San Diego Unseen: An Urban Portrait
Our first-ever exploration of different ways to get healthy covers: low-income healing, medicinal marijuana, off-the-grid doctors, cleansing, a cosmetics challenge and great big hugs. To your health, San Diego!
Nonprofits provide healthcare alternatives to those who need them most
When Laquida Landford was diagnosed last July with multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system, she wasn’t sure what kind of treatment she’d seek. She wasn’t sure with the disease and skeptical of western medicine. Click here to read more.
Picking the right cannabis is a matter of experimentation
Perhaps the question I’m most frequently asked as a writer and researcher on medical-marijuana issues is: What strain is good for what. Click here for more on cannabis.
Attacking toxins with colonics kits, fiber shakes, lemon potion—and plain old vegetables
It starts in the temples. A line of pressure snakes around my head like a vice grip. There it stays for days, weeks, even months at a time. Click here to read the full story.
Free at last
South Park physician one of many breaking loose from healthcare-industry shackles
Patsy Balfe rushes a cigarette before she enters the doctor’s office. Through the open door, she sheepishly tells her doctor she knows she shouldn’t be smoking. Click here to read the rest of the story.
Online intimacy
John Styn's Hug Nation is building a small army of 'Love Warriors' who just want to connect
John Styn is fiddling with his video camera and talking to an audience of 13 who’ve already tuned in, 15 minutes before the 1 p.m. broadcast of Hug Nation, his weekly online video series. Read more.
When it comes to cosmetics, do contents matter?
I credit Don Bolles, drummer for late-’70s punk band The Germs, for turning me on to Dr. Bronner’s soap. Bolles was arrested in 2007 by a Newport Beach police officer who argued that Bolles’ bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap contained illegal drugs. It didn't. Click here for more.
We asked James Bowma, owner of Halcyon Tea (3009 Beech St. in South Park) and Taylor Dye, owner of Mad Monk Tea (4966 Santa Monica Ave., Suite C, in Ocean Beach) to help us compile a list of ailments and the types of tea that might help relieve symptoms. Click here for the list.
If you’re lucky, you can find Dr. Hashington at select San Diego parties passing out tasty baked goods that pack a pretty mean pot-punch. We asked him to play an alternative version of Martha Stewart and share some of his secrets. Click here for his recipes.
