Tag: Cannabis
The good news: New York will likely become the 23rd state in the U.S. to legalize weed for medicinal use. The bad news: Governor Cuomo has placed so many limitations on the Compassionate Care Act that it’s likely to reduce its effectiveness. The Drug Policy Alliance explains the measure’s shortcomings: [T]he bill would prohibit smoking, […]
“The dangers of medical marijuana outweigh the benefits,” said Andrew Cuomo in 2010 when he was running for governor against crazy person Carl Paladino. At that time, weed wasn’t surging in popularity like it currently is. Then Cuomo got elected and the following year, he softened his position a bit. “We’re looking at both sides […]
There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil, you can smoke, you can vape, now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by a California collective The Aphrodite Group, has made a cannabis infused “sensual enhancement oil” that can purported enhance sexual pleasure. As “Stacy” says on a testimonial posted on their site: “I had […]
Have pity on Rick Voight, a 41-year-old man who was recently driving along Interstate 90 in Montana. Just as he reached mile marker 420 — perhaps chuckling quietly to himself for a moment at the coincidence — the Montana Highway Patrol pulled him over. When they searched his car, they found 115 pounds of weed. […]
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience that’s been making the rounds lately purports that smoking weed, even casually, damages your brain in serious ways. Researchers at Northwestern University studied 40 people, half of whom smoked pot and half of whom didn’t, and the smokers brains exhibited abnormalities not present in the non-smokers’. In conclusion, lead […]
California, utopia of quasi-legal cannabis, could soon ban the super-potent cannabis extracts known as dabs. A bill in the state legislature aimed at regulating the state’s medical industry would prohibit any physician from prescribing butane hash oil. “There’s no medicinal value to a high-THC concentrates like butane hash oil, and we don’t believe it’s part […]
Recently, President Obama said something that we all knew was true despite decades of government propaganda and politicians claiming otherwise: namely that alcohol, a legal substance that’s widely available, is more dangerous than weed. Getting the Office of National Drug Control Policy to admit the same was a much harder prospect. (ANIMAL cut a 15 […]
A friend of ANIMAL, who we shall not name, recently visited Los Angeles and brought our crew some very special treats from a weed dispensary. For journalism! It’s called Bhang Medicinal Chocolate and looks like chubby Kit Kat bars, but these confections come chock full of THC — precisely 30 mg per segment — and […]
When Andrew Cuomo unveiled his plan for legalizing cannabis for medical use in New York State, one element activists were quick to criticize was the method of distribution. Under Cuomo’s proposal, hospitals, as opposed to dispensaries, would be called on to distribute weed. Because hospitals are federally regulated, and cannabis remains illegal on the federal […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, after years of tiptoeing around the issue, plans to authorize 20 hospitals around the state to dispense cannabis for medical uses. It’s a long way from Colorado–or even State Senator Liz Krueger’s plan for legalization in New York–but it’s a good start, and means that countless suffering New Yorkers will […]
