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Using Marijuana May Stimulate The Growth Of Male Breast
Plastic surgeon, Dr. Anthony Youn, wrote for CNN about the one of possible reasons for the growth of male breast. This phenomenon is known as gynecomastia, and about 40% of male population deals with it. Dr. Youn said that when he saw a boy in his early twenties, who had male breast and came to Dr
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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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Marijuana investors commit more than $1 million after Denver meeting
A Denver meeting of a marijuana industry investment group resulted in more than $1 million in new money being pumped into cannabis businesses, the group announced Wednesday. Troy Dayton, the CEO of The ArcView Group, said members of the group’s investor network are still sealing deals after Tuesday’s meeting at the Denver Athletic Club, but he
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Marijuana legalization group makes bid to air Super Bowl commercial
DMITRIY NOROV/GETTY IMAGES The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is hoping it can win a contest sponsored by Intuit to have its pro-legalization ad aired during the Super Bowl XLVIII. If they don’t know already, Americas could soon find out whether marijuana and the Super Bowl mix. A pro-pot group has been
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For Marijuana Entrepreneurs, Sticky Red Tape Remains in Colorado
Photograph by Matthew Staver/The New York Times via Redux A 60-acre field of hemp in Springfield, Colo., which draws no distinction between hemp and marijuana Once a quarter for the past two years, the ArcView Angel Investor Network plays matchmaker between individuals curious about investing in the newly legal marijuana market and pot entrepreneurs who
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Prominent Mexicans urge government to decriminalize marijuana
A broad spectrum of prominent Mexicans, including former ministers, businessmen, artists and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, on Wednesday urged the government to decriminalize marijuana in a bid to curb gang violence and corruption. Since 2007, about 80,000 people have been killed in turf wars between drug cartels and their clashes with security forces, leading to
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Marijuana Legalization: NYC’s Next Mayor Will Try to Legalize Weed
Marijuana Legalization: NYC’s Next Mayor Will Try to Legalize Weed © Flickr (North Cascades National Park) The next mayor of New York City will help usher in the decriminalization of marijuana, regardless of which candidate wins the seat. Mayoral aspirants Bill de Blasio and Joseph Lhota, who were selected as nominees to represent their respective
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22 medical marijuana applicants weeded out by Massachusetts Department of Public Health
BOSTON — A total of 22 applicants formedical marijuana dispensaries were eliminated on Monday from competition by the state Department of Public Health. The process now leaves 158 applicants for dispensary licenses for medical marijuana, down from 181 initial applicants. In addition to the 22 eliminated by the state, one company withdrew. A total of 22 applicants failed
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Maine medical marijuana users fear loss of subsidized housing
ED ANDRIESKI Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) PORTLAND — Some medical marijuana patients may have to choose between their cannabis and their federally subsidized housing if a state moratorium is not renewed before its Oct. 1 deadline. While state housing officials say it’s unlikely the deadline will
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Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana
Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn spent his 30-year career educating others and helping to ease human suffering, leading Jewish congregations in Australia, Illinois, his hometown of Miami and New Jersey. Now, he is practicing his faith in a different line of work: Kahn runs a dispensary for medical marijuana. Call it a mitzvah — or one of God’s commandments.
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Medical marijuana sprouts in Israel
Mimi Peleg’s job is to teach people how to use pot—how long to inhale smoke or vapor, how to administer sublingual drops, or how to ration out a pot cookie. Peleg directs large-scale cannabis training for the Israeli government’s state-run, discreet, successful and expanding medical cannabis distribution center, MECHKAR. MECHKAR began as a tiny
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Feds seek to legalize marijuana industry banking
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department and federal banking regulators will help clear the way for financial institutions to transact business with the legitimate marijuana industry without fear of prosecution, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress on Tuesday. The issue has taken on greater urgency now that Colorado and Washington have become the first
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