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Review: Jonathan Tepper’s “Shooting Up”

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. Jonathan Tepper’s Shooting Up is a memoir of Tepper’s boyhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Tepper’s parents were American missionaries who traveled to Spain in the 1980s and founded a small drug rehabilitation community that eventually expanded and […]

Quotes 4-21-2016

“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts. On the moon Uncle Julian would be well and the sun would shine every day. You would wear our mother’s […]

Review: Steve DeAngelo’s “The Cannabis Manifesto”

With legalization gaining steam across the nation, it seems we are about to close the chapter on cannabis prohibition in the long, sordid history of America’s “War on Drugs.” The question is no longer “Will we have full legalization?” but “How soon?” There will no doubt continue to be heated debates about cannabis’s place in […]