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Dear John: Boyfriend’s Sexy Talk A Total Turnoff

May 18, 2013 By John Simpson, GoLocalProv.com 2 Comments

A guy saying suggestive things in front of her son, a coworker who got mailed pot, and a couple on opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: Angry, coworkers, dating, drugs, mail, marijuana, parenting, politics, pot, relationships, sex, Sex and Relationships, Sexual, son, suggestive

Against the Current, With the Stream

May 9, 2013 By John Paschal Leave a Comment

getting high, white water rafting, smoking marijuana, fitting in, peer pressure, cliques, bonding, adventure, ethical decisions, just say no

When it comes to getting high, John Paschal chooses to stand alone.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Marijuana, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, alcohol, bonding, cliques, ethical decisions, fitting in, getting high, just say no, marijuana, peer pressure, rafting guides, smoking marijuana, stoners, white water rafting

Understanding Marijuana

May 8, 2013 By Dr. John Douillard 6 Comments

weed, pot, colorado, psychological, medical marijuana

Dr. John Douillard examines the cultural and psychological effects of long term marijuana use.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction, Marijuana, The Good Life Tagged With: Ayurvedic perspective, boulder, cannabis, chronic pain, Colorado, drug usage, health, marijuana, medical marijuana, medical marijunana, medicine, pot, Psychological, rajas, sattwa, tamas, tamasic drugs, teenagers, weed

What Marijuana Means to Me

May 7, 2013 By Anonymous 23 Comments

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For Grace, marijuana represents the destruction of her family.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Marijuana, The Good Life Tagged With: aggression, cancer, drug addiction, drug use in families, dying, fathers, Hospice, marijuana, marijuana addiction, marijuana addicts, marijuana myths, mental illness, potheads, rage and marijuana, rokers, shame, Shameless, stealing, stoners, theft

Out of the Haze

May 6, 2013 By Brandon W. Mosley 7 Comments

unicorns, unique individuals, free thinkers, just say no, isolation, peer pressure, drug use, marijuana, smoking weed, stoners, aggression, men who smoke weed and aggression, college life, college stoners, athletes, partying, party lifestyle

Brandon W. Mosley is called a ‘unicorn’ by his classmates—for being a non-toking college student surrounded by aggressive, athletic stoners.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Marijuana, The Good Life Tagged With: aggression, athletes, college life, college stoners, drug use, free thinkers, isolation, just say no, marijuana, men who smoke weed and aggression, party lifestyle, partying, peer pressure, smoking weed, stoners, unicorns, unique individuals

Who Is Greater?

April 27, 2013 By Tynan Power 3 Comments

peace, absalom aleichem, world peace, Islam, Muslim Americans, Muslim American boys, Tsarnaev brothers, Boston bombing, American culture

What makes someone like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev vulnerable to radicalization? A Muslim American parent of two young men asks a question that strikes close to home.

Filed Under: Conflict, Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Spirituality & Ethics, The Good Life Tagged With: Acts of Faith, anti-Muslim hate, binary thinking, Boston bombings, Boston Common, Boston Marathon bombers, Boston Pride, boys and video games, college life, crime, drug use, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Eboo Patel, faith and teens, hate crimes, Heba Abobalan, identity, interfaith activism, Islam, justice, koran, marijuana, model immigrants, model Muslims, Muslim families, Muslim family life, Muslim-Americans, peace, prayer, Quran, radical Islam, runners, running, shoplifting, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, teenage boys, terrorism, Tsarnaev brothers, violence

Walking on Knives in Nova Scotia

April 14, 2013 By Rob Azevedo Leave a Comment

marriage, love, commitment, black sheep, relationships, legal trouble, drug use, honeymoon, no judgment

Rob Azevedo puts his love to the test soon after their married lives begin.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: black sheep, close calls, commitment, driving, drug use, fate, honeymoon, legal trouble, marijuana, marriage, New England, no judgment, Nova Scotia, on the lam, relationships, Rochester, running from the police, Sex and Relationships, smoking pot, strip search, Yarmouth

I Come From: Three Essays from Venice High School Students

April 13, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

young male writers, young men who write, young men, high school boys, boys, poetry, pride, PEN USA

Marcus Anderson, Fernando Garcia, and Steve Miramontes are three young men who know where they come from.

