Is Walter White overtaking Tony Montana as Florida’s iconic drug-dealing antihero of choice?
Earlier this month, police in Florida found a stuffed Walter White doll in a car parked outside a meth house, and now a Florida man who won a fan contest to watch the series finale of Breaking Bad with the cast was arrested for running his very own ring of lab-made drugs often called “synthetic marijuana”. Miami New Times has the details.
| New Hampshire state house. |
Kicking off the New Year with a bhang, New Hampshire’s House is set to vote Wednesday on a plan that would legalize up to an ounce of pot for adults 21 and up for recreational purposes (or, for whatever purpose you may have for using cannabis). The bill, dubbed House Bill 492, is among the first few to be debate in the 2014 session.
Under the proposal, the state would legalize and regulate cannabis dispensaries to sell herb taxed at a rate of $30 per ounce. Adults 21 and up would be able to grow up to six plants at a time at home. Generally speaking, the plan is identical to the one passed in Colorado in 2012.
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Leave it to the French to figure out a way to make marijuana healthy for you.These are the people who drink plenty of wine and eat fatty duck liver without the kind of waistline expansion seen here in the United States. Maybe they’re on to something.
A study from the French institute INSERM says the ill effects of marijuana, namely the high, can now be blocked. Science! Now — of course you’re asking — why in the heck would we want to nullify the high? Good question, and the LA Weekly has the answer.
Medical marijuana could be coming to New York sooner than later, with a plan from Gov. Andrew Cuomo coming in a few days that could allow hospitals to dispense the herb.
Members of Cuomo’s staff leaked the plan Saturday to State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a medical marijuana advocate who has pushed for legislation in the past. Gottfried called the program “limited and cumbersome,” but conceded that it’s a step in the right direction.
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The push is on to make Florida the next state to legalize medical marijuana. Organizers have one month to get 700,000 signatures on a petition to get the issue on the November ballot. But since state laws require that the petitions be paper petitions that are mailed in via snail mail — not online ones — and then validated, the petition organizing group, United for Care, is asking that all petitions come in by Tuesday, January 7.
United for Care is backed by megamillionaire John Morgan, who has donated $2 million to the effort. The group is working around the clock to collect enough signatures before the fast-approaching deadline passes. Broward-Palm Beach New Times has the full story and links to find out where you can sign if you’re living in Florida.
While the type of Colorado weed that gets you stoned has been getting all the attention this week, it’s fibrous cousin hemp also saw some major changes in the Centennial State.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture yesterday announced farmers can register for industrial hemp production starting March 1. Registration as a grower will cost a farmer $200 plus $1 an acre. Research licenses will be granted for $100 plus $5 an acre.
| The inaugural My 420 Tours bus tour. |
In light of the Denver’s unexpected crackdown on what was to be one of the largest cannabis gatherings in the city, organizers of Wednesday’s cancelled event, along with vaporizer company O.pen VAPE, funneled their resources into the launch of My 420 Tours.
Basically, it consisted of loading reporters and smokers onto a party bus, handing out free, loaded vaporizers and riding around town to see a dispensary and a growhouse — replete with tour guides offering education on marijuana history, laws and, naturally, all you could ever want to know about O.pen VAPE. Josiah Hesse at the Denver Westword has the rest of his strange, wild ride.
Nathan Fete hopes to sell a lot of marijuana in 2014. Since Wednesday, January 1, people in Colorado have been able to legally buy marijuana for recreational use. And that means Fete, a St. Louisan who has been working in Colorado’s medical-marijuana business since 2009 and is now a co-owner of Beacon Wellness Group, a medical marijuana dispensary in Cortez, Colorado, is really busy.
The Riverfront Times has the full story.
Colorado’s legal pot sales may be the hot topic of pot news these days, but lawmakers in two neighboring states say they’ve got plants to legalize sales to adults 21 and up soon themselves.
An Arizona state representative and a New Mexico state Senator both say they are working on plans similar to the Colorado model that would legalize limited cannabis sales and possession for adults 21 and up.
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Colon cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Out of you and twenty of your friends, it’s likely that one of you will develop colon cancer in your lifetime. Thankfully, there may be a truly beneficial therapy found in our favorite plant: cannabis.
A report filed last month in the International Journal of Phototherapy and Psychopharmacology shows that high-CBD cannabis extract can help prevent cancerous growth from spreading.