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Lauren Koong

Lauren Koong is a summer intern for Hearst Newspapers and a student at Stanford University. She is originally from Houston, TX.

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Cannabis may ease major public health crisis

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These studies will pay you to try pot

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The subtle risk that sets alcohol apart from cannabis

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Surprising study shows eating disorder patients prefer cannabis and psychedelics

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Gap in cannabis education leaves medical providers in the dark

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This Congressional bill could help small cannabis farmers

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