Tag: Legalization
A local TV news reporter in Alaska was doing what seemed to be a standard profile on the Alaskan Cannabis Club last night when she abruptly revealed that she is, in fact, the owner of the club and this will be her last report for the network. “Fuck it, I quit!” was her succinct way of […]
As more and more states decriminalize and legalize weed, the Northeastern Institute of Cannabis (NIC) in Natick, Massachusetts is trying to get in that other increasingly profitable field — education. School founder Mickey Martin has experience in what not to do, having pleaded guilty to conspiracy seven years ago after his edibles company in California was shut down. Martin […]
There’s a whole bunch of industries not down with weed being legal which are actively lobbying to maintain that status quo according to the International Business Times: The biggest players in the anti-marijuana legalization movement are pharmaceutical, alcohol and beer companies, private prison corporations and police unions, all of whom help fund lobby groups that […]
More than two decades after claiming that he “experimented with marijuana” while in college, but “didn’t inhale.” Bill Clinton now thinks that legal pot for recreational use is something states should experiment with. In a recent interview with NBC’s David Gregory, here’s how the 42nd president addressed the issue: I think we should leave it […]
According to a Quinnipiac poll released on Friday, New York State voters overwhelmingly support medical weed, with a whopping 83 percent of presumably cool people in favor and 15 percent of likely curmudgeons opposed. A large majority, 62 – 34 percent, also approves of having dispensaries in their towns to provide medicinal cannabis, which is […]
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 […]
Like all politicians presidents, Barack Obama lies. It’s a time-honored tradition dating back to the founding of this republic. However, within this sea of lies, these same rulers of men are permitted to say true things every once in a while. And that day has come. In an interview with David Remnick, editor of the […]
What do David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan* have in common, besides their lily whiteness and comfy careers nurtured in the ivory halls of corporate media? Answer: They’re all baby boomers– a historically wavering demographic on all weed related issues — who spoke out against the recent legalization of cannabis in Colorado. Not […]
“I don’t get the legalization thing,” said MSNBC’s resident Republican, Joe Scarborough, on his morning show earlier today like a screenwriter for 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness. “I don’t want to get too much into it, I mean, seriously, it just makes you dumb. Pot just makes you dumb.” Minutes later, Scarborough began eating Cheerios […]
According to the latest Pew Research Center poll, 52 percent of Americans are cool with legalizing weed, which is one of the most encouraging developments of modern U.S. history. It’s also a marked change from the late 1960s when people who took polls really sucked: “A 1969 Gallup survey found that just 12% favored legalizing […]