Filed Under: Poetry by Kids, The Good Life Tagged With: African American History, angelenos, black culture, Black History, Black pride, Boys, california, crime, Families, gang violence, heritage, high school boys, homeless youth, Los Angeles, marijuana, PEN USA, poetry, pride, violence, writing prompts, young male writers, young men, young men who write, young writers

How Teens Drink

April 9, 2013 By Clyde McGrady 4 Comments

teens drinking, underage drinking, youth drinking, youth drug use, alcohol use declining among teens

Before the energy drink slash cocktail and butt-chugging, there was “The Watermelon Crawl” and “Mr. Boston’s.”

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Featured Content, My First Drink, Teenage Kicks, The Good Life Tagged With: alcohol use declining among teens, binge drinking, cocktails, dating, drinking, Half Baked, high school life, male adolescence, marijuana, Mr. Boston's, new teen drinking trends, Reefer Madness, rites of passage, sleeping over, teen drinking, teen driving, teenage boys, teenage drinking, teens alcohol, teens drinking, underage drinking, vodka, youth drinking, youth drug use

Marijuana: 4/20

April 1, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

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What does marijuana mean to you?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: 4/20, addiction, counterculture, drug rehabilitation, drug use, gateway drug, getting high, Hip-Hop, hippies, libertarian values, making weed legal, marijuana, marijuana legalization, marijuana use, medical marijuana, parenting and marijuana, party culture, pot, pot smoking, progressive values, smoking weed, stories about smoking weed, teen drug use, victimless crimes, war on drugs, weed, youth culture

NEWSER: Rand Paul: Pot Is Bad, but Jail Terms ‘Ruin Lives’

March 25, 2013 By Kathryn DeHoyos 1 Comment

Rand Paul Said, “I don’t want to promote (marijuana), but I also don’t want to put people in jail who make a mistake.”

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: drug war, marijuana, Newser, nonviolent crime, rand paul

Missing the Days Before You Were Married

February 6, 2013 By Gint Aras 10 Comments

The glass of retrospect distorts, for a moment, a married man’s memories of his globetrotting single days .

Filed Under: Marriage Tagged With: actually some who wander are indeed lost, Aussies, australia, Austria, backpacking, california, Chicago, Copenhagen, dc, Europe, Germany, Gint Aras, guilders, Illinois, infant wakes up, infants, insomnia, Kiel, Kiwis, late from work, Linz, loneliness, marijuana, masochism, Midwest, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, not all who wander are lost, Nuremburg, pasture wind, Paul Theroux, raising infants, Santa Barbara, shillings, sleep deprivation, Superman, tired parents, Tom Waits, Urbana, Utrecht, wandering, weed, Windischgarsten, youth hostel, Zaire, zen

Marriage Leads to Gun Freedom

January 16, 2013 By Gint Aras Leave a Comment

The story of an Austrian writer who moved to Texas to avoid giving up his guns.

Filed Under: Marriage Tagged With: Austria, books, drugs, ee cummings, frenzy, gun laws, guns, injury, Iraq war, Linz, marijuana, marriage, murder, Neil Young, penis, penis injury, republican, Republican party, Richard Powers, Soul Coughing, Texas, wedding

Denver Gets Its First Legal Marijuana Club

January 1, 2013 By Kathryn DeHoyos 1 Comment

Club 64: They can’t sell it, but bring your own and you can smoke and socialize. Is this the future of pot in America?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Amendment 64, breaking news, club 64, CNN, Colorado, colorado news, current news, Denver, denver news, legalized pot, marijuana, pot, recreational use of marijuana, rob corry, smoking pot legally

“I work in a residential facility for male addicts. The kids interested in recovery view marijuana legalization as a slippery slope.”

January 1, 2013 By the Editors 12 Comments

This comment-of-the-day is by Tom B. on the post “Are You in the Marijuana Majority”?

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: addiction, addicts, Comment of the Day, drugs, jail, Legalization, majority, male addicts, marijuana, recovery, slippery slope

Dear John: Going From One Bad Relationship To Another

December 9, 2012 By John Simpson, GoLocalProv.com 1 Comment

Dear John addresses a bad rebound, a friend who wants a pot-head to get a “real job”, and a cute landlord.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: bad relationship, career, date, Divorce, drugs, friends, guys, job, landlord, marijuana, marriage, men, pot, rebound, relationships, roomate, Smoking, smoking pot

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