Small children simulating the throes of alcoholism is guaranteed viral GOLD. But society is less kind to kids with kind, even if they have no idea what they'd do with it. A 4-year-old boy brought nine bags of marijuana, which according to CBS "appeared to be wrapped for sale," to his pre-kindergarten class in Meriden, Connecticut yesterday. "Our concern is for the 4-year-old student, who had no knowledge of what he was bringing to school," Superintendent Mark Benigni said. Oh really? Then why he'd pull them out at snack time?
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4-Year-Old Busts Out Dime Bags At Snack Time
Spray, Spray, Pass? Weed-based Mouth Spray Seeks FDA Approval
For one of the oldest drugs going, marijuana sure has room for innovation. While pot enthusiasts in states without legal weed have been turning to synthetic bud of late, researchers in England are hard at work on a weed-based mouth-spray that they hope will help cancer patients. And the FDA is taking it seriously. Like those chloraseptic sprays, but someone put their weed in there.
Judge Tells City To Lay Off "Weed Man" Of Times Square
Remember the "Weed Man?" No, not the NJ guy who tried to change his name to "NJWeedman.com"—the Times Square Weed Man who became ubiquitous around Midtown for carrying a sign reading "Help! I need money for weed." Last summer, he filed a lawsuit against the city complaining that his First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights had been violated by repeated arrests. And now it seems that a judge has agreed with him.
It's Totally Cool For Your Dog And Cat To Smoke Pot, Brah (Says Vet, PETA)
You know how that d-bag you briefly dated while under the influence of Natural Light and JELL-O shots would totally get his dog high by exhaling his schwag weed into its face? That guy was such a jerk, why did you ever even date him? Anyway, today we came across this article that he probably wrote, saying it's totally chill for dogs to get high. According to one local vet sourced in the piece, "it’s perfectly ok for your dog to smoke marijuana. He can even take bong hits. He just can’t eat it.”
Study: Legalizing Medical Marijuana Would NOT Turn Teens Into Potheads!
According to a new study out of Brown University, legalizing medical marijuana would most likely not turn all of America's teenagers into potheads. The study compared rates of marijuana use in Massachusetts to those in Rhode Island—where medical marijuana was legalized in 2006—and found that it had no influence on teens’ drug habits. We guess this means alarmists will have to start blaming teen pot use on the return of Beavis and Butthead.
Tenant May Sue Landlord For Narcing Him Out Of Apartment
A Murray Hill resident facing eviction is threatening to file a class-action lawsuit against his landlord, who continues to complain about the "odor of marijuana" emanating from his apartment. Sebastian Rosario claims that he'll sue the owner of 340 E. 34th Street for harassment and threatening to kick him out. In court papers obtained by the Post, the landlord alleges that neighbors complain of "strong smoke odors, including the odor of marijuana" around Rosario's aparment. Wait, people smoke marijuana INSIDE their apartments?
Poll: Support For Legalized Marijuana Hits Record High
For the first time since Gallup started asking Americans about it in 1969 more people think weed should be legal than don't. That sound you hear? That's millions of Americans coughing their support. According to a Gallup poll released today 50 percent of Americans now support legalization, up from 46 percent last year. Not a bad increase for the "most commonly abused illicit drug" in the country!
Foodies Lapping Up Marijuana-Infused Alcohol
Ridiculous food trends come and go (eating Chia Pets, anyone?), but this is a new one: prepare to go "Beyond Pot Brownies" and onto pot soup, wine, and beer. Listen up:
Dummy Turnstile Jumper Caught With Loaded Gun, Weed
Pro Tip: if you're going to haul your pot stash AND a loaded gun around with you while you're traversing the city, you should probably go ahead and invest in a Metrocard. Turnstile freeloader Tyrell Thomas was nabbed in a Brooklyn subway station yesterday evening with those two items on him. Could the turnstile have had some "unexplainable" affect that blocked the oxygen to his brain?
Video: Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse
Conservatives have been up in arms all week over a rapper who seemingly glorifies the decadent lifestyle of food stamps and welfare. Stanley Lafleur, aka rapper Mr EBT (H-Man), watched as the video for his single "My EBT," which joyously depicts him using his government-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer card to pay for junk food, went viral this week after Drudge Report and other conservative bloggers held it up as The Reason This Country Is Going To Hell (not the champagne toasts). But Lafleur tells the News that conservatives just don't get his message: "I couldn't believe people are hating on me like I'm rubbing the benefit card in the face of taxpayers. They don't get it. My video is a parody."
