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Cannabis, like alcohol, is available in a variety of potencies. Unlike alcohol, a potent dose of cannabis won’t kill you.

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( ThyBlackMan.com) You will read about and hear about many different arguments for and against the legalization of cannabis. Depending on where you are from, where you currently live, and your health status, your thoughts will likely vary from the person next to you. It is a very divisive topic and is certainly a subject that splits opinion across America. Some states have been living in legalized marijuana societies for a number of years now, whilst others are still stalling or playing catch-up for whatever reason. Certain States have lifted the prohibition on medical marijuana but have been...

The recent call from elected officials in Colorado and elsewhere to re-criminalize cannabis products containing elevated levels of THC is simply a new page taken from an age-old playbook For decades, marijuana legalization opponents have claimed that the marijuana of their generation is far more potent, and therefore inherently more dangerous to society, than that of the past. In the 1930s, Henry Anslinger, commissioner of the United States Bureau of Narcotics, testified to Congress that cannabis was so potent that it "is entirely the monster Hyde, the harmful effect of which cannot be measur...

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs written by Johann Hari. You can read the excerpt detailing "The Hunting of Billie Holiday" on Politico. It was adapted for the screen by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, so it should come to no surprise that the film has a lot of long, conversational, theatrical scenes. Besides Day as Holiday, the characters in the film based on real people primarily include the antagonist — Henry Anslinger, played by Garrett Hedlund, the United States' first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which later bec...