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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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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