With passage of the Farm Bill in 2018, CBD (cannabidiol) products became legal in all states under federal law, provided they are derived from hemp containing less than 0.3% THC. But just as multiple states have legalized cannabis in opposition to federal laws that prohibit physicians from prescribing it, there are still several states where cannabis products including CBD remain illegal irrespective of federal laws to the contrary. Continue reading
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I’m skeptical about … cannabis (part 2).
Most people harbor guilty pleasures. Mine have nothing to do with marijuana, but I do admit to a weakness for good spy thrillers, and it’s my interest in the latter that led me to write this post about the former. Alex Berenson, an ex-New York Times reporter, is the author of my favorite spy series about a CIA operative named John Wells. You can learn a lot about covert operations from reading this series, so when Berenson turned his attention to a non-fiction book warning about the dangers of cannabis called, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, it got my attention. Continue reading
I’m skeptical about … cannabis (part 1).
Attitudes have changed a lot in the decades since those lyrics first echoed across the AM radio dial. According to a 2018 Pew Research Center poll, 62% of Americans support marijuana legalization; among Millennials that number jumps to 74%. Continue reading