Can Eating Poppy Seeds Really Cause You to Fail a Drug Test?

Can Eating Poppy Seeds Really Cause You to Fail a Drug Test?

When Elaine on Seinfeld failed a drug test after eating a poppy seed muffin back in the 1996 episode "The Shower Head," the idea that you could fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds took off. Turns out, this wasn’tyet another Hollywood writer invention—you really can potentially fail a drug test if you eat poppy seeds.

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Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry

Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry

If you’ve ever smoked weed, chances are you’ve also taken that regrettable trip to 7 Eleven and stocked up on cheese puffs, microwave burritos, and, well, everything else edible. Then, when you wake up surrounded in wrappers, you wonder: WHY?

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Why Weed Makes You… You… Huh?

Why Weed Makes You... You... Huh?

Scientists have long suspected that THC somehow affects the hippocampus region of the brain, the bit responsible for controlling short-term memory, but they have never been able to prove it. Turns out that’s because they were looking at the wrong grey matter.

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How To Pass a Urine Test (Or At Least Stand a Fighting Chance)

How To Pass a Urine Test (Or At Least Stand a Fighting Chance)

You’ve got enough to worry about for that upcoming job interview without stressing over whether or not you’ll be judged by what you pee into a cup. And sometimes it’s just too late to go all the way straight-and-narrow. Fortunately there are ways of maximizing the chance that your future employment won’t be sidetracked by Friday night’s doobie. Here’s what you need to know to have your best chance at passing a urinalysis test.

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Rebranding Weed So It’s Not Just For Potheads Anymore

Rebranding Weed So It's Not Just For Potheads Anymore

With marijuana legal in two states and approved for medicinal use in about 20 more, this year’s 4/20 is gonna be epic, bro! But even as marijuana is being embraced by the mainstream, its image has been left behind in the 1960s. It’s time to rebrand weed.

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Clever Crook Uses Heat Vision Drone to Hunt Down Weed and Steal It

Clever Crook Uses Heat Vision Drone to Hunt Down Weed and Steal It

The police have long used thermal imaging cameras to detect marijuana growing operations. Now, thanks to drones, crooks are getting into the weed-finding game too. Except in their case, they’re trying to find the weed so they can steal it.

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How Yesterday’s Drugs Became The Medicines Of Today

How Yesterday's Drugs Became The Medicines Of Today

My sister is a witch. Or, more precisely, a Wiccan astrologer and tarot reader. Growing up as a kid who worshipped Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, I found it hard to square her worldview with my own.

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How Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Driving Up the Price of Limes

How Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Driving Up the Price of Limes

A lime shortage is threatening the U.S. food and beverage industry, with some bars and restaurants jacking up drink prices, charging extra for a slice—or refusing to serve the citrus at all. But there’s another reason to rethink that margarita: The pricey limes you’re buying from Mexico might be supporting drug violence.

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That Time Dock Ellis Threw a No-Hitter While Tripping on LSD

Modern medicine has taken all the fun out of doing drugs in baseball. Stories like how Darryl Strawberry used to refuse to slide for fear of breaking the coke vials in his pocket have slowly been replaced with clinical, drab tales of creams and clears. But not to worry! The folks at No Mas TV have crafted this incredible, animated, look back at the greatest drug induced athletic performance of all time, Dock Ellis’ acid-laced no-hitter.

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Animals like to pop bubble wrap just as much as we do

Few legal substances are as addicting and therapeutic as popping bubble wrap. It’s catnip, eucalyptus leaves, coca leaves, maple syrup, honey and coconut water combined into a transparent, air filled plastic sheet. Humans lose hours to get the quick fix of popping every last air bubble. It turns out animals, like this raccoon, do the same. I think seeing this video makes me hate raccoons a little less.

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