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Fake Pot Industry Coming Down From A Three-Year High

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 11, 2012 Products

In this week’s issue, New Times Broward-Palm Beach (which, like Toke of the Town, is part of Village Voice Media) looks closer at the rise and eventual crack down on the synthetic cannabinoid industry.

Over the past three years, manufacturers and retailers of so-called “herbal incenses” have popped up in all 50 states. It quickly became a multibillion-dollar industry built on products that had names like Crazy Eyes, Cowboy Kush, and Skull Killa.

It’s actually a horrible misnomer to call these substances “synthetic marijuana” or “fake pot,” because they actually have nothing to do with real cannabis, and unlike herbal cannabis, they can be dangerous.

Until two months ago, many of these herbal incenses remained legal because state and federal lawmakers couldn’t keep up with the onslaught of new chemicals being churned out by overseas labs and imported by herbal-incense manufacturers. Whenever the government banned one synthetic cannabinoid, chemists simply tweaked their formulations to concoct new, legal replacements that still got people stoned.

Road Trip: In Search of Good Medicine – Hercules Health

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 6, 2012 Dispensaries, Products

Hercules Health Center is located in a state-o-the-art medical facility in Hercules, California, just north of Oakland

Story and Photos by Sharon Letts

Hercules Health Center, named after the bedroom community by the same name just north of Oakland, California, is located in a well-manicured, modern industrial park in a state-of-the-art, modern medical facility.

The large building is occupied by dozens of medical specialists who are no strangers to the dispensary or the magic of cannabis.

“We have many specialists in the building who send patients here for alternative therapies,” said Ed Breslin, co-founder of the center.

Should Grandma Smoke Pot? See The Entire Show Here

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 4, 2012 Culture, Products

The final cut of the new marijuana infomercial, Should Grandma Smoke Pot? has been released and is now available for public viewing (see video above).

Produced by famous smuggler/author/activist Robert Platshorn and the award-winning filmmaker Walter J. Collins, Should Grandma Smoke Pot?, this made-for-TV version of Platshorn’s Silver Tour stuns viewers with medical and legal facts long kept from the public.

Platshorn’s Silver Tour teaches seniors the benefits of medical marijuana, and has drawn worldwide praise, been featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, featured on CNN Money, praised by Newsweek‘s Daily Beast, and coming soon to The Daily Show. He is the author of the autobiography Black Tuna Diaries and is featured in the smuggling documentary Square Grouper.

Cannabis Cooks!: Contest To Select Medicated Chef Show Host

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 31, 2012 Culture, Products

iBAKE TV

Do You Like To Bake Or Cook With Cannabis?

Attention all cannabis cooks! iBAKE TV is now looking for the 2013 Medicated Chef Show Host. The contest began on August 30. In addition to becoming the 2013 Medicated Chef Show Host, there will be $1000 prize, according to No Excuses Entertainment.

Contestants must be over 18, must be familiar with or have a past history in culinary arts, and also know how to bake or cook with medical cannabis. The contestant also needs to be from a state where medicinal cannabis is legal and also a medical marijuana patient, caregiver or grower.

Toke of the Town Video of the Day: Hollyweed, USA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 20, 2012 Culture, Products

Laffin’ Place

The “Hollywood” sign was famously defaced in 1976 after the decriminalization of marijuana in California

On January 1, 1976, the iconic “HOLLYWOOD” sign was altered to read “Hollyweed” by the late Danny Finegood of Los Angeles and a few of his college friends. The stunt — celebrating the decriminalization of marijuana in California — got worldwide publicity at the time.

To accomplish the stunt, Finegood and his buds used ropes and sheets, and reportedly spent only around 50 bucks for materials. The prank was a class project while he was an art major at Cal State Northridge. (Yes, he got an “A” for the project.)

Finegood considered himself an environmental artist, not a vandal. In a letter to the L.A. Times in 1983, he said of the “Hollyweed” sign: “An artist’s role throughout history has been to create representations of the culture he exists in. By hanging four relatively small pieces of fabric on the landmark, we were able to change people’s perception of the Hollywood sign.”

The Good Grade Pill: Stimulants and Studying

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 15, 2012 Culture, Products

From: OnlineDegrees.org

“Study drugs” are actually illegal amphetamines.

Here’s A Look At Hempfest 2013 If I-502 Passes In Washington

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 13, 2012 Culture, Products

KOMO 4

Wanna see a lot more of this at Hempfest? You could next year, if I-502 passes.

A Hempfest marred by dozens of busts for people just passing the joint at 4:20? Say it ain’t so!

It could happen if I-502 passes and is enforced as written.

But you’d think Seattle Hempfest would be heaven on Earth after the passage of “legalization” Initiative 502 in Washington state, if all the information you had to go by was a Marc Emery quote — posted by trophy wife Jodie — on Facebook today.

“Next year at Seattle Hempfest, if I-502 passes, everyone will be able to carry an ounce of marijuana around on their person and not be concerned with arrest!” Emery wrote from prison. “Or losing their job! Or losing custody of their children. Or violating probation. Or getting a criminal record.

New Marijuana Legalization Documentary To Screen In Seattle

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 9, 2012 Culture, Products

Legalize It

Seattle Hempfest and two Seattle churches will host sneak previews of the new cannabis documentary Legalize It, a “socially conscious” film on Proposition 19, the 2010 campaign to legalize marijuana in California.

Scenes from the film will be shown at Seattle Hempfest on Saturday, August 18 in the afternoon in the Hemposium, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and film participants. Participants include Presidential candidate Governor Gary Johnson, his running mate Judge Jim Gray, Dan Rush (director, National Medical Cannabis & Hemp Division at UFCW) and I-502 “legalization” advocate and celebrity trophy wife Jodie Emery.

Could This Movie Get Marijuana Legalized?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 7, 2012 Culture, Products

Sammy & Sherlock Can’t Get Any

Cassandra Paras is the lead actress in “Sammy & Sherlock Can’t Get Any,” playing the role of Sammy

By Lawrence Zoeller

Director, Sammy & Sherlock Can’t Get Any

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy.”

That was Bruce Wayne as he returned to Gotham to become The Dark Knight. He recognized that to make a difference you could not just do business as usual.

In the 1930’s when the government was trying to stigmatize marijuana so they could tax it, they too used a “dramatic example.”

Reefer Madness. A fictionalized film touting the “horrors” and “abuses” of marijuana. Iconically this is what people remember as the reason public opinion was swayed towards the negative stigma that has been with us for more than 80 years!

This Is Your Brain On Bath Salts [Infographic]

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 2, 2012 Culture, Products

Compiled By: MedicalBillingandCoding.org
MDVP, the active ingredient in bath salts, increases the number of adrenaline-like hormones in the body. These hormones prepare the heart, muscles and brain to “fight or flight.”
MDVP does this by preventing the brain’s neurons from reabsorbing dopamine and norepinephrine after they are secreted.
This leads to the high concentrations of neurochemicals which results in the “fight or flight” reaction.”

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