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1950s Brooklyn: High Times for Backyard Marijuana

Marijuana Grew
Like Weeds in
1950s Brooklyn

Mar 23, 2011 4:42 PM CDT

Marijuana Grew Like Weeds in 1950s Brooklyn

It sprouted all over, and city officials asked residents to report it

(Newser) - New York's Daily Intel blog takes note of more innocent times in Brooklyn, courtesy of a local librarian: Marijuana plants, and big ones at that, used to flourish in empty lots and backyards in the 1950s. Residents even got this official notice: “If you spot these leaves in your...

Middle-Schoolers
Suspended for
Oregano
Possession

Mar 17, 2011 5:09 AM CDT

Middle-Schoolers Suspended for Oregano Possession

A 'travesty of justice,' argues one dad

(Newser) - Four Virginia middle-school boys have been suspended for passing around a plastic bag of oregano that looked like marijuana. "Maybe it was pizza day," chortled Gawker. The school called it an "imitation controlled substance," which is prohibited. But one of the boys' dads, the appropriately named...

Pot Triggers
Psychosis: Study

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Mar 5, 2011 12:21 PM CST

Pot Triggers Psychosis: Study

Young adults who used cannabis nearly twice as likely to suffer psychosis

(Newser) - Numerous studies have linked marijuana use and psychosis, but some researchers have wondered whether cannabis actually triggers psychotic episodes, or whether people suffering psychosis are using marijuana to treat their symptoms. A new study involving nearly 2,000 young people suggests marijuana may trigger episodes, reports the BBC . The subjects,...

Mom Gets 10-Year Sentence for Selling $31 of Pot

Feb 21, 2011 8:02 AM CST

Mom Gets 10-Year Sentence for Selling $31 of Pot

Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow's kids were involved, judge says

(Newser) - When Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow sold $31 worth of marijuana to a police informant, she never expected to find herself in prison at all—let alone for 10 years. Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, were caught selling to the same informant from Starr’s house on two separate occasions. Though...

Workers Accused of Stealing
48 Pounds of Pot—From Cops

Feb 19, 2011 3:40 PM CST

Workers Accused of Stealing 48 Pounds of Pot—From Cops

They were installing a vent in the evidence room

(Newser) - They just couldn't resist: Two construction workers in Florence, Alabama, stole 48 pounds of marijuana from a police evidence room they were working on, authorities say. The men were hired to install a vent in the room (so drug fumes could escape) and allegedly stuffed the confiscated pot into their...

Celebrity
Stoners
Becoming
the Norm

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Feb 19, 2011 12:52 PM CST

Celebrity Stoners Becoming the Norm

Salon essayist: A new, welcome openness is in vogue

(Newser) - Marijuana's never been exactly taboo in pop culture, but "it seems we've reached a new level of openness about a recreational—and, in most places and circumstances, illegal—indulgence that lots of people enjoy regularly," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon . In the last week alone, Kevin Smith...

Pot Soda
Bubbles Into
Mainstream

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Jan 29, 2011 11:53 AM CST

Pot Soda Bubbles Into Mainstream

Canna Cola looks for 'Snapple market' of THC snacks

(Newser) - Sure, there are marijuana soft drinks out there. But the world of "medibles"—snack products made with psychoactive doses of THC—is not that different from any other market in that it's not who does it first, but who does it best. And according to Clay Butler, the...

Drug Catapult Seized
at Mexican Border

Jan 27, 2011 7:04 AM CST

Drug Catapult Seized at Mexican Border

Border fence pot-flingers foiled

(Newser) - Mexican drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the border have resorted to medieval methods. A pot-flinging catapult was seized after National Guardsmen in Arizona spotted it being used other side of the border and alerted Mexican authorities, AP reports. The smugglers got away but left behind their vehicle, 35...

Cops on Marijuana Raid
Find Only Guinea Pigs

Cops on Marijuana Raid Find Only Guinea Pigs

'Hot spot' was caused by pets' heater, not grow lights

(Newser) - UK cops thought they'd found the marijuana mother lode—infrared scanners on a helicopter indicated a large, concentrated use of electricity in a house located in the West Yorkshire town of Odsal. The heat signature screamed pot nursery, but when police arrived, they found the last thing they expected: guinea...

Cops Bust Wrong Pot Party,
End Up in Supreme Court

Jan 12, 2011 9:47 AM CST

Cops Bust Wrong Pot Party, End Up in Supreme Court

Accidental drug bust has odd consequences

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will today hear the strange case of an accidental drug bust. Police were chasing a suspect through an apartment building in Lexington, Ky., and heard him slam a door somewhere in a hallway—that contained two closed doors. Unsure which was the correct one, they smelled pot...

