Monsanto Weed Killer Glyphosate Herbicide Found In Popular Beer Brands

Glyphosate levels were as high as 30 micrograms per liter, even in beer that is supposed to be brewed from only water, malt, and hops. This finding by the Munich Environmental Institute calls into question the rampant spraying of Round Up on both GMO and non-GMO crops around the world, and casts doubt upon Germany’s 500-year-old beer purity law.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Co-Owner of Ardent Craft Ales, Kevin O'Leary, takes a sample of Persimmon beer at the facility in Richmond, VA., Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

NATURAL SOCIETY-- Want a round of Round Up with your beer? The German beer industry is in shock after finding that 14 different popular beer brands have traces of the ‘probably’ carcinogenic herbicide, glyphosate – an ingredient found in Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer, Round Up. Germany’s Agricultural minster is playing down the risks in order

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Pro-Pot Ads Spark Free Speech Debate in US

Several federal judges have ruled that an advertising ban on substances, including marijuana, is a First Amendment violation.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

It’s a question that tests the limits of free speech and has once again resurfaced after marijuana legalization ads were plastered on city buses in places such as Portland, ME, this fall, since the city had a ballot measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana.  Critics argue the ads should not be allowed in public since they promote the use

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Drinking Is Devastating Women At Alarming Rates

Well-educated White women have some of the highest rates of alcoholism. What’s going on?

Carissa Wyant
By Carissa Wyant

In her recent book ”Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol,” award-winning writer Ann Dowsett Johnson tells of her struggle with alcoholism: “I became an award-winning magazine writer, got married and had a son. I created my own opportunities. My husband and I separated when our son was 5, but we continued to share all

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Legal Marijuana Ad #1 In Super Bowl Contest… Until It Was Cut

The sponsor, which makes accounting software, has also revoked its services from a clinic that recommends medical marijuana.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

The chance for a pro-marijuana legalization commercial to air for free during the 2014 Super Bowl has — for a lack of better words — burned out. On Monday, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the movement’s oldest and largest group, announced that they have not made it to the third round of a small business competition

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Can Authorities Prevent Repeat Drunk Driving Offenses?

Could a harsher stance for those who repeatedly get behind the wheel drunk be a solution?

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In 2004, Judith Gubernikoff and her father, George, a fishmonger at the Fulton Fishmarket in the Manhattan borough of New York City, was making the 25-mile pre-dawn drive to open his stall and receive the daily catch. The night was still and quiet as the two drove from their suburban neighborhood into the city, at least until their car was T-boned

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No Room For Marijuana At Beer-Soaked NASCAR Event, Ad-Sellers Say

A pro-marijuana group had launched a pro-marijuana ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 races in Indianapolis.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

The Marijuana Policy Project made waves last Thursday with an announcement that the group was launching a pro-marijuana ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 races in Indianapolis. The video, which was reminiscent of a beer commercial, highlighted the relative safety of marijuana, touting it as a “new beer” that is less harmful to consumers and society.

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