Article Archive for February 2012
News Nuggets (Washington)
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 …
News Nuggets (Bay Area)
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 …
By the Number (Bay Area)
1. Number of years the Market Street Cooperative in San Francisco—considered the oldest dispensary in the city—existed before President Obama took office: 11 (Source: SFBay.com).
2. Number of years the Market Street Cooperative in San Francisco survived the Obama administration before …
Letter of the Law
A new movement arises as nearly two dozen Colorado dispensaries get put on notice by the feds
Rumors had circled for weeks about which state would be “next.” United States attorneys had already issued cease-and-desist letters last fall to collectives in …
Medical Marijuana from State to State
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 …
Is Medicating While on Supervised Probation Allowed in Colorado?
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 …
By the Numbers (Colorado)
1. Estimated sales-tax revenue (in millions) generated for Colorado by medical cannabis dispensaries in fiscal year 2010: 5 (Source: CNN).
2. Amount of money (in millions) School District 51 in Grand Junction had to cut from its 2011 budget due to …
News Nuggets (The World)
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 …
News Nuggets (The Nation)
Legalization campaign launches in Michigan
A grassroots group in Detroit has launched a statewide ballot initiative drive to legalize marijuana in Michigan.
Under the law proposed by the Committee for a Safer Michigan, residents 21 and older would be allowed to legally …
News Nuggets (Colorado)
Feds seek to crack down on Colorado dispensaries
Less than a month after Colorado lawmakers formally called on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to ease controls on cannabis, federal authorities have announced plans to wage the same war on medical marijuana …
Kickin’ Chicken
There is nothing like chicken soup for whatever ails you. If you filled a hot tub with chicken soup, you would probably go back in time. It’s nostalgia in a bowl, and now it’s medicated, courtesy of the kitchen of …
Marqaha
When it comes to soft drinks, we can spot an imposter from a mile away. No thank you, Mr. Pepper. You didn’t even finish med school! That’s why we found Marqaha (the first Arab word for bliss) so refreshing. Instead …
SR-71
Creating genetics is a science, and science can be boring. Cross after cross can fail before you ever get the results of great, stable plant lines. The folks over at Green Depot in Denver have that sort of patience judging …
King’s Kush
Being the king ain’t always great. Sometimes, people want your throne. Elvis died on his. In the case of King’s Kush, you’re doomed to be smoked. O.G. Kush is a familiar sight for most patients, but most won’t recognize the …
Querkle
Most of us aren’t old-school rappers, so we don’t have our mad rhymes down. Sometimes, it’s better to just make up a word and bust that one. Querkle, from TGA Seeds, is definitely worthy of a shout-out for being one …
Bio-Jesus
Pop quiz: Is Bio-Jesus A) a new Michael Bay movie about a 60-foot-tall radioactive savior that hates skyscrapers or B) an indica-dominant strain at Denver Relief? The correct answer, my friend, is B, although wouldn’t A be kind of cool? …
On the Rise Medical Cannabis Gingerbread
Totally delicious, profoundly powerful—On the Rise edibles can get out of hand fast. A2C2—the All American Cannabis Club in San Jose—prides itself on carrying the best medicated foods it can find, and On the Rise’s name has rung out from …
Auntie Dolores Italian Cheese Cracker
Auntie Dolores comes to the rescue of diabetics with her powerful, professional Italian Cheese Crackers, sugar-free, with 184 milligrams of THC as tested by Halent Laboratories. Elegantly boxed and labeled, the two crackers come individually wrapped and sealed in plastic …
Skywalker OG
Lucas may have retired with Red Tails, but the Force lives on in the popular Skywalker OG, a powerful hybrid combining the indica-dominant Skywalker with the California classic hybrid OG Kush. Breeder Dutch Passion created Skywalker (from ARC Healing Center …
Jack Herer
Berkeley Patients Care Collective’s No. 1 stable sativa strain goes by the name of the legendary Jack Herer. Named for the late marijuana and hemp activist and author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer is a 50 percent …
Green Lantern
San Jose’s Bay Leaf dispensary has a mysterious, sativa-dominant super-strain going by the name of Green Lantern, with a backstory shrouded in mystery. Allegedly an exotic, long-lost 50-year-old cut that recently returned to the mainstream, Green Lantern comes in large-sized, …
Sour Frost
Vallejo’s highly regarded Red Dog Green dispensary has quite the selection, yet its Sour Frost’s triple-flocked frosty diamonds managed to freeze us in our tracks. Intensely sweet, fruity notes—like a fruit salad—immediately lured us in closer, accompanied by a minty …
It’s All Bad OG
As much as we value and admire the good wizards at Anaheim Herbal Healing Collective in Anaheim, we have to keep it real and have to admit it got the name of this 100-percent indica completely wrong. We examined it …
Cherry OG
Let’s answer the first question raised by the name of this pure and lovely indica from Royal Remedies in San Bernardino: Yes, Cherry OG does indeed smell and taste like cherries—or at least cherries aged to perfection, chopped up and …
Pine OG
We were under the impression that Head Cheese represented the high waterline for dense, smelly pot strains—until we tried Pine OG from High Rollers in Los Angeles and realized how high the line can go. A dark-as-devil’s-food-green, 100-percent sativa, Pine …
Girl Scout Cookies
While the name of this remarkable new indica-heavy hybrid from Coastal Collective in Santa Ana might raise a few eyebrows, nothing about the strain itself will fail to please. Just its physical appearance—gorgeous pear-shaped buds of hues so deeply green …
P.O.T. Small Raspberry Streusel Bar
Yes, you can have your cake and eat it, too—but in this case, the “cake” is actually a delectable streusel. Premium Organic Treats’ Small Raspberry Streusel Bar (from the good folks at D & R Collective in Mentone) is just …
XXX Hubby Oil Dark Chocolate Bar
There are medicated chocolate bars and there are medicated chocolate bars, but this XXX Hubby Oil Dark Chocolate Bar (available at Reseda THC in Reseda) that we recently sampled is in a class all on its own. Now we’ve sampled …
Lisa Lampanelli
Following in the footsteps of the 1960s queen of raunch, Rusty Warren (“Knockers Up!”), Lisa Lampanelli has no interest in mimicking the wisecracks of the vanilla mainstream gals who currently play the circuit. Known for her bawdy and lewd quips …
Wilco in concert
The band’s been called the “American Radiohead.” It’s been blamed for making roots-rock fashionable. Consider Wilco guilty as charged, my friends. While it’s been under the major music label Warner Bros. Records for most of its musical career, Wilco is …
