Land to a Native Organization
The Yale Union arts center. Courtesy Yale Union Yale Union, a Portland art center established in 2010, announced yesterday that as of 2021, it will no longer exist. Its historic building, its 9,400 square-foot exhibition space, its approximately 20,000 square feet of office space, and the land it sits on have been repatriated to the […]
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“Can We Smoke Weed Right Now?” Dr. Sunil Aggarwal on Cannabis and COVID-19
Dr. Sunil Aggarwal is the co-founder and co-director of the AIMS Institute. Photo by Lester Black As a mysterious respiratory illness sweeps across the planet, medical marijuana patients and recreational users alike have been looking at their bongs and wondering: Is this a bad idea? In a wide-ranging interview Dr. Sunil Aggarwal—co-founder and co-director of […]
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Elizabeth Warren Roasts Her Competitors Alive
Raise your hand if you brought a bazooka to this debate. Mario Tama / Getty Images If you woke up this morning to the scent of burnt flesh in the air, that’s because Elizabeth Warren cooked Michael Bloomberg over an open flame at last night’s debate in Nevada. He was not the only one on […]
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Joe Biden Is Running Scared
Joe Biden flew to South Carolina on the day of the New Hampshire primary because he really, really didn’t want to be in New Hampshire when the results came in. Sean Rayford / Getty Images Joe Biden, who has been re-running Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, complete with that air of inevitability that didn’t work for […]
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Cleanness Book Review: Garth Greenwell Carries on in the Tradition of Virginia Woolf, But With A Lot More Sex
ORIETTE D’ANGELO A lot of contemporary literary fiction does nothing for me. It doesn’t attach to my brain. It’s fine. It’s not intense enough. My favorite novelist, Virginia Woolf, once wrote in an essay that “moments of great intensity” are what matter most in life and in fiction. After a funeral, she wrote in a […]
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Breaking: Not Every Republican Senator Is a Spineless, Enabling Fucknut
Mitt Romney announcing that he’s voting to convict and remove Trump. Handout/Getty Images After an emotional description of his love for his Heavenly Father, Mitt Romney revealed today that he does, in fact, have balls, an appreciation for facts, and a conscience. Normally I roll my eyes when people get choked up about their love […]
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Impeachment Update: Fiona Hill Tells Republicans They’re Playing Into the Hands of the Russians
“I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” Fiona Hill says to Congress. “Our nation is being torn apart.” CF Fiona Hill, the scholar and nonpartisan foreign policy expert who has served under Republican and Democratic presidents, and who witnessed John Bolton call a meeting to […]
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Republicans Try to Get Lt. Col. Vindman to Break the Law During Impeachment Hearing
After a stirring opening statement, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (on the right) came under attack from Trump’s stooges. CF At least the day didn’t begin with Devin Nunes talking about “nude pics of Trump,” like the previous two impeachment hearings did. Maybe he forgot. Maybe he was consumed with thinking about how he was going […]
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“This Is the End of My Presidency. I’m Fucked,” Trump Said on May 17, 2017
Trump said, “This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”