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  1. Ron Strider

    New Knick Rips 'Liar' Stephen A. Smith Over Weed Accusation

    Just days after Michael Beasley said if the Knicks keep fading star Carmelo Anthony, they can comfortably make the playoffs with "four" players who can score 25 points per game, ESPN beef-stirrer Stephen A. Smith dissected Beasley's overly optimistic comments by suggesting Beasley is smoking...
  2. Ron Strider

    Marijuana Gets All Dressed Up And Rides The Elevator To The Top Floor

    A tidal wave of establishment money is poised to crash over the state's cannabis industry, overtaking the advocates who spent decades eroding prohibition. That was my takeaway after attending a marijuana industry panel hosted by the Smith, Costello & Crawford Public Policy Law Group on Friday...
  3. Ron Strider

    CA: Cannabis Group Works On New Draft Ordinance

    The members of the Cannabis Working Group met in front of a full room at the group's special meeting Sept. 14 in the Board of Supervisors' room in the courthouse in Quincy. The CWG and droves of community members flipped through a new draft ordinance and reviewed the changes. Who is on the...
  4. Ron Strider

    Women Of Color Are Again Creating The Culture. This Time It's For Cannabis

    When Mona Zhang told her parents she wanted to leave her job to report full-time on cannabis and build up her newsletter, Word on the Tree, they were skeptical to say the least. "When I first told my dad [that] I want to cover cannabis and he was like, 'What's that?' I said the Chinese word...
  5. Ron Strider

    CA: Meet The Sexy Bikini Models Celebrating Their Devotion To Weed

    These smokin' hot pics show a group of Los Angeles models who know how to live the high life. The stunning stoners are members of 420 Nurses - a social network for models who smoke weed that allows them to chat with fellow smokers and cash in on their looks. Started in 2009 by President...
  6. K.puff&stuff

    Seedbank

    Hi guy ive been looking at seedbanks and notice that some bank the thc level are not the same as others but they are from the same grower or who made them the seeds. Why is that Hope you guys understand
  7. TorturedSoul

    My Thoughts On Cannabis & Cigarettes

    All I know is if you like to get high, and you smoke cigarettes... before you know it... You'll be panting when you perform some really difficult task or other - you know, like walking up eight or ten stairs? But who cares. You'll cough more in a good day than someone with the flu does the...
  8. Ron Strider

    CA: Medical Professionals Brace For Cannabis

    A group of about 30 law enforcement, medical, and treatment professionals met behind closed doors Wednesday at Cottage Hospital to brace for the full legalization of cannabis. Three months before recreational marijuana becomes widely available, Santa Barbara medical professionals are...
  9. Ron Strider

    As Legalization Day Nears, Marijuana Remains Ubiquitous In Hollywood

    Hollywood and marijuana have been bedfellows at least since the shocking 1948 arrest of bad boy actor Robert Mitchum for possession spurred tabloid headlines. Then came 1969's "Easy Rider," in which Dennis Hopper's Billy turns the whiskey-drinking Jack Nicholson character onto a spliff and a...
  10. Ron Strider

    UK: Trafficked To Grow Cannabis: Vietnamese Migrants Are Being Exploited In Britain

    It was "like a dog's life", one Vietnamese women told me about her experience of living in the UK. She had been trafficked into the country and said she had "no fixed job and no fixed accommodation". The woman, who I interviewed as part of my research exploring human trafficking and Vietnam, has...
  11. Ron Strider

    CA: Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here. If Only Pot Farmers Were On Board

    From the sky they look like citrus groves, neat rows of lush emerald-colored plants set amid the hills of Northern California. But as a police reconnaissance helicopter banked for a closer look on a recent afternoon, the pungent smell of marijuana plants filled the cabin, wafting up from 800...
  12. J

    Drugswipe 3s saliva swipes UK police

    Hi guys / girls Just curious if anyone has had any exspirence with being saliva tested by police in the UK or any country or police forces who use the drugswipe 3s swipe tests?. If your positive it's straight to the station for a blood test and if you test higher then 2ng well your screwed...
  13. Ron Strider

    The 6 Most Prominent Politicians Who Changed Their Opinions On Marijuana

    Americans have drastically changed their opinion on marijuana legalization over the past few decades. So it would seem obvious that politicians' opinions on marijuana would change as well. And while the vast majority of politicians currently in office, at least at the federal level, continue to...
  14. Ron Strider

    'Miracle' Boy Who Was Treated With Cannabis Oil Is Now 300 Days Seizure-Free

    An 11-year-old boy with epilepsy who became the first patient to be prescribed cannabis oil on the NHS has not had a seizure in 300 days, his family have said. Billy Caldwell 11, once suffered up to 30 potentially fatal seizures a month due to his epilepsy, which does not respond to medicine or...
  15. Ron Strider

    CA: SF's New Weed Boss Is Green To The Business, But She's Got Connections

    San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee often refers to his departments heads as being part of the "city family" – but sometimes the family ties can get a bit complicated. Take the case of Nicole Elliott, the just-named, $149,459-a-year director of the newly created Office of Cannabis. Elliot had been...
  16. Ron Strider

    AK: Cannabis Proposition Pro- And Con- Take Different Approaches

    With voters outside the Kenai Peninsula's incorporated cities set to decide in roughly a month whether to allow commercial marijuana operations, cannabis industry supporters and opponents are readying for the vote – one side with public meetings and campaigning, the other with advocacy by...
  17. Ron Strider

    Meet The Companies Launching Maryland's Cannabis Industry

    After years of delays, lawsuits and other controversy, 14 firms in Maryland are now growing or poised to grow legal medical marijuana, firing up the supply chain for a market that's expected to reach a quarter billion dollars annually. The entrepreneurs who were awarded the lucrative licenses...
  18. Ron Strider

    MA: Former Business Executive To Head Panel Regulating Legal Pot

    A former business executive who opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana was tapped Thursday to head the Cannabis Control Commission, a new state agency responsible for regulating pot in Massachusetts. The appointment of Steven Hoffman was announced by state Treasurer Deb Goldberg...
  19. Ron Strider

    Meet The 24-Year-Old Entrepreneur Who Just Launched A Careers Site For Pot Jobs

    Go ahead and make your stoner jokes. It won’t bother the $7 billion cannabis industry one bit. Legal weed now employs an estimated 120,000 people; a figure that’s expected to triple in the next few years, according to the research firm New Frontier Data. For the weed dispensaries, farms, and...
  20. Ron Strider

    Maryland Medical Pot Companies That Missed Deadline Get A Reprieve

    Maryland medical cannabis regulators on Monday gave final approvals to three more cultivation centers and two processing companies – and announced they would give 10 other companies that missed a key deadline additional time to complete their licensing requirements. The businesses were...
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