Stuff Stoners Write: Five tips for eating chicken fingers, a user’s guide
Need help figuring out that tasty plate of chicken fingers? New this week in Stuff Stoners Write: A user’s guide, “Five tips for eating chicken fingers.” Seriously.
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One year ago: Nancy Grace predicted ‘one of the biggest crime waves ever!’
Exactly one year ago today, television pundit Nancy Grace predicted that Colorado and its then-newly legal marijuana sales would set the state up “for one of the biggest crime waves you’ve ever seen!”
‘I couldn’t stop’: About 9 percent of marijuana users risk addiction
Addicted to cannabis? Is that even physically possible for anyone who’s not in the cast of the 1936 propaganda movie “Reefer Madness”? Roughly 9 percent of those who use cannabis risk becoming addicted, just as about 15 percent of the people who use alcohol are at risk for becoming alcoholic.
Best of 2014: Pot critic Jake Browne’s ‘Top 10 strains I smoked this year’
Usually landing your dream job comes with the caveat that you’ll need to quit smoking pot. At least until you pass that pesky drug test. Instead, I spent 2014 packing bowls, vaping and, on occasion, rolling up some of the best weed in the world. Here are my “Top 10 strains I smoked this year.”
Poll: When in front of kids, is smoking pot any different than drinking beers?
If you live where recreational weed is legal, is smoking pot in front of your kids any different than drinking a few beers in front of them? Vote in our poll:
Video: Zach Galifianakis gives Brad Pitt a gift-wrapped bong for no reason
On the latest episode of Zach Galifianakis’ “Between Two Ferns” web series, the actor-comedian interviews movie star Brad Pitt — or Bradley Pitts, as Galifianakis calls him. And the best part comes when Galifianakis hands Pitt a very special, hand-wrapped present. (It’s a giant bong.) Watch the video:
At 58, Billy Idol still gets high all the time: ‘I still smoke tons of pot’ (video)
At 58 years old, rocker Billy Idol still gets high all the time. “I still smoke tons of pot,” Idol told CBS News recently. See the video:
Pollack: ‘Don’t let pot just be another yuppie lifestyle accoutrement’
When I saw a couple of snotty rich young ambitious marijuana marketing types in The New York Times yesterday claiming they were “weeding out the stoners” and that they “want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis,” I got pissed, because I am a stoner. And I was especially pissed because I was traveling on business and couldn’t do what I usually do when I get pissed, which is smoke weed. Or vaporize it. Or eat a candy. Regardless, I was an angry pothead. More of writer Neal Pollack’s column for The Cannabist:
Opinion: Dr. Drew was wrong when he said pot ‘causes severe addiction’
Dr. Drew Pinsky, that doctor you probably recognize from television, recently told The Cannabist that marijuana “acts like an opiate and causes severe addiction” and that withdrawal symptoms can include serious mood and sleep disturbances. C’mon, Pinsky. Really? My professional experience — where I worked as a residential addiction counselor and studied cannabis pharmacology in university — tells me differently. And when my Crohn’s Disease was in remission I quit using marijuana and never experienced a single withdrawal symptom.
Video: Remember when Willie Nelson smoked up on the White House roof?
Reddit nearly lost its mind in July when Snoop Dogg owned up to smoking a joint at the White House. But let’s not forget the time Willie Nelson lit up on the roof of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. See the video.
Bill O’Reilly’s marijuana poll: Think he expected this result?
On Bill O’Reilly’s personal website, visitors can vote in daily polls to “see how folks all around the country responded.” A recent topic: marijuana legalization.
20 top tweets: Why people don’t like N.J. Gov. Chris Christie visiting Colo.
As you might have heard, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is in Colorado this week. Normally such a trip for Christie, an expected GOP presidential candidate in 2016, would be fairly routine. But this trip has been anything but routine. Read these 20 tweets to see why:
Bruce Campbell on pot legalization: “It’s about goddamn time!”
The Baron of B-Movies himself, Bruce Campbell, took a few minutes to talk to The Cannabist’s sister blog Shiny Objects after a panel at Denver Comic Con 2014 last weekend. After talking on everything from “Burn Notice” to the rumored sequels “Army of Darkness 2” and “Evil Dead 4,” we asked him about his opinion on legalized marijuana.
Here’s what singer Melissa Etheridge said to N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo
“As a cancer survivor, I know the ravages of a serious illness, and patients who are suffering deserve access to a medication that can provide them relief,” singer Melissa Etheridge wrote in her statement to N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the state’s proposed medical marijuana bill.
The cannabis lexicon: Terms to know, from A-Z
The world of weed is growing every day. Here’s a compendium of marijuana terms, from the plant to the many ways to consume it and the cannabis culture that surrounds it.
Zema Pro vape pen ably handles herbs, oil and e-juice (review)
I like the Zema Pro from Got Vape. I want to say that up front, because whenever I review vape pens, I typically spend my initial paragraphs explaining how they’re all pretty similar. And then maybe I’ll note my concern that these little Chinese e-cigarettes are almost entirely untested for health hazards. I’m a total buzzkill at the pen party.
6 things to do for “Star Wars Day” and Cinco de Mayo in Denver
With both “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth Be With You — get it?) and Cinco de Mayo coming up, here’s a Denver guide to two completely unrelated events that you’re allowed to be stoned at.
Hitting the High Spots: Perfect 4/20 week schedule
Denver’s 4/20 festivities kick off as early as April 16. All of a sudden, 4/20 has turned into your annoying friend who insists it’s her “birthday week.” Want to make the most out of your marijuana weekend? Here’s a schedule of events any stoner can pull off with a little ride planning and a modicum of motivation.
Taco Bell president: “But seriously what is 4/20?”
Of course Taco Bell president Brian Niccol knows what 4/20 is. But since everybody loves a good 4/20 joke — even mediocre ones coming from corporate titans pushing fast food on the masses — Niccol dropped a couple of them into his Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday.
Colbert on pot taxes: “The market has spoken, and the market is tokin’ ” (video)
Ah, Stephen Colbert. How happy are you with all the fodder coming out of Colorado these days? Talking on Colorado’s January marijuana taxes announced last week, Colbert didn’t miss a beat — or a joke.
4:20 Digest: Snoop/Wiz on the Rocks, viral satire tricks readers & more (2-24-14)
It’s 4:20 p.m. on February 24, 2014, and here are a few of the things we’re talking about at Cannabist HQ.
4/20 at Red Rocks: Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa
Red Rocks Amphitheatre has seen some of the biggest smoker friendly concerts on 4/20. But this year’s lineup could cause the biggest cloud yet to form over the foothills venue. Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, YG and Smoke DZA have announced a show that has been dubbed Snoop’s 4/20 Wellness Retreat Denver.
Grenco’s Double G Series vape pen is for Dogg lovers and fans of flower (review)
This SoCal-styled vape pen from Grenco Science is designed for ground cannabis flowers, which isn’t typical in the hash oil-dominated vape pen world. But a word to the wise: The Snoop Dogg edition of the G Pen doesn’t vape, it combusts.
That time we legalized marijuana: 10 defining moments in the recreational era
Remember when Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana? Here are 10 moments that helped define Jan. 2014, the first month of legal weed sales. Click here.
Bill Murray: “The terror of marijuana was probably overstated”
Actor Bill Murray did a Reddit AMA and commented on, among other things, recreational marijuana.
