Article Archive for November 2012
Looking Back on Barack Obama
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Take a look back at President re-elect Barack Obama in this 2007 interview with our cover subject Jay Leno.
The Election is Over, Cannabis Rights Win—Now What?
Experts and advocates from the medical and adult-use world of marijuana say legalization and Obama’s re-election will bring good and bad–but stay tuned!
In what must count as the greatest single Election Night in the history of cannabis, voters in Colorado …
“Blow Job” by Fernando de La Rocque
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Brazilian artist Fernando de La Rocque “paints” with marijuana.
Full Court Press
Reclassification: Medical Marijuana Gets Its Day in Court
After nearly two decades, marijuana is back before a federal bench. An appeals court in D.C. heard oral arguments last month in the case of Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. …
Until the Quiet Comes
Until the Quiet Comes
Flying Lotus
Warp Records
Until the Quiet Comes is an electronic jazz journey that confirms the literal Coltrane DNA running through FlyLo’s veins. On his follow-up to 2010’s Cosmogramma, the artist-producer imagines musical dreamscapes with cascades of irregular drumbeats, …
MICHIGAN VOTER GUIDE
A breakdown of five marijuana-related measures headed for your local ballot
Seventeen states—and Washington, D.C.—have legalized medical marijuana. This annoys the daylights out the DEA and Office of National Drug Control Policy, who refuse to acknowledge marijuana has any medicinal properties …
Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis
Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis
Montana PBS
Dir. Anna Rau
Governor Romney put the bull’s eye on Sesame Street, but Big Bird wouldn’t be the only casualty of a defunded Public Broadcasting Service. Last year, PBS Montana produced Clearing the …
The Rules of Transaction
State Supreme Court to Decide if Medical Marijuana Sales are Legal
Thanks to the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMA), marijuana patients and caregivers had a safe marketplace in Mt. Pleasant’s Compassionate Apothecary. No longer subject to horticultural vagaries, certified patients were …
Inching Toward Sanity
A news items caught my eye the other day. I heard that opening arguments had just been made before the U.S. Court of Appeal in an effort to convince the federal government—unfortunately, MMJ’s staunchest foe—to re-schedule marijuana. Americans for Safe …
Majli Escobar
Patient: Majli Escobar
Age: 29
Condition/Illness: Sprained neck and lower back, gastrointestinal problems, herniated discs, anxiety and depression
Using medical cannabis since: 2009
WHY DID YOU START USING MEDICAL MARIJUANA?
I started using MMJ because it minimizes the amount of pain killers and muscle relaxers …
Washington Voter Guide
A Breakdown of Initiative 502 and the candidates who want your votes on Election Day
Voters in Washington State have been inundated with information on Initiative 502 this voting season with good reason. Should voters decide to move forward with I-502, …
Road Work
Alright, this one is a treat for our older readers and those that have some taste. Name someone who redefined a decade and created a literary movement unlike anything else before or since. Yep, Jack Kerouac is right at the …
Colorado Voters Guide
A Look at Amendment 64 and the Arguments For and Against It
Seventeen states—and Washington, D.C.—have legalized medical marijuana. This annoys the daylights out the DEA and Office of National Drug Control Policy, who refuse to acknowledge marijuana has any medicinal …
What to Avoid when Law Enforcement Comes A-Knockin‘
In the State of Colorado, a patient with a current and valid Department of Public Health and Environment Medical Marijuana Card (“red card”) may possess up to six marijuana plants for his or her own use. Some physicians will write …
The True “Green” Candidate
Green Party nominee Jill Stein stumps for sensible cannabis policy
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for President of the United States, says, if elected, her administration would reverse President Obama’s escalation of the cannabis war and quickly legalize the …
Space Balls
Wu-Tang lyrical swordsman GZA prepares a “galactic adventure”
With a spacy new album set to drop early next year, Wu-Tang Clan founding member GZA is looking towards the future, but on his current tour The Genius is performing songs that came …
CALIFORNIA VOTER GUIDE
A Breakdown of the candidates running for President and Congress
Medical cannabis patients have some tough choices to make in the ballot booth this month.
Should they cast their vote for a presidential candidate who best represents their views on marijuana or …
THT Edibles Mad Love Rice Krispies Treat
Wow. Here’s a twist: A medible that doesn’t taste like, well, a medible. Patients will be abundantly surprised when they see the amazing line of THT Edibles currently available at The Healing Touch in Encino. Made by Royal Highness Chocolatiers, …
Hi-Pops
I guess you can call this a hybrid. Someone took the Push-Up Pop concept and crossed it with an edible. Hi-Pops, available at Terra Holistics in Garden Grove, is he party responsible for this four-layer marvel that consists of various …
Among the Redwoods
Explore the primal scenery surrounding Mendocino’s lone “Bed, Bud & Breakfast”
“Cannabis Always Welcome” reads the sign above the doorway to the cottage in the woods. Chickens cluck, a bluebird sings, the slightest breeze rustles through 300-year-old redwood sentinels, and we …
Liner Notes
There was a time when gangster rap scared America. You could even argue that in certain sections of the country, ones that are mostly white and mostly wealthy, still worry about what that music is “doing to their kids.” Now, …
Night of the Living Shred
Obituary breathes new life into its death metal ways
Ask anyone into death metal about the genre’s best albums, and Obituary’s Slowly We Rot is bound to come up in the conversation. Released in 1989 by the Tampa, Florida-based band, this …
Mellow Yellow
L.A.-born rapper Dom Kennedy recently announced he will be performing at Club Nokia on Nov. 23, part of his world tour to support upcoming release The Yellow Album. A smoke sesh favorite, the Leimart Park-reared rapper has performed on Snoop …
Hashing It Out
Concentrates point to the future of medical cannabis, but patient beware
Fresh squeezed or concentrate? The choice has come to the world of herb.
Over the last two years, concentrates (concentrated forms of cannabis such as hash, “wax,” “oil,” etc.) have emerged …
The War at Home
Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live Inpaints the War on Drugs as a costly failure
I was reminded of Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In while driving home to Pasadena recently. The latest film by the New York-based author and …
75 Years of Prohibition—Is the End Really in Sight?
Although Nixon’s War on Drugs began in the 1970s, on Oct. 1, 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Marihuana Tax, which criminally outlawed the possession and cultivation of cannabis—setting in motion the federal government’s foray into the criminal enforcement …
Reducing Our Environmental Footprint by Repurposing Thanksgiving Discards
A time of abundance and a time to celebrate family, friends and good eats, Thanksgiving is also the holiday that produces a massive amount of waste, especially with leftovers that might sit in the refrigerator for a week before finally …
Scrips Concentrated Hemp CBD Extract Capsules
Call it medical marijuana . . . like you’ve never seen it before. Made from CBD oil extracted naturally from the hemp plant, Scrips CBD capsules deliver powerful relief from anxiety, spasms, nausea and other ailments—but without any psychoactive effects …
Cloud Vapez
With all the vape pens flooding the market, Cloud made sure to design a vaporizer that stands head and shoulders above the rest. It’s advantages—besides being discrete and travel-friendly—include its ease of use (you’ll be medicating in 10 seconds flat) …
