Month: January 2015
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Elevating cannabis cuisine
There was once a time, not so long ago, when the extent of the intersection between marijuana and the culinary arts depended on how adept a bleary-eyed home cook was at whipping up a box of Kraft Dinner in an elevated state. Not that I’m speaking from experience or anything. But with pot legislation relaxing
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The cannabis queens of Beverly Hills: Mother and daughter who have built business empire from medicinal marijuana
No you’re not high. These Ferrari-driving, diamond-wearing businesswomen are the so-called Queens of Cannabis. Cheryl Shuman, 54, entered the world of marijuana in a desperate attempt to treat ovarian, colon and bladder cancer. Seven years later, now in remission, she and her daughter Aimee have become the poster girls for spreading the drug’s acceptance across
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Two dead from synthetic cannabis: What new drugs are doing to our bodies
BLUEBERRY Haze, Hawaiian Hybrid, Nitro, Magma, Panama Red Ball — it sounds like a list of cocktails. They are in fact the colourful street names for synthetic cannabis and they mask a truly deadly drug. Two Queenslanders died this week, a 33-year-old man and a 41-year-old man, after taking drugs marketed as a “natural high”.
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Synthetic cannabis deaths sound alarms in Australia
The deaths of two men—one yesterday and one today—and a rash of recent hospitalizations in Australia, all suspected to result from the use of synthetic cannabis, are focusing attention on a growing worldwide problem. Drug users have been embracing products touted as producing a natural marijuanalike high. The effect is produced by synthetic compounds designed
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Parents ask Kansas lawmakers to legalize cannabis oil
TOPEKA, Kan. —Parents have appealed to Kansas lawmakers in an effort to legalize cannabis oil for certain types of medical conditions. Tracy Robles, a mother who lives near Wichita, said her daughter suffers from violent seizures every day. She said the family must decide whether to move to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, in an
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