| A Hermès Birkin bag. |
We have no problem with smelling like cannabis now and then, but apparently there are quite a few rich ladies in the world who do.
Fashion icon Hermès is being forced to take back hundreds of their high-end purses and clutches – some in the $20,000+ range – because the owners say the bags reek like skunky weed if they are out in the sun.
| Ray Downs. |
| Police wore riot gear and used tear gas early Friday morning, like the officers in Ferguson during West Florissant Avenue protests. |
Protesters lashed out at police in St. Louis last Thursday night, injuring an officer and breaking windows near the site where an off-duty St. Louis police officer fatally shot eighteen-year-old Vonderrit D. Myers Jr. the night before.
Eight protesters were arrested after police broke up the protest around 1 a.m. with pepper spray, police said Friday morning. Five people were arrested for unlawful assembly, two for property damage and one for marijuana possession. Read more and join the conversation at the Riverfront Times.
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A new study from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance shows that people who had THC in their systems at the time that they suffered a traumatic brain injury were significantly more likely to survive the trauma. One of the study’s authors, surgeon Brian Nguyen, says that the results show yet again that the federal government should loosen the rules that restrict scientists and doctors from studying the effects of cannabis.
“There are medical benefits to marijuana that aren’t as robustly studied,” he says. “Further research needs to be done on this controversial compound.”
| Floyd Sandoval. |
Last October, Floyd Sandova was arrested for the murder of John Goggin in Edgewater, Colorado. At the time, investigators were keeping their theories about motive to themselves.
But at trial, prosecutors said Sandoval and a cohort killed Goggin over five pounds of pot. Now, Sandoval has been found guilty and will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
On August 25, Deondrae Atkins was hanging out, rolling dice for money on a sidewalk near the Dorthy Day Center in downtown St. Paul, when a St. Paul police officer monitoring closed circuit television noticed another man in the area rolling a “marijuana cigar.”
The officer approached the group, and recognized one of the men gambling as Atkins, 25, who he knew from “past encounters,” as a criminal complaint puts it. More at the Minneapolis City Pages.
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A joint effort by the U.S. Attorney Office of South Florida, the Miami Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resulted this week in the arrest of 21 members of a gang known as the Big Money Team.
The gang operated in the Little Havana and Allapatah neighborhoods and had their hands in everything from guns, crack cocaine, Molly, marijuana, and prostitution to armed robberies, assaults, car jackings, and intimidating locals. And yes, they had some sweet nicknames.
The Center for addiction and Mental Health, Canada’s largest drug treatment center, says marijuana laws in Canada are doing nothing to keep Canadians safe or drug free. Instead, they say legalizing, taxing and heavily regulating who can access the plant is the best course of actions.
“Canada’s current system of cannabis control is failing to prevent or reduce the harms associated with cannabis use,” Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of the Social and Epidemiological Research Department at CAMH said in a radio interview this week. “Based on a thorough review of the evidence, we believe that legalization combined with strict regulation of cannabis is the most effective means of reducing the harms associated with its use.”
Adrian Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings and accused child abuser, is finding himself in more hot water this week after admitting that he has smoked “a little weed” while out on bond. Now prosecutors in Montgomery County, Texas, where the charges of negligent injury to a child were filed, are seeking his arrest.
Want to make money off of Canada’s medical marijuana program? You might want to move to Canada.
According to Reuters, which broke the story, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has been keeping an eye on American investors looking to put their money into Canadian medical marijuana – no doubt waiting for the right time to file charges of violating the U.S. Controlled Substances Act.
It was all over the news when Aurora decided to allow recreational dispensaries within city limits — but October 1, the date when those dispensaries could theoretically open doors, came and went without a puff of smoke. So what’s the status with these 21 new recreational dispensaries?