“A popular California outdoors writer was free on bail after authorities said Friday they found a large marijuana growing operation in his barn in the town of Weed.”

AP via realitychex  

New Yorkers Want to Get High and Forget About Their Dysfunctional Government

A new poll shows that large majorities of New Yorkers believe that the state’s budget crisis is “very serious” and that the legislature will lack the political courage to solve it. So it’s not surprising that by the end of the poll, the thought of getting stoned sounded appealing. Seventy-one percent of New Yorkers support a bill legalizing medical marijuana, including majorities of Democrats, Independents, Republicans, men, women, young people, senior citizens, whites, blacks, upstaters, city folk, Eskimos, mimes, and ornithologists. The only people that don’t support it: drug dealers . [Quinnipiac ]

NYMag

“Most ‘drugs of abuse’ suppress neurogenesis,” Zhang says. “Only marijuana promotes neurogenesis.”

Xia Zhang, an associate professor in the U of S neuropsychiatry research unit.

New research suggests that marijuana acts in the opposite fashion to legal and taxed alcohol and nicotine, and from destroying brain cells, actually helps them re-grow.

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