Nathan Nayor/Staff Writer Congress is deliberating on legalizing marijuana and the United Nations has recently rescheduled cannabinoid products. It should make sense to readdress how we treat other drugs long regarded as dangerous, especially psychedelics. Reevaluating drugs and their medical purposes have happened in the past. Ketamine was once a schedule 1 drug as it […]
Dalton Tevlin/Sports Director When Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried took office in 2018, one of her chief priorities was weed. She created an 18 member medical marijuana advisory committee, bringing together lawyers, medical cannabis providers, and even the CEO of Trulieve, Florida’s largest network of dispensaries. “I’m proud to establish the medical marijuana advisory committee to […]
Image by Spiritual Enlightenment via Flickr Stephanie Piedrahita | Opinion Director steph.piedrahita@fiusm.com I am tired of hearing about another friend of mine getting arrested for a small bag of weed. I’m even more exhausted to hear about the ridiculous sentences weed smokers get that sometimes surpass the jail time of convicted rapists and murders. It’s time to […]