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
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
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
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.
