by Kate Harveston At a time when it seems the GOP can’t agree on anything, they also can’t agree on marijuana laws. With the cacophony of crises and scandals swirling around Washington, you would be correct to think that how Americans use pot should be a rather low-priority ...read more
Apparently, British politicians are determined to return their country to the dark ages with one of the most regressive pieces of legislation in the nation's history. The Psychoactive Substances Bill passed its third reading in the Commons yesterday, and looks to go into effect ...read more
In what can only be regarded as an insane, utterly grotesque abuse of power, the Nevada State Athletic Commission handed out one of the most severe punishments in its history - a 5 year suspension for MMA fighter Nick Diaz who tested positive for marijuana metabolites following ...read more
Last September, it appeared that the Labour Party had chosen to send a message with its choice of international guest speaker at the annual party conference. As Labour have longed used the American Democratic Party as a canary-in-the-mine, the awarding of the stage to New York ...read more
Whenever 4/20 rolls around, I occasionally rewind 11 years or so to a cartoon I directed and co-wrote for a short-lived animated sketch comedy show I created called VH1 ILLustrated back before VH1 became the celeb-reality network. Whenever I watch this one cartoon, I experience ...read more
Other than an unfortunate incident that involved me accidentally ingesting half a bag of weed infused Chex Mix and going into an alternate dimension for 48 hours (a long story for another time), I've never really used Marijuana as it just doesn't do all that much for me. ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night and got into it with conservatives Kris Ullman and Shelby Emmett and took part in what can mostly be described as a shouting match over marijuana laws in Washington state and the US education system (show starts around the 4.20 mark): ...read more
Remember those quotes about the futility of money by the legendary Bob Marley? Like this one: “Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” And this one: “Possessions make you rich? I don’t have that type of ...read more
It's been a year and a half since heroic hacker Edward Snowden touched off a global firestorm with the news that the government was collecting millions of telephone records, but if you think the government is up your ass now, wait until legislators in Washington state get their ...read more
It's abundantly clear that Bill O'Reilly embraces his status as the elder derp of Fox News' prime time lineup. Many of his rants aren't really political missives, but more like paternalistic scoldings from a 1960s Catholic headmaster battening down the moral hatches as the ...read more
The New York Times rocked America's world this weekend by coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana, and NBC News' Meet the Press celebrated by convening a panel made up of more squares than you can shake a Paul Lynde at (that reference was for the members of MTP's panel, who ...read more
Thanks to a budget proposal released yesterday by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, we're able to see the fist official estimate for how much the state expects to make on taxes from marijuana sales. And it's a lot. Even Gov. Hickenlooper, who opposed marijuana ...read more
If anyone can work out what the hell Ann Coulter is talking about, please enlighten us in the comments section. As far as I can tell, Ann Coulter believes marijuana should be illegal because her pool guy didn't clean her pool in California one time, and regular smokers are good ...read more
In August, President Obama's drug czar Gil Kerlikowske told the Washington Post that the Administration is committed to increasing spending on addiction treatment but doesn't support decriminalization of illegal drugs, despite mounting evidence that the government's 40-year ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: I've never been a big fan of smoking pot. Yeah, I've done it a few times, but being that I seem to have lived by the motto "Go Big or Go Home" when it came to kicking off my storied career in drug use -- diving directly into LSD and ecstasy rather than going ...read more
