The city of Garden Grove, Calif. has had a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the town since 2008, though up until last week you wouldn’t have known it by driving through the municipality of about 175,000 southeast of Los Angeles.
But all that changed May 6 when the California Supreme Court ruled that cities do have the power to ban medical marijuana collectives and as of today, the city is actively enforcing it’s ban.
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Serious marijuana discussion is taking place in our nation’s capitol, if only at the municipal level.
According to the Washington Post, D.C. city council members are trying to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and have a few proposals in the works to do just that.
Marijuana advocates were abuzz last month — and by “abuzz” we mean excited, of course — when a bill to reduce penalties for marijuana possession was passed out the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The bill had been watered down to apply only to people younger than 21, but the Texas chapter of NORML, the national pot-legalization organization, still called it an “amazing step for Texas.”
Also encouraging was progress on a medical marijuana bill that would make medical need a valid defense in pot possession cases. The measure, some version of which has been introduced in the past several sessions, got a hearing for the first time ever. Both those bills — the only pro-marijuana legislation to get any sort of traction this session — are now officially dead, which isn’t to say that marijuana activists are admitting defeat. Dallas Observer has more.
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To help all of us non-glass artists better understand the industry, evolution and art and science behind how our pipes, bubblers and bongs are made we’ve asked one of Colorado’s most prominent and best-known artists to take on a quasi-regular column we’d like to call: Glass Class.
This week, our glass guide Scott “Trikky” Saed, professes his love for the simplicity and beauty of marbles.
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Here’s an awful situation no matter which way you view it. One-year-old Harley Bradford and her two-year-old brother, Jason, are dead after their mother found them both face down in a San Diego area swimming pool just before 10 a.m. on Monday morning. The children’s mother has yet to be charged with a crime.
The mother, identified as Tessie Behrens by CBS8 San Deigo, claims that she could not find her kids when she awoke at the home of a family friend around 9:30 a.m. Searching frantically, she found them both unconscious in the pool.
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Regular marijuana use can reduce the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research published in the American Journal of Medicine.
The study shows that marijuana users have better blood sugar control, lower levels of insulin and much thinner waistlines than non-users. All that despite the munchies.
If the state allows people to use medical marijuana, they should also allow those patients to drive so long as they aren’t impaired. That’s the gist of a law currently making its way through the Nevada legislature that would exempt medical marijuana patients from laws prohibiting drivers from having any marijuana – active or inactive – in their systems.
Nationally-known drug counselor Dr. Christian Thurstone says that people will develop strong marijuana addictions and will start injecting marijuana to find a deeper, heavier high. Okay, if you’re done hysterically laughing, we’ll move on.
The basis for his assertion? Well, it certainly has nothing to do with science. Instead, Thurstone basis this on so-called “addiction rates” he’s seen in studies and the fact that BHO has become so popular. And people actually consider this guy an expert. Clearly he’s really only an expert at ass-backwards paranoia. Read the rest of Thurstone’s idiotic assertion over at Denver Westword.
Arizona is a red state in terms of both landscape and politics, but it looks like it’s becoming greener and greener every day.
Last week there was news that cannabis research is allowed on Arizona college campuses, and now a new poll reveals 56 percent of the Arizonans surveyed are in favor of “legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.” Phoenix New Times has the story.
Discussions about the bill to regulate Colorado’s ground-breaking marijuana legislation, Amendment 64, continue to draw in unexpected implications — including language that essentially requires that marijuana magazines like High Times be treated as though they’re porn. If that section lasts, they’ll be hidden behind the counter — no matter how many clothes are on the cover.
And now that the proposal is an official part of the main bill, the countdown to a lawsuit has begun. Westword has more on the likely legal battle.