Subject: Marijuana

• Smoked Out

  July 9, 2007

• Republic Tigers Christmas Song

  December 24, 2007

• Of Welk and Weed

  January 16, 2008

• Whatever It Is, It's a Hit for The Drop

  July 25, 2008

• Dope at the drive-through?

  October 14, 2008

• Best Author Reading

  October 17, 2002

• Subway expands $5 menu

  It's as if Subway is just messing with potheads now. Shortly after announcing they were firing-then-keeping sinner marijuana smoker Michael Phelps as a spokesperson, Subway announced it's expanding its $5 foot-long menu from eight sandwiches to twenty. In a promotion starting today and running until March 29, Subway is offering any regular sub at $5. Regular sub means any sub without double meat or premium sub like Philly-cheese-steak or chicken and bacon ranch.Actually, this promotion isn't

  February 9, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Sorry about your testicles, pothead.

  In a disturbingly specific instance of anatomical and fiduciary braggadocio, rapper Mase said "I'm young, black and famous / with money hangin' out the anus" in the song "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down." Weird, but truly aspirational for a man like me, who is barely a hundredaire. I, too, would like to have money "hangin' out the anus." Meanwhile, my favorite joke about money is going into a restaurant, snapping a twenty-dollar bill at the hostess, and saying, "Me and my friend Abraham Lincoln were h

  February 11, 2009

• Raw Deal

  September 16, 2004

• Best Actor or Actress

  October 7, 2004

• Barack will not bogart that joint

  Flickr: Toronto JimIf you happen to live in one of the 13 states that allow medical marijuana, President Obama is cool with that. For all intents and purposes, pot is de facto legal there now. In case you're wondering, Kansas and Missouri are not two of those states. But neighbor Colorado is.Last Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, discussing some bigger news about a Mexican pot bust, smoothly slid in the news that the DEA would no longer conduct raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. For

  March 2, 2009

• Kottonmouth Kings

  December 16, 2004

• Low Road

  March 10, 2005

• High times foiled near Cameron

  A federal judge sentenced a Kansas City man today to 11 years and three months in federal prison for running a marijuana-growing operation in Daviess County, which is holy land but I don't think Joseph Smith was growing weed. In July, a federal jury found 30-year-old Jhanmay Molina-Perez guilty of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana between May 1 to October 31, 2006, on a 22-acre property that he was renting near Cameron. The operation went south after a neighbor heard gunshots and found a coupl

  March 12, 2009

• Pot Roast

  June 15, 2006

• Unplanned Unemployment

  June 29, 2006

• Dying seniors to be denied weed

  Now that we're skirting the precipice of a depression, if we haven't already fallen in, we should have some new respect for those men and women who grew up in the '20s and '30s. Be a cynic about that Greatest Generation title all you want -- it is a damn fine way to sell books -- but the people in my grandparents' generation survived crap economies, fought off Nazism and had to watch their kids enshrine that sniveling punk John Lennon. Yeah, sure John, you stay in bed until there's world pe

  April 1, 2009

• Legalize it! (And then invest in it)

  More and more I hear arguments for legalizing marijuana. Joe Klein and Andrew Sullivan are two people pushing especially hard for it right now, although President Barack Obama has blown off the issue -- and for good reason. If Obama made a huge deal about legalizing pot he might make gains among a percentage of people who probably already support him, but he'd lose plenty more voters. But what if pot were to be legalized without becoming legal?That appears to what's happening. Two weeks ago, Att

  April 6, 2009

• Afroman

  February 22, 2007

• Maybe if Missouri and Kansas legislators were high, their actions would make more sense

  April 9, 2009

• The Game

  April 2, 2009

• The grass grows around absent-minded rapper Devin the Dude

  March 19, 2009

• A Woven Tale

  September 11, 2008

• In Defense of Hemp

  August 28, 2008

• 420 on 4/19

  April 17, 2008

• Letters from the issue of February 28, 2008

  February 28, 2008

• Still Smokin’

  August 16, 2007

• High Above the Law

  She has cerebral palsy, four kids and loads of debt. Meet the unofficial spokeswoman for marijuana legalization.

  June 8, 2006

• Metallic Falcons

  May 25, 2006

• Cephalic Carnage

  May 4, 2006

• Dios Malos

  February 23, 2006

• Doris Henson

  Saturday, December 10, at the Hurricane

  December 8, 2005

• Marijuana potency at three decade high

  Not only is pot becoming more legalish, it's becoming more potent too. On Thursday, scientists will gather in a circle to report that the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels in thousands of confiscated marijuana samples have exceeded 10 percent for the first time. THC is an indicator of the potency of the pot. Back in the '60s and through most of the '90s THC levels never reached much higher than 5 percent. Scientists are using this new info to warn kids to look-out, this ain't their parents' pot.

  May 19, 2009

• Toots and the Maytals

  Monday, April 4, at The Bottleneck.

  March 31, 2005

• Afroman

  Wednesday, January 19, at the Bottleneck.

  January 13, 2005

• Adios, Tejas

  Latinos relocate their culture confab.

  September 30, 2004

• The Legendary Pink Dots

  Thursday, May 20, at The Hurricane.

  May 20, 2004

• Zig Zag

  The Prairie Dogg chews the fat and smokes some herb with Ziggy Marley.

  March 11, 2004

• Dead Meadow

  Shivering King and Others (Matador)

  August 14, 2003

• Rave Review

  The RAVE Act could mean trouble for even legitimate promoters.

  August 21, 2003

• Blood Brothers

  Thursday, May 8, at El Torreon.

  May 8, 2003

• Kind Bud

  Author Michael Pollan talks about the persuasive powers of plants.

  June 20, 2002

• Pot Luck

  A jury forgives two men for unwittingly hauling almost 400 pounds of weed.

  November 8, 2001

• Drinking and Driving

  Ford workers arrested on drug charges should have just come to work drunk instead.

  August 2, 2001

• One Toke Over the Line

  Touting the merits of harmony and hedonism, the Kottonmouth Kings bring their hardcore rap/metal to Lawrence in a cloud of smoke.

  July 6, 2000

• Creed/Sevendust/Three Doors Down

  Municipal Auditorium Wednesday, March 29, 2000

  April 13, 2000

• You know what today is don't you?

  Aww dudes, you're never going to guess what time today I originally planned to put up this post. Wait for it -- 4:20!!!Yes, today you can be certain that the smell wafting from your neighbor's apartment is what you think it is as stoners celebrate the second most annoying made-up holiday. (Valentine's still first.) To anyone busted for pot today, I have no sympathy. But I do have news.

  April 20, 2009

• Next Day Air

  May 14, 2009

• Barney Frank: a one-man decriminalizing-pot machine

  For better or worse, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has seen his profile rise in the past year. He's chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee and was one of the bailout's most vocal backers, urging fellow members to pass it. Then, after losing confidence in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, he became one of the most vocal backers for putting restrictions on that same TARP money.But when Frank is not saving the economy, he's got other things on his mind, specifically sw

  June 23, 2009

• Local group: Smoke COMBAT at the polls; legalize it!

  ​Last night, the local chapter of Kansas City NORML -- the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws -- had scheduled a meeting at the Westport Coffee House to make protest signs against COMBAT, a tortured acronym describing a self-imposed tax that targets drug enforcement within the Jackson County. JaCo voters will decide today whether to re-up. So KC NORML was preparing for today's all day anti-anti-drug tax demonstration at 420 N.W. R D Mize Rd., Blue Spri

  November 3, 2009