"weed" news and stories

I can easily see how bottle caps that read "Try Legal Weed" could be a bit confusing. If I saw it for the first time, I might wonder if it were hemp beer or somehow could get you stoned.

As it turns out, Weed Ales and Lagers produced by Mt. Shasta Brewing are named as such because they are brewed in a town called Weed, California.

According to an associated press report in the San Fransisco Chronicle, the town has a long tradition of having fun with its name. "A sign posted on the way out of town reads, 'Temporarily Out of Weed,' while another says '100 Percent Pure Weed.'"

Federal alcohol regulators don't get the joke. They ordered that sales stop on beers with the "Try Legal Weed" caps.

Do you think "Try Legal Weed" is a cute play on the town's name or is it misleading and making light of an illegal drug?

Remember when students took apples to their teachers?

Yeah, me neither.

Whatever that whole thing was about, there's a new way for students to bribe their way to an A -- cookies, and not just a nice batch of chocolate chip cookies, but cookies laced with marijuana.

Apparently, a high school senior in Wilmington, North Carolina baked cookies made from dough that had been mixed with marijuana. The student's Spanish teacher ate one of the cookies, and claims to have hallucinated, experienced an increased heart rate, and higher blood pressure. The teacher might have been mistaken except that the student actually referred to the cookies as "weed cookies."

The student has been expelled from school.

So much for bribing the teacher for grades.

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