Atlantic City Marijuana Bust Reveals Pet ALLIGATORS
Atlantic City police thought they were dealing with a normal marijuana bust when they raided an alleged drug dealer’s home Friday. They seized a pound of weed, a gun, hollow point bullets, and money which they believe is profit from the suspect's pot-dealing business. Oh, and they also found two pet alligators.
Weed Enthusiast Can't Change Name To "NJWeedman.com"
NJ-born Robert Edward Forchion is a staunch and dedicated marijuana activist who has participated in just about every weed-related activity there is: he's a practicing Rastafarian who has opened up his own temple, he's been a "marijuana smuggler," he's operated a medical marijuana dispensary, and he's run for political office several times unsuccessfully with pot platforms. More recently, he's been fighting to legally change his name to NJWeedman.com. But The Man won't let him!
How To Fight Obesity? Maybe Try Smoking Marijuana
The rapture is still right around the corner, but even if we somehow get past that cataclysmic event, America has other problems—like the fact that half the population will be obese by 2030. But there may be a solution: start smoking marijuana!
Drug Lord Pleads Guilty, Faces 23 Years In Prison
Christopher Coke, a drug kingpin who appreciates coke and weed as well as a nice wig, has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy. The deal means Coke could spend up to 23 years in prison.
Soho Fire Reveals 10 Pounds Of Pot Belonging To Music Celeb Photographer
Yesterday morning, a dramatic 3-alarm fire broke out in a seven story building on Thompson Street in Soho. It took 150 firefighters more than two and a half hours to get the blaze under control. And afterwards, one person was taken away in handcuffs...but not for anything having to do with the fire.
Al Pacino's Daughter Julie Arrested For DWI At West Houston St. Checkpoint
The 21-year-old daughter of Al Pacino was charged with driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired by the combined influence of drugs and alcohol at around 1:20 a.m. in Manhattan this morning. According to the Daily News, Julie Pacino, who was pulled over at a West Houston Street checkpoint, allegdly told cops, "Yes I was drinking. I had about three beers and I smoked weed at home. That was a few hours ago."
NYPD: Harlem Furniture Store Was Really A Pot Emporium
An alleged Harlem-based weed wholesaler was shut down yesterday by the NYPD. Police arrested 11 men, said to be led by 44-year-old Frank McTaggart, for running an illegal drug shop out of The Rally Furniture Store on West 132nd Street. The crew was apparently so brazen about their deals that on a regular basis they would roll their otherwise unused furniture out onto the street to create a "de facto social club where some of the defendants, while still selling drugs, would ... play table games, host parties and barbecues, drink alcohol, smoke marijuana, and play loud music into the early morning hours," according to court documents. "Basically they took over the block," Assistant DA Jordan Arnold told a judge yesterday.
"Weed Man" Fights For His Right To Beg For Pot In Times Square
Now that there are artsy ways to get rid of annoying billboards in Times Square, it seems that cops are trying to get rid of annoying regulars. Joshua Long, better known as "Weed Man" of Times Square, is known for carrying a sign reading "Help! I need money for weed." But he has now filed a lawsuit against the city, complaining that his First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights have been violated by repeated arrests.
Bed-Stuy Bandmate Robber Speaks: It Was The Weed, Man
Last week we learned that despite the best of intentions, Bed-Stuy can be a scary place to settle down. Now, the man who police say jumped out of a second-story window after stealing musical equipment from a house of Brooklyn College bandmates explains what happened: it was the weed, man. From a Rikers Island jail cell, 23-year-old DuJuan Marshall tells the Times that he doesn't remember storming into the boys' apartment and pistol whipping them while his accomplices unloaded the stolen equipment, because an angel-dusted joint did him in. "I feel their pain," he says, echoing another famous truth-teller.
Lucali Stabber Fails Drug Tests Despite Reputed Whizzinator Use
When we last left alleged Lucali stabber Battista "Benny" Geritano, he was making an obscene gesture with his sandwich to a Daily News photographer, presumably in celebration that the attempted murder charges were dropped against all parties involved. However, the reputed mobster tested positive for marijuana while on parole, and now faces up to two years in prison despite allegedly using a Whizzinator while he submitted his samples. Maybe there was something in his sandwich?
Messy LI Crime Lab Fallout Now Includes Missing Marijuana
Marijuana bound for a Pennsylvania crime lab to be tested in a Long Island drug case mysteriously disappeared from the FedEx truck it was on, making any charges "completely unprovable." The drugs were being shipped to Pennsylvania to be tested after a Nassau County crime lab was shut down in February for widespread procedural violations. An official tells CBS, "It just calls into question the propriety of dealing with a common carrier, like FedEx, for purposes of delivering evidence." Authorities say that the marijuana was removed from the shipping box, and then the box was resealed. No word on whether the truck's massive shipment of Funyuns and six cases of Mondo Coolers were also missing.
