Are you sitting down? Ok. Apparently, a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter spotted a massive marijuana-growing operation in Cherokee National Forest, just miles from the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The officers seized 35,000 plants, equaling $700 million in “street value” prices.

Authorities found a campsite near the harvest, which is suspected to have been occupied by the illicit farmers. Though no one was found at the camp, arrests are expected soon, says KnoxNews.com.

Let’s just get something straight: That…is a f**kload of pot. We don’t know what they did with it, but probably the plants were destroyed. For a country that loves money (and smoking weed) as much as we do, that seems like an idiotic waste of product.

(Image source: KnoxNews.com)

“That bong doesn’t look anything like a vagina,” you might be thinking right now. And you couldn’t be more right. But that’s because it’s not supposed to look like a vagina. You’re supposed to stick it in one to use it.

Let’s let the patent do the talking:

The lower end cooperates with the wall of the vagina to form a water reservoir holding water in the lower end and the vagina. A stem is received into the inlet port with an end opening submerged in the water reservoir. Suction applied at the exit port draws air through the stem to bubble through the water reservoir to generate stimulatory vibrations transmitted to the vagina. Optionally, a bowl holding combustible material communicates with the stem such that smoke bubbles through the water reservoir to simultaneously filter and cool the smoke and generate stimulatory vibrations. Read More »

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, weed was nothing much more than some funky grass that made you feel chill, silly and hungry. But today, the US government’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has announced that the average percentage of THC, the psychoactive ingredient, in the currently available marijuana has risen to 9.6-percent, up from 1983’s report of just under 4-percent.

The study was done by the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project (how do we join?), which tested 62,797 cannabis samples, 1,302 hashish samples, and 468 hash oil samples, confiscated by law enforcement. “The increases in marijuana potency are of concern since they increase the likelihood of acute toxicity, including mental impairment,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Increased mental impairment a concern? Well, our only concern is getting our hands on some of that bud.

[Props to Gawker for this bit]

As you may have heard, pot is basically legal in California now, with a prescription for the sticky-icky easier to get ahold of than your dealer, and “medical” marijuana coffee shops popping up on every corner.To educate smokers with all there is to know about weed–how to smoke it, cook it, how much to use, even how to start your own weed business–they now have Oakstradam University, located in Oakland, CA.

Yes, it is an actual school. No, it’s not just a bunch of dudes sitting around, smoking spliffs. But they never get angry if you forget your homework. As for me, I’m not sure what to think–so I guess I’ll just have to go smoke a bowl and figure it out.

Lawmakers in New York (as well as a few other states) are pushing a new ban on a plant: salvia divinorum. Being condemned by the mainstream media as the “new marijuana,” in reality, salvia is way f**king crazier.

If you’ve never heard of this psychedelic plant, salvia grows naturally in Mexico, and is often used by indigenous people to facilitate visions during ceremonies of “spiritual healing.”

Check out video of dudes smoking-up salvia after the jump! Read More »

What is quickly becoming an internationally known marijuana fest the annual 4/20 smoke out at Colorado University - Boulder’s Norlin Quad drew a crowd of 10,000+ yesterday.

In the past police have come down hard on revelers, “In 2006, CU police dispatched undercover photographers to snap pictures of smokers. Photos of 150 alleged offenders then were posted on the department’s Web site, and witnesses were offered $50 to positively identify the suspects — who then were ticketed. Another year, smokers on Farrand were doused with sprinklers.”

But this year The Daily Camera reports, “the crowd was so large it migrated from the long-traditional site of Farrand Field to the larger Norlin Quad; festivities kicked off earlier than normal with daytime concerts; and CU police handed out zero citations.”

No citations for a mass smoke-a-thon in public? Colorado seems to be a full on hippy haven!

Check out pictures from the CU - Boulder smokefest!

Whip out your bongs, or get your rolling papers ready cause today is the official holiday for pot smokers across the country. 420 has long been code for pot friendly people of the world to light up, and today’s date obviously has special significance. So if you see people walking around looking a little out of sorts today… they’ve probably been smoking since they woke up this morning.

Legend holds that the term 420 originated in San Rafael, California. Apparantly, a group of high school kids known as the Waldos would meet everyday after school at 4:20 PM at a statue of Louis Pasteur. When they wanted to smoke, to ask if anyone had pot, or to ask if they looked stoned the members would say “420 Louis.” The phrase stuck, and because of traveling groups like the Grateful Dead, the term spread far beyond the borders of California.

Today, if you indulge in such illicit activities, there are sure to be parties around. But if you’re close to Marin Country, CA you can participate in the annual 420 Hemp Fest, in Ann Arbor you can attend the Hash Bash, or if you’re in our lovely nation’s capital you can go to the first party leading up to the July 4th Smoke In.

If you’re a smoker—have fun. If not, hold your breath because otherwise you’re sure to get a contact high!

Hey kids…wanna get high? I have every strain of marijuana you could ever ask for — Hawaiian Kush, Northern Lights, Tom Cruise Purple…what’s that? You’ve never taken a toke of Tom?

Tom Cruise Purple is all the rage these days, although the actor’s people aren’t too happy about its namesake. I don’t know why, though — Cruise should be so honored to have a marijuana strain named after him and his likeness (read: completely batsh*t).

I’m not sure if I would like being trapped in the maniacal brain of a Scientologist, but I would sample the celebrity strains after the jump if they were on the market. Read More »

Any product or activity can lead to death if abused heavily, from drugs to gorging on too many fatty foods. Everybody knows it, yet we all still find ourselves with our vices. Making the right decision is far more difficult when certain studies swing between prizing and damning everything - twice.

From CBS News:

Head and neck cancers that were positive for HPV 16 were associated with having more oral sex partners and smoking more marijuana.

Head and neck cancers that were negative for HPV 16 weren’t linked to sex or marijuana. Instead, they were tied to smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, and having poor oral hygiene.

That’s just fantastic - so now blowjobs and smoking weed, the two greatest gifts given to mankind, will kill you. That’s like telling women that rice cakes and yoga will give them permanent brain damage.

But in the flip-flop world of research, nothing is for certain (except misinformation).

Things that are good for you:

Eggs, red meat, lots of sex, marijuana

Things that are bad for you:

Eggs, red meat, lots of sex, marijuana

I’m no doctor or medical researcher, but I’m pretty sure inconsistency is fatal too.

Have fun and die young, I guess! Or don’t have fun and still die young. Sigh…

This is a video from 2004 in which Barack Obama expresses his support for marijuana decriminalization. Asked about this, the candidate has said this is still his position.