Marijuana Legalization

The War on Drugs has been an ongoing issue in social media and is repeatedly tackled in Congress. Marijuana, or Hemp, is a substance that is useful as more than just a drug, such as with LSD, it has medical uses as well as recreational. It can be used for things such that are necessary…

Perusing the streets in big cities like Los Angeles, CA and Boulder, CO, you can’t walk fifteen steps without getting a whiff of a particularly popular herb. Over the last twenty years the once considered drug marijuana has been legalized both recreationally and medicinally in eight states across the country. Twenty-two other states have followed,…

“I need smoke. I need to smoke” (Cudi). Kid Cudi’s longing words release from his lips in a cool foggy vestige almost as smoothly and in the same transience of the loud hit he lifts up from his water pipe. Potheads, defined by Merriam Webster as being “a person who smokes a lot of marijuana”…

While the issue of medical marijuana has become prevalent in recent years, it has been a part of American medicine and culture for centuries. “From the 1800s until the 1930s, marijuana was generally considered a benign, medically efficacious substance that was sold in pharmacies and doctors’ offices throughout the United States to treat various ailments”…

As I’m sure you’re aware, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ actions have ultimately been an attempt to bring back previous era prohibition policies such as those that were instituted under the presidencies of Nixon and Bush. Amongst these policies include his termination of the US policy which allowed states to control the legal sale of…