A Children’s Book about Marijuana

It’s Just a Plant • A Children’s Story About 🌱 #Marijuana by #1 NYT best-selling @Rmcortes

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

We’re still banning children’s books, are we?

Here’s a 🧵 about how I published one about marijuana: a picture book for kids, a parent’s tool for starting the conversation, a lightning rod for controversy.

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

Please welcome… Ohio!

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

In researching my @CoffeeCocaCola book, I learned the wild history of @CocaColaCo’s hand in the UN negotiations on the prohibition of coca.

Read my illustrated book for more info, or see an essay I posted about it here:

https://t.co/fFJYiqlVqV

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

the literal opposite of this is true

[A Secret History of @CoffeeCocaCola]

He/they/x should’ve just bought coca-cola and gone wild w the cocaine

[Diana Budds @DianaBudds]

wild that only 15 licensed shops have opened in all of new york state by now

[Hal 10000 @Hal_RTFLC]

What have you got against plants?

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

Imagine being banned before being read.

[sarah rose etter @sarahroseetter]

imagine pouring your heart, soul, and pain into a novel so a woman named michelle can give it one star on goodreads because she "hates colons and the book has colons in it."

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

My point is that in an effort to thwart a legal roadmap to safer marijuana use that would alleviate suffering and diminish an expensive, overreaching criminal justice system, you’re consistently making silly, spurious comparisons and imagine them profound.

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL & LEGAL STIGMAS VS. PLANTS IS WHY TOBACCO WAS ONCE ADVERTISED BY DOCTORS WHILE WEED WAS THE DEVIL’S LEAF AND NOW CANNABIS IS MEDICINE AND WE’RE TRYING TO BAN TOBACCO BUT IT’S ALL PROHIBITION BASED ON FEAR AND NOT SCIENCE AND WILL REPEAT UNTIL #latememe

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

In 2005, no one would touch this. I self-published and became the #1 best-selling children’s book talking about marijuana in a responsible, scientifically-based, fun way.

4 editions later… it’s my book 🎂 today & I’d like to thank my new publisher @AkashicBooks for the journey.

[Jacob Grier (is not here) @jacobgrier]

Going to take the occasion of 4/20 to suggest picking up a copy of my new book. If you're grateful for the strides we've made with legalizing cannabis, you should be paying attention to mistakes we're beginning to repeat with tobacco and nicotine. https://t.co/qAFlmMsq5Q

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

Anyone remember the marijuana tax act of 1937?

[Eli Northrup @EliNorthrup]

Lost in the budget shuffle is an effort by @GovKathyHochul to increase penalties for cannabis possession. The intent is to shut down illegal shops, but the proposed bill would allow for a fine of up to $150K for ANYONE possessing ANY AMOUNT of untaxed cannabis.

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

If we were really interested in public safety, it should be easier to buy marijuana than it is to order a potential killing-machine car.

[Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix]

Buying drugs on social media as easy as calling an Uber, per report: @viaCristiano
https://t.co/2lIVzhDQaH

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

This article on secret coca plants misses a crazier origin story: @CocaColaCo, interested in #cocaine content & leaf flavors, was permitted to grow coca in the United States in 1964. Over 20 years the project grew into these how-to-destroy-coca US govt experiments...🧵

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

tbh I got a soft spot for homegrown dirt weed you can just rolllllllllll them light joints with.

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

@rejaniced Cheers to both of you 🥂

[Maggie McNeill @Maggie_McNeill]

Or rather, the taxpayers did.

[Sanho Tree @SanhoTree]

@palafo Edibles are definitely problematic because they have been decarboxylated. Raw weed hasn’t been. Ask the same vets if they understand the difference between THC and THCA. If they don’t, talk to an actual marijuana researcher.

[A Children’s Book about Marijuana @justaplant]

From the guy who says he performed an abortion that magnified his hope in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (@nytimes), comes an op-ed arguing a puff of weed should be handled under the supervision of a physician.

I mean, fine, but… what’s up with curation of giving out op-Eds?

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"Some judicious restrictions are better for everyone: Gambling should take place in casinos, not on smartphones, and marijuana should be used only under a health-care provider’s supervision," @matthew_loftus writes:

https://t.co/aSBdZdySng