Awful News My friend Stephen Bradley called me on Friday, September 14th and asked if I was sitting down. I knew it couldn’t be good news, but when he told me our mutual friend James Bell had died suddenly, I experienced several moments of simple denial. This just can’t be true, I thought. Then the […]
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What’s in a Name? Marijuana, Grass, Chronic, Ganja, Weed. Just a few of the hundreds of nicknames Cannabis is called by. I always called it weed in my younger days, as in, “Hey, man. You got any weed?”. These days, after much research, I have a tendency to call it Cannabis, especially when speaking to legislators
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At the Georgia Republican Assembly Convention on 8/12/2017 David Baker, the Executive Director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition of Georgia, used a portion of a 1993 quote from the then Executive Director of NORML, Richard Cowan. Mr. Baker quoted Cowan as saying “The key to it (marijuana legalization) is medical access”. Baker’s comments were
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Shriners Are Such Clowns “Shriners Hospitals for Children was founded in 1922 with the goal of providing expert medical care for children with no financial burden to the patients or their families. Today that philanthropic effort supports the health care system’s 22 facilities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, treating children up to 18 years of
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The Drug Whisperers There is a hot controversy going on in Cobb County these days. It seems some Drug Recognition Experts (DRE) with Cobb County Police Department have developed Jedi skills. They claim to be able to sense when someone is driving under the influence of drugs, despite the fact that the accused passes all
The Great Oconee River Raft Race Back in 1974 some folks got together and started a small waterboard event on the Oconee River in East Dublin, Georgia. The idea took off and it became the second largest raft race in Georgia. The event has been going on ever since, though over the years attendance has risen
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