News Hit - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
After a bit of a hiatus, the News Hit returns with the top pot headlines from the US and around the world. In this episode, hear all about the eight ex-DEA chiefs pressuring the Obama administration...
View ArticleEx-DEA Chiefs and UN Pressure Feds to Nullify Legal Pot Laws
With utter disregard – if not outright contempt – for the democratic process and the will of Washington and Colorado voters, eight former DEA administrators issued a statement earlier today calling for...
View ArticleWelfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced in Congress
Despite a lack of evidence linking welfare applicants and recipients with increased (or even average-level) drug usage, U.S. Representative Stephen Fincher (R-Tennessee) has reintroduced a bill that...
View ArticleAnti-Dispensary LA City Attorney Faces Runoff Election
Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich could not hold off his opponent Mike Feuer in Tuesday’s City Attorney election. Former Assemblyman Feuer received 44 percent of the vote while Trutanich had...
View ArticleAlmost Infamous Anthology
For nearly a decade now, senior editor Bobby Black has brought the readers of HIGH TIMES titillating tales of marijuana, music, and mischief in his column of cool, Almost Infamous. Our April 2013...
View ArticleThe Dawn of Reefer Madness
Back in 1930, Harry Anslinger became the first commissioner of the Treasury Department’s newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics – from which he launched a successful crusade to outlaw marijuana. Many...
View ArticleJudge: Michigan Pot Patients Eligible for Unemployment Benefits
A victory was registered earlier this week for Michigan medical marijuana patients. Circuit Judge William Collette ruled that patients using pot legally are eligible for unemployment benefits. The...
View ArticleNJ Bill to Allow Organ Transplants for Pot Patients
One of the great tragedies of medical marijuana being simultaneously legal on the state level and illegal on the federal level is the denial of organ transplants to medical pot patients by hospitals....
View ArticlePolice Raid Three Michigan Dispensaries
Last week police executed search warrants on three medical marijuana dispensaries in Grand Rapids, Michigan – the Mid-Michigan Compassion Club, Natural Wellness, and Purple Med. Authorities said the...
View ArticleFlorida’s New Bong Ban Bill
A new bill introduced in the Florida House of Representatives seeks to ban pipes and bongs from retail shops. House Bill 49 would prohibit “retail sale of certain drug paraphernalia.” Back in 2010,...
View ArticleThe Gardens of Marisol Therapeutics
In Pueblo, CO, Michael Stetler oversees one of the state's largest dispensaries. Take a look at his operation as he explains his philosophy of cannabis.
View ArticleCop Turned Pot Advocate Sues St. Louis Police Department
In a developing story that seems to change on a daily basis, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Sergeant, Gary Wiegert, filed an injunction against the SLPD in federal court Wednesday. The legal...
View ArticleThe Space Cadets - The Budos Band in San Fran
Staten Island retro soul pioneers, The Budos Band, get funky with their fans – on and off stage. Standing outside the Mezzanine in San Francisco, hours before the show, I bear witness to the...
View ArticleFree Weed – Episode 35
Free Weed returns with an epic episode. This time around Danny and Mike breakdown the HIGH TIMES “LA” Medical Cannabis Cup (in San Bernardino) and bring some excellent tips for growing sativas to the...
View ArticlePardoning Pot Prisoners
A new petition asks President Obama to commute the sentences of five federal prisoners sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent marijuana offenses. By Chris Simunek Dear Mr. President,...
View ArticleIowa House Kills Any Mention of Medical Pot from State Law
Moving in the opposite direction of most of the nation, the Iowa House of Representatives approved a bill last week that would remove any and all references to "medical marijuana" from Iowa law....
View ArticleUnderstanding Evolutionism
As a species, we are moved forward by cannabis. By Robert Melamede, Ph.D. “What is life?” is a question everyone considers. My search for the answer to this question drove me to become a scientist,...
View ArticleStudy: THC May Lead to Stronger Nicotine Addiction
A new study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that THC, the primary psychoactive chemical compound in cannabis, triggers stronger nicotine addiction in lab rats. The study...
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