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Poisons To Rethink

Round-Up® (Glyphosate) The myth that glyphosate disappears harmlessly soon after application is misleading. Glyphosate kills plants by chelating the same minerals vital to all life, which is why it has...

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Prohibition ’37: The Hemp Lobbyist

NARRATOR: Act two, scene two: “The Hemp Lobbyist Befuddled.” Comes now the Honorable Ralph F. Lozier, a former judge and Congressman, retired to private practice.  LOZIER: For the record and for the...

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Prohibition ’37: For The Birds

Continued from last week’s AVA: the 1937 Congressional hearing on marijuana prohibition. NARRATOR: The next witness, also from the hemp industry, was introduced prior to adjournment on April 29th and...

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The War On Global Warming

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the...

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Still Drug Crazy

Mike Gray died recently at 77 years of age, with prominent obituaries in some publications due to his status as a successful movie screenwriter – his most famous screenplay being “The China Syndrome”...

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Prohibition ’37: The IRS Agent Job Creation Act

The hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed by Congress in 1937, continued from last week’s AVA. The witness, Joseph B. Hertzfeld of the Philadelphia Seed Co., testified that “Hempseed is...

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Beyond Killing The Bees

As Spring merges into summer, our gaze turns to our lawns, and we are tempted to envision green carpets and lawnmowers… and poisons. Craneflies, those delicate beauties we call “mosquito hawks,”...

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Prohibition ’37: The AMA Dissents

William C. Woodward Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 hearing at which the House Ways & Means Committee considered marijuana prohibition.  * * * NARRATOR: Act Three, “The Grilling of Doctor...

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Prohibition ’37: Vinson For The Prosecution

Vinson & McCormack Continued from last week’s AVA, the Congressional hearing at which marijuana prohibition was debated. The witness, Dr. William Woodward of the American Medical Association,...

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Out On A Limb

There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in the hours when they are not sleeping. Any...

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Baz Luhrmann’s Bombastic Gatsby

Like an obnoxiously drunk, loudmouthed, long-winded, overly-pleased-with-himself, vacuously ostentatious guest who refuses to leave the party even though it’s long been over, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great...

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Prohibition ’37 — Woodward Won’t Fold

Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 Congressional hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed prior to enactment. The witness is William WOODWARD, MD, representing the American Medical...

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Imperial Pomp & Circumstance

No work of music has a greater lock on a single ritual than Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 does on American graduations. Cock an ear in the direction of high school and university...

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Pass The Baloney, Please

On June 18th, in an opinion piece in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Congressman Jared Huffman heroically announced that “this week,” along with other House Democrats, he’d be taking the “SNAP...

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Price Gouging With FDA Approval

Anyone using colchicine, one of the best treatments for gout, is in for a nasty surprise, compliments of the FDA and the rapacious actions of URL Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Until...

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Bach & Security

As has become even clearer this Fourth of July with the ongoing saga of fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden playing out on the world stage, what was celebrated on Independence Day in America is not...

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Starving For Change

Protesters outside Corcoran Correctional Facility. Courtesy, Steve Rhodes via Flickr. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by...

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The Morgenthau Hypothesis

Harry Anslinger, the longtime Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, is widely considered the prime mover behind marijuana prohibition. But during the Congressional debate on prohibition in...

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River Views

July 24th marks the anniversary of Anthony Johnson acquiring 250 acres of land in Northampton County, Virginia during the summer of 1651. Anthony Johnson was a free black man, brought to the colony...

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What Real Immigration Reform Would Look Like

Oralia Maceda, an immigrant mother from Oaxaca, asked the obvious last weekend in Fresno. At a meeting, talking about the Senate immigration reform bill, she wanted to know why Senators would spend...

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