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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd came to Denver recently to write about pot. And, she reasoned, how could she truly write about the state’s legalized sales of limited amounts of pot to adults 21 and up without actually sampling some of said pot?
So Dowd ate a candy bar, which led to a Reefer Madness-like bad trip. Read on for more.
Thanks to a few bad parents who let their children get into marijuana edibles that shouldn’t have been left out, Colorado lawmakers now feel the need to play parents. Under a proposed bill, any marijuana edible that resembles a commercially-available food (thing gummy bears, lozenges, and cookies) would be banned.
| Brownies are okay, but candies like this will remain illegal. |
As we reported last week, Oregon recently began re-allowing medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in the state under a new, uniform set of guidelines. Among those rules: dispensaries weren’t allowed to sell edibles that could be “attractive to minors”. That meant no cookies, brownies, crackers, candies or anything sweet and loaded with cannabis extracts could be sold.
But state officials fixed that problem last night, issuing a revised set of rules that allows for baked infused-foods but still banning anything that is colorful and childlike, or anything that is “an animal or any other commercially recognizable toy or candy.”
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In recent weeks, we’ve posted about several satirical Colorado marijuana sales stories that some are taking seriously, including one that claimed pot overdoses killed 37 people and another about Representative Michele Bachmann supposedly driving stoned that prompted an official denial from Fort Collins.
A piece about folks buying weed with food stamps is a joke, too. But there is now actual legislation intended to ban this nonexistent practice. Denver Westword has more.
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The owner of Culture Shock clothing boutique in Fairfax, California is either really stupid or really diabolic. That’s our conclusion today after a report surfaced about her “accidentally” giving pot food to a local art teacher and her students while the group was on a field trip.
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Oregon, New Mexico and Maine will no longer allow certain applicants for food stamps to deduct medical marijuana expenses from their incomes after federal officials threatened to slap the three states with penalties.
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| New member patients at Fweedom Collective get 25 percent off their order for donating canned food. |
Fweedom Collective, a Seattle medical marijuana dispensary, is offering patients who join the collective a chance to donate food and receive 25 percent off their order.
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| Dave Crook and Amy DiIullo of Urban Cannabis with donated food items |
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| Granny Purps medical marijuana dispensary in Soquel, California, found a very effective way to motivate customers to donate to a food drive — give away free joints. |
A medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Cruz County, California has found a very effective way to inspire canned food donations for the holidays — giving away joints.
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A farmer in France has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence for feeding cannabis to his 150 ducks.