Good news for those of you young dudes out there who love dabs and are not trying to get women pregnant: yet another study shows that marijuana use can alter your sperm production negatively.
Or it might not, nobody really knows for sure actually — including the study authors.
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Back in April, we told you about a Colorado activist group appealing to the state Supreme Court to make medical marijuana use a right in Colorado after a DISH Network employee was fired for off-work use. The Colorado Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project filed an amicus to the court arguing that medical marijuana use is a right and the intent of the voters was to legalize medical cannabis – not just make it a decriminalized form of use.
But now the Attorney General of state of Colorado is offering their opinion to the Colorado Supreme Court, and it’s the complete opposite.
The first dozen headed to Gainesville hospitals last Thursday and Friday. Although the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office has yet to release the victims’ names or ages, the one thing they certainly had in common was an affinity for Spice.
Although the drug typically produces a short high that can mostly be attributed to the placebo effect, one particular strand making its way around Gainesville is particularly potent. Yesterday, a man found behind Best Buy became the 29th person to suffer from seizures and convulsions after ingesting the fake weed (that isn’t even weed) that’s popular among people on probation and others who can’t/won’t smoke actual pot (WHICH NOTABLY IS USED TO TREAT SEIZURES).
Medical marijuana advocates United For Care have come out and answered the various claims made in an eight-minute anti-medical weed ad that was recently released.
Last month, we told you about Drug Free Florida’s anti-medical marijuana video called “Devil In the Details,” that breaks down reasons why passing Amendment 2 in November would lead to chaos in the streets of Florida. The video claims that Amendment 2 is fraught with legal loopholes and language that would allow pot to be smoked and sold on the streets without interference from the law, and that it would lead to the eventual full-on legalization of weed in the state.
The Clinic Colorado’s fifth annual charity golf tournament, which benefits the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Colorado-Wyoming chapter, has doubled in size from previous years, but organizers say it’s already sold out.
Although the Clinic hasn’t announced how much money it’s raised from participants and sponsors, the total’s at least $32,500 thanks to 250 people paying $130 apiece to play. That comes on top of $15,000 raised earlier this spring for the 2014 Walk MS event in City Park and more than $100,000 donated by the medical pot shop since the tournament’s 2009 debut.
Sick New Yorkers suffering from conditions that could be helped by medical cannabis protested outside the Long Island office of state Senate co-president Dean Skelos this week, demanding action on a stalled medical cannabis bill. Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco has said that he will allow the bill to move forward with the okay of Senate leadership.
The bill, which has already been approved by the state General Assembly on a 91 to 34 vote, would legalize the use and possession of up to 2.5 ounces of herb for qualifying patients as well as allow for state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries and grow facilities. The Senate version would not allow for home cultivation and would ban patients under 21 from smoking medical cannabis. But sponsors of both bills say they are meeting to iron out the differences for a last-minute effort at legalizing medical cannabis in the Empire State.
A recreational marijuana proposal in Arkansas has finally been given the green light by the state Attorney General.
Proponents of the measure now have to gather 78,133 signatures to get it on the November state ballot.
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Marijuana may not be legal in Missouri, but it can still help you find love. The new dating website My420Mate.com launched in April (on 4/20, naturally) to connect marijuana users looking for romance, but who don’t want to have the awkward “Do you smoke?” conversation.
“Some people might think it’s just a dating site for hippies or stoners,” says Jay Lindberg, 30, the St. Louis-based entrepreneur who cofounded the site. “This website is for people from all walks of life, from the medical-marijuana patients to casual smokers to business professionals who may be in the cannabis lifestyle but they keep it out of their professional life.
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Last week, we shared news about the U.S. House voting to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in states where the substance is legal. But that doesn’t mean the count was unanimous — even from pot-friendly Colorado.
Indeed, three of Colorado’s seven representatives voted against the defunding amendment, including U.S. senatorial candidate Cory Gardner — and a representative for NORML, among the nation’s most prominent marijuana-advocacy organizations, confirms that it hopes to target officials like him for anti-pot votes.