A most spectacular feat of narcotic nincompoopery was achieved on July 29, 1972, when eight guests at a San Francisco dinner party mistook powdered LSD for cocaine and snorted the equivalent of several thousand doses of acid. Fifteen minutes later, while receiving emergency treatment, five were in a coma and three were breathing through a […]
The recent discovery of female bones in a Viking warrior grave is yet another indication that weve only scratched the surface of female history, says the author Natalie Haynes Warrior women have fascinated us for millennia. In ancient Greece, Penthesilea. It is highly unusual in Greek art: although men are often shown carrying the bodies […]
The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal. Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis. Forty-three percent of legal-marijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in […]
A 16-year-old has been arrested on charges of murdering a 14-year-old Texas girl with a hammer after a drug deal and throwing her body into a landfill. Kaytlynn Cargill went missing June 19 and was found dead days later in the landfill in Arlington, Texas – just 10 miles away from her family’s home in […]
A study by the University of New Mexico has found that medicinal cannabis may reduce the use of certain dangerous prescription drugs such as opioids. The research will be published in the Journal of American Medical Directors Association. In 2015, more than 33,000 people in the US died from opioid use, which includes everything from […]
Streaming giant creates The Netflix Collection, a selection of cannabis varieties based on shows including Orange is the New Black and Arrested Development Netflix has co-created a set of cannabis strains based on a selection of its most popular original shows. The set, called The Netflix Collection, will be sold as part of a pop-up […]
“Drones delivering hamburgers, beer, and Amazon products might be right around the corner, but don’t get your hopes up if you want your weed sent to you via robot. That’s because California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control has recently unveiled new regulatory rules that will ban drones from delivering marijuana, as spotted by Ars Technica. The Bureau is currently developing regulation surrounding […]