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Maine Votes for Gay Marriage
 Maine, Maryland Approve Gay Marriage
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Nov 7, 2012 3:03 AM CST

Maine, Maryland Approve Gay Marriage

Minnesota rejects ban; Washington state too close to call

(Newser) - Maine and Maryland have made history by becoming the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, the AP reports. Minnesota voters turned down a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, although state law still forbids gays and lesbians from marrying, the New York Times reports. Washington state is also...

Town Fights Back Against Large-Scale Pot Growers

Neighbors weary of industrial-scale grow houses

(Newser) - Happily isolated on California's remote Humboldt County coast, Arcata has long made room in its heart for marijuana. But the mellow days are coming to an end. Even Arcata residents who support legalization of marijuana have become fed up with high-volume indoor growing operations that take over much-needed housing...

Tourists Can Smoke Pot in Amsterdam After All

Mayor rejects law to ban use in coffee shops

(Newser) - Vice-seeking tourists won't have to give up on pilgrimages to Amsterdam for weed: The city is ditching plans to bar tourists from smoking the stuff in the city's coffee shops. The Netherlands' incoming government left the decision to local authorities, and Amsterdam's mayor opposes it. Such a...

Cops Bust Guy With 640 Pot Lollipops

Alexander Zito had just a few drugs at Buffalo party

(Newser) - Ah, Halloween, that special time of the year when you get an excuse to throw a party ... and in the case of one Alexander Zito, that's a party with chocolate with pot, hard candy with pot, 640 "Jolly Lolly" pot lollipops, and five pounds of plain old Mary...

America's Next Magnates: The 'Pot Barons'

Marijuana sellers may be the next Mark Zuckerbergs

(Newser) - Pot sellers are goofy free spirits suited to the tie-dye culture of Venice Beach, right? Not 30 years from now, when they'll be "fatter, balder, and famously rich" tycoons in the vein of Steve Ballmer or Andrew Carnegie, writes Tony Dokoupil at the Daily Beast . He visited marijuana...

Cops: Man Set Bonfires to Warm Pot Plants


 Cops: Guy Set 
 Bonfires to Warm 
 Pot Plants 
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Oct 14, 2012 11:46 AM CDT

Cops: Guy Set Bonfires to Warm Pot Plants

And then the bonfires drew the attention of police

(Newser) - This week's entry in the marijuana chronicles: Police in Aurora, Illinois, say a man set two big bonfires in his backyard to keep his marijuana plants warm. The tragic flaw in his plan: Police came to investigate the fires—it was about 3am—and spotted three suspicious-looking plants in...

Elderly Brits Accidentally Grow Huge Pot Plant
 Elderly Brits Accidentally 
 Grow Huge Pot Plant 
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Oct 13, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Elderly Brits Accidentally Grow Huge Pot Plant

They bought it as a small shrub at a sale

(Newser) - Who needs grow lights? A couple in Bedfordshire, England, picked up a cute little plant at market and lovingly tended it as it grew into a lush plant in the garden, reports CNN . That's when it drew the attention of police, who tweeted a photo of it with the...

Chicago Cops Find Massive Pot Field

Think two football fields of plants worth $10M

(Newser) - In Chicago, where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana. Just days before the crop on a chunk of land the size of two football fields would have been...

Cops: Suspect Tried to Eat Marijuana Plant

Not surprisingly, Jeremiah Carmody ended up in jail

(Newser) - Perhaps it was a case of the munchies: Police in northeastern Pennsylvania say an alleged pot dealer tried to destroy evidence by eating a marijuana plant. According to local media, 33-year-old Jeremiah Carmody faces several drug-related charges following events yesterday in Scranