Why Melissa Etheridge says cannabis will save the world

She was preaching to the converted but still managed to wow the audience at last week's Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo, in Los Angeles. Melissa Etheridge, the Grammy and Academy Award winner singer, blurted it out during an intense keynote: "We are all one, aren't we? Cannabis is going to save the world. I have seen the future, the possibility of a world without war." The audience of business people, entrepreneurs, and cannabis evangelists cheered on as the rock star told how she fell in love with the plant. It started over ten years ago, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo extremely aggressive chemotherapy. "They told me 'You might wanna get a wig because no one wants to see a bald rock star'." That stroke a chord with her, who went on to perform hairless at the 2005 Grammy Awards. The...

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