Bob Saget is always funnier when he embraces his dark side
It’s easy to talk to Bob Saget. He’s friendly, down-to-earth and unfailingly self-deprecating. It’s when you sit down later to try and transcribe the interview that you realize you’ve got your work cut out for you. The guy is a human run-on sentence. It’s just the way Saget’s mind works—as …
The Supreme Court of California has finally decided to step up to the plate and review several recent major medical marijuana cases, which have come out of our state’s appellate court system. The Supreme Court’s decision could be rendered by the end of the year, and will have a major impact on the California’s medical marijuana community and will set …
One of the major objections to the medicinal use of marijuana is the use of smoking as a delivery system. Based on the fact that smoking tobacco causes deterioration of lung function, these detractors intone that smoking marijuana is just as harmful.
Testing that hypothesis is really quite simple—even you can do it. Head over to any hospital and go to …
I was on a lot of medication, lots of chemotherapy. I’ve been through chemo three times—two times it didn’t work; the third time was the charm. I was in a hospital for three years and three months. That was before I started using medical cannabis. I was on a lot of painkillers, lots of narcotics, lots of anxiety medication, lots of cancer medication. It’s been really hard.
Call your great gramps cuz we’re about to get old school! Let CULTURE introduce you to the term muggles, a slang term for a marijuana cigarette that hasn’t seen the light of day since, well, Louis Armstrong was blowing his best during the jazz scene of the 1920s and ’30s. In fact, Satchmo and His Orchestra even recorded a 12-bar …
Nothing says I love you more, for all eternity, than the gift of sweet nothings. Nothing bought, nothing sold. Where is the romance, that emblem of undying love that shows how much you really care? A gift to show how much you really care should be mindful of the environment, economics and sustainability . . . something that produces a …
Coachella: the festival so expensive, hot and unpleasant has doubled its size this year. The largest concert event in the Inland Empire decided to augment attendance figures and water bottle sales by stretching the shows over two weekends instead of the traditional one. It will be the exact same line-up both weekends—“and what a line-up!” everyone was overheard saying on …
The water reaches chest level as the nervous tour group wades through the watery caverns. Each person carries a candle, and only its flickering glow keeps us from sheer darkness. The occasional bat zips overhead as stalactites on each side take every form and shape imaginable. As the water level rises, the group must swim from rock to rock with …
It’s simple to use, durable and delivers smoke-free, flawless vapor every time—that’s all we really want from our medicating accessories, right? And the innovative, combustion-free ThermoVape delivers perfect, pocket-sized performance—perfect to vape your favorite botanicals or oils. ($249 Black ThermoVape Kit)
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Style and eco-consciousness go hand in hand with Dime Bags, a line of durable hand-stitched washable bags that come in Pouch, Tube and Lifestyle models. Made of hemp and a hemp-polyester blend for the interior (100 percent cotton inside), Dime Bags are a fashionable and functional way to store your smoking accessories. They also come with a hidden stash pocket. …
This nifty iPhone/iPad accessory (which requires the GarageBand app) allows a passionate guitarist to plug in and play without the hassle of heavy gear. It’s the quintessential compact amplifier for traveling musicians, and it even comes with interchangeable drum and bass beats. ($99)
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From the company that bought you all things skate and from the Grammy-award winning producer, MC, author—nothing short of an icon—come these sweet headphones. WeSC and RZA’s Chambers series comes in two forms “premium” and “street,” both fueling you with excellent sound quality all the while keep it cool with a simple sleek design. Is there anything RZA can’t influence? …
The Tree of Life
Dir. Terrence Malick
Plan B Entertainment
The Tree of Life’s story loosely focuses on a man, Jack O’Brien, who reflects on his childhood memories, loss of innocence and his struggle to reconcile with his father while growing up in the 1950s. However, there are larger themes that intermittently interrupt the story as the film presents grand scenes of nature, …
The Hot Pot Handbook
By O B Gold
E.L. Simon and Sons
Cannabis advocate/writer O B Gold probably does the best job in summing up the benefits of practicing what he preaches, otherwise known as following the tenets of his latest book The Hot Pot Handbook: “The result is that you will get higher, be healthier and you will save tons of money.” …
I Am Gemini
Cursive
Saddle Creek
Concept albums are difficult to pull off, as evidenced by post-hardcore outfit Cursive’s latest, I Am Gemini. A great deal of work can go into even the most hackneyed of concepts. The trio’s good twin/evil twin separated at birth feels labored over, if unfinished and unrealized. It doesn’t have the assured storytelling of The Dear Hunter’s …
State Supreme Court to review dispensary cases
In a move that will almost certainly affect the medical marijuana industry across the state, the California Supreme Court has voted to review four cases revolving around the legality of local ordinances governing dispensaries.
The cases involve dispensary ordinances in Dana Point, Long Beach, Riverside and Upland. At issue is whether cities and counties can …
Initiative 502 might end up on November ballot
The Secretary of State’s office recently certified a measure to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana sales, according to The Associated Press. The campaign for the Initiative 502 had received enough petition signatures. According to David Ammons, a spokesman for Secretary of State Sam Reed, a random 3 percent sampling of nearly 355,000 petition …
Marin to remove cannabis from smoking ban
Cannabis will no longer be included on a list of “plant life” prohibited by Marin’s tough anti-smoking ordinance, the county’s supervisors have decided.
The ordinance bans smoking in apartments throughout unincorporated Marin, with the original version of the law defining “smoking products” as “tobacco, weed, spices, herbal or other plant life.” According to news reports, …
Since 1978, 39 states have enacted laws permitting the use of medical marijuana, but most of the laws relied on a supply of cannabis from federal government sources or on federal authorization of marijuana use and were never implemented. In the meantime, six of those state laws have expired or been repealed. Since 1996, however, 16 states and the District …
Initially there were jurisdictions and judges that allowed some probationers to medicate with marijuana while on supervised probation in Colorado. Slowly this has, unfortunately, changed. I was told by a District Court judge that the judges received a communication asking them not to allow medicating while on probation. I had a client who was initially allowed to medicate and then …
UK report shows pot improves brain power
After all those jokes about dopey-headed pot smokers, a new study out of the United Kingdom suggests cannabis use may actually improve brain function in middle-aged men.
The King’s College study, published in January in the American Journal of Epidemiology, looked at the affects of illicit drug use on the cognitive functioning of 50-year-old men …
