Tag: Weed
Mayoral candidate and comptroller John Liu released a report yesterday detailing the potential benefits of medical cannabis in NYC today, hot on the heels of his announcement that he’d like to see the plant legalized for recreational and medicinal use in the city. According to the report, there are 100,000 New Yorkers who could benefit […]
Big news in Colorado and Washington: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of the two states that the federal Department of Justice would not interfere with their recent legalization of recreational cannabis. Though the citizens of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize last year, that hasn’t stopped federal authorities from raiding dispensaries in […]
Though weed is now totally legal for recreational use in Washington in Colorado, that it’s still illegal federally has led to some complications. The Department of Justice hasn’t stated its official position on those who grow, sell, or use the plant in areas where it’s been legalized, the feds have shown they aren’t above making […]
CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently changed his mind about medical weed, has a weed strain named after him, for now. Within 24 hours of the official press release being released, CNN contacted the Helping Hands Dispensary in Boulder, Colorado and requested that it stop the sales of the “Sanjay Gupta Kush” strain, ANIMAL has learned. “We […]
At the center of the Marijuana Policy Project’s “controversial” ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 was the claim that cannabis is less toxic than alcohol. It’s true–just ask the fact-checkers at Politifact–but the feds, unsurprisingly, are having none of it. The National Institute for Drug Abuse recently issued a statement reading, “Claiming that marijuana is less […]
Hot on the heels of CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently announced his support for the use of medical cannabis (just like we predicted), is Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News’s medical correspondent. In a blog post titled “Medical marijuana for children should be approved by Governor Christie,” Alvarez expounds on weed’s medicinal benefits, and argues […]
Facing lagging poll numbers just a month out from primary elections, NYC Comprtroller and 2013 mayoral candidate John Liu just played a political wildcard. Yesterday, said he’d like to see cannabis legalized for recreational and medicinal use, with tax dollars going to lower tuition at City University of New York schools. A report commissioned by […]
“Weed World vans around NYC are selling phony marijuana pops that don’t contain pot,” reads the New York Post headline, and below it, a banner screaming “EXCLUSIVE.” That paper’s intrepid reporter Susan Edelman has discovered the unthinkable, the candy peddled by the folks in NYC’s near-ubiquitous weed vans isn’t actually going to get you high. She even […]
Back in 2009, I wrote a post entitled: “Will Dr. Sanjay Gupta Change His Mind About Medical Weed?” I’m happy to report, almost four years after asking that question, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent has done just that. “This wasn’t an easy article to write, but it’s honest,” writes Dr. Gupta on his Twitter today. “I […]
Last week, we told you that Uruguay’s lower legislative house had passed an all-out cannabis legalization bill, that would allow and regulate the growing, sale, and use of the plant. Now, thanks to reporting from El Pais, we’ve learned of another facet of the legislation: weed prices will be fixed, and they will be fixed […]
