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Obama vs. Marijuana: What is the deal?
Michael Scherer writes about President Obama's medical-marijuana policy and the increasing federal intervention on medical marijuana on TIME.com. For the online piece and a related magazine feature,...
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Down in Smoke: through comics, Susie Cagle chronicles the DEA raids on...
At Cartoon Movement, "graphic journalist" Susie Cagle (Twitter) surveys the impact of recent DEA raids of medical marijuana centers, and legal attacks against Harborside and the like, in 'Down In...
View ArticleUS crackdown on medical marijuana threatens a dad's search to halt son's...
In the Los Angeles Times, a really great feature about how the Obama administration's assault on medical marijuana dispensaries threatens one father's search for cannabidiol, which has helped reduce...
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Marijuana dispenser machine company's stock gets really, really high, man
Medbox (MDBX), a firm that makes medical marijuana dispensing machines, says its stock "is getting way too high." Shares spiked 3,000% this week (from about $4 Monday to $215 Thursday), "prompting...
View ArticleAs states legalize pot, will Obama continue the federal War on Weed?
Tom Dickinson in Rolling Stone about the growing conflict between what voters in more and more states want (legalizing pot) and what the federal government wants (shutting down dispensaries with guns...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana comes to New Jersey
"They skulked in and out like criminals, shoulders hunched, heads down, declining to comment." —a NYT profile on the Garden State's first pot dispensary. Hey, in the patrons' defense, it may be because...
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Obama on pot smoking in newly-legal CO and WA: "Bigger fish to fry"
Photo: Shutterstock. "Young man eating leaves of hemp. Shoot in the field of marijuana." “We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama told ABC News' Barbara Walters, speaking about marijuana smokers in...
View ArticleDavid Frum's reefer madness
Daily Beast contributor David Frum thinks legalizing weed is a bad thing: "marijuana smoking is a sign of trouble, a warning to heed, a behavior to regret and deplore," and that "young Americans...
View ArticleIn Israel, new insights on the science of medical Marijuana
A great piece in the NYT by Isabel Kershner on Tikkun Olam, a commercial medical marijuana plantation in Israel. The name is "a reference to the Jewish concept of repairing or healing the world," and...
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Drug OD fatalities up for 11th consecutive year; not one was due to marijuana
Federal data to be released this week through the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th year in a row. Most were accidents involving...
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Wikileaf makes finding the best weed, at the best prices, easy
Boing Boing is proud to welcome Wikileaf.com as as sponsor. When you want to book a flight or a hotel online, if you're bargain-conscious you probably don't go directly to each airline or hotel's...
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The DEATH STAR, an armored weed grinder with enough power to grind weed
I could not resist a $9 Death Star weed grinder. It looks like the Death Star and it grinds weed! Mission accomplished. I am not sure I will use it very often, but this grinder will sit next to the...
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