First Beans and Rice, Now Marijuana kosher for Passover After smelling the leaves of a cannabis plant, Rabbi Kanievky and Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, another leading Orthodox authority, decided that the plant had a “healing smell” and made the blessing for fragrant leaves. First the Conservative[...]
Posts Tagged ‘marijuana’
February 16th, 2016 - 1:32 am § in The Ave Scene
Black Lives Matter But This Is Hypocrisy
So Seattle’s Central District, the home of Quincy Jones, the Garfield Jazz Band, and Jimi Hendrix, will soon be as white as Johannesburg. Once Jewish, then solidly black, this great neighborhood is now less than 20% African American and even elected a Hindu woman, a radical socialist, over a h[...]
Science vs. Hype: of pot, the climate and the Pope
Whether it is King Canute or the Republicans, passing laws that insist the tides will tun back will not work. Senator Jame Imhof even criticized the Pope for carpeting the science of global warming, .. saying tha Francis ought to leave science to the legislators. Of course God determines[...]
September 21st, 2015 - 12:33 pm § in Misc.
Congress Should Stop Legislating Science!
The Congress ought to Have a Rule: WE Do Not Do Science. Global Warming Denial, Marijuana Research, Alternative Medicine: How to waste tax dollars on popular causes. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and seven other senators are urging that money be spent on medical marijuana. They have writte[...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 1:56 am § in Misc.
No Lives Matter, Whites get the same .. if you are cop in South Carolina!
So a nut job kills 9 good (Black) folks in a church in Charleston and the result is the good burghers , 150 years after the end of the Civil War, take down the rebel flag. Sadly few if any of the (white) burghers had the grace to attend the final flag lowering ceremony .. it […][...]
July 8th, 2015 - 1:35 am § in America, Environment
The Perils of Pot
A diver counts young salmon and steelhead in a tributary to the South Fork Eel River in Humboldt County in 2013. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say. | [...]
May 21st, 2015 - 4:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Wa Bud Light
Should WA State “Bud-lightify” WA Bud ? ? Now that WA state has legalized weed, the time has come to decide if the state should market its brand. Annie Lowrey at the New York Times Magazine has written about the inevitable, brand named products, where two joints with the same brand name wil[...]
What Happens When Seattle’s Black Neighborhood Becomes “Schwarzenfrei?”
The most ironic part of the protest against Uncle Ike’s MJ shop is the that the activists are Black but the Central D is now “schwartzenfrei” … that is free of the African Americans who once made this a vibrant center of Seattle culture. The complaints range from cha[...]