“Smoking weed makes you lazy and stupid!” “There’s nothing beneficial about getting high.” “It’s against the law!” One component of conversation I often struggle with is dealing with unreasonable, often unnecessarily negative ways of thinking. I recently asked my good friend Robin, one of the most patient and understanding people I know, how she finds the ability to converse with someone given extreme adversity. Her advice, not to my surprise, was incredibly insightful. She s

The culture of Cannabis before normalization, and where it’s headed Below the threshold Prior to the Reefer Madness rhetoric that came about after Harry J. Anslinger took the helm as the first director of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics, hemp and Cannabis use was seemingly ubiquitous. We’ve all read that the Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper, although this isn’t entirely true. It was actually written on parchment paper, however, our founding f