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Smoking Pot And Driving Doubles Chances Of Car Accident [Study]

Smoking Pot And Driving Doubles Chances Of Car Accident [Study]

Smoking marijuana even a couple hours before you get behind the wheel of a vehicle can double your chances of getting into a car accident according to a recent study conducted by Associate Professor Mark Asbridge from Dalhousie ... continue
Man Caught Smoking Pot on Commercial Flight

Man Caught Smoking Pot on Commercial Flight

A 42-year-old man was arrested and charged after being caught smoking pot on a JetBlue flight from Orlando, Fla., to Newark, N.J. Adam Blumenkranz reportedly sloped off to the plane's lavatory to smoke marijuana, but was interrupted by ... continue
FDA To Examine Marijuana Based Mouth Spray For Cancer Patients

FDA To Examine Marijuana Based Mouth Spray For Cancer Patients

British firm GW Pharma is hoping to have a marijuana-based mouth spray ready for FDA approval by 2013. Known as Sativex the company is already engaged in advanced clinical trials on the drug. According to the company ... continue
Smoking Marijuana Is Good For Your Lungs [Recent Study]

Smoking Marijuana Is Good For Your Lungs [Recent Study]

Another big victory for marijuana supporters this week after a study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which found that smoking a moderate amount of pot can actually help your lung capacity. Researchers at University of ... continue
Gasp! Snoop Dogg Arrested For Marijuana Possession

Gasp! Snoop Dogg Arrested For Marijuana Possession

In news that should surprise absolutely nobody rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend when drug-sniffing dogs in Texas discovered marijuana on his tour bus. Snoop Dogg and his entourage were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint ... continue
Marijuana Plants Planted Outside Police Station

Marijuana Plants Planted Outside Police Station

Police this weekend discovered marijuana plants growing outside a court in the NSW mid north coast of Australia. Deemed a "prank" by someone who wanted to poke fun at Australia's justice system the plants were quickly removed and ... continue
Want Legalized Marijuana? 50% Of Americans Do [Gallup Poll]

Want Legalized Marijuana? 50% Of Americans Do [Gallup Poll]

Medicinal marijuana is still a hot button topic for federal, state and local governments and now a recent Gallup poll says 50% of American's support the use of pot for medical purposes. According to the report the number ... continue
Feds Send Threatening Letters To Marijuana Dispensaries In California

Feds Send Threatening Letters To Marijuana Dispensaries In California

Owners of 16 California dispensaries received threatening letters from the Federal Government this week, letters that told them to shut down or be shut down. According to the letters sent by Federal officials: "Federal law takes precedence over state ... continue
Silly policemen, pot brownies are for kids [Video]

Silly policemen, pot brownies are for kids [Video]

Lawyer's hear all kinds of stories but when the client of defense attorneys Daniel Cahill and J Julio Vela came looking for representation they finally heard one that they just had to look into. It turns out that their client ... continue
Marijuana Genome Project Sequences Plants Entire Genetic Code

Marijuana Genome Project Sequences Plants Entire Genetic Code

Forget the human genome project, scientists at a Massachusetts company have sequenced the entire genome for marijuana, the first company to accomplish that goal. According to the Nature news blog, the results from Medicinal Genomics have yet to be ... continue
By not prosecuting small-time potheads Philadelphia saved $2 Million

By not prosecuting small-time potheads Philadelphia saved $2 Million

The amount of money spent every year in the US to target, arrest, prosecute, and jail small-time pot users is incredible. Philadelphia was one city that decided to take a second look at what it was costing the ... continue
Scotts Miracle-Gro Looks at Medical Marijuana Market

Scotts Miracle-Gro Looks at Medical Marijuana Market

Rumors have circled for years regarding corporate plans to monetize it after they legalize it (the eternal it being weed), but surely actual corporate interest in farming marijuana shows promise that the controversial plant is becoming more ... continue
[Video] The cutest pro-marijuana animation ever

[Video] The cutest pro-marijuana animation ever

The Other 98% linked to this adorable clip (titled The Flower) that illustrates, adorably, the animator's conception of the ramifications of marijuana prohibition. Evil weed that makes people chubby, or the answer to many of our financial woes? continue
Paris Hilton reportedly busted for pot again while traveling

Paris Hilton reportedly busted for pot again while traveling

Socialite Paris Hilton may not have learned much after her World Cup dope bust- the heiress was reportedly caught with weed in her purse on her latest trip. Hilton was popped for smoking a joint at a World ... continue
4-year-old finds marijuana in Blockbuster videogame

4-year-old finds marijuana in Blockbuster videogame

A four-year-old from Britain got an unexpected freebie when his dad bought him a copy of Fight Night Round 4 from Blockbuster - a bag of blended ganja and tobacco, carefully tucked away inside the game's case. 30-year-old ... continue
Olivia Namath, daughter of Joe, arrested in FL on drug charges

Olivia Namath, daughter of Joe, arrested in FL on drug charges

Olivia Namath, 19, has been arrested in Florida on drug charges. Namath, daughter of football star Joe Namath, was pulled over for speeding near Jupiter, FL, in her silver Mercedes. The officer reported the smell of marijuana in ... continue
Women found with large quantities of pot wrapped as gifts

Women found with large quantities of pot wrapped as gifts

A couple of grinchy Missouri state troopers undoubtedly ruined Christmas for many Midwest stoners when they seized about 20 lbs. of marijuana, some of it wrapped as presents. The pot was seized during a routine traffic stop for ... continue
Beat the recession, join fellow Americans growing pot

Beat the recession, join fellow Americans growing pot

It’s hard times all around and people handle this kind of economic pressure in different ways. Some are forced to sell million dollar homes and yachts' while handing over the key to the private ... continue

Get Caught With Pot? Claim Religious Persecution

A man who was arrested for allegedly distributing marijuana says he and his wife are members of a cannabis ministry and have a religious right to use pot. But police aren't buying it. Not the first time religion ... continue