This Is Willie Nelson Endorsing Gay Marriage… and Weed
If you’ve logged into Facebook during the past few days, you’ve noticed the Human Rights Campaign’s equals-sign-on-red logo making its way into all of your friends profile pictures. This campaign is...
View ArticleWeed: Colombia’s Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Drug Addiction
Basuco, Colombia’s answer to crack cocaine, is a problem in Bogota. With an estimated .1 percent of the city addicted to the cheap, smokeable, insanely impure cocaine paste, officials may turn to a...
View ArticleDamn, Where Are We Going to Get All Our Weed Now?
At 3pm yesterday, NYPD, state police, and DEA agents arrived at a Long Island City warehouse, seized 1,000 pot plants, arrested the heinous criminals that were growing the crop, and rolled out, thus...
View ArticleNew Poll Suggests That America’s Finally Starting To Grow Up About Weed
According to the latest Pew Research Center poll, 52 percent of Americans are cool with legalizing weed, which is one of the most encouraging developments of modern U.S. history. It’s also a marked...
View ArticleReddit’s Own Stoner Award Show: The Munchies
Reddit general manager Erik Martin announced The Munchies awards show last night: “ Unlike other awards-show-type-things, The Munchies will not be burdened by traditional categories, rigid rules, and...
View ArticleMedical Cannabis Could Pass NY Senate, But Would Cuomo Sign?
New York State Senator Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) is confident that the medical marijuana bill introduced in March will pass through the senate if voted on, claiming that 38 of the group’s 63...
View ArticleSoon, You May Be Getting Breathalyzed For Weed
Sometimes science is great, sometimes it is not so great. Case in point: according to a study published yesterday, a team of researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have developed a way to user...
View ArticleResearchers Find Weed May be Key to Treating HIV
Since its rise in the early 80s, HIV has sadly become one of the most infamously crippling, hard-to-beat viruses. But preliminary research from the Temple University School of Medicine suggests that a...
View ArticleMedical Weed for Pets: A Lucrative New Frontier
With weed being decriminalized in numerous states across the country, “man’s best friend” is not being left out of the movement. Veterinarian Doug Kramer has been investigating the beneficial effects...
View ArticleWorst Super Ever Mistakes Tomatoes for Weed, Calls Cops
Christian Delarosa, a 34-year-old building superintendent with an almost superhuman ability to identify plant species, was foiled this week, as he spotted some Cannabis growing on the roof of his...
View ArticleDabs: The World’s Most Powerful and Sought After Weed Product
Across the country, from legal 21-and-over Denver dispensaries to black-market NYC delivery services, steeply priced strains of “killer bud”—so thick with tricome crystals they shimmer like...
View ArticleIf You’re Going to Be a Lonely Sadsack, at Least Smoke Some Weed
I know, I know. You’re depressed. Its’s an oppressive, overwhelming, dehumanizing world out there. You’re single, your “friends” are all assholes, the summer sun feels like some cruelly ironic wink at...
View ArticleWeed Fed Pigs Don’t Get High
Earlier this week, many were buzzing about Seattle-based butcher William von Schneidau’s pigs and their weed diet. Upon closer examination, it seems that this diet has little to no effect on the pigs....
View Article“Starbucks of Weed,” Brought to You by an Ex-Microsoft Executive
Someday, weed will be a major American industry. We’ve known that for a while. Now, one company hopes to be that industry’s first serious player. Dubbed Diego Pellicer, the upstart brand is helmed by a...
View ArticleWashington Drug Dogs Re-Trained to “Unsmell” Weed
Drug enforcement authorities in Washington are encountering an unusual but awesome problem after the state voted to legalize recreational use of cannabis last year: re-training drug dogs to “unsmell”...
View ArticleVaporizer Company Wants Amanda Bynes for Spokeswoman
Grenco Science, the vaporizer brand with official models for Action Bronson and The Game, wants to make Amanda Bynes their newest endorsee, according to a letter nabbed by TMZ. “We think you’d be a...
View ArticleMedical Cannabis Is a “Hoax,” Says Bloomberg
In case you need any clarifying on where Michael Bloomberg stands on weed, the mayor called medical cannabis a “hoax” on his WOR radio appearance Friday, before outright dismissing any attempts to...
View ArticleNew Numbers Show Huge Racial Bias in Weed Arrests
New data from the ACLU shows a staggering racial disparity in cannabis arrests nationwide: In 2010, black Americans were four times more likely to be arrested on charges related to the plant than...
View ArticleSmoking Weed from a Saxophone in New Vampire Weekend Video
See how many of your favorite indie musicians you can spot in the video for Vampire Weekend’s “Diane Young.” Look, there’s Chromeo, picking a fight with Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Thomson from...
View ArticleWe Sent Bloomberg Studies Showing Medical Weed Is Not a Hoax
Last week, Michael Bloomberg called medical cannabis “one of the greatest hoaxes of all time,” ignoring countless scientific studies that have shown the plant’s usefulness in treating everything from...
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