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Marijuana 2: The Wild West?
This is PART TWO about living in a state with legal medical marijuana, and why Attorney General Eric Holder is getting involved, concerned that this is de-facto legalization. To read part one, CLICK...
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Marijuana Train Wreck?
“Isn’t it fun growing older in Boulder?” my friend, Sam, asked at a recent gathering. “Where else can you eat a cookie laced with marijuana and go to the opera? It’s legal, and it’s free!” What? Free...
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Tiny New Light
I’m sitting on a couch in my daughter Rachel’s home in Chicago, holding my first grandchild, a boy, seven days old. I’ve heard grandparents talk, ad nauseum, about the thrill of this relationship,...
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CBD: Truth or Hype?
Can CBD curb your appetite? Quash anxiety? Protect your heart and brain? Anecdotal evidence for these and other health benefits has created a surge, a potential tsunami of demand for CBD products....
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Dancing Lessons from God
DENVER—I was lost, searching for Helen Simon, walking through a maze of corridors in a skilled nursing community—the current term for the dreaded words, “nursing home.” I passed a dining area with no...
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The New Old?
Medium, a popular website, asked me to write about “How to Talk to an Old Person.” At first I thought it was about talking to people older than I — people in their eighties or nineties. Then it...
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Presence After Dying
Two days after the memorial service for Ram Dass in Maui, I drove with my sister and a friend down the bumpy road to the house where he’d lived for the past 12 years. We knocked on the door and a young...
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A Little Taste of Normal
“Do you have a tattoo?” the hair stylist, Jennifer, asked me. Was she crazy? She was 26, with blue eyes and dark hair falling in waves down her back. And she had a delicate tattoo starting at the nape...
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In March, when the stay-at-home order came down with a thud, I found myself in a relationship that quickly became more intense and consuming than any I’d had for a decade. I’d recently met a man on a...
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I Surprised Myself…
Years ago, when I was interviewed by a university professor for an oral history project on the Sixties, he asked, “Who had the greatest influence on your life when you were young—a teacher, book,...
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