My Journey Into Cannabis -Part 4: Get Your Grow On
After two arrests in two years for cannabis, I realized I needed a fresh start. Despite my passion for the plant, the legal consequences were weighing me down. After a year and a half on probation, I received permission to move to Oregon in the summer of 1996, leaving the East Coast behind to start…
My Journey into Cannabis – Part III : More Fun Than The Law Allows
Read Part II Looking back, my experiences with weed while living in New England in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s always had an element of increased paranoia and anxiety associated with them. That’s the effect you get from associating a ritualistic, shamanistic medicine-consuming practice like using The Herb with the perception of criminal and…
My Journey Into Cannabis – Part 2 : Road Trippin’
Read Part I As I look back on my journey through the world of cannabis, I think about how much things have changed in the 30 years since I got involved: the times, the people, the music, and the herb. Of all the names people call cannabis – marijuana, weed, herb, ganja, kind bud, the…
My Journey Into Cannabis – Part I: Jason Meets The Herb
Do you remember the first time you smoked weed? Where you were, the people you were with, the place and time you were (are) at in your life? For me, it was the summer of 1988. I was heading into my junior year of high school. I remember two kids in our neighborhood skateboard crew…
All Cannabis Use is Therapeutic: The Medical vs. Recreational Cannabis Debate
Cannabis is one of the oldest known and most used plants on the planet, with evidence of this dating back almost 10,000 years according to recent archaeological findings near East Asia. With numerous uses as a source of medicine, food, fuel, and fiber, it’s really not a stretch then to say that all cannabis use…