CANNABIS CULTURE - Alabama made history Wednesday when, for the first time ever, our Cadillac of a medical marijuana bill HB642 passed out of the house judiciary committee.
Ed Forchion doesn't deny it. There was a pound of marijuana - "high-grade California Kush" - in the trunk of his rent-a-wreck when he was stopped in Mount Holly on Thursday night by a state trooper.
A few months ago, Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Price. I wonder if there is actually a method of rescinding the prize... I don't think Obama wants it.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Pot-puffing Comedian Bill Maher made an hilarious appearance on the (nearly always unfunny) Jay Leno show and, while discussing California's legalization efforts, told the Tonght Show host he was a "buzzkill".
Voters in the western Colorado town of Fruita on Tuesday approved a 5 percent sales tax on medical marijuana and related paraphernalia, making it the first city in Colorado to tax pot.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they would support the legalization of medical marijuana in their state, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.
City police made over 46,000 arrests in 2009 for marijuana possession in public, the second highest annual arrest total in the city's history, up over 4,600 percent from 1990.