While some states have removed criminal penalties for marijuana, and many others have legalized it for medical and — more rarely — recreational use, the drug remains forbidden at colleges around the country. That’s because of a hovering federal threat, but one that has never been realized — that the government could yank funding to…
Legalizing marijuana nationwide would create at least $132 billion in tax revenue and more than a million new jobs across the United States in the next decade, according to a new study. The study estimates that about 25 percent of the marijuana market will continue to be illicit, and will shrink if the legal marketplace…
Marijuana ads aren’t creating new tokers. That’s one surprising finding of a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Although the researchers determined that exposure to advertising was significantly higher in neighborhoods where marijuana retailers are located, that such ad reach apparently doesn’t make much of a difference on whether people shop…
You can vape everything from coffee to CBD oil. Now you can inhale your morning vitamins. VitaStik is one of several new companies promoting the health benefits of vitamin and essential oil enhanced vapor. VitaStick’s Energizer formula, for instance, is comprised of ginseng, green coffee extract, grapefruit, lemon, and orange essential oils. According to the…
Jack in the Box has teamed up with Snoop Dog to roll out “Merry Munchie Meals”. The special combo box, available for a limited time in Southern Cali, includes “halfsies” — a side that’s half curly fries and half onion rings — as well as tacos, five “Mini Churros,” three crispy chicken strips and a soft…
People who buy medical marijuana online may not get exactly what they expect when their package arrives in the mail. Researchers searched online for medical marijuana products and bought 84 products marketed as containing CBD from 31 different companies. Overall, 36 products, or 43 percent, had more CBD than was indicated on the label and…
Having acquired a figurine company that supplied the likes of Disney and Hallmark back in 1990, the folks at Empire Glass have been in the boro business longer than a lot of blowers have been alive. But it wasn’t until 2013 that they turned their attention to pipes and founded Empire Glassworks, a name that…
“Got a lighter, bro?” “Oh, I don’t just have a lighter, bro. I have a LighterBro.” “What’s a LigtherBro, bro?” “What’s a LighterBro?? Bro. Are you telling me you go around with your naked Bic showing for everyone to see? Cover your lighter, Bro. Get a LighterBro.” “So the LigtherBro is for covering my Bic?”…
“It’s rocket fuel, baby. Rocket fuel.” That’s not marketing hype from a brochure. That was the candid, knee-jerk answer from a shop owner when asked, “What’s MIT 45?” Bombastic though it may sound, the retort is surprisingly consistent with the sales figures reported thus far. Only a few months in distribution, the product has received…
by Austin L. Ray Do you remember “Too Many Cooks?” Of course you do! Here, take a minute, Google it, and them come back. I’ll wait. *waits* You didn’t Google it, did you? SIGH. Let me explain. It’s a dizzyingly repetitive, earwormingly catchy, multi-genre, sitcom-inspired, 11-minute-mind-fuck vortex, for starters. It’s also an Adult Swim short…
