Marijuana

Sheriff's Office Makes Busts at Two Game Rooms

Harris County Sheriff's investigators seized cash, drugs, weapons, and gambling devices from two allegedly illegal game rooms in southwest Harris County Thursday, according to a press release. Acting on a tip, members of the HCSO's Game Room Task Force (a whole task force, yo!) seized the loot -- w ... More >>

14,000 Pot Plants, 24 Arrests

Federal prosecutors are continuing to dole out indictments and arrests in connection with the seizure of 14,000 pot plants across three counties last month, with more information coming out this afternoon. The indictment returned today intensifies the charges defendants face. It: charges the defend ... More >>

24 Arrested, 14,000 Pot Plants Seized In Three-County Illegal Growing Operation

Two dozen people have been arrested and close to 14,000 pot plants seized in a crackdown on a three-county growing operation, federal officials announced today. Investigators raided nearly 60 properties in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties Tuesday, two-thirds of which contained active hydro ... More >>

Congress Gets Tougher On K2, "Spice" & Other Synthetic Pot

The Drug Enforcement Agency has announced that the House and Senate have reached a compromise that will make it tougher to get K2, "Spice" and other forms of synthetic marijuana. Twenty-six drugs, most of them used in creating synthetic pot, have been added to Schedule I, meaning they have been fou ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Obama's War on Weed

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

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 >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Assistant Principal Puts The "High" In Sharpstown High

Pot Battles Cancer On Yet Another Front

Ron Paul and Barney Frank -- Partners For Pot

Your Mind on Drugs -- Great! A Book Review

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

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

Rick Casey, High-Minded Columnist

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

Drenched In Blog: We Wanna Get High, So High

Chris Porter

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

APRIL 16 420 FM Station Thing

On the Pot

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.

Pot Shots

Raiding narcs get a hibiscus low from their horticulture shock

Letters

AbNORML Behavior

Rain, rage and ruin at an Easter 420 festival

Fests of Fury

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

Various Artists

New Jack Hippies Homegrown Collective (Guerilla Hippies Productions)

Doobieous Bust

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

The Cannabis Caper

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

Art of the Deal

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

Petered Out

Plus: Seeking High Office, Fire + Ice = Folly

Grassroots Campaign

A Galveston D.A. candidate comes out for cannabis

Roll Reversal

Drug advocates jam for legalization

Fun with Mick and Mary Jane

Speaking off the toque: Mickey Kapoor

Gettin' the Munchies

Grass documentary leaves the viewer hungry for more

Letters

Letters