“The ongoing joke is that the highway patrol only stops every third car, eastbound,” one Kansas highway patrolman wrote of the half-hearted efforts to stem the flow of cannabis products across the border from neighboring Colorado. The Kansas Attorney General’s office, in a recent report surveying the KS effects of CO cannabis laws, points to an influx of...
For by-the-book scientists, there was only one source to obtain marijuana for medical research – a federally-sanctioned lab at the University of Mississippi. Until now. The New York Times reports the DEA is officially loosening its grip, enabling other universities to grow the plant for medical study. The move is one more step in the Obama...
What happens when one of the greatest scientific minds smokes weed? Well, let’s just say the mind can become as expansive as the universe. Early on in his career the astronomer, cosmologist and lifelong weed smoker, Carl Sagan, realized that marijuana could be beneficial creatively and scientifically . He began writing about his experiences with marijuana under the...
So you think that joint you just lit might be the ultimate down-to-earth remedy for all that ails you, right? Seems like the natural, organic panacea; the David to Big Pharma’s chemical Goliath, but do you know where your weed comes from? Would it surprise you to know that the carbon footprint of that joint is not as...
With the 2016 presidential election closing in quick, it’s easy to get lost in the sound bites. Campaign chatter aside, it’s time to take a closer look at where candidates stand on the legal status of marijuana, shall we? First up, Hillary Clinton with a nuanced, almost-progressive-but-leave-some-wiggle-room stance on legalization. “What the states are doing needs to be supported,”...
