It’s crunch time for campaigns trying to land measures on the November ballot. And with less than three weeks left before signatures are due, signature gatherers for a campaign hoping to put legal marijuana before voters are revolting, saying they haven’t been paid on time. At the same time, two complaints—both with connections to another […]
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In Defense of Maureen Dowd Getting Too High and Writing About It
Lots of people on the internet are mad—imagine that, people on the internet are mad!—about a Maureen Dowd column in yesterday’s New York Times. Dowd was in Denver covering Colorado’s new legal pot industry when she ate part of a pot-infused candy bar and had a pretty common experience: She got way too high. When […]
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Snoop and Seth Rogan Smoke Up; Recap Game of Thrones
If you missed this over the Memorial Day weekend, do not miss it now! Seth Rogan and Snoop smoke a mess of dope and discuss the past two seasons of Game of Thrones for Monsieur Dogg/Lion’s web series Underground Heat. Let’s see… audio is NSFW, there are spoilers aplenty, and probably a few trigger warnings […]
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The Mercury Marijuana Guide!
Sure, recreational marijuana isn’t legal in Oregon… YET. But it’s widely considered inevitable that by next year or the one after, it will be. We like to think ahead, so this week we published a big olde guide to gigglebush that covers some of the basics, like: —What Oregonians are looking at in term of […]
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The State’s Best-Funded Pot Legalization Effort Might Finally Start Collecting Signatures
The clock is ticking on Oregon’s best-funded shot at pot legalization, but supporters have new reason for hope. With a little more than three months left to collect nearly 90,000 valid signatures—and with the State Legislature punting earlier this month—organizers behind the political action committee New Approach Oregon have yet to even begin, stymied so […]
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Don’t Drive High, Hairy Loser
The first anti-stoned-driving PSA out of Colorado: How many stereotypes about pot smokers did they manage to pack into this short PSA? I count five: young, male, unkempt, forgetful, and painfully slow on the uptake. You spot any others? (Via Sullivan.)
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We Might Not Agree About E-Cigarettes, but Can We All Agree That “Vaping” Is a Terrible Word?
As an ex-smoker, I’m very leery of e-cigarettes. I think they’re another way for Big Tobacco to convince smokers to try to tone down, rather than quit, their cigarette habits. Most everyone I know who tried to switch to e-cigarettes for the health benefits have wound up back on, uh, analog cigarettes within a matter […]
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First Marijuana Commercial Debuts on Networks; Hope They Get Better From Here
I suppose this is a big deal… of sorts? What follows is the first ever commercial about selling marijuana to be broadcast on a major network. The spot for MarijuanaDoctors.com debuted this week on Comedy Central, History Channel, A&E, and CNN (!!) in New Jersey, and IT… IS… TERRIBLE. However, it’s a marijuana commercial! And […]
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Matthew McConaughey Doesn’t Know How to Smoke Cigarettes
If you have the means and the wherewithal, you are surely watching True Detective because holy shit it’s amazing. (That final one-take scene at the end of last week’s episode? OMG! How many times did you re-watch it? I did four times!) One of the recurring themes as people have heaped praise upon the show […]
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Aaron Sorkin on Philip Seymour Hoffman
I’ve had my problems with Aaron Sorkin—especially in regards to his grating HBO show The Newsroom—but his words in this Time magazine obituary for friend and fellow recovering addict Philip Seymour Hoffman absolutely nails it. Here he talks about the “mini-AA meetings” he would have with Hoffman while both were working on Charlie Wilson’s War: […]
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President Obama on Legal Marijuana
New Yorker Editor David Remnick recently had several interviews with President Obama, and at a certain point the two of them got to talking about pot: When I asked Obama about another area of shifting public opinion—the legalization of marijuana—he seemed even less eager to evolve with any dispatch and get in front of the […]
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November Could Become a Pot Measure Death Match!
As we’ve harped on this week, Oregonians could have dueling marijuana proposals vying for their affections come November. It’s an embarrassment of riches for a state that recently went almost three decades without a marijuana legalization vote, and many believe the writing’s on the wall this time around. And as lawmakers prepare to hear testimony […]