Sheena: What about the prospects for legalization in the U.S.? Quentin Hardy: Nine states have some sort of law promoting marijuana for medical purposes.
Michigan became the 13th state to allow medical marijuana, by a stunningly-large margin of 63% in favor to 37% opposed -- which has to have set some sort of record for a medical marijuana vote margin.
St Pierre said the Senate hasn't considered any sort of marijuana reform since 1978.
"The DEA has historically been ardently opposed to any sort of marijuana reform, but the president has said let's let science, not ideology, dictate our policies.
It so happens that I'm a sort of marijuana journalist at a time of great change for the plant, and so I found myself at this historic occasion.
But there does seem to be some sort of link in our culture between marijuana and homosexuality – or at least more generally to "alternative sexualities", even if that link is most often made by disapproving conservative and religious types.
Most marijuana research is done to show some sort of harm from the use of this plant, but not enough is being done to understand how cannabis can actually enhance and improve human abilities.
Because of that editorial decision, scenes of the trio in college usually have some sort of decadent submarine in the frame to stand-in for marijuana.
In 2006, he smoked some potent Mexican marijuana that had a strange "purple fuzz" on it — some sort of mold, he concludes — that he thinks gave him lung mold and ultimately led to artery blockage.
In an interview in New York in January, during a brief release from prison for double-bypass surgery, Mr. Beal said that smoking marijuana had long kept him healthy but that his artery blockage might have been caused by smoking some potent Mexican marijuana in 2006 that had a strange "purple fuzz" on it — some sort of mold, he guessed.
