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Marijuana

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Steven Cox: This Close To Not Getting Busted With 30 Pounds of Weed

    Steven Cox used to be a jailer for Galveston County, but left that job for the greener pastures of working for a Dollar General store. He's back in the jail business now, but on the other side of the bars. He was arrested for possession of 30 pounds of marijuana in a case where it sounds like he al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Darlene Mayes: Shocking New Details in Oklahoma Ganja Granny Case

    If you want to make it as a writer in Hollywood, you have to hone your ideas into "elevator pitches," short descriptive bursts that can intrigue the big cigars between floors in office buildings. The case of Darlene Mayes is an easy one: Weeds meets Breaking Bad meets Golden Girls, with a Shakespea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Incredible Medibles: The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook, Part 2

    The one thing that The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook doesn't tell you is that making medibles is a smelly process. Measurements in the brand-new cookbook are accurate if disjointed -- going from ounces to grams to cups in one recipe, for example -- and the recipes are reliably good. Many of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Incredible Medibles: The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook, Part 1

    "Ancient people almost exclusively ate their cannabis, saving seeds for food, and using the resinous flowers for medicinal, recreational, and spiritual use," the introduction to the new The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook tells us in its fascinating introduction to humanity's long history of e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    TCU Football Players Are in a Drug Ring -- "Big Time" Football Hits Fort Worth

    Ladies and gentlemen, your TCU Stoned Frogs​In January 2010, TCU finally made it to a BCS bowl game when they played the Boise State Broncos. The Horned Frogs lost that game 17-10, so any feeling that they hit the "big time" had to be somewhat muted. So the next season, not only did the Horne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    How Not to Turn Yourself in for Arrest When High

    I turned myself in, for something I didn't do, 'cause I got hiiiiiiiggggh.​If you have a warrant or two for your arrest, it's a good idea to go ahead and turn yourself in. That way you get to pick when you are detained, and not the boys in blue, who might just haul you in at a very inconvenien ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed

    In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Gary Robert Watson, Bentley-Driving Alleged Heights-Area Coke Dealer, Goes Down in Target Parking Lot Bust

    The Bentley is gone​Up until September 16, Gary Robert Watson was living pretty large. He had the swanky condo in the Sawyer Heights development overlooking the Heights Target. Every day he drove a 2006 Bentley into the garage, and on his thick wrist the giant of a man rocked a $3K Breitling. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Dennis Hollifield: Guns, Toddlers and Showing Cops Where He Keeps His Meth

    Photos Montgomery County Police ReporterDennis Hollifield: Dazed and confused.​Dennis Eugene Hollifield of (naturally) Splendora looks like Robert Plant coming off a wild night, but he shows none of Plant's ability in Led Zeppelin's heyday to explain away the occasional guns-and-drugs episode ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Ron Paul Wants Feds' Hands Off Your Weed

    Ron Paul and Barney Frank, probably discussing Phish​It takes a big issue to get US Reps Barney Frank and Lake Jackson's Ron Paul leading the fight together, but they have found one: Weed. Paul and Frank and four other Democrats (only one of whom has a last name that's also a first name) are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Houston's NORML Chapter Pees on the DEA in Protest

    It's not likely to rank up there with the great protests of all time, but it has been documented forever. Members of the Houston chapter of NORML gathered outside the regional offices of the Drug Enforcement Agency yesterday to protest what they say is the agency's habit of killing pets while makin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Pot Group Offers $10K Reward For Disproving Weed Is Less Dangerous Than Alcohol

    Less safe than alcohol? Disprove it and $10K is yours​Safer Texas is a group that doesn't like alcohol, at least compared to marijuana.They say they work "to address increasing concerns that our laws prohibiting the marijuana market are sending a dangerous message to the public that alcohol is mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Marijuana Laced Soda: Dixie Elixirs, The Anti-Red Bull

    dixieelixirs.com​Medicinal marijuana is legal in 14 states, and it's big business. Earlier this month the New York Times reported on the financial boom from medicinal marijuana ads in Colorado, citing our sister publication in Denver and Village Voice Media's COO, Scott Tobias:

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Medical Marijuana Group Starts In Texas, We Think

