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Simple And Effective Weed Brownie Recipe
It seems that ever since the 1968 histrionic masterpiece I Love You, Alice B Toklas, weed brownies have been assisting individuals from all across the globe in feeling an enhanced state of being. But when it comes to consuming marijuana, the act of smoking and ingesting it in the form of an edible are two [...]
UFC Raises Permitted THC Levels For Athletes
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization has agreed to raise the acceptable limits of THC metabolites that fighters are allowed to have in their bloodstream during competition. The UFC made their decision after the news was released that the World Anti-Doping Agency had taken the necessary measures to raise their THC metabolite acceptance levels for [...]
Supreme Court Rules Michigan Medical Marijuana Patients Exempt From Per Se DUID
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that patients that are officially registered and compliant with the state’s medical marijuana program can’t be convicted of driving while impaired minus indications of behavioral deficiency. Currently Michigan’s traffic laws categorize operating a motorized vehicle with any quantity of THC in the operator’s system to be a criminal offense, [...]
Maine Marijuana Advocates Submit Necessary Signatures For Legal Possession Referendum
Advocates to legalize the possession of marijuana for adults in the municipality of Portland, Maine have successfully gathered double the amount of signatures that are necessary to have their referendum qualify for the ballot in November. The required petitioned signatures have been officially delivered and if their efforts are efficacious, marijuana would be legal to [...]
Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission Has Chosen New Chairman
Brian Furnish, a farmer from Harrison County, Kentucky, has been chosen as the new chairman of the state’s industrial hemp commission. Furnish reportedly claimed that Kentucky is at the forefront of efforts to revive the crop. State Agriculture Commissioner James Comer stepped down from the position as commission chairman in accordance with legislation that passed the [...]
Federal Judge Rules Against Marijuana Magazine Restrictions In Colorado
United States District Judge Richard Matsch has officially ruled against the provision in Colorado’s law that would have forced magazines dedicated to marijuana to be handled in retail outlets similar to pornography. “The defendants have conceded the invalidity of the code provision cited in the complaints,” Judge Matsch avowed in his directive granting a permanent [...]
Nevada Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Dispensary Legislation Into Law
Registered patients with Nevada’s medical marijuana program have been waiting a minute or two for the state to offer them an alternative method of obtaining their supply of marijuana without having to cultivate it themselves or wait for the marijuana stork to fly by and drop it from the sky. Now, after just a short [...]
Study Shows THC Protects Brain From Long-Term Cognitive Damage
Professor Yosef Sarne of Tel Aviv University has recently discovered that the miraculous marijuana plant possesses neuroprotective qualities. The professor’s recent study has shown that extremely low doses of THC can in fact protect the brain from long-term cognitive damage in case of injury from hypoxia (lack of oxygen), seizures, or toxic drugs. As most [...]
The Medicinal Side of Hemp
Since the early 1990s, several countries around the globe have rediscovered hemp as a versatile renewable raw material and an ideally viable commercial crop. Most individuals throughout the world have a tendency to identify hemp as a crop that produces fiber, clothing, seed foodstuffs and fuel oil, but have you ever considered the prospective medicinal [...]
Hemp Can Build Your House and Make Your Blouse
Hemp is conceivably best known for its Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids that make it an excellent addition to a healthy diet, or perhaps as a cotton substitute used in the manufacturing of ecologically-sound clothing. But it can also be manufactured into a vast array of resourceful, environmentally-sound building materials. Hemp is typically categorized as [...]
Vermont Passes Legislation To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed legislation on Thursday June 6, decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2013 will remove criminal penalties on possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and replace them with civil fines. Keep your cursor parked right here @ [...]
The Blooming Business Of Home Marijuana Cultivation In Colorado
We take a brief look at the blooming business of growing your own pot in the now legalized state of Colorado. The regulated recreational marijuana marketplace in Colorado won’t be officially up and running until the year 2014, but adults in the state can legally cultivate a limited number of plants in the privacy of [...]
New York Assemblyman John Ceretto Votes in Favor of Medical Marijuana
New York Assemblyman John Ceretto explains his vote in favor of allowing patients in terrible pain access to medical marijuana in his republic. Assemblyman Ceretto professes the fact that he has changed his position to now support legalizing marijuana for medicinal dedications after speaking with his son who is a licensed physician as to whether [...]
Author, Martin Lee, Discusses Marijuana Legalization And Prohibition
Martin Lee, author of the books “Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana, Medical, Recreational and Scientific,” and “Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD; The CIA, The Sixties, And Beyond,” discusses the implication of the recent passing of recreational marijuana usage laws for adults in Washington and Colorado. Lee believes the success of [...]
Former Seattle Police Chief Supports Legalization of Marijuana
Norm Stamper, an increasingly known figure in the fight to legalize drugs in the United States, discusses the current federal drug policy and his belief that the government should follow Portugal’s example and legalize all drugs. He is the author of the book “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose’ of the Dark Side of American [...]
