Archive for November, 2012

Create indoor clouds in your home based on weather conditions

Create indoor clouds in your home based on weather conditions

29 November 2012 at 12:57 Comments are Disabled

Sometimes the weather’s bad enough outside that the last thing you want is to bring it into your lounge, but that hasn’t stopped the experimental arm of a German design company, Micasa Lab, from creating a weather-predicting lamp. Called Nebula 12 it gathers meterological data from the UK-based Met Office and recreates the forecast inRead More …

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About the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum and the Hemp Museum Gallery

About the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum and the Hemp Museum Gallery

28 November 2012 at 14:22 Comments are Disabled

On 9 May 2012, two weeks after the reopening of the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, the Hash Marihuana Cáñamo & Hemp Museum was officially opened in Barcelona, Spain. This new stunning venue was opened by Josep Maria Faricgla and saw the evening culminate in the second part of the 2012 Cannabis CultureRead More …

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Protesting farmers spray European Parliament with milk

Protesting farmers spray European Parliament with milk

27 November 2012 at 16:08 Comments are Disabled

Angry farmers protesting at falling dairy prices in the EU have sprayed fresh milk at the European Parliament and riot police in Brussels. Thousands of dairy farmers, accompanied by hundreds of tractors, descended on the Belgian capital on Monday for two days of demonstrations. Disruption has continued, with EU officials hindered from reaching their officesRead More …

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25th High Times Cannabis Cup results

25th High Times Cannabis Cup results

26 November 2012 at 12:35 Comments are Disabled

Here it is, Thanksgiving Day! But the Cannabis Cup is its own special feast day. After five days of sampling the best cannabis products in the world, judges from around the world have selected the premier strains of cannabis and the most outstanding hashish featured at the 25th annual HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup. Tonight, theyRead More …

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Abandoned communist UFO

Abandoned communist UFO

22 November 2012 at 13:20 Comments are Disabled

Looks like the Soviets really built an UFO, or at least a building which looks like an RLV, a reusable launch vehicle… According to Timothy Allen the Communist UFO-shaped Buzludzha building (pronounced Buz’ol’ja) in the Balkan Mountains is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism which was left to ruin after the revolution in 1989. Nowadays,Read More …

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How to grow marijuana with Low Stress Training (LST)

How to grow marijuana with Low Stress Training (LST)

21 November 2012 at 13:13 Comments are Disabled

Low Stress Training, or LST, refers to any method of training your cannabis plants without causing them stress in the way that topping or pruning might. As with most methods of trying to improve the yield of your cannabis plants, LST seeks to make the most efficient use of light. According to the inverse squareRead More …

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White Weed seeds

White Weed seeds

19 November 2012 at 12:41 Comments are Disabled

White Strains of cannabis is a generic term, coined to describe certain cannabis strains that are so called because of the way they seem to shimmer under the light. The buds, and often the leaves, of white cannabis strains are covered with cobwebs of thick trichomes which produce huge amounts of shiny crystals of THCRead More …

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Dutch weed pass plan abandoned by incoming Dutch Government

Dutch weed pass plan abandoned by incoming Dutch Government

14 November 2012 at 13:17 Comments are Disabled

The incoming Dutch government has ditched plans for a national “weed pass” that would have been available only to residents and that would have effectively banned tourists from Amsterdam’s marijuana cafes. However, under a provisional governing pact unveiled this week, cities can bar foreigners from weed shops if they choose. The pact says that itRead More …

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Apple’s software boss takes a seat at Ferrari’s table

Apple’s software boss takes a seat at Ferrari’s table

13 November 2012 at 15:49 Comments are Disabled

Apple has taken a seat in Ferrari’s boardroom in a deal that helps both companies. Eddy Cue, the tech titan’s vice president of internet software and services, was named to Ferrari’s board of directors on the same day the Italian automaker announced record-setting sales for the first nine months of the year. “I am pleasedRead More …

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Marijuana legalization victories could be short-lived

Marijuana legalization victories could be short-lived

12 November 2012 at 12:44 Comments are Disabled

They said the federal government could sue to block parts of the measures or send threatening letters to marijuana shops, followed up by street-level clampdowns similar to those targeting medical marijuana dispensaries the government suspects are fronts for drug traffickers. “This is a symbolic victory for (legalization) advocates, but it will be short-lived,” Kevin Sabet,Read More …

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