    Image from disinformationIt's possible an announcement was made​Our sister blog, Toke of the Town -- the number one site for all weed-related news on the net -- reported yesterday on the founding of a new group seeking to make medical marijuana legit in Texas.Lots luck with that, fellas.There's an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Brian Bledsoe And Esther Sustaita: Home-Grilled Meat Spells Doom For Bryan Pair's Alleged Motel Drug Spree

    Photos courtesy BCSOBBQ at the hotel​Brian Bledsoe and Esther Sustaita had made all the arrangements, and their alleged Tuesday evening drug bender was going well. They had rented a room at the Travel Lodge on Bryan's Texas Avenue, and the pharmaceutical cornucopia they had on hand would have (mil ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Weed Takes Root

    Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Dude, Where's My Air: More Fort Bend County Pot Follies

    What is it with Fort Bend County stoners these days? Why do they continue to reenact scenes from Cheech and Chong movies? Last week we brought you the tale of the unlucky East Bernard motorist whose simple pot possession charge was upgraded to felony evidence-tampering after he ate the joint he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Edinburg Police Foiled In Attempt To Give Pot To State Prison Inmates, Apparently

    ​They do things different down in the Valley. Like, if you're a police department, you donate some marijuana to inmates at the local state prison.Oh sure, Edinburg police are saying it was all a mistake, and no way did they intend to give 25 pounds of pot to inmates by cleverly concealing it in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    A Non-HISD Teacher Gets Busted For Pot

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Assistant Principal Puts The "High" In Sharpstown High

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Pot Battles Cancer On Yet Another Front

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    Ron Paul and Barney Frank -- Partners For Pot

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Your Mind on Drugs -- Great! A Book Review

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Get Lit: Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life, by Shirley Halperin & Steve Bloom

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008

    Don’t Go To Dubai With Doobie In Your Shoes: A Public Service Announcement From Houstoned Rocks

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Rick Casey, High-Minded Columnist

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    Ask an Expert: Devin the Dude Talks about the History of Marijuana

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Drenched In Blog: We Wanna Get High, So High

    Other school districts have sat around on their hands, helpless while HISD gets all the great pub that comes with a having a string of teachers and administrators get arrested for drugs.Channelview represent!DA Kenneth Magidson announced today that a Channelview teacher (and assistant football coach ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 2, 2007

    Chris Porter

    This Last Comic Standing star recalls the late, great Bill Hicks

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2007

    APRIL 16 420 FM Station Thing

    This Last Comic Standing star recalls the late, great Bill Hicks

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2007

    On the Pot

    This Last Comic Standing star recalls the late, great Bill Hicks

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Reefer Madness

    The government says Clayton Jones shouldn't smoke marijuana. He says it's the only thing that keeps him from blowing his brains out.

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Pot Shots

    Raiding narcs get a hibiscus low from their horticulture shock

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Letters

    Raiding narcs get a hibiscus low from their horticulture shock

  • Music

    May 1, 2003

    AbNORML Behavior

    Rain, rage and ruin at an Easter 420 festival

  • Music

    April 17, 2003

    Fests of Fury

    Alex Lozano trumpets a 420 soiree and the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

  • Music

    February 13, 2003

    Various Artists

    New Jack Hippies Homegrown Collective (Guerilla Hippies Productions)

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Doobieous Bust

    Undercover cops infiltrate a pro-pot event, but don't weed out much from the crowd

  • Music

    April 11, 2002

    Back To Basics

    Steven Van Zandt is dedicated to garage rock

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    The Cannabis Caper

    How a citizen's donation to NORML got routed to the DEA

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Art of the Deal

    Plus: Grim Reality, Hale to the Chief, Get Some Class

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Petered Out

    Plus: Seeking High Office, Fire + Ice = Folly

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Grassroots Campaign

    A Galveston D.A. candidate comes out for cannabis

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2001

    Roll Reversal

    Drug advocates jam for legalization

  • Dining

    September 21, 2000

    Fun with Mick and Mary Jane

    Speaking off the toque: Mickey Kapoor

  • Film

    August 17, 2000

    Gettin' the Munchies

    Grass documentary leaves the viewer hungry for more

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Reefer Madness?

    Angela took a hit. And CPS took her babies away.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Letters

    Angela took a hit. And CPS took her babies away.

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Letters

    Angela took a hit. And CPS took her babies away.

  • News

    November 7, 1996

    Just Say No (to Open Debate)

    When it comes to alternatives to the drug war, some warriors would rather you not hear about it

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