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Marijuana
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Marijuana Reporter Eats A Weed Brownie Without Knowing It – Overdoses [VIDEO]
26 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Michael Montgomery, a glorified pot reporter, got a rude awakening when he ate brownies he didn’t know contained a high dose of medical marijuana. This animated video uses Montgomery’s hairy experience as subtext to explore the growth of marijuana into a mainstream recreational and medicinal substance in California.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
27 Mar 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Marijuana bars open in Washington. Tik use in Western Cape doubled in the last year. Meet the man who won R3 billion in last week’s lottery draw. Fifty Shades of Grey sold HOW MANY copies? 100% broadband access for SA by 2020. Will Knox be extradited?
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Police Seize R500 000 Of Weed On The N1
18 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, man. Everyone just chill out. Cape Town traffic officers have made a drug bust on the N1, seizing marijuana to the value of R500 000. That is a lot of cheese. The bust went down last night, when a vehicle was pulled over on the highway near Beaufort West. Traffic chief Kenny Africa reported the officers stopped a Range Rover, […]
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Elaborate Hoax Tricks Justin Bieber Fans Into Cutting Themselves
08 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Earlier this week it officially became uncool to smoke marijuana after Justin Bieber was snapped smoking a joint. Immediately after, members of the internet message board community 4Chan started spreading a new hoax called “Operation Cut For Bieber.”
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Thursday Morning Spice
29 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Most SA internet users are black. Nokia tries to block all Blackberry sales. Top SA cyclist exposes Europe’s drug problem. Judgement day for Murdoch. 7-year-old taking marijuana treatment. 17 lottery winners who blew it all. Demi’s new toyboy is HOW old?!
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Are Stoned Drivers Better Than Drunk Drivers?
22 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
With two American states legalising the possession and recreational use of spliff, this is becoming an important question to ask. Especially as, according to a new survey from the California Office of Traffic Safety, there are more stoned drivers on Californian roads than drunk ones.
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Grassland Exhibition Provides Look Into World Of Marijuana Farming [GALLERY]
13 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, marijuana legalisation bills were successfully passed in both Colorado and Washington. Awareness surrounding the growth, distribution and consumption of weed is growing by the day and it is expected that more states will soon follow.
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Drug Charges Dismissed After 1 600 Seized Plants Turn Out To Be Daisies
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I’m certainly looking at this weekend’s Rocking The Daisies festival a little differently. A Canadian man is breathing a huge sigh of relief after police laboratory tests revealed that his grow operation was completely legal. He tried to raise this with the police during the raid, but I’d imagine that the “It’s not weed, I swear!” excuse wasn’t that effective.
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US Scientists Find New Way Dagga Could Stop Cancer
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been a subject that’s as old as time – let us smoke our weed, because it has medicinal properties. Scientists at a US medical center in California have provided new credence to this claim, discovering a compound derived from the plant which stops the metastases of many kinds of aggressive cancer.
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Massive Marijuana Farm Found In Tunnels Under Rome [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The video shows a huge sprawling spliff farm housed in old Mussolini-era tunnels under Italy’s capital. The value of the bust is estimated at $3,7 million. There shouldn’t be too much fist pumping from the Italian police, however, as they found it by chance.
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“SEAWEED” – Navy Recovers Almost 10 Tons Of Marijuana From The Ocean
20 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the weekend, an American aircraft carrier group recovered close to 19 000 pounds of marijuana that had been dumped in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California.
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Global Marijuana March Takes Place In Cape Town Over Weekend [PICS & VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Global Marijuana March is a yearly event embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Around 700 different cities worldwide, including Cape Town, have signed up since 1999. This highly anticipated celebration took place over the weekend. How did Capetonian dagga supporters celebrate? Find out inside.
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Jimmy Kimmel Confronts Obama About Marijuana Legalisation [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner yesterday. Amongst the issues he got off his chest was the legalisation of marijuana. See him tell Barack Obama that “pot smokers vote too” after the jump.
