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The Real Difference Between Smoking and Eating Marijuana

There might be a simple explanation for why edibles make some people so paranoid.
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A decade ago, I finished my first year of grad school in Los Angeles, and my boyfriend and I went on a short getaway to celebrate. He recommended Ojai, a New Agey town a couple of hours’ north, because some famous person he liked had lived there. After an afternoon of hiking among the orange trees, we returned to our motel room to get ready for our fancy dinner, the kind of white-tablecloth place we could never afford to eat at normally.

I wore my grad-school finest, which is to say I looked like the assistant accounting manager at a medium-size business. My boyfriend

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