Tag: Weed
There’s a pop-up gallery in the Lower East Side filled with very expensive glass pipes that should delight drug dealers and rich kids alike, because let’s face it, who else is going to shell out thousands of dollars for a device from which to smoke weed? DNAinfo was first on the scene, but we had […]
In the past 48 hours, we’ve seen scaremongering tactics in NYC reminiscent of the 1970s, this time aimed at City Hall and supporters of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Cops and NYPD union heads are reportedly spreading rumors and propaganda about de Blasio, who has ruffled their feathers by supporting peaceful protests for Eric Garner, suggesting […]
It seems that the economic benefits legal weed has always promised are already coming for one industry: lobbyists. According to Capital, one insider is calling the coming medical weed industry in New York the “Lobbyist Employment Act of 2015.” That’s because hundreds of manufacturers are expected to compete for just five licenses to manufacture the medicinal ganja […]
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an influential federal agency with a billion dollar budget that conducts studies and helps shape public policy, has officially changed its stance on the benefits of medical cannabis. On the agency’s “DrugFacts: Is Marijuana Medicine?” webpage, it reads: Revised December 2014 The marijuana plant contains several chemicals that […]
Although recreational weed is legal in places like Colorado and Washington — and it’s primarily the West Coast that’s associated with advancing the cannabis cause — it’s itty-bitty Rhode Island that has won the distinction of being the highest state in the United States according to the latest data from the National Survey on Drug […]
In Colorado — a shining beacon of pot policy in the Unites States — weed for recreational use is as legal as alcohol and tobacco. Naturally, that means residents from nearby crappy states like Nebraska flock to its dispensaries to purchase buds, dabs, and edibles before they head back across the border to their rural […]
Despite the fact that recreational and medical weed use is legal in Colorado, it is not currently legal to have a concealed weapon license in the state if you are a pot user. Now, an activist group is trying to change that. The “Colorado Campaign for Equal Gun Rights” is attempting to get a measure on […]
According to science, there’s an active ingredient in black truffles similar to THC, the psychoactive compound in weed that makes it so great…or bad, if you pull a Maureen Dowd and don’t read the instructions first. Italian researchers — of course — discovered that the fungal delicacy affects the brain in the same way cannabis […]
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 […]
During the midterm elections in November, the people of D.C. spoke loudly, with an overwhelming majority voting in favor of legalizing weed for recreational use. This measure would raise badly needed revenue, help unclog the court system, and allow the police to focus their efforts on more serious crimes. But thanks to a bunch of […]