Stoners Upset With 'Herb Converter' iPhone App

Jan 4, 2011 3:04 AM CST

Stoners Upset With 'Herb Converter' iPhone App

How many stoners does it take to work a pot app?

(Newser) - The " Herb Converter " app that has slipped into iPhone land seems to be a tool made in stoner heaven. But tokers are being uncharacteristically kevetchy about it, Gawker notes. The app offers easy conversions from ounces to grams, and price calculations for ounce fractions. But the tokers want...

Dispensary Trades
Free Pot for Cans of Food

Dec 30, 2010 2:34 PM CST

Dispensary Trades Free Pot for Cans of Food

California facility brings in 11,000 pounds of donations for food bank

(Newser) - Want to know the secret of getting a whole bunch of canned food donations? Offer free pot. That's just what a medical marijuana dispensary near San Francisco did over the holiday season, reports AP . The Granny Purps dispensary collected 11,000 pounds of donated food by offering complimentary marijuana cigarettes...

Holy Roller Pat Robertson: Legalize Marijuana

Dec 23, 2010 6:40 AM CST

Holy Roller Pat Robertson: Legalize Marijuana

Busting people for a few ounces is 'ruining' lives, says 700 Club founder

(Newser) - The support for marijuana legalization is picking up supporters in some surprising sectors. Uber-conservative evangelist Pat Robertson is now calling for legalization of the drug because treating users like criminals is "ruining lives." We've "got to take a look at what we're considering crimes," he said...

Teens Picking Pot
Over Cigarettes

for first time since 1981

Dec 15, 2010 10:32 AM CST

Teens Picking Pot Over Cigarettes

Drug czar blames Prop 19, medical marijuana for rise

(Newser) - Marijuana use is up again among teens, rising for the first time in nearly a decade—and President Obama’s drug czar blames California’s legalization measure Proposition 19 , among other things. A new government survey found that 21.4% of high school seniors said they smoked pot in the...

Cops Seize Marijuana
Christmas Tree

Dec 10, 2010 5:43 AM CST

Cops Seize Marijuana Christmas Tree

7-foot 'tree' seized during drug bust

(Newser) - Move over, Grinch: Police in Germany have ruined Christmas for a suspect they describe as an "old hippie." Officers raided the guy's home after a tip-off and discovered a 7-foot marijuana plant in his living room, placed in a Christmas tree stand and decorated with strings of lights,...

Marijuana
Linked
to Cancer,
Disease

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Nov 28, 2010 7:50 AM CST

Marijuana Linked to Cancer, Disease

Research on mice suggests pot can foil immune response

(Newser) - So much for legalization proponents who argue that marijuana is relatively harmless: New research suggests the drug actually increases your chances of getting cancer and other diseases. THC, the chemical that causes a marijuana high, also fuels production of cells that weaken the immune system, experiments on mice show. It...

Willie Nelson Busted For Pot

what a shocker

Nov 27, 2010 8:10 AM CST

Willie Nelson Busted For Pot

Country music star must still like to get high

(Newser) - Apparently, Willie Nelson still enjoys the occasional doobie. The country music star was arrested—right out of his tour bus—at a border patrol checkpoint in Texas yesterday for possessing 6 ounces of marijuana, KVIA reports. He was booked in county jail but later freed on bond. This is just...

California Cities Scramble
to Launch Pot Farms

Nov 22, 2010 9:38 AM CST

California Cities Scramble to Launch Pot Farms

Towns want marijuana-related tax money

(Newser) - In a bid to rake in even more pot-related tax revenue, some California cities are pushing to build government-OKed marijuana farms within city limits, the AP reports. In wine country, the town of Sebastopol passed a measure allowing for four medical-marijuana gardens—two of which are to function as communal...

Farmer Fined After
Feeding Ducks Pot

Nov 22, 2010 2:45 AM CST

Farmer Fined After Feeding Ducks Pot

Marijuana isn't all it's quacked up to be, say authorities

(Newser) - Instead of going in the pot, the pot has apparently been going into the blissed-out ducks of one happy-go-lucky French farm. Now farmer Michel Rouyer has been handed a one-month suspended sentence after cops discovered marijuana plants and dried pot on his farm—even though he insists he was just...

Early, Chronic
Stoners Always
in a Haze: Study

Nov 16, 2010 4:03 AM CST

Early, Chronic Stoners Always in a Haze: Study

Heavy tokers score lower on cognitive tests

(Newser) - Stoners who start smoking pot heavily before the age of 16 score significantly lower on cognitive tests than their non-toking counterparts—and worse than those who become stoners later in life, according to researchers. The average age of those studied was 22, and researchers defined a chronic marijuana user as...