A teenager was arrested earlier this week after police say he gave marijuana to two girls who then “overdosed” on the herb.
No, we aren’t making this horseshit up. Pot paranoia is alive and well in New Jersey. The cops in Franklin Borough actually released that bit information to the press. But here’s the kicker: they admit that they didn’t test for anything and admit “other narcotics” could be involved.
A Homestead woman was walking her dog earlier today in Biscayne National Park when she came across two square groupers.
“About an hour ago, one of our park visitors walking her dog found two heavy bales of…something green, leafy and water-soaked!” wrote the Biscayne National Park’s Facebook page. “On this ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day,’ it is interesting to note that some of the ‘traditional’ uses of the park like smuggling are still happening.” Miami New Times has the full story.
As we reported yesterday, a New Jersey medical marijuana patient and physician are suing the state for dragging its heels in implementing the state medical marijuana program. Their argument: the state wants to sabotage the program by making it inefficient.
Yesterday, Superior Court Judge Marie Lihotz said that the lawsuit had some merit but she stopped short of agreeing that the state had purposefully done anything wrong.
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If you ever wondered why SoCal surfers, skaters and even some body builders (Arnold Schwarzenegger in his early, Venice days) are often reliable weed smokers, this might provide at least a part of the answer.
A new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence shows that you don’t need wax or purple strains to increase the potency of your marijuana session: Exercise can give your buzz a serious boost. THC levels increased by 15 percent after tokers did cardiovascular exercise, according to researchers at the University of Sydney. LA Weekly has the full story.
When one thinks about Germany, rarely does cannabis freedom immediately come to mind. Volkswagens, maybe, but lax pot laws? Hardly ever.
But since April 28th, 1994, marijuana users in Deutschland have enjoyed the freedom to possess reasonably personal amounts of cannabis without fear of arrest or prosecution. Considered by the German government to be a “soft drug”, marijuana has not necessarily been legalized, so much as it is tolerated by authorities.
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to various press releases, Billy Fisher was in the middle of a custody battle with the child’s biological mother who Billy Fisher argues was creating n unsafe environment for his daughter.
The story isn’t entirely clear, but based on Mom’s for Marijuana International reports, it sounds like the baby and mother are in contact with a man who allegedly sexually abused the mother when she was a teenager. Understandable then whey a father would want to remove his daughter from that type of situation. But because Billy Fisher is a registered medical marijuana patient and cannabis activist in Washington, he has been denied custody and can only see his daughter during supervised visits.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and state officials have purposefully dragged their feet and botched the handling of the state’s medical marijuana program in an attempt to sabotage it.
That’s the argument being heard today in state appeals court in a lawsuit filed by medical marijuana patient Richard Caporusso, according to NJ.com.
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Washington D.C. councilmember David Grosso introduced a bill yesterday that would legalize the possession and sales of limited amounts of cannabis in the nation’s capitol to adults 21 and over.
The bill would remove all criminal and civil penalties for the possession of an ounce or less of cannabis.
Last week, opponents of Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates for recreational marijuana, staged a rally at Civic Center Park at which adults 21 and over who attended were given free joints. In the days that followed, board members of Colorado NORML came out against Prop AA, too.
Does that mean support for the proposal is soft? Not in the view of attorney Brian Vicente, a marijuana advocate and co-author of Amendment 64. Denver Westword has the full story.