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Rihanna Snapped Smoking A Joint In Hawaii [PICS]
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Pictures of what appears to be Rihanna smoking weed in Hawaii were taken yesterday. Whilst she was puffing the magic dragon, Rihanna also tweeted the lyrics to a Drake song that deals with the world’s most beloved green herb: “Kush rolled, glass full…I prefer the better things!”
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Aussies Top The Charts In Dope And Meth Use: Study
10 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those Aussies just need to be the best at everything, don’t they? Except, a British medical journal recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand also top the global charts for usage of marijuana and methamphetamine! Awkward!
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One Dutch Border Town Takes A Hit For Tourism
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Dutch conservative coalition government that came into power last year announced plans to fight the massive tourist flow to the country’s coffee shops where tourists and locals alike come together to puff the old magic dragon. However, the Dutch border city of Maastricht has decided to try something different to demonstrate this won’t work in the long-term.
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Hemp House Becomes South Africa’s Most Sustainable Building [PICS]
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A house here in Cape Town’s Noordhoek has become the most sustainable building in South Africa, after building was completed this month. It was constructed using Hempcrete, a breathable building material made of hemp, lime, and water. And even though it is described as an “unassuming, down-to-earth cannabis shack” it actually looks rather luxurious. More pics inside.
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Holland Becomes A Lot Less Dope For Tourists
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Some people are calling this ‘tourism suicide’. The Dutch government has announced that by the end of the year, the marijuana-selling coffee shops for which the country is famous will be closed to foreigners.
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Stoners Around The Globe Totally Celebrate International 420 Day
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Today is a pretty significant day for those in the marijuana smoking community, as 20 April is totally considered International 420 Day. At 16h20 this afternoon blunts, bongs and blunts (did we say that? Ah well) will be lit all around the globe in celebration of a small-to-medium sized plant.
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The Marijuana Carbon Footprint
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, that grass might not be that green after all. A researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has revealed in a report entitled “Energy up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production” that indoor growers account for approximately one percent of total US electricity use.
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This Is How Cool It Is To Be Willie Nelson
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Willie Nelson is just…awesome. No, really. He totally rocks those two braids. And let’s also not forget admission – live – on the Larry King Show to being stoned. His latest stunt involves getting off marijuana charges in exchange for a performance in court. Like I said: Awesome.
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Cannabis Cola
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you are not familiar with the laws of the State of California, in the United States, then you might not know that Pot is legal… If you have a prescription from your doctor. Suffice it to say, there are a lot more sickly people in California than there used to be, all in desperate need of the calming effects of the Mary Jane.
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Mexican Drug Launcher
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ve got to hand it to these Mexican drug smugglers. They spent a lot of time building and testing a drug-launching catapult, only to have the National Gaurd and Mexican cops take it all away from them.
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Are Pigeons The Drug Mules Of Tomorrow?
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police in Colombia have detained a pigeon that was allegedly transporting marijuana to a nearby prison. Apparently, some drug barons had strapped a package to its back and released the desperate little guy into the air, hoping that he would fly over the penitentiary wall into the open arms of some prisoners who were in much need of a spliff.
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It’s Better To Be A Late Bloomer
17 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You notice how that guy in your block of flats who hits the reefer regularly always seem a little mentally slower off the mark? Shockingly, a new study has revealed that smoking weed regularly lowers cognitive function, especially if you started smoking before you were 16. I think (the irony) I speak for all of us when I say we were all younger than 16 when we started smoking weed
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Tuesday Toke: California Votes On Proposition 19
02 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Assuming the stoners of California remember to leave the house today, they’ll vote – successfully – to pass Proposition 19, which will legalize marijuana in the state. If this passes, the next Golden Globe will go to a daytime cartoon, obesity rates will triple and the hacky-sack industry will become an economic powerhouse.
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HEDGE FUND EXECUTIVE MOONLIGHTS AS A WEED BARON
07 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Cue pithy comments related to hedge funds! Hedge funds, get it? Hedge funds? Forget it. Forbes recently reported that an executive of New Stream Capital, Tara Bryson, was arrested and charged with running a marijuana factory from her 6 000 square foot home, because, apparently, it’s a tough financial gig being a loan shark.
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