Where does marijuana come from? If you're reading this, you could probably step into your basement for an answer.
But in a bigger sense, it's a question that's central to the history of our favorite plant and its role in...
It has become a regular story by now: Some pothead idiot decides to cook up a batch of high-purity hash oil and proceeds to blow his house up. If he's lucky he ends up in the hospital. If not,...
Score one for justice, or maybe irony: An Allentown, Pa., man, described by prosecutors as the "scariest sex offender this community has ever seen," was sentenced in November to 18 months in jail - for growing marijuana.
Clyde Ruppel, 74,...
It's the stuff of stoner legend: bales of marijuana falling from the sky. It's a fantasy, mostly. But it almost became reality for some North Carolina residents.
Police say a pilot departing from an airport near Charlotte, N.C., jettisoned more...
The retail marijuana industry already has Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson. Is Rihanna joining the club?
Well, actually, no. Despite what you may have read recently, there is little chance the 27-year-old hip hop icon will be peddling her own...
With marijuana legalization having become a reality in many states all over America, news of celebrities partaking of the sweet leaf isn't exactly new. Stoner musicians are some of the most familiar and vocal proponents of marijuana use: there...
Every pothead of a certain age dreads "the talk." No, we don't mean that talk, the one you have with your kids about marijuana and birds and bees and such. We mean "the talk" that starts when your aging...
Once upon a time, marijuana grew exclusively outdoors. The cannabis plant, discovered millennia ago on the slopes of the Hindu Kush Mountains, is a tropical native and requires two to three months of intense sunlight before flowering.
But that is...
In the early 1990s, scientists discovered an ancient Siberian mummy buried with remnants of cannabis pollen. They later concluded that she died of breast cancer - and took weed to treat it. The find proved that humans have been...
As of right now (or whenever you read this), weed is legal for any use in four states: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. Washington, D.C., has also legalized, though the future of legal marijuana is less certain there.
But not...
