I’ve been smoking marijuana for 36 years — since I was 17. Coming of age in Alabama in the 1970s as a cannabis user, I learned one thing very clearly by getting busted for pot five times by the time I was 25 years old: I don’t like the laws against marijuana. They’re dumb, they don’t work, they don’t keep anyone who wants cannabis from getting it, and they destroy people’s lives for no good reason. I decided to fight [...]
Last week the National Institute of Drug Abuse released a statement denying that pot is less toxic than alcohol, which resulted in cries of dismay from those at the HT offices and pot smokers nationwide. We decided to come up with a list of just some of the reasons weed wins over booze: 1. Marijuana Curbs Brain Damage Caused by Drinking Unless you’re seriously in denial about alcohol’s negative effects, you’re probably aware that alcohol is less than good for your brain. Marijuana, however, [...]
The Department of Justice is expected to announce guidance Thursday on how it will handle disparities between federal and state drug laws nine months after Colorado and Washington state voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana, sources on Capitol Hill told The Denver Post. Since last year, state officials and lawmakers have begged for guidance from the feds on how to handle new state recreational marijuana laws that are at odds with federal law, which considers possession, cultivation and distribution [...]
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The debate is reaching an all time high in Lubbock. The Hub City NORML group is wanting to legalize marijuana by weeding out the skeptics. They want the old laws to go up in smoke. For Colt Smith it’s more than a t-shirt, but a belief and message. “We hope to see people using cannabis responsibly, and not have to be in fear of handcuffs,” he said. Smith is Executive Director of Hub City NORML. It is a marijuana rights [...]
As support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, believes that momentum will drive two more states to follow Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational weed in 2014. In a recent interview with Reason, Kampia made several legal pot predictions. “I think the next state to legalize will be Alaska, through a ballot initiative that we’re running in August of 2014,” Kampia said to Reason. “Through state legislatures, I think the [...]
Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber today signed legislation, House Bill 3460, into law establishing regulations for the creation of state-licensed medical cannabis facilities. The law tasks the Oregon Health Authority with crafting rules and regulations over the following nine months to govern the new statewide distribution system. Oregon voters initially approved a statewide initiative in 1998 mandating state lawmakers to allow for physicians to authorize qualified patients to consume and grow cannabis. However, that law did not explicitly provide legal protections [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO), Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced an amendment to H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, the Farm Bill, that would allow colleges and universities to grow and cultivate industrial hemp in states where it is already legal without fear of federal interference. The amendment passed today by a vote of 225 to 200. “Industrial hemp is an important agricultural commodity, not a drug,” said Rep. [...]
Stevie Zee awkwardly lights up a bong with his spastic hands. Stricken with cerebral palsy after almost being strangled in the womb by his umbilical cord, the 41-year-old Valley Village resident takes a few puffs of medical marijuana and immediately feels relief. “Weed works,” he says simply. The “Diablo Kush” and “Velvet Kush” strains from Reseda Discount Caregivers dispensary relax his stiffly contorted muscles and stave off the severe depression that prompted him to make several suicide attempts over the [...]
