Colorado passed a law on Wednesday that increases the state’s regulatory oversight on edible and concentrated forms of cannabis, after safety concerns following two deaths with possible links to pot-based food. Signed into power by Governor John Hickenlooper, the law says products that contain marijuana must be easily distinguishable from …
Weed-infused coffee makes debut in Washington state
Marijuana customers in Washington state will soon be able the purchase marijuana-infused coffee called “Legal” that promises to give customers a caffeinated high if all goes to plan and Legal hits stores next month. The cold coffee will be sold in glass jars that each contains approximately 20 milligrams of …
According to Forbes, it’s easier to die from drinking too much water, than from smoking too much weed
Last February, reports filtered through from Germany that two men died of cardiac arrhythmia, apparently triggered by marijuana intoxication. News that seemed to spoil the reputation and undamaged track record of weed. Until that point, no cases of fatal overdose were known to science. Now it should be noted, that …
The Clinic: Smoke Weed and Don’t Worry About Schizophrenia
Of all the scare tactics used over the last century to make people afraid of a largely harmless plant, the idea that smoking pot can cause psychotic episodes or even schizophrenia is one of the oldest and most difficult to overcome. Especially in regards to adolescents, whose developing brains may …
Legalizing cannabis is surely the most socially forward and cost effective option available.
A team of researchers in Australia and the US analysed data from 20 mental and substance disorders to model the prevalence, premature death, and non-fatal illness caused by these disorders in 187 countries. Among the findings: *High income countries have the highest burden of disease due to drug use *Women …
New pipe ban will increase harm to cannabis consumers
New pipe ban will increase harm to cannabis consumers, and encourage users of legal synthetics to smoke more The Government will increase harm by further restricting the sale, supply and importation of drug harm reduction equipment. “This National-led Government seems to be encouraging use of the more harmful synthetics over …
Want to get rid of synthetic cannabis? Legalize real cannabis
How in Gods name is America, the home of the homicidal war on drugs now more liberal on Cannabis than we are? Have we managed to appreciate the madness that synthetic cannabis is legal yet more harmful than organic cannabis which is illegal? I find the current moral panic over …
Kings of Cannabis (Full Length Documentary)
Vice covers Colombian guerrilla-style weed growing in the jungle. This documentary is crazy. You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but if you’ve been to Amsterdam then you’ve probably smoked his weed. Arjan’s been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow, Super Silver …