Women who use marijuana while they are trying to conceive may be less likely to get pregnant. Source: https://www.livescience.com/marijuana-pregnancy-chances.html
Tag: Marijuana
College-age kids are drinking less alcohol — but smoking more marijuana
Young adults aren’t drinking as much as they used to. Source: https://www.livescience.com/college-kids-drinking-less-alcohol-but-smoking-more-marijuana.html
Configuration Snafu Exposes Passwords For Two Million Marijuana Growers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: GrowDiaries, an online community where marijuana growers can blog about their plants and interact with other farmers, has suffered a security breach in September this year. The breach occurred after the company left two Kibana apps exposed on the internet without administrative passwords. Kibana apps are normally used by a company’s IT and…
Drone Drops Hundreds of Marijuana Bags On Tel Aviv
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: A drone over Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square dropped hundreds of bags of weed on Thursday, setting off a mad scramble by onlookers to stock up, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the Post, the giveaway was orchestrated by a Telegram group called Green Drone that advocates for the legalization of marijuana throughout Israel. (Medical marijuana is…
Ancient people in the Kingdom of Judah may have gotten high off weed
This is the oldest known evidence of marijuana from the Kingdom of Judah. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cannabis-shrine-israel.html
Two Men Used Drones to Smuggle Drugs, Cell Phones Into Prison
“The United States Department of Justice has charged two New Jersey men with using drones to sneak drugs and other contraband into a federal prison…” reports CNN: The two men, Nicolo Denichilo, 38, and Adrian Goolcharran, 35, smuggled items including marijuana, steroids, cell phones, SIM cards, and syringes into the prison in Fort Dix, New Jersey, according to the US Attorney’s…
Humorous Highway Signs Aim To Steer Drivers Safely Down The Old Town Road
Drive down any U.S. interstate and there’s a good chance you will see a pun or a funny reference on the next electronic message board you spot. From a report: Such messages have become ubiquitous across the country lately. But besides getting a snicker, what’s behind these roadside bits, and are they making drivers behave any differently? They are known as…
Marijuana cookie lands elderly woman in ER for a ‘stroke’
The cookie was brought to the woman’s senior center by a person of “questionable character,” according to a new report of the case. Source: https://www.livescience.com/marijuana-cookie-thc-stroke.html
Company Says It’s Built a Marijuana Breathalyzer That Will Hit the Market In 2020
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: There’s currently no field test equipment that detects marijuana impairment. A company in California thinks it has a solution. From San Francisco Chronicle: “By mid-2020, Hound Laboratories plans to begin selling what it says is the world’s first dual alcohol-marijuana breath analyzer, which founder Dr. Mike Lynn says can test whether a user…
There Was an Alarming Rise in Marijuana Vaping Among Teens in 2019
The trend is all the more concerning in light of the recent outbreak of vaping-related lung illnesses. Source: https://www.livescience.com/teen-marijuana-vaping-2019.html