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Monthly Archives: December 2015

Colombia Legalizes Medical Cannabis

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Today, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree legalizing medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana patients in Colombia can now obtain licenses allowing them to possess and grow cannabis.

This is a big step on the way to decriminalizing the use and production of cannabis for everyone.

Colombia has been at the forefront of the worldwide War on Drugs, pushed by the US, contributing to a decades long civil war in that country. Rebels and drug cartels have made hundreds of billions of dollars selling marijuana, cocaine and more recently heroin and meth. The War on Drugs has only increased their… Continue reading

CannaBorscht for the Holidaze!

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CannaBorscht

In ancient times borscht (also spelled borsch, borsht, or bortsch) was prepared with common hogweed, recently the use of beets and tomatoes as the main ingredient has become more common. This soup was found all throughout Eastern Europe, from the Ukraine into Russia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Czech, Lithuania and even into Albania. An Armenian version has been adopted in far western China and is made there with red cabbage and tomatoes.

Almost all have a meat base to the soup, but here is a vegetarian, cannabis-infused version.

The common thread through all the many borschts of the world is… Continue reading