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Joshua Jardine Taylor is the Mercury's Senior Cannabis columnist and correspondent, and has written "Cannabuzz" since 2015.
Unfortunately, non-citizens should probably stay away from cannabis altogether.
MBPROJEKT_Maciej_Bledowski / Getty Images The racial disparity in cannabis arrests continues to gain attention, as seen in in a piece in Sunday’s New York Times, with a headline as telling as it is chilling: “Surest Way to Face Marijuana Charges in New York: Be Black or Hispanic.” The investigation looks at cannabis-related arrests, often for […]
Portland Mercury Staff Everything under the sun can be found on YouTube—even cannabis. But recently, people who watch and post weed-related videos to the site began to see a purge. YouTube’s cannabis channels have lost chunks of their content, big sections of their audiences, and—in some cases—a revenue stream. The reasons why are open to […]
This will surprise absolutely no one, but I don’t have great deal of love or respect for the Drug Enforcement Agency. Never have, and in all likelihood, never will. On Tuesday, the acting head of the DEA (and not sparkly vampire) Robert Patterson was testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the topic of […]
YouTube ad dollars and weed videos don’t work so well together.
REX_WHOLSTER / GETTY IMAGES I’ve written fairly extensively about the role cannabis can play as a tool to deal with the opioid crisis. Illinois’ state senate has just passed a bill that, if passed and duplicated in other states, could serve to test that idea. According to the AP (via SFGate), the Illinois Senate late […]
DWGrafix / Getty Images One of the major barriers for cannabis is the dreaded work-based drug test, AKA the urine analysis (UA) test. Because there’s no better way for an employer to say “we respect and trust our workers” than requiring you to empty your bladder into a small plastic receptacle so they can determine […]
DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about whether all of the national political activity around cannabis means the prohibitionist dam is finally about to burst, with the deschedulization of “marijuana” just around the corner. There are certainly a number of factors that could lead someone to that conclusion. While you’ve […]
Here’s what’s been going down in our nation’s capital regarding cannabis legislation.
CHAMELEONSEYE/GETTY Seattle has taken a step up in righting cannabis-related Drug War wrongs, and it’s a great one. On Friday, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes cited an ACLU report showing that African Americans are arrested at a rate of three times that of whites for possession of cannabis, even though cannabis use between the African […]
Creative-Family / Getty Images If you are anything like me (in which case you have made some very regrettable decisions and are now living in their ruinous wake), you enjoy getting high. But wait, you can also enjoy a way that by getting high you can additionally do some good. We can all agree that […]
This particular stock photo is labeled “Joyful mature man holding a joint.” Ljupco / Getty Images If you’ve been worried about your folks finding out exactly how much you enjoy cannabis, you might just be paranoid. According to a recent study, parents and even grandparents are toking up at a greater rate than ever before—or […]
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