Month: January 2014

Holy Smokes! NYC’s Marijuana Supper Club Opens for High Rollers

Jeannie Herer

BY FERNANDA DESOUZA
This came from the smoking section. (Justin Walker)
This came from the smoking section. (Justin Walker)
 
Smell that?
That’s the scent of Sinsemil.la opening up its doors as New York City’s first marijuana menu-driven supper club.

The restaurant released a smoky video to announce their entry into the food scene. “Sinsemil.la isn’t about getting high—it is about haute cuisine,” the description reads. According to the menu, different strains of marijuana are cooked into various dishes, chosen to bring balance to each plate’s flavor.
 
Full Article:
http://observer.com/2014/01/holy-smokes-nycs-marijuana-supper-club-opens-for-high-rollers/

Now popular in Colorado, marijuana oil has long success history that’s often been ignored

Jeannie Herer

By Dave Philipps
Photo - A crowd of friends and family gather to watch Holli Brown give her daughter Sydni Yunek, 9, her first dose of Charlotte's Web cannabis oil Thursday, October 22, 2013. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette
A crowd of friends and family gather to watch Holli Brown give her daughter Sydni Yunek, 9, her first dose of Charlotte’s Web cannabis oil Thursday, October 22, 2013. Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette
 
One night in 1839, a woman knocked at the door of a British Army doctor named William O’Shaughnessy who was stationed in India. The woman’s infant was having seizures and needed help. The doctor tried several 19th-century remedies, including opium and leeches, but the convulsions grew worse over several days until the baby stopped eating and was convulsing almost constantly.
Not knowing what else to do, the doctor tried hemp, which the locals used as medicine.
A few drops of a cannabis tincture under the child’s tongue stopped the seizures almost immediately. Regular doses over the next few weeks brought the convulsions to an end.
 
Full Article:
http://gazette.com/now-popular-in-colorado-marijuana-oil-has-long-success-history-thats-often-been-ignored/article/1513431

Here’s What It Looked Like When Marijuana Was Growing All Over Brooklyn

Jeannie Herer

By Ben Yakas
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“Potential reefers–Assistant Borough Superintendent Arthur McMahon and Chief Inspector John E. Gleason supervising the destruction by Sanitation Department men of a clump of marijuana discovered.”(Brooklyn Public Library)
 
In 2014, the Brooklyn DA is fighting against the state just to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. It’s hard to believe, but up until about 1951, Brooklyn was a veritable marijuana mecca where cannabis grew all over Williamsburg, East New York and Cobble Hill.
 
Full Article:
http://gothamist.com/2014/01/24/heres_what_it_looked_like_when_mari.php#photo-7
 

Weedman in jail for marijuana, allowed to leave jail to smoke marijuana

Jeannie Herer

By Jeff Edelstein, The Trentonian

NJWeedman Ed Forchion celebrates one of his manycourt victories in the traditional way last year. 
 
To be perfectly clear: Ed Forchion is currently in prison stemming from a marijuana charge, and the same judge that sentenced him to nine months in Burlington County Jail allows Forchion 10 days each month to fly to California to smoke marijuana.
Again: Forchion is in jail due to marijuana and he gets out of jail once a month — for 10 days — to go smoke marijuana.
Catch-22? More like a Fugazi-420.
 
Full Article:
http://www.trentonian.com/opinion/20140126/jeff-edelstein-weedman-in-jail-for-marijuana-allowed-to-leave-jail-to-smoke-marijuana

This is your language on cannabis

Jeannie Herer

By Britt Peterson
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BACK IN THE 1990s, when my parents tried to talk to my brother and me about marijuana, the word they used was “dope”—which for us meant either “heroin” or “Hello, I am a clueless baby boomer.” Slang terms for drugs are notoriously hard to pin down: Pity the poor ethno-linguist with her notepad, trailing kids through schoolyards and back alleys to quiz them about the etymology of “crunked.”
These days, though, marijuana language is beginning to come clean. Starting this year, Colorado and Washington state have legalized recreational use; meanwhile, Massachusetts and 19 other states, plus the District of Columbia, now allow the prescription of medical marijuana. As this underground economy goes legit, language is moving along with it, serving as a kind of barometer of the drug’s political fortunes. In 20 years, calling marijuana “weed”—or even, some say, “marijuana”—may sound about as antiquated as asking for a glass of “hooch” after Prohibition.
 
Full Article:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/01/26/this-your-language-cannabis/9bguslv7ZkSsHTElfANTTN/story.html