Tag: Weed
Last night, Uruguay’s lower legislative house voted 50 to 46 to pass a sweeping cannabis bill that would legalize and regulate the growing, sale, and consumption of the plant. The country’s Senate has yet to vote, there is a “comfortable majority” for legalization, according to the New York Times. And Uruguayan President José Mujica, himself a vocal cannabis supporter, […]
Something was conspicuously missing from that Fox News clip we posted earlier today, in which the anti-drug bishop Ron Allen rails against the “horrible” nature of a pro-cannabis ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 race: a comment from the Marijuana Policy Project, the ultra-successful pro-weed lobbying group behind the spot. The Fair and Balanced news network […]
A perfectly reasonable, benign ad for cannabis played at the NASCAR Brickyard 400 this past weekend. The spot played on a big video screen near the track’s entrance, and espoused the idea that weed could be the next (possibly even better) beer–no calories, no hangover, no links to reckless or violent behavior. Predictably, some puritanical […]
According to a new study, young people mice shouldn’t smoke weed until they’ve reached adulthood. Researchers from the Maryland School of Medicine found that the rodents they got stoned during adolescence were more susceptible to brain abnormalities as adults. “In the adult mice exposed to marijuana ingredients in adolescence, we found that cortical oscillations were […]
ANIMAL has a longstanding policy to not use the word “marijuana.” Cannabis? Sure. Weed? Definitely. Pot? Not my term of choice, but hey, it turns up sometimes. Marijuana, though? Almost never. NPR has a good article explaining why. A common version of the story of the criminalization of pot goes like this: Cannabis was outlawed […]
Used to be, you only had to have 15 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood to get disqualified from the Olympics. Just ask Ross Rebagliati, who had his gold medal in men’s snowboarding taken away in 1998 for testing positive for 17.8 ng/ml. Now, in a move designed to punish only those who use the extremely powerful […]
There’s only one city in the United States that arrests more people for bullshit amounts of weed than New York City and that is our national’s capital. Soon, that could change, Yahoo News reports. Brave D.C. Council Member Tommy Wells has introduced legislation that would decriminalize possession of small amount of weed — defined as less than […]
Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed. This type of market would allow for consumers to have wider variety of selection as well as assure a higher standard of quality control while purchasing […]
Prominent orthodox rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich has officially declared that the use of medicinal marijuana is not only perfectly acceptable, but it also happens to be kosher. However, Zalmanovich clarified that “Taking drugs to escape this world in any excessive way is certainly forbidden” and would like to remind members of the community that the act smoking weed recreationally is unacceptable […]
Between 2005 and 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 17 million pounds of weed on the Mexico-U.S. border. Seventeen million pounds. That’s seven billion dimebags! It’s enough weed to roll a joint taller than the Washington Monument, I just learned from this nutso, meme-y look at just how much pot 17 million pounds really is, courtesy of the […]
