Tag: Cannabis
According to a new study, the obvious is true even if top government officials don’t want to admit it: weed is nowhere near as dangerous as legal drugs like alcohol and cigarettes. The findings, published in Scientific Reports and reported by the Washington Post, show that pot is “roughly 114 times less deadly than booze.” […]
A report by a leading cannabis researcher says DNA testing has revealed that we’re all wrong and stupid. What we call sativa is actually indica; what we call indica is actually afghanica; and what we call ruderalis is actually sativa. McPartland’s paper argues that in the 1970s, botanist of psychoactive plants Richard Evans Schultes mistakenly […]
When it comes to cannabis, England is a funny place. It’s quite possibly the only location on the planet that has ever reported a death from cannabis poisoning, a statistical impossibility. It’s also responsible for conducting questionable studies on weed, the latest of which (PDF doc) is inviting a lot of attention and scrutiny. “Scientists […]
The results are in: taxes from recreational weed sales in Colorado totaled $44 million. While that number is far lower than estimates it is still tens of millions of dollars more than the previous year. Add taxes revenue from medical pot and other fees and the figure rises to $76 million for 2014 according to […]
The DEA, a federal agency whose big brother tactics are far scarier than previously imagined — or revelaed by the Snowden leaks — still maintains a very draconian assessment of cannabis; now even pediatricians are asking it to gets its shit together. In recent years, there have been major advancements in the medicinal weed industry […]
“Legalize it, don’t criticize it,” officially bellowed reggae great Peter Tosh in 1975 when he recorded what would later become one of the most popular songs of all time. Four decades later, lawmakers in Jamaica are finally getting the message. Although elected officials are not fully legalizing cannabis like in Colorado and Washington, a bill […]
At this point, the medicinal benefits of cannabis are widely accepted, with even CNN’s top doctor touting its positives and NIDA opening up to discussing its therapeutic value. However, one sticking point remains: is it safe to smoke? As noted by Medical Daily, “if smoking cigarettes, or basically anything else, can damage the lungs, then […]
According to a new survey (PDF doc) sponsored by the nation’s leading curmudgeons, young people smoked weed less between 2013 and 2014 regardless of its raging popularity — or as the folks at the Marijuana Policy Project put it, “a period marked by heightened national debate regarding marijuana policy and implementation of the nation’s first […]
In November, with the police commissioner by his side, the mayor announced a new set of guidelines based on an old set of laws governing the possession of small amounts of weed — so far, the strategy is working. According to the New York Times, it has lead to a sharp reduction in the number […]
Just as the prohibition of alcohol fueled the rise of the mafia in the late 1920s, the current federal laws against weed emboldens organized crime domestically and in Mexico. Duh, right? However, there’s one thing that appears to be chipping away at that power structure — and it’s not national guard troops on the southern […]
