Posts Tagged ‘marijuana’
Free Willie: Arrest Spurs Teapot Party
Jeff PrinceTexas singer songwriter Willie Nelson could face felony charges and up to two years in prison after a weekend marijuana arrest. The bust didn’t sap Willie of his humor. “He said he feels great; he lost six ounces,&#...
Major Bummer
UNT students are losing dorm and dining privileges for minor pot use.Peter Gorman
About 40 University of North Texas students, many of them in Halloween costume, marched across the Denton campus last week in support of the legalization of marijuana and to raise awareness of a new group on campus, a chapter o...
Smoke Screen
Big TicketMade in 1936, Reefer Madness owes much of its current fame to its rediscovery in the 1960s. That’s because Louis J. Gasnier’s film (properly titled Tell Your Children) is so incredibly, laughably wrong about the effects of ...
Local NORML Folks: Legalize It!
Jeff PrinceThis YouTube video shows scenes from the Dallas-Fort Worth National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) street rally in Dallas this month. If anything, it’s worth watching just to jam on the “Legal...
Bad Trips On K2 Prompt 911 Calls
Jeff PrinceMan-made marijuana known as K2, cleverly marketed as “incense,” led to a bad trip for several Denton teenagers. One young woman reported having seizures and blacking out. (In the photo, that’s K2 Summit on the left, K...
Save the Economy: Grow Dope
StaticThe way Static sees it, the only madness about reefer is the extremes to which the federal government has traditionally gone to police its use among the approximately 100 million Americans who occasionally relax by puffing the ...
Gateway to Violence
Legalizing pot could reduce the murderous power of drug cartels.DAN MCGRAW
In the late ’90s, for a national magazine story on the issue of somehow making marijuana legal, I interviewed then-drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Of course, McCaffrey swatted away any notion that pot should be legal. It was ...
Will Sarah Palin Just Say No?
Jeff PrinceA pro-marijuana group from Nevada thinks Sarah Palin might be cool. She probably won’t be hot-boxing the hydro weed anytime soon — she said in 2008 that she tried pot and didn’t enjoy the high (unlike Clinton, she act...
The Real Deal on Fake Dope
A synthetic substitute for marijuana is drawing raves and warnings.DAN MCGRAW AND SUSAN COSTA
It’s 3:40 p.m., and Paschal High School is letting out. The kids scatter, heading home to study or play sports or chill out. But some of the school’s brightest and most promising students make a shorter trip. They cross Eas...
A Twinkie In The Kids’ Eyes
Jeff PrinceOne in three American kids is obese. This new study shows teens are smoking more marijuana these days, which could lead to even more obesity. Fortunately, help is on the way.