Tag: Weed
In hopeful news for anyone afflicted with a glioma tumor, one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, a new research paper says that cannabinoids are capable of dramatically increasing receptivity to radiation treatments. Gliomas are responsible for about 30% of all brain and central nervous system tumors and 80% of all malignant brain tumors. Dr. Wai Lui, […]
By 2014, the standard props used to depict alcohol consumption or cigarette smoking on set have been well-established within the film industry. But how do studios and producers handle scenes in which their shows’ characters have to light it up with some weed? Flavorwire has a fascinating piece that investigates that very question, and the […]
Art shows in Bushwick tend to be one of three types: They either fall into the regurgitated abstract painting/stuff-made-out-of-junk category, the every-once-in-a-while progressive and engaging category, or the free-for-all, “we’re just having fun,” category. Secret Project Robot’s “Headshop” definitively falls into that last designation. But by no means should that be considered second, or even […]
The brilliant minds at Oxford Dictionary had many choices for their pick of the 2014 international Word of the Year. But in what seems fitting considering the movement across this country to legalize weed, their choice wasn’t bae, normcore or budtender (our second favorite), it’s vape. That’s right, Oxford just became the peoples’ champ by […]
Clifford Drusinsky is 39 years old and last year he won a triathlon in Miami. One thing that separates him from most other athletes, though, is Drusinsky trained while using weed energy bars. Drusinky is so convinced that weed helps his workouts that he’s opened his own gym, F.I.T.S. Conditioning, to spread the “gospel of […]
“Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains…” blares a Los Angeles Times headline about new findings regarding weed and the brain. Here’s how reporter Melissa Healy sets up the premise: Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who […]
What a week for weed. Days after the police commissioner and mayor held a joint press conference to announce sweeping new changes to NYC’s pot polices — ironically bringing them more inline with the existing 1977 law — the speaker of the City Council voiced her support for the full legalization of cannabis. “It’s not […]
When news leaked earlier this week that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton would be jointly announcing a new city-wide initiative to, essentially, honor the 1977 statute that decriminalizing weed, City Councilman Mark Levine was already way ahead of them. Through Twitter, Levine, a Democrat, announced his support for an end to […]
Although weed has been decriminalized in New York state since the late 1970s, the NYPD exploited the law so badly that the City had to take steps to correct the policy. On Monday, at 1 Police Plaza, Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced the plan. Here’s what you need to know: It […]
By Monday morning, it had been widely reported that NYC is planning to drastically alter how it handles arrests for small amounts of weed possession. Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will announce the changes at a press conference Monday afternoon, nearly four decades after New York State set the stage for decriminalization. […]
