Old People Are Stoned: Last xmas, I happened across my dad searching for his reading glasses while they were already perched atop his head, and I thought, “If I didn’t know any better I’d say my dad was stoned.” He wasn’t of course. He’s just transitioning from middle-aged into senior discount land. But more and [...]

Obama hires motherfuckin’ Kumar to work as the new associate director of the Office of Public Liaison, and people still think there is no hope for a national (er, widespread) decriminalization policy?! You don’t make that many stoner movies without ever getting high. People, this is brilliant! (The goal should be widespread delegislation, not a [...]

I just saw this great post on Synchronium about Sam Harris. It’s basically an excerpt from his book The End of Faith, which looks wonderful. Especially if you take moral judgments to have only a single root, and that being emotion – not reason or rationale. (Which isn’t to say some of it isn’t logical [...]

Are We Recording? Hit Record.: I can see excellent reasons for allowing drug experiences to unfold as ephemera. I get it. I really do. But when it comes down to it we need more data, damn it, and I feel like I have a duty to the community to gather as much information as I [...]

i was watching a documentary on HBO this morning about a woman from Australia who was apparently caught smuggling a huge 10 pound bag of weed into Indonesia inside a boogie-board bag. trust me when you see the pictures of it, you cant help but notice that you have that much pot just magically appear [...]

(via Taking Drugs) Seriously, my brain is getting hungry.

Kid finds To Kill A Mockingbird offensive because the characters use historically and contextually accurate language. Ok, so the book is chock-full of niggers, but it’s widely known to be anti-racist and used in school curriculum for that very reason. This is in England, but the same argument comes up in America regularly. Nobody in [...]

I just watched it. Pretty much sums up how harmless the mint leaves are. It would be very difficult to get a DUI on Salvia considering the impossibility of even starting a vehicle, let alone driving it. But even I had to do a double-take and say, “is that me?” No, it is not. But [...]

RINGLING (AP) — The entire police force in Ringling has resigned and the mayor, vice mayor and city attorney are quitting as well. Mayor Jerry Reid says his resignation isn’t effective until he puts it in writing but he blames part of the dispute on what he calls a “dope problem” in the southern Oklahoma [...]

Couple suspected of khat smuggling arrested in Malmö Police in Malmö have arrested a man and a woman on narcotics charges after finding the pair had two suitcases filled with amphetamine-like substance khat. … wait for it… The two were arrested on suspicions of drugs offences, according to the Malmö police department. The couple’s bags [...]