Posts Tagged ‘weed’

(Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from “coffee shops” and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year. The Netherlands is well known for having one of Europe’s most liberal soft drug policies that has made its cannabis shops a popular tourist [...]

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) will introduce legislation on Thursday to end the federal ban on marijuana and let the states decide whether to legalize it. “The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana [...]

Some local wags are calling it the “Wal-Mart of Weed” or “Home DePot.” Seeking to capitalize on Arizona’s newly enacted medical marijuana law, a California-based company on Wednesday opened a superstore-sized garden center in Phoenix catering to those who want to grow their own cannabis.

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Incense and herbal smoking blends that mimic the high of marijuana are popping up in mom-and-pop convenience stores throughout Central Florida. But as a rising number of users of the so-call “legal weed” are ending up in emergency rooms, Florida’s Drug Policy Advisory Council wants the Legislature to join 11 other states in banning the [...]

An Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, has smoked pages torn from the Koran and the Bible, posting the video on YouTube just days after an American Pastor’s threat to burn the Muslim holy book caused worldwide outrage. In a 12-minute clip entitled “Bible or Koran – which burns best?” Mr Stewart, who works for the Queensland [...]

The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home. The Daily Local News of West Chester reports 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley pleaded guilty Tuesday to having nearly a dozen large marijuana plants inside her home in Caln, about 30 miles west of Philadelphia. Marley was arrested in 2008 [...]

It has been reported that social-networking site Facebook has blocked the use of ads which aim for marijuana legalization, despite originally approving the ads on the website last week. Do you think they should be allowed or not?

Authorities found 52 pounds of marijuana hidden in a tombstone at CVG last week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Cincinnati DHL express consignment operation say they seized the marijuana en route from Kingston, Jamaica to London, England. Officers first asked when they came upon the tombstone, “Why would someone ship a [...]

Smoke shops throughout state are hoping a new law, regulating what they can sell, will go up in smoke. Thirty shops have sued to block enforcement of the rules, which took effect in July, and eventually to kill them. The law, passed in the last legislative session, makes it a misdemeanor for a smoke shop [...]

Anticipating California voters will back a November ballot measure to legalize casual marijuana use, officials in Oakland have approved two tax rates on pot sales in their city, already a hub of the state’s medicinal marijuana scene. Oakland’s city council on Monday night approved the rates — a 5 percent gross receipts tax on licensed [...]