The Washington state legislature has voted unanimously to ban the word marijuana from its legal code and replace it with the word cannabis. As reported on the website of Seattle's KIRO-TV: “The term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and…
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Chris Hedges, a top-notch journalist who wrote for the New York Times from 1990 through 2005, was fired because of his outspoken opposition to the US invasion of Iraq. Since then he has written regularly…
Your correspondent got invited to an “Eve-of-420” bash on April 19, 2016, at a club in San Rafael started by the Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. At the bar I got into a conversation…
In a tremendous win for Big PhARMA, the American Psychiatric Association has added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder —a list of conditions for which insurance companies reimburse doctors.…
The front-page headline was no April Fool’s Day prank: “Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize.” The Times would devote three days to the story, which took many “experts” by surprise. The Retail, Wholesale…
Soon after the mob occupied the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the New Yorker published a lengthy, detailed piece by a reporter who had closely monitored the planning of the action and then took part in…
Despite the good-guy-vs.-bad-guy framework so common in fiction, in real life there can be two, three — many bad guys and nary a good guy in sight. Attorney Heather Burke is urging pot partisans not…