Ron Paul And Barney Frank Tag Team For Marijuana Reform
In one of the stranger political teamups since the uneasy Bloomberg-Gingrich-Sharpton triumvirate of 2009, liberal Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank and libertarian Texas Rep. Ron Paul have joined forces to introduce new legislation today. And what topic could possibly bring these two titans together? The stickiest of the ickiest.
Day Care Owner Busted With 10lbs Of Pot Wants To Work With Kids Again
Nothing helps children mellow out (besides telling them to Go The F*ck To Sleep) than some special brownies. But one judge disagreed after a Brooklyn couple was busted in 2009 with over $100K in cash and 10 pounds of marijuana stashed in their day care center and revoked their licenses to operate one. Their business, Special Moments Day Care Center, was robbed while the children were asleep, and a gunfight with police ensued. Now, Donna Rogers is asking the court to grant her a waiver so she can work with children again. Rogers lawyer tells the Daily News that "she just wants the opportunity in the future to work in a day care." We sure wish we'd had some of those types of Special Moments when we were little.
Connecticut Approves Pot Decriminalization Bill
After much debate over the weekend, the Connecticut Senate narrowly approved legislation to decriminalize small amounts of pot. And today, after more heated debate, the House gave final legislative approval to the bill. And Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy hailed its passage and pledged to sign it when it reaches his desk: "Final approval of this legislation accepts the reality that the current law does more harm than good - both in the impact it has on people's lives and the burden it places on police, prosecutors and probation officers of the criminal justice system."
Jonathan Franzen's NYC Weed Stash REVEALED
Writer Elif Batuman wrote a 3,195 word essay for the Guardian about her stressful time in New York when she did not win the National Book Critics Circle award, but all anyone wants to talk about is big time novelist Jonathan Franzen's drug stash. That's because two-thirds of the way into her story, she heartlessly narcs out the author. Revealing a conversation that Franzen probably didn't realize was on the record for a major newspaper (because it wasn't at that time!), Batuman describes how she was jonesing for weed at the awards after-party, and turned to Franzen to score:
I Can Haz Medical Marijuana Licence In NJ?
Last year, NJ legalized medical marijuana for people suffering from chronic illnesses, but the law has been in limbo ever since because of a long debate over restrictions, and how to implement it. While the process goes on, the state Department of Health and Senior Services closed off the application period to set up the six centers that will be allowed to grow and sell pot—only 20 potential operators, who had to pay $20,000 each, are being considered for those dispensaries. But the Post reports that 541 people wrote requesting information on how to apply. Among those people were pharmacists, farmers, and a "bunch of dopey dope-smokers." Here are some highlights below (warning: many sics ahead):
Nanny-State Netherlands Wants Weed For The Dutch Only
We here at Gothamist are not normally in the business of international news unless it is of the utmost political and social importance. Which this story obviously is: The Dutch government has decided that they've had it up to here with stoned tourists using their cities as a backdrop for their perpetual spring break, and may soon decide that only those with a national passport can smoke their pot. Which means we'll now just have to visit for their beautiful scenery, interesting museums and great food. Oh, and the red light district.
Man Burns Hats To Drive Away Demons, Blames Weed
Whenever we think there may be demons afoot, we do the sensible thing—call our local Roman Catholic bishop and see if the holy water special is still available. But not Jose Delcid: The Norwalk, CT man thought there were demons in a friends house, so he decided to perform his own exorcism ceremony by burning hats in their driveway. Delcid was arrested and charged with reckless burning; he wasn't admitted to the Norwalk Hospital psychiatric unit because of a policy that prohibits anyone who starts a fire. Delcid allegedly told police that the real culprit wasn't demons, but rather some bad marijuana he smoked, which led to him having strange thoughts while seeing people's eyes transforming and getting larger.
Willie Nelson Has Post-Thanksgiving Wake, Bake, Arrest
One of everyone's two favorite marijuana enthusiasts, Willie Nelson, was arrested early yesterday morning by US Border Patrol officers in Texas on suspicion of marijuana possession...and by suspicion, we mean the 6 ounces of pot found in his trailer. A patrol spokesman said officers smelled marijuana wafting from the vehicle when they stopped it at a checkpoint around 9 a.m. To his credit, the vehicle may just smell like that permanently at this point.
Gambino Lawyer Caught Bringing Pot Into Jail
Hey, are you looking for some weed? Did your firefighter dealer fall through? Did your backup place on Rivington mysteriously shut down? Well we have just the delivery guy for you: lawyer Seth Ginsberg.
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