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November 21, 2014
11/21/2014
Exclusive Interview With Director of “Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time”

Exclusive Interview With Director of “Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time”

The world has fallen in love with Paula, Dorothea, and Deirdre, the three adorable grandmas who overcame their generational fears of weed and got high in a...
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July 15, 2014
07/15/2014
NYPD Says It Will Continue to Make Pot Arrests Regardless of DA Memo

NYPD Says It Will Continue to Make Pot Arrests Regardless of DA Memo

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the DA’s words “really does not change the working circumstances of police officers who are in the field.” He maintains that...
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June 16, 2014
06/16/2014
Cannabis Lube, Finally: Put Weed in Your Vagina!

Cannabis Lube, Finally: Put Weed in Your Vagina!

There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil; you can smoke, you can vape, and now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by the California collective The...
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June 12, 2014
06/12/2014
NYPD Arrests 80 People a Day for Low Level Weed Possession

NYPD Arrests 80 People a Day for Low Level Weed Possession

According to a new report from the Marijuana Arrest Research Project, in the first four months of 2014, the NYPD made 80 low level weed possession arrests a...
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May 6, 2014
05/06/2014
A $300 Blunt, The Cannabis Titanic, and Other Insane Things Made of Weed

A $300 Blunt, The Cannabis Titanic, and Other Insane Things Made of Weed

Animal New York reports that the artisan known only as Afgoo_Head may be the world’s greatest cannabis craftsman. While others are content to simply wrap their blunts in increasingly...
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April 18, 2014
04/18/2014
Why Weed Won’t Destroy Your Brain

Why Weed Won’t Destroy Your Brain

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience that’s been making the rounds lately purports that smoking weed, even casually, damages your brain in serious ways. Researchers at Northwestern University...
By: Andy Cush
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April 7, 2014
04/07/2014
Here’s the Weed Ad That May Come to Times Square

Here’s the Weed Ad That May Come to Times Square

The above ad, for the medical marijuana-reviewing site Weedmaps, was supposed to begin playing on a Times Square video billboard Tuesday. Weedmaps had approval from Neutron Media, the...
By: Andy Cush
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March 27, 2014
03/27/2014
As California Moves To Ban Dabs, Washington Wants To Legalize

As California Moves To Ban Dabs, Washington Wants To Legalize

Last week, we learned that a bill in California’s state legislature could ban dispensaries from legally selling high-THC cannabis concentrates, and now, it appears Washington is taking the opposite...
By: Andy Cush
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March 24, 2014
03/24/2014
California Could Ban Dabs

California Could Ban Dabs

California, utopia of quasi-legal cannabis, could soon ban the super-potent cannabis extracts known as dabs. A bill in the state legislature aimed at regulating the state’s medical industry would...
By: Andy Cush
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March 14, 2014
03/14/2014
Colorado Dispensary Honors CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta With New Strain, Joint Specials

Colorado Dispensary Honors CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta With New Strain, Joint Specials

Last year, the Boulder-based dispensary Helping Hands Herbals named a strain of weed in honor of CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, after the high profile physician reversed his...
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August 23, 2013
08/23/2013
CNN to Vaporize New  Dr. Sanjay Gupta Weed Strain

CNN to Vaporize New Dr. Sanjay Gupta Weed Strain

CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently changed his mind about medical weed, has a weed strain named after him, for now. Within 24 hours of the official press release being released, CNN contacted...
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June 26, 2013
06/26/2013
“All Your Pot Are Belong to Us”, an Artful Look at Weed Trafficking

“All Your Pot Are Belong to Us”, an Artful Look at Weed Trafficking

Between 2005 and 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 17 million pounds of weed on the Mexico-U.S. border. Seventeen million pounds. That’s seven billion dimebags! It’s enough weed to roll a...
By: Andy Cush
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June 4, 2013
06/04/2013
Vaporizer Company Wants Amanda Bynes for Spokeswoman

Vaporizer Company Wants Amanda Bynes for Spokeswoman

Grenco Science, the vaporizer brand with official models for Action Bronson and The Game, wants to make Amanda Bynes their newest endorsee, according to a letter nabbed by TMZ. “We think...
By: Andy Cush
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May 7, 2013
05/07/2013
Medical Weed Treatment for Pets: a Lucrative New Frontier

Medical Weed Treatment for Pets: a Lucrative New Frontier

With weed being decriminalized in numerous states across the country, “man’s best friend” is not being left out of the movement. Veterinarian Doug Kramer has been investigating...
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October 10, 2012
10/10/2012
12 Drugs from Ancient Cultures and Where to Get Them – ANIMAL

12 Drugs from Ancient Cultures and Where to Get Them – ANIMAL

Check out Animal New York’s piece on 12 drugs used in ancient cultures, what they do and where to get them today (if anywhere).
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September 7, 2012
09/07/2012
‘Smoking Weed with The President’ Video

‘Smoking Weed with The President’ Video

– 05:30PM Actor and pothead stereotype Kal Penn is a terrible person. Not only did he try and make a political propaganda ad to appeal to the...
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August 13, 2012
08/13/2012
NYPD Shoot Dead Man in Times Square During Marijuana Bust

NYPD Shoot Dead Man in Times Square During Marijuana Bust

The NYPD fired 12 shots and killed Darrius Kennedy, a 51-year-old African-American man in the heart of Times Square surrounded by tourists on Saturday afternoon during a...
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July 31, 2012
07/31/2012
Like Michael Phelps, This Site Deserves a Medal

Like Michael Phelps, This Site Deserves a Medal

Although we enjoy the Olympics as much as the next person, we also like to cut through the bullshit.  So medalcount.com, a simply designed website that allows users...
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July 19, 2012
07/19/2012
Vaporize Me

Vaporize Me

– 11:00AM The last time I smoked a vaporizer was at the High Times office more than nine years ago. (Perhaps it was longer. Who can remember?) It was...
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