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Psychedelics & Cannabis Therapeutics
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When Bob Dylan Turned on the Beatles
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Allen Ginsberg, marijuana legalization
13 Key Moments in Marijuana History
The history of marijuana in America has long been a history of competing narratives, dueling interpretations. What...
Why did cannabis become so popular in the 1960s?
Marijuana for the Masses
Why did cannabis become so popular in the 1960s? And why is it even more popular today?

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Allen Ginsberg, marijuana legalization

13 Key Moments in Marijuana History

By Martin A. Lee on February 3, 2014
The history of marijuana in America has long been a history of competing narratives, dueling interpretations.
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Cannabis Patient with ALS Outlives Her Doctors

By Jahan Marcu on January 31, 2014
Cathy Jordan she was diagnosed with ALS in 1986. Nearly 20 years later she is still alive thanks to cannabis, her medicine of choice and necessity.
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