April 22, 2013
04/22/2013
Oregon Senate Approves Medical Marijuana for PTSD

Oregon Senate Approves Medical Marijuana for PTSD

The Oregon Senate passed a bill allowing people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to secure a medical marijuana card on Wednesday in a 19-11 vote. The Oregon Medical...
April 22, 2013
04/22/2013
Why It’s So Hard for Scientists to Study Medical Marijuana

Why It’s So Hard for Scientists to Study Medical Marijuana

The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 placed marijuana in the most restrictive use category, Schedule I, deeming it a drug with no medicinal value and high potential...
April 22, 2013
04/22/2013
Group Demands Space for Great Atlanta Pot Festival

Group Demands Space for Great Atlanta Pot Festival

Organizers of “The Great Atlanta Pot Festival” sued Atlanta, claiming the city violated their civil rights by refusing them a permit to hold their event in Freedom...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Piece of the Week | AJ Roberts Recycler (Slyme)

Piece of the Week | AJ Roberts Recycler (Slyme)

AJ Roberts Recycler This week’s piece of the week is a fantastic example of a truly multi-purpose rig. I mean, I really dig it for flowers and...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Great Movies While High 420 Edition | Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes

Great Movies While High 420 Edition | Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes

Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes Finally! Someone made a documentary showcasing what I like to call the greatest sub-culture of a sub-culture –...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
The Culture High Kickstarter Update #37: Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Social Media & Next Shoot

The Culture High Kickstarter Update #37: Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Social Media & Next Shoot

On Thursday, we received the latest Kickstarter update (#37) from one of our favorite projects: The Culture High, by Adam Scorgie. We support this Kickstarter project and encourage you...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
New Jersey Will Expand Medical Marijuana Program

New Jersey Will Expand Medical Marijuana Program

New Jersey may open more medical marijuana dispensaries, according to the state’s health commissioner. In early April, Gov. Chris Christie proposed allocating $1.6 million to fund New Jersey’s three-year-old medical...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Measure Introduced to Form Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy

Measure Introduced to Form Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy

Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) has introduced federal legislation that would establish a National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy. The proposed commission, inspired by the 1971 Shafer Commission on Marihuana and...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Alaska Prepares for 2014 Ballot Initiative

Alaska Prepares for 2014 Ballot Initiative

On Tuesday, the Anchorage Daily News reported that marijuana policy reform activists in Alaska presented a drafted ballot initiative that calls for taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol, along with 100 signatures...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
DARE: Failing American Youth and Taxpayers for Thirty Years

DARE: Failing American Youth and Taxpayers for Thirty Years

With tongue firmly planted in her cheek, leading scholar, author and activist for youth drug education, Marsha Rosenbaum, Ph.D, from the Drug Policy Alliance, criticizes DARE’s ineffectiveness and expense for...
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske: No State Can Nullify Federal Marijuana Ban

Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske: No State Can Nullify Federal Marijuana Ban

President Barack Obama’s drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, toed a strict line on marijuana Wednesday, saying federal laws will prevail, regardless of state-level efforts to legalize pot.
April 19, 2013
04/19/2013
Congress Predicts Current Congress Will Legalize Hemp

Congress Predicts Current Congress Will Legalize Hemp

I attended a forum on marijuana legalization at The Brookings Institution Monday, where Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), one of a handful of Congressional champions of marijuana law reform, was one of...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
Great Music While High: TOOL

Great Music While High: TOOL

TOOL is therapy for your soul. For many of us, music IS therapy. It’s also a way of getting in touch with your inner thoughts and feelings. It makes...
By: Lateralus
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
MMA Ref Josh Rosenthal Busted with $6 Million of Cannabis

MMA Ref Josh Rosenthal Busted with $6 Million of Cannabis

According to the U.S. District Attorney’s office in Oakland, California, Josh Rosenthal, one of the best referees in MMA, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
63% of District of Columbia Voters Support Marijuana Legalization

63% of District of Columbia Voters Support Marijuana Legalization

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling, funded by Marijuana Policy Project and Drug Policy Alliance, revealed that 63% of District of Columbia voters support taxing and regulating marijuana,...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
Kansas Governor Signs Public Benefits Drug Test Bill

Kansas Governor Signs Public Benefits Drug Test Bill

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) Tuesday signed into law a bill that requires applicants for welfare and unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing if there is “reasonable...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
Medical Marijuana Advocates Applaud Passage of Illinois Bill

Medical Marijuana Advocates Applaud Passage of Illinois Bill

HB1, touted as one of the most restrictive medical marijuana laws, must still pass the Illinois State Senate The Illinois House voted 61-57 today to pass HB1,...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.04.17)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.04.17)

There’s something rotten in the Salt Lake Valley and maybe in East Tennessee, too. Meanwhile, an Arkansas cop heads to prison for protecting dope loads and a...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.04.17)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.04.17)

More DEA raids in Los Angeles, federal prison bureaucrats ignore a Michigan medical marijuana prisoner’s medical needs, and there is lots of action in state legislatures. Let’s...
April 18, 2013
04/18/2013
New York Health Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Bill

New York Health Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Bill

In a 21 to 4 vote, the New York State Assembly Health Committee approved the use, production, and sale of medical marijuana. Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) and Assembly...