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George Takei interprets the Bible
11.12.2012
09:47 am
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George Takei interprets the Bible:

Marriage equality AND marijuana laws passed? Now we know what Leviticus meant by “A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.”

Amen to that George!
 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

George Takei vs. Facebook


 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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11.12.2012
09:47 am
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‘Devil’s Harvest - The Smoke of Hell’: Best Ad for Marijuana?
10.08.2012
09:25 am
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Devil’s Harvest - now that’s a damned fine name for a good smoke.
 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

This is Your Brain on Marijuana


 
With thanks to Edna Bakewell (Mrs.) via Suicide Blonde
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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10.08.2012
09:25 am
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New Yorkers with moldy pot can have their stash inspected for cancer-causing fungus
10.04.2012
04:31 pm
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New York City resident and pot activist Kenny Toglia wants to inspect your moldy pot. Here’s why:

The problem with New York City street pot, says Toglia, comes from a cancer-causing fungus with the tongue-twisting name Aspergillus fumigatus, found commonly in soil and rotting vegetable matter and alarmingly in pot that’s been stored a long time before smoking.

To combat the threat, which Toglia claims affects one-third of relatively low-cost city pot, he has formed a nonprofit with the major purpose of educating marijuana smokers, especially those with compromised immune systems. Each Thursday at 6 p.m. Toglia and his crew will inspect your pot for the dangerous fungus for no cost at 130 E. Seventh St., at Avenue A. The location is known as the Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Jazz Theatre, named after a late East Village legend who combined squatting, jazz and community service in his University of the Streets near Tompkins Square Park.

For more info, visit The Villager’s website.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.04.2012
04:31 pm
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This is Your Brain on Marijuana
10.04.2012
01:14 pm
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Intricate glass microscope marijuana pipe by Elbo Glass and Glass Munky

A video by AsapSCIENCE that cuts through the long-winded explanation of how marijuana affects the brain and summarizes it quite nicely in under 3 minutes.
 

 
Via Kraftfuttermischwerk

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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10.04.2012
01:14 pm
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Kushed cans: Porcelain weed pipes that look like soda cans
10.02.2012
02:30 pm
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Humorous design for your weed smokin’ needs: Kushed Cans by Herbal Innovations. The porcelain soda can bowl is handmade, one-of-a-kind and no two are alike. 

Kushed Cans

Via World’s Best Ever

Posted by Tara McGinley
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10.02.2012
02:30 pm
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Suck on that: ‘Alien’ facehugger bong
09.25.2012
12:23 pm
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Not exactly what I’d want in my mouth (and over my face) if I was getting high, but horses for courses.

Thanks to Rutch Dudder, by way of Grizz.

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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09.25.2012
12:23 pm
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‘Blow Job’: Marijuana smoke stencils
08.14.2012
01:18 pm
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Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque “paints” with marijuana smoke stencils. The stencils used are usually of religious or political figures to piss off the weed haters and get some controversy going. Fernando de la Rocque tokes up and then blows the smoke onto stencils placed on paper.

From the artist:

More important than freedom to smoke marijuana is the freedom to think about it and make art with it.

Polemic issues divide opinions, forcing people to think and debate. Inertia is useless when we want to overcome something.

The project is appropriately titled “Blow Job.”
 
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.14.2012
01:18 pm
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Best endorsement for weed EVER?
07.10.2012
01:37 pm
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Former-white nationalist teen-pop duo Prussian Blue tell the world about their love of the chronic.

Via WFMU

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.10.2012
01:37 pm
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Glass Chewbacca marijuana pipe
06.25.2012
12:42 pm
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Two great tastes that taste great together: Star Wars and weed, amirite?

This handmade Wookie glass pipe was designed and created by the artist known as “Creep.”
 
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Via Dressed Like Machines

Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.25.2012
12:42 pm
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Legalize Nature: Turning Pot into Medicine
06.22.2012
07:09 pm
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Inspiring story from the East Bay Express about how a desperate father was able to treat his son’s rare form of epilepsy with high CBD cannabis tinctures. Here’s a short excerpt from a much longer (and really interesting) article:

Jason David, a 35-year-old single father from Modesto, showed up at Harborside in June 2011, desperately looking for a new treatment for his son. Jayden, now five and a half, has Dravet Syndrome, a severe, rare epilepsy sub-diagnosis that affects infants and children. When he was four months old, he started having seizures. Anything could set them off, including laughing and playing. “When he’d see a bounce house,” David recalled, “he’d get so happy he’d have a seizure.”

Only about eight hundred children in the world are thought to have Dravet. By the age of four and a half, Jayden was having three hundred to five hundred myoclonic seizures per day. He also was taking 22 different medications, including powerful anti-psychotics and anti-seizure drugs that are dangerous even for adults. “When you look at the side effects you think — pardon my language, but — you think they’re fucking safe? No fucking way. Half of them read: ‘committing suicide, dreams, yelling, screaming, going crazy, pain, suffering, seeing things, delusions, hallucinations.’

“My son would be crying and laughing at the same time,” David continued. “I have video of him screaming and tripping out of his mind. We had to get his liver tested every six months. The medicine was killing him. He’d had a grand mal seizure that lasted an hour and a half. He’d been in an ambulance 45 times in the last year. Seeing your son in an ambulance — it just kills you. I lost my ex-wife, my car, my business, my family, my life.”

David told his story to Andrew DeAngelo, the younger brother of Stephen DeAngelo, founder of Harborside. Andrew DeAngelo is a manager at Harborside who leads a monthly support group for seniors and families using medical marijuana. Jayden’s doctors at UC San Francisco had referred David to Harborside. “They told me, ‘Yeah you should try medical marijuana,’” David said. He was one of many parents quietly being referred to Harborside by UCSF for treatment of serious illnesses and symptoms that don’t respond to modern medicine.

