- Weed whackers: NY readies crackdown on illegal pot stores
New York State regulators are plotting an offensive to whack illicit weed operators -- and the landlords who lease space to them -- with massive fines and closures, The Post has learned.
- Pete Davidson and Colin Jost were ‘very stoned’ when they bought Staten Island ferry
The "SNL" co-stars and other investors successfully bid on the boat for $280,000 in January 2022 and planned to turn into an event space.
- New York’s Cannabis Effort is Faltering Amid Roadblocks and Red Tape
The state solicited entrepreneurs with cannabis convictions to open the first legal dispensaries, but the effort has fallen behind.
- Kathy Hochul to allow legal weed sales at NY farmers markets, festivals and concerts this summer
The summer of love? How about the summer of blunt! Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration, under fire for leaving struggling farmers in the lurch with massive stockpiles of marijuana, plans on allowing farmers and pot retailers to sell weed farmers markets, festivals and concerts this summer.
- NY farmers with 300K pounds of weed fume over state’s slow shop roll-out
The state's failure to follow through on OK'ing dozens of dispensaries for legal marijuana as predicted by Gov. Kathy Hochul last year has thwarted the roughly 200 New York farmers who grew 300,000 pounds of cannabis -- the equivalent of more than 272 million half-gram joints.
- NYC pot home delivery service taps stoners to sample and rate weed before sale
A new marijuana home delivery service run by a disabled vet relies on a network of 26 regular cannabis users to sample the quality of products -- to determine which ones should make the cut for sale to customers.
- Tiananmen Exhibit Is ‘a Symbol of Defiance’
A new display on the 1989 massacre is set to open in Manhattan, two years after a Tiananmen museum closed in Hong Kong.
- Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Cite Landmark Gun Ruling in Bid to Stave Off Charges
Hunter Biden’s legal team is invoking a Supreme Court decision his father has denounced as an affront to “common sense and the Constitution.”...
- More and More Teenagers Are Coming to School High, N.Y.C. Teachers Say
Students and teachers said in interviews that some classrooms were in disarray as more and younger students were smoking marijuana at school.
- ‘Potheads, go giggle elsewhere’: public weed ban begins in Amsterdam
Tourists and residents now face €100 fine for public smoking in De Wallen, but some business owners are worried about impact Thick fumes of cannabis smoke were noticeably absent from the air of Amsterdam’s red light district on Thursday, the familiar smell replaced by dank canal water on the first day of a ban on smoking marijuana in public. After years of complaints from residents about wild behaviour from […]...
- Legalizing Weed: Was It a Harmful Mistake?
Readers react to a column by Ross Douthat that asserted it was. Also: The battle over the debt.
- Researchers analyze THC in breath of cannabis smokers
Researchers analyzed THC levels in the breath of people who use cannabis regularly, both before and after they smoked marijuana. The researchers found that THC levels spanned a similar range across pre- and post-use samples. 'In many cases, we would not have been able to tell whether the person smoked within the last hour based on the concentration of THC in their breath,' said study author.
- Isle of Man to grow cannabis business to diversify economy
British crown dependency hopes to license as many as 10 medicinal cannabis firms by end of 2025 The Isle of Man has for decades been dominated by offshore financial services, but now its government is planning a push for a new kind of economic growth: medicinal cannabis. The British crown dependency is hoping to license as many as 10 firms by the end of 2025 to grow and export medicinal cannabis products from […]...
- Gang violence could end open cannabis trade in anarchist commune Christiania
Organised criminals have taken over ‘Pusher Street’ market in the Danish capital and are vying for dominance The 40-year history of the open cannabis trade on “Pusher Street” in the heart of the anarchist Christiania neighbourhood of Copenhagen could be over as the city’s mayor said she was willing to shut it down over the commune’s fears about rising gang violence. Christiana is a self-proclaimed […]...
- On my radar: Jon Ronson’s cultural highlights
The writer and broadcaster on his favourite streaming series, a remastered 2 Tone concert film and why cannabis edibles should be legal Born in Cardiff in 1967, Jon Ronson has published nine books including *The Men Who Stare at Goats*, *The Psychopath Test *and* So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed*. He co-wrote the screenplay for Lenny Abrahamson’s 2014 film, *Frank*, as well as Bong Joon-ho’s 2017 Netflix […]...
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