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Australia Coalition of Sports removes marijuana from their list of performance-enhancing drugs
Melbourne, Australia: The country’s major sporting organization, the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports, an entity that oversees cricket, soccer, Australian Rules football, rugby, and tennis, has decided to remove cannabis from the long list of performance-enhancing drugs.
The Roots of Mexican Marijuana Prohibition and the word “marihuana”
Cannabis became “mari-huana,” uniting the name of Mary, the mother of Jesus, with an indigenous word for “property” or “stuff” — huana. The Spanish’s cannabis became the natives’ “Mary’s stuff,” or “Mary’s weed,” Campos theorizes, but no one truly knows.
From Conan O’Brien: Brian Posehn’s Portland Marijuana Encounter with NORML SHOW LIVE’s Ganja Jon
Ganja Jon is now internationally known! As you know, our irascible pirate, Ganja Jon, spends a lot of time at the Helium Comedy Club in Portland. Often he ends up hanging out with some of the top-known comics in the nation. One comedian, Brian Posehn, ended up spending a lot of time with Ganja Jon running around Portland. In his latest appearance on the Conan O’Brien show on TBS, Posehn talks about his first meeting with the guy I first christened “Ganja Jon”…
ESPN exposé discovers shocking truth: University of Oregon football players smoke marijuana!
The article does a good job covering the popularity of marijuana use among college athletes, who see smoking a joint as “no big deal” and akin to drinking a beer. At Oregon, the weed use is well known (ask Ganja Jon) and dealt with only when circumstances of public exposure and/or law enforcement get involved.
While NFL cracks down on marijuana, players are using as much as “a thousand Vicodins a month”
A study commissioned by ESPN and assisted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows retired NFL players misuse painkillers at a rate of 4-to-1 compared to the general public. “I was taking about 1,000 Vicodins a month,” former Miami Dolphins tight end Dan Johnson told ESPN. “People go, ‘That’s impossible. That’s crazy.’ No, it’s exactly what I was taking. I mean, believe me, I’d love to be off medications. That’s my worry every day, to make sure I have medication.”
California State Athletic Association passes amendment to allow medical marijuana
The California State Athletic Commission voted on Monday to approve an amendment that allows therapeutic use exemptions (TUE) for combat sports’ athletes who use drugs currently banned by the state agency for medical purposes, including testosterone and marijuana.
Man in marijuana costume ejected from Toronto Blue Jays game
Man in marijuana costume ejected from Toronto Blue Jays game
Medical marijuana found in 4,200-year-old Dutch grave
Pollen thought to come from a marijuana plant has been found in a grave in Gelderland dating back 4200 years.
Official HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cookbook: Green Leafy Kale Salad with Brown Cannabutter Vinaigrette
Join us on today’s NORML SHOW LIVE for a live interview with author Elise McDonough. We’re previewing her brand new HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cookbook, which you can order by clicking here. Listen live at 4:30pm for a chance to win a copy of the cookbook as part of our Twitter contest (follow @NORMLNet to be eligible).
Military weed? Unacceptable. Military speed? Encouraged!
After two long-running wars with escalating levels of combat stress, more than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year were taking prescribed antidepressants, narcotics, sedatives, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugs, according to figures recently disclosed to The Times by the U.S. Army surgeon general. Nearly 8% of the active-duty Army is now on sedatives and more than 6% is on antidepressants — an eightfold increase since 2005.