The Longest GREEN Mile – Part I
Missouri’s New Marijuana Laws Are “Small Step” Forward
Marijuana Opening The Closets
Multitalented entertainer and current co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg debuted her first column for the online publication The Cannabist recently writing about her first experiences with a vape pen, which allows her to inhale concentrated marijuana “vapor.” Goldberg, who has glaucoma and gets excruciating headaches because of it, affectionally …
Marijuana: The High and the Low
A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian New Press, 264 pp., $17.95 (paper) Jeff Chiu/AP Images Medical marijuana patient Kevin Brown at the Apothecarium, a medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, December 2011 In the summer of 2006, a young scientist from Israel …
How to create a legal marijuana economy
by Patrick Radden Keefe Washington’s law gave state officials only a year to answer difficult questions: Who could grow legal pot? Who could sell it? How much would an ounce of the drug cost? Photograph by Maureen Drennan. Keywords One morning in August, Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy …
Why I changed my mind on weed
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the content is not. I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers and patients. I spoke candidly to …
DEA stake out grow store
Illinois cops, DEA stake out grow store, bust 46-year-old hibiscus farmer After a “month-long” investigation that included stake-outs, digging through garbage, and comparing neighbors’ electricity bills, DEA agents and Shorewood (Illinois) Police kicked down the door of a suspected pot grower at 5am on October 11th, 2013. The suspect was …
Legalizing The Twins: P & P
Puerto Rico considering legalizing pot, prostitution to ease national financial crisis After eight years of their economy going into the gutter, Puerto Rico is kicking around the idea of giving their tourism industry a boost by legalizing marijuana use. And if that doesn’t get you down to the tiny little …
Florida Is Getting Really Crazy
Florida lawmakers approve punishing doctors who write fraudulent CBD recommendations Apparently the Florida legislature didn’t get the memo that CBD doesn’t get you high. Currently, lawmakers are working on a CBD-only bill that would give children suffering from rare seizure disorders to access to the extract. It should be a …