Rob is proud to have voted for California Proposition 215 in 1996 and is now enjoying the fruits (or flowers) of the medical marijuana movement. He would happily give up alcohol in exchange for recreational cannabis and encourages people to read real peer-reviewed science and make informed decisions for themselves. We have only begun to understand the human endocannabinoid system.
Florida legislation aimed at prohibiting the sale of glass and other pipes, commonly called “bongs,” sailed through the House Business and Professional Regulation subcommittee on Wednesday.
A measure to allow medical marijuana in Maryland moved forward in the House of Delegates on Saturday. The legislation would create a commission to oversee a medical marijuana program at academic medical research centers that decide to participate.
Aurora could regulate marijuana retailers like liquor stores, which are required to be about 2,000 feet apart from any rival. That would give Aurora room for about 80 pot shops, and generate an estimated $2.5 million a year in sales tax revenues.
On Wednesday, we received the latest Kickstarter update (#36) from one of our favorite projects: The Culture High, by Adam Scorgie. We support this Kickstarter project and encourage you...
California’s medical marijuana industry would be overseen by a Sacramento-level bureaucracy under AB 473, a reform bill introduced Tuesday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.
While most people are gearing up to drink themselves into oblivion this weekend and a “bong” has the connotation of a “beer bong”, we give a nod to the true die-hard...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), stated that marijuana “inhibited the survival of both estrogen receptor–positive and estrogen receptor–negative breast cancer cell lines.” The same report showed marijuana slows or stops the growth of certain lung cancer cells and suggested that marijuana may provide “risk reduction and treatment of colorectal cancer.”
This week we consider a sustainable bong that can be homemade, or could be purchased as a decorative ornament from an excursion abroad: the bamboo bong. Origins...
On Tuesday, US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision “soon” on how he’ll respond to the recent legalization of pot by states. The same day, legislative committees in New Mexico and Hawaii approved bills to decriminalize marijuana possession and Oregon lawmakers introduced a legalization bill. Rhode Island legislators also held a hearing on a bill to legalize and tax marijuana.
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl 13 kilogram packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
In the face of obstacles to marijuana research from both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and one-time MacArthur Fellow, is calling out the federal government on its obstruction of science.
The California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative wants to be on the ballot in 2014. In California, if we gather enough signatures we can put an initiative...
Figuring out an appropriate marijuana tax policy is more complicated than it sounds. In Washington State, there is a 25% tax at three different stages of cannabis production: from the grower to the processor, from the processor to the retailer, and the retailer to the customer. Will those high taxes foster the black market that we are trying to eliminate?
This week we scoured the web searching for glow-in-the-dark paraphernalia. There’s really no practical reason that I can come up with for owning one of these pieces...
On Saturday evening, we received the latest Kickstarter update (#35) from one of our favorite projects: The Culture High, by Adam Scorgie. We support this Kickstarter project and...
The recent release of Harborside Health Center’s “The Haag”, which was inspired by Dr. Seuss books, inspired me to look at what kind of Dr. Seuss paraphernalia...
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