Posts Tagged ‘ Marijuana ’

How ’bout a Side of Mega Death with that? It’s Tortelicious…

October 26th, 2010. By LucyC

Some like it hot—and others—well…How hot is hot? A couple in Tennessee are so heated up about an incident that landed their son in hospital that they’ve filed a lawsuit. 

In October 2009 the Ganns went to a Steak ‘n Shake restaurant with their son—a minor—who ordered chili—which tends to be hot. But maybe not hot enough. So, the boy was also given hot sauce to liven up the chili—just in case. Problem was that the sauce the boy was given wasn’t the ‘usual’ sauce the boy was given—if you know what I mean. 

Sadly, this stuff had a little too much kick and the boy ended up in the hospital—he had difficulty breathing and suffered hives, severe pain and inflammation of his digestive system. Yikes! 

The Ganns claims that the employee who served them failed to warn them about how hot the hot sauce was. But the name of the sauce should have been a bit of a giveaway—it was “Blair’s Mega Death Sauce.” Hello! I think given that name the boy was lucky to have escaped with his life.

By the way, if you’re trying to gauge just how hot Blair’s is, one vendor states Blair’s should not be used undiluted given it packs a punch “500 times greater” than your average jalapeno.

Ahh…long live pizza margherita… 

Duck, Duck, Gooses? And this is a little worrying, on several levels. A young mother from Pennsylvania who took her children to Disney World in Orlando, Fl, is suing Disney over Donald Duck’s interpretation of “Hello”. 

She took her kids to Disney World, as millions of parents do every year, for a chance to have some good clean fun. As I understand it, never having set foot in the place myself, that typically involves close encounters of the fluffy kind—you know— warm fuzzy welcomes from larger- Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Blair's Mega Death Sauce, Disney, Donald Duck, Marijuana, Pot, Steak n Shake, Tortelicious
Posted in Emerging Issues, Totally Tortelicious | No Comments »

Medical Marijuana Catch-22: You’re Fired

March 24th, 2010. By AbiK

How in hell do the fourteen states where it’s legal—yes, LEGAL—to use marijuana for medical reasons have such a progressive law that, on the flip side, opens the door for employers to fire medical marijuana card-carrying employees who test positive for marijuana use?

According to a cnn.com article, Keith Stroup, who’s on the legal counsel team for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says he gets around “300 emails and phone calls a year from medical marijuana who have been fired or had job offers rescinded because of a failed drug test.” 

Stroup goes on to say, “Usually they talk about how they have lost their job and I tell them there’s not a thing they can do about it.”

True, in most at-will employment states an employee can be fired for any reason—except for those reasons that put the employee in a federally protected class—such as race, gender, and religion.

But medical marijuana-use employees are not a federally protected class. So employers pretty much Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Discrimination, Employment, Labor Law, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana
Posted in Discrimination, Drugs/Medical, Emerging Issues, Employment | 8 Comments »

Should we all just get high on Marijuana…legally?

August 18th, 2009. By AbiK

Not long ago I had posted about the drug Reglan—the drug that has been associated with Tardive Dyskinesia—and the possibility of using marijuana for medicinal purposes to alleviate some of the symptoms of the disorder. There really isn’t much more than ancedotal evidence to support using marijuana for Tardive Dyskinesia–and regardless, as of late July there were only 13 states that have actually legalized the drug.

Just today, as a follow up, I thought I’d check out Urtak.com—a collaborative surveying site—to see what the pulse is on whether folks think marijuana should indeed be legalized.

The Court of Public Opinion has spoken. Well, at least 276 members of the public have answered the question on marijuana legalization over at Urtak. And if you’ve been following the issue in the media, you may not be totally surprised by the results—it is a fairly polarizing issue.

The results… Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Court of Public Opinion, Marijuana, Reglan, Tardive Dyskinesia
Posted in Court of Public Opinion, Drugs/Medical | 3 Comments »