Author William Breathes
Bad news, Kentucky marijuana growers: Johnny Law is once again watching you from the sky via their much-beloved helicopters.
The good news is that rising fuel costs and tighter police budgets mean that the copters won’t be buzzing 24-7 anymore. Instead, they’ll focus their efforts around a single week according to the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.
It’s not exactly the American Bar Association, but the nation’s other major group representing lawyers has just issued a report calling for an end to the U.S. war on weed.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) has been around since 1937 and has taken on a host of causes over the years. Its new report on pot came after months of research into the vast array of ways that marijuana’s prohibition has been harmful to the American public. OC Weekly has the rest.
Today is my 15th anniversary with Miss Mary Jane, a long and torrid love affair that will not end with a baby named “North”. I’ve tried a lot of other drugs (most of them, in fact), including trying to smoke the insides of a banana peel because The Anarchist Cookbook apparently wanted to ruin a day of my life. These, in no particular order, are the things I’ve learned about herb.
Eighteen mayors from around the country passed a resolution Monday at the United States Conference of Mayors, urging the federal government to respect state rights when it comes to recreational and medical marijuana laws.
The resolution, drafted by the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, calls for the government to amend the Controlled Substances Act to allow states to regulate their own marijuana policies and to end federal intervention in state-legal businesses. Denver Westword has the rest.
Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t just a media buzzword. It’s mental and often physical suffering that affects millions of people to varying degrees, often making life unlivable. In recent years, cannabis has been shown – albeit anecdotal – to help improve PTSD symptoms yet many states with medical marijuana laws still don’t allow it as a qualifying condition.
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The stretch of Harry Hines Boulevard between Walnut Hill and LBJ in Dallas would seem to be a smoker’s paradise, packing at least three full-service smoke shops into a mile-and-a-half stretch of road. Each offers a wide array of tobacco and tobacco-smoking accessories, from cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes to grinders, water pipes and blunt rolls to enhance the (nudge, nudge – wink, wink) nicotine-absorption experience. That’s all on the up-and-up. How’s a retailer supposed to know their wares might one day fall into the hands of marijuana smokers?
But the DEA says that least two of the stores — EZ Way Smoke Shop and the Texas Smoke Outlet — crossed over the line, pushing large quantities of synthetic marijuana. Dallas Observer has the local coverage.
Screw dogs or firearms, Michael Terry had the right idea when it comes to home security: dangerous reptiles.
Police in Montgomery County, Texas earlier this week received a tip from some nosy neighbor of Terry’s that Terry had been slinging a few dime bags of herb from his property.
Though many say the bill has a snowball’s chance in a forest fire of passing, Pennsylvania’s proposed recreational marijuana legalization bill received the support of the NAACP yesterday.
In a press conference, David Scott with the Pennsylvania NAACP, called the war on drugs a “catastrophic failure” and said the bill would be a step towards addressing the racial disparity among marijuana arrests in the state. Figures show blacks are more than five times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites in Pennsylvania, despite studies showing usage rates between whites and blacks are about the same.
Medical marijuana patients in Vermont now have two additional choices when deciding how to procure their medicine. Champlain Valley Dispensary in Burlington and Vermont Patients Alliance in Montpelier are both open for business as the first two dispensaries in the state.