Mainly, it was for appetite stimulation for kids with cancer, and pain management in paraplegic children, Andrew DeAngelo recalled. There’d be no smoking or vaporizing for the kids, of course. DeAngelo recommended edible cannabis or tinctures — extractions of the plant in glycerin or alcohol. Kids need just a drop. Many of the tinctures are barely psychoactive. DeAngelo started seeing parents who had kids with epilepsy, or autism, or a combination of both. “When I met Jason, he was the parent that was suffering the most out of all the parents I had met so far,” DeAngelo said.

Harborside gave David a tincture that was supposedly high in cannabidiol. Abbreviated as CBD, cannabidiol is produced by pot plants and has a multitude of medicinal properties. It’s anti-inflammatory, for example. And the federal government has patented it as a neuroprotectant for strokes. But it hasn’t been developed by pharmaceutical companies. You can’t buy a CBD pill at Walgreens.

Marijuana that contains CBD seems to modulate the body’s ability to maintain homeostasis — that is, an internal balance. It’s been used since biblical times to treat nervous disorders like epilepsy. It’s thought to help restore balance in the nervous system as well as the immune and digestive systems. According to lab research, CBD dampens the activity of the human nervous system at the site of what are called the “CB1” and “CB2” nerve cell receptors. These receptors are spread throughout the body’s nervous system.

Marijuana with high levels of cannabidiol also worked for David’s son. CBD is thought to act like a precision-guided warm blanket, calming Jayden’s overactive nervous system at key receptor sites. “Jayden had a seizure every day of his life, until the first day I gave him CBD,” David said. “It was the first four days in his life that he had went seizure-free. I was crying. I was happy crying instead of sad crying, which was new.”

The tincture worked for four months, but the second batch from the same tincture-maker didn’t work. “For two months my son started getting bad,” David said. Jayden’s doctors thought it might be a case of “honeymoon stage”: Some mainstream drugs are known to quell seizures for a month or two, and then seem to lose effectiveness.

But David had another idea. What if Harborside tested the tincture to make sure it was the same one as before? “I had done my research,” he said. “I knew they tested.”

In fact, it was one of the few places in the world where such a thing was possible.

They’ve done tests on lab rats using marijuana to mitigate and control induced seizures going at least as far back as 1977. It’s absurd that something like this—success where nothing else was working for this little boy—is being interfered with by the Feds in 2012, especially when examples like Jayden’s story show what possibilities cannabis has for medical science! This kid got his life back. He really doesn’t have to take 22 pharmaceuticals per day!

What would do if you were in Jason David’s shoes? I know what I’d do. Luckily Mr. David lives here in California. What about families in similar situations elsewhere? Should their children be forced to suffer because of brain-dead, antiquated drug laws from the 1930s when an organic substance that humankind has thousands of years of experience with could make their lives better? For what compelling reason? The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Obama administration need to check their heads on the matter. Michelle Leonhart, that fucking half-wit who runs the DEA needs to be pushed aside pronto. The American public at the very, very least deserves a competent DEA administrator Someone capable of a complex thought… or even a simple one. That’s not Leonhart’s strong suit, thinking, is it?

It’s TIME. As remarkable stories like Jayden David’s get around and as more and more people read about these kinds of benefits occurring with intelligent and intuitive medical cannabis treatment, it seems to me that the tipping point on marijuana law reform will be reached quite soon.

Below, Jayden David and his dad, Jason on Weed Wars.
 

 
Thank you Bay Area resident, Chris Musgrave!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.22.2012
07:09 pm
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For weed nerds only: Microscope marijuana pipe
06.11.2012
12:15 pm
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Intricate glass microscope marijuana pipe by Elbo Glass and Glass Munky made at Future Labs New England.

I think this must be a one-off prototype. Can you imagine how long this took to make?

Via Geekologie

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.11.2012
12:15 pm
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Facebook circa 2006
06.05.2012
05:08 pm
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As Redditor kterr101 points out, “Ah the days before the “Like” button.”

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.05.2012
05:08 pm
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1970s weed sure looked like shit
05.22.2012
03:08 pm
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From a 1977 issue of High Times. Kinda like finding Fool’s Gold, eh?
 
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.22.2012
03:08 pm
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LEGOlize It!: LEGO Marijuana-themed art show
05.18.2012
03:01 pm
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I don’t really care that much about LEGOs, but this “Legolize It!” weed-themed exhibition showing at the Known Gallery in Los Angeles May 26 - June 9, looks like a can’t miss art show.

In the wake of increasing raids on Medical Marijuana dispensaries by local, state and federal drug enforcement agencies, the LAgo brand’s brand-new, flagship storefront is set to open on May 26, 2012 at Known Gallery located at 441 North Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. The LAgo brand, as a perpetual “harvest” of healing power, has been especially commodified to meet the addictions of anyone who has ever wanted to experience the transaction of purchasing medical marijuana – or fine art – at a legal business organization.
Synthetic starter-plants, seedlings,  clones and a totally huge selection of intoxicating, fake plastic buds- all built with LEGO bricks to resemble some of the finest strains of medicinal marijuana ever grown- will be on display and available for limited purchase.

The LEGO grow room is the best. Genius!

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@knowngallery.com
 
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Via GeekOSystem

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.18.2012
03:01 pm
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Mona Lisa chillin’ in a field of weed air freshener
05.03.2012
01:38 pm
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Japanese clothing / novelty online shop Black Store is selling this fun air freshener with the Mona Lisa pictured chillin’ in a weed crop, holding a doobie.

I wonder what it smells like?

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.03.2012
01:38 pm
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