Month: December 2013
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Why New York Is Considering Legalizing Marijuana
NEW YORK — Back in 1998, 14-year-old Alfredo Carrasquillo and his friends were heading to a Bronx apartment where they planned to smoke pot and listen to some Tupac when a cop car pulled up on the curb “as if it was a movie or something.” The cops ordered Carrasquillo and his friends to stand
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‘I take a puff and I’m 17 again’: Lady Gaga opens up about falling in ‘love’ with marijuana after it made her ‘forget she was famous’
She has never shied away from talking about her appreciation for marijuana, but Lady Gaga has now opened up as to why she enjoys smoking the Class B drug. The eccentric singer spoke about her love of weed while being interviewed by Alan Carr when she appeared on his show Chatty Man on Wednesday. The
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Hundreds expected at party to celebrate Washington’s legal pot anniversary
SEATTLE – Friday marks the first anniversary of the day Washington’s legal marijuana law took effect, and hundreds of people are expected to celebrate by lighting up beneath the Space Needle at a party permitted by the city of Seattle. Marijuana activist Ben Livingston says it took him three months to persuade city officials to
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Justin Bieber ‘detained’ in Australia after drugs bust
We were over the moon to hear about Justin Bieber’s recent do-gooding in Australia. But it looks like the 19-year-old can’t behave himself for long, as reports have surfaced that the Canadian teen has been detained in Australia by customs officials after one of his entourage was caught carrying drugs. Bieber – back to the
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Pot clinic owner now mayor of California city
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (AP) — A medical marijuana dispensary owner is riding high after being named mayor of a Northern California city. Sebastopol’s City Council selected 36-year-old Robert Jacob as mayor earlier this week. Jacob runs two pot clinics in Sonoma County and officials believe he’s the first dispensary owner in the nation to serve as a mayor. Jacob has
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Calif. Man Hopes to Build ‘Anheuser-Busch of Marijuana’
A business school drop-out from Los Angeles wants to build what he calls the “Anheuser-Busch of marijuana,” readying for the day when pot’s “prohibition” fully ends in the U.S. Justin Hartfield, 29, dropped out of University of California, Irvine’s part-time business school program to launch Emerald Ocean Capital with a business partner. Though smoking marijuana is not
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Families See Colorado as New Frontier on Medical Marijuana
FOUNTAIN, Colo. — As their children cooed from wheelchairs and rocked softly in their arms, the marijuana migrants of Colorado clasped hands, bowed their heads and said a prayer of cautious thanks. Madeleine Lightle’s parents have brought her to Colorado Springs after a neurologist suggested removing part of her brain to stop her seizures.
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Marijuana: Toke Up on Mold, Insects and Manure
Some may tout marijuana as a safe, recreational drug with valuable medicinal properties, but toke up your joint and it likely contains mold, pesticides, even dead insects, according to researchers at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. In their genetic studies of marijuana, the researchers found a variety of nasty byproducts in the plant:
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State Supreme Court to hear medical-marijuana arguments
Medical marijuana will be considered by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday in a hearing that could determine whether voters will decide the proposed state constitutional amendment next November. Question: If the amendment is approved, what would it do? Answer: It would allow doctors to prescribe pot under Florida law. It would require the Florida Department of
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