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It Should be About the Music, Y’all

4/09/09 - Posted by Christopher Reinhard under Gossip

In a twisted tale of irony and hypocrisy, Britney Spears postponed her performance in Vancouver last night after catching a whiff of reefer a couple songs into the set. The rehabbed pop star disappeared from stage for about 35 minutes while venue security requested that anyone partaking in the passage of pot put an end to their activities lest the show be canceled for good. Apparently going green isn’t for everyone.

Finally (presumptively after everyone’s bowls were cashed) Spears did return to the stage, albeit high on Prozac, chicken wings and warm Pedialyte that was left over from the kids’ dinner. Nevertheless, she made it through the set, closing with her recent hit, Vaporiz—er, Womanizer.

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Slytherin Goes Greener with Crabbe’s Pottery

4/08/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Gossip

All is not well at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 19-year-old actor Jamie Waylett, who plays Malfoy’s minion Crabbe in the Harry Potter series, was arrested after authorities discovered eight bags of pot in his car. This lead police to search his family home, where they discovered an additional $2,900 of weed growing in his bedroom under hydroponic lights (and they weren’t for Professor Sprout’s Herbology class).

Waylett has portrayed Crabbe in six of the Harry Potter films, the most recent to be hitting theatres in July, the same month as his court date. This could definitely put a damper on his recurring role for the seventh flick, but at least he’s living up to his Slytherin reputation.

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Legal Marijuana Looking Up

3/04/09 - Posted by Christopher Reinhard under Politics, US

Light that sh*t, smoke that sh*t, pass that sh*t! While the first two commonly-heard demands referred to reefer in general, the third refers to a potentially historic lawmaking moment in California, where legislators are getting more and more serious about making cannabis (that’s weed, y’all) a real live legal substance. There’s more to the story than a few dopers looking for a less incriminating way to light up; it would seem that a floundering economy could find some serious solace in letting people get their toke on legally.

Legislator Tom Ammiano (yes, of San Francisco) ran the numbers awhile back and deduced that legalizing the chronic could earn California a massive hit of taxpayers’ green—upwards of $1.3 billion. That accounts for localized growing and a state tax of fifty bucks an ounce, which, if you have ever bought pot before, might strike you as a super dank, knock-you-on-your-ass deal.

There seem to be a lot of reasons to push for legalization, and as of today, 14 states have decriminalized the narcotic to some extent. Even the Obama administration has put an end to medical dispensary raids, suggesting that Mary Jane is soon to be popping up on street corners all over America. We won’t comment on how excited that makes us…we’re responsible journalists and don’t want to take sides.

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Potentially Possible Further Uses for Pot, Maybe

1/13/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Health

Researchers have found that THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, may aid a process which is perhaps linked to a possible treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, which might actually be effective, maybe.

In a study that was published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging, researchers smoked out aged rats with fine government issued trees and wrote down everything they did. “I got the idea from my son,” said lead researcher Gary Wenk. “He had this cat that he was trying to get rid of by leaving it in different neighborhoods, and it would always find it’s way back. He swore its memory was enhanced because he’d been blowing shotguns into its ears for months. So we said, that’s interesting. Let’s try it with rats next”.

Through some scientific means which regular folks totally won’t understand very well, Wenk and his team found that smoking reefer may slow or even reverse the dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In an attempt to minimize the psychoactive effects experienced by those treated, they estimate that the lowest effective dose for a 60 to 75 year old person is a single puff of weed a day, which will leave plenty of roaches around for mooching grandkids.

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