Tag: MARIJUANA

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Marijuana enthusiasts have never exactly been known for their lightning-quick speed, but as Californians prepare to vote on a measure that would legalize the drug, many have been rushing to the Internet to secure themselves marijuana-related domain names. The logic behind the rush is pretty straightforward: legalized weed constituting a brand new kind of marijuana industry. And a new marijuana ...

T-Mobile's decision to block specific messages sent across its network has now resulted in a federal lawsuit that may have far-reaching implications for wireless providers seeking to exercise more control over their platforms. As Wired reports, the wireless service is being sued by EZ Texting, a company that offers short code text messaging services to third-party clients. Companies who sign up ...

Want to know the average price of marijuana across the continent? PriceOfWeed crowdsources data from (obviously anonymous) users about their most recent sticky purchases, and handily displays the results on a Google map. Thanks to the 600 submissions in the week since its launch, we found out that weed is cheap in British Columbia and Oregon, and expensive in New York. Shocker? ...

We're not sure exactly how high you have to be to text the local sheriff to score some weed, but we figure it's somewhere in the range of "really" to "inspiringly." Where this Helena, Montana teenager lands on the scale doesn't really matter. What does matter is that the boy and his friend managed to confuse their dealer's phone number with that of the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff. Sheriff Leo ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. What was that media truism about everything that's fringe eventually moving toward the center? Perhaps we're too baked to remember. Which reminds us, there's now a ...

Most iPad owners probably wouldn't trade their beloved gadget for much of anything -- unless, of course, they're stoned enough to take the kind of deal two burnouts in Arizona offered last week. As AZFamily reports, Jacob Walker and Joseph Velarde recently came up with the brilliant idea of offering a third generation iPod touch and a .25 ounce of fluffy marijuana in exchange for an iPad. As ...

If you're a fan of smoking (and hey, who isn't these days?), look no further than this beautiful pipe du jour. The slim and sleek water-based smoking device is known simply as White, and was created by Lebanese outfit Tribudesign. As in the Lebanese custom, the pipe is intended to be used with argilah, or tobacco meant for a hookah. But unlike the ornate, genie bottle-shaped water pipes seen in ...

Police in Nevada recently found a lot more than a bunch of quarters inside an intercepted arcade cabinet. In a move many gamers could appreciate, Las Vegas resident Kevin Dixon decided that stuffing a bunch of marijuana inside an arcade cabinet would be the perfect way to smuggle it between Arizona and Illinois. Unfortunately for him, there's no restart button or 1-UP in real life. According to ...

Say goodbye to afternoons spent driving around looking for marijuana. Well, medical marijuana, anyway. A new iPhone application might help to push pot further into the mainstream. Or at least make it a whole lot easier to find. Mashable reported that Apple recently approved the app 'Cannabis' (iTunes link), which costs $2.99 and is currently available for download. The app works the same as ...

It's a stoner's dream come true. California residents can get dope delivered straight to their doors. All it takes is a doctor's recommendation and a simple tweet, and, just like that, there's a doorbell ring and a dime bag waiting. The medical marijuana delivery service, which is the brainchild of Artists Collective founder Dann Halem, aims to provide shut-ins with weed while using the profits ...

If a drug reference is so well known that there's a Wikipedia entry about it, chances are the cops know it, too. Unfortunately, Marlborough, Massachusetts's Chistopher J. Gray did not check the popular reference site before advertising marijuana on Craigslist. According to the Patriot Ledger, the number "420" -- a popular term that references getting high -- is rumored to have been started in ...

In the Netherlands, the sale of marijuana is legal, albeit restricted, but the nation is still engaged in a cannabis drug war. According to Dvice, 90-percent of the marijuana grown on local Dutch farms is sold illegally through smugglers and foreign drug traffickers. To help combat the unsanctioned reefer madness, Dutch police have added a new unmanned helicopter, dubbed the 'Canna Chopper,' ...

If you ever find yourself needing to re-up on your legal cannabis supply, there is a new Web site you might want to check out: Weedmaps is essentially a Yelp for cannabis seekers and dispensaries that provides specific locations and ratings of dispensaries nearest the user. It has been pointed out that Yelp already has a section devoted to this topic, but with Weedmaps floating ideas like ...

Above the Influence, an arm of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, has launched a Web page informing gamers that only n00bs smoke doobs, a move that seems to be in line with the Federal government's grand old tradition of being "down with the kids," According to the site, which we learned about from Business Insider, smoking marijuana can impair gaming judgment and, ...