From Alternet’s Will Pot Ever Be Legal in This Schizoid Country?: “Marijuana occupies a bizarrely paradoxical place in American culture. Its use is widespread, commonplace among the young and ubiquitous in popular culture. Yet it remains highly illegal, and talk of legalization is usually deemed political suicide. Here are five signs that pot should be [...]
From Since You Asked’s I’m 21 and addicted to pot — but I’m doing just great!: “Court is the worst place to be stoned — except for funerals. Court is bad and pot makes it worse. You know how the taste of an orange or Milky Way bar is magnified by the high? So the [...]
February 14, 2008 – 03:58 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s State Senate passes marijuana bill: “The Vermont Senate easily passed a bill lowering criminal penalties for small amounts of marijuana Wednesday as lawmakers called for a sweeping review of how the state penalizes illegal drug users. The bill stripping jail penalties away for most people arrested with 2 ounces or less [...]
January 13, 2008 – 12:03 pm
From Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper’s Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth: “Supporters of marijuana may finally have an excuse to smoke weed every day. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that smoking pot can make the brain grow.”
September 25, 2007 – 10:02 am
From NORML’s press release, Marijuana Arrests For 2006 Tops Record High…Nearly 6 Percent Increase Over 2005: “Police arrested a record 829,625 persons for marijuana violations in 2006, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for pot ever recorded by the [...]
August 20, 2007 – 10:17 am
From The Stranger’s article, entitled, Toke Like a Girl: “Perhaps the obstacle to female toking is a fear of looking lazy. Getting stoned is, in effect, a great way to relax. Men are allowed to be lazy—being stoned is part of their farting, pajama-wearing, video-game-playing pantheon of acceptable male relaxation techniques…But modern women are not [...]
August 16, 2007 – 11:12 am
From the Financial Times’ article, High society: “It is clear that drugs policy would be infinitely better conducted if governments actually had some influence on the business. Legalisation would enable them to tax the drugs, ensure quality control, cut out the most dangerous strains, help genuine addicts, try to prevent the sale to minors, de-glamorise [...]
From the Fluid Imagination HOLY SHIT Department comes The Great Tennessee Marijuana Cave: “Under this ordinary house is a marijuana grow-op unlike any you have ever seen. Within the caves of middle Tennessee, growers constructed a complex of offices, living quarters, restroom facilities, and a climate-controlled forest of over one thousand cannabis plants” [pictures included].
From an editorial in the Boston Globe’s Health section, entitled Marijuana as wonder drug: “A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine — and US drug policy — that we still need [...]
March 22, 2007 – 04:45 pm
From What would Jesus smoke?: “On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a First Amendment case involving a high-school student who was suspended for holding a sign that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.” His provocative slogan turns out to have been little more than a ploy to get on TV. But what do Christian [...]
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