Posts by Shelby Pierce

01 May

Featured, Marijuana News, Medical Marijuana

Getting off opioids with medical marijuana: Patients turn to pot over pills

• May 1, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

(CNN)In 2016, opioids killed more Americans than breast cancer. The drug overdose epidemic has become one of the most concerning publ...

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01 May

Featured, Marijuana News, Weed

Moulton talks gun control, opioid epidemic, legal weed

• May 1, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

PEABODY — An 18-year-old Beverly student, whose friends survived the shooting in Parkland, Florida, asked Congressman Seth Moulton abou...

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01 May

Featured, Weed

Letter: ‘We got the best weed!’

• May 1, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Hip, Hip, Hooray for Hemp! and other such hypocritical juvenile-isms – as the one headlined here and making headlines nationally what w...

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01 May

Featured, Weed

Wet weather prompts need for on-going weed management

• May 1, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Finally, some measurable moisture for our area. Plants are likely to really take off now. Sun, warm temperatures, and mois...

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30 Apr

Featured, Weed

Letter: Supporting legal weed

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

To the Editor: I support the use of marijuana for medical use. I believe it has many medical benefits and uses, but the illegal use ...

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30 Apr

Featured, International News, Weed

Football player arrested in 4-20 weed bust off Route 1: April 28, 2018 Police Blotter

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

The following items are based on information from police, unless otherwise noted: PLAINSBORO 4-20 Drug Arrest: Kenneth Ridley Jr., 28...

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30 Apr

Featured, Marijuana News

Back Talk: Legalizing weed; Cosby Trial

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

I’m the same guy who talked about Weedman last week. I love Back Talk and Page 6 girls are the best. As far as legal marijuana goes, un...

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30 Apr

Featured, Marijuana News, Weed

America’s longest serving pot prisoner now teaches senior citizens about weed

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Robert Platshorn spent more time behind bars for cannabis than any other American ever has, and hopefully ever will—29 years on a first...

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30 Apr

Featured, International News, Weed

Man died from internal bleeding after using ‘fake weed’ laced with rat poison

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that a 22-year-old man who lived in the Clear...

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30 Apr

Featured, Marijuana Growing, Weed

So, you have an open package of weed in your car. Where should you put it?

• April 30, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Q: What are the rules about having weed in your car? A: Full disclosure, a reader did not ask this question. It occurred to me th...

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