24 Jun Top Stories From The Edge – Week of June 19th

A Weekly Roundup of Stories We Found Interesting – From The Profound To The Profane

Bank Closes The Marijuana Policy Project’s Bank Account
Fearing DOJ crackdown, PNC Bank closed the organization’s 22-year-old bank account. The organization is simply an advocacy group that has no dealing with the sales, and distribution of marijuana. Is this the things to come under the Trump administration?

Health Secretary of New Mexico Reject Usage
New Mexico’s top health official has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations to add opiate dependence and Alzheimer’s disease to the list of conditions that qualify a person to legally buy medical marijuana. I can almost understand Alzheimer’s, but opiate dependence should be a no brainer. Unfortunately, New Mexico is not the only culprit.

Marijuana Tax Revenue Funds College Scholarship
In Pueblo County, Colorado, marijuana tax dollars help fund the Pueblo County Scholarship and the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative. That is believed to be the first cannabis tax-funded scholarship program in the world.

Growing Indoor Marijuana Is Not So Green
Indoor cultivation can be expensive, and wasteful, according to a report by The Guardian. A senior scientist at the University of California estimated in 2011 that indoor cannabis cultivation represents 1% of total electricity use across the US.

Spain Has Become the Cannabis Garden for Europe
It’s not enough that Spain dominates the soccer world, they are taking over growing marijuana as well. Aside from domestic use, marijuana is illegally exported to the rest of Europe. Spain’s marijuana regulation is quite lax for illegal growers . There are calls to impose stricter punishments for offenders so that it can regulate and tax the product.

An Orgasmic Look on Weed Lube
For our women’s readers, here is a sexy, and in depth review of weed lube. After experimenting with various methods of usage, the writer exclaims, “Oh My God, Yes!”

Actress Aubrey Plaza Gets a Lesson From the “Weed Nuns”
The “Park and Recreation” sitcom star smoked weed with the self-proclaimed weed nuns from the Sisters of the Valley. At one point in the YouTube video, the nuns hilariously said “If Jesus lived, He probably smoked weed.”