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Posts published by “Fred Gardner”

Never Schiff

Left out of last week’s piece about Barbara Lee’s run for the US Senate was some background on Rep. Adam Schiff, the “centrist” bore the…

Barbara Lee Running for Feinstein’s Seat

Rep. Barbara Lee, 76, announced last week that she’s running for the Democratic Party nomination to succeed 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein (whose memory is just…

Name Dropping

A new edition of Franz Kafka's diary has just been published in English. The New Yorker review mentioned that Kafka's close friend Max Brod, who…

GW Lowers Its Patent Boom

In 2021 an oddly named drug company headquartered in Ireland, Jazz, acquired GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company whose main asset was Epidiolex a cannabis-based medication…

Verily We Roll Along

Correction I got a fact wrong in last week’s print edition. Kirk Anderson, Cannacraft’s Chief Operating Officer (2016-2018), did not then get involved with their…

PD on Cannabis Snafu: Tsk tsk tsk

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat editorial Dec.18 expressed dismay about the state of the Cannabis industry in California. The PD exonerated the politicians and blamed…

Welcome Home, Brittney

The joy on Brittney Griner’s face – pure relief expressed in a smile – came as a sweet surprise after all these months of seeing…

Cannabis Lab Notes

To this day I'm kind of amazed when people flat-out lie to your face when they know you  know the truth. Or they lie to…

Cannabis Paired With Kyiv

Ukraine is still leading in column inches per day, but Cannabis is coming up on the rail in the New York Times coverage derby. Some…

Weed’s Black Neighborhood

If you’ve only driven past Weed on Hwy 5, or stopped to take a photo of Mt. Shasta and have a cup of coffee at…

The Cult Leaders’ Nemesis

You can probably name at least a half dozen cult leaders and famous gurus, but how many of the investigators who defrocked them ever get…

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