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For decades, cannabis has been trapped in a political purgatory, classified, vilified, and regulated as if it were a dangerous, single-molecule synthetic drug. But anyone who’s ever looked beyond the government propaganda or actually interacted with the plant knows better: cannabis is not a “drug” in the traditional pharmaceutical sense. Many of us see it…

When a 14-year-old rescue named Miss Daisie began standing over her water bowl and forgetting how to drink, Angela Ardolino knew something was wrong. The dog wasn’t sick—she was slipping away. “She’d get up and go to the water bowl and just stand there,” Ardolino recalled. “My partner said, ‘I think she’s got Alzheimer’s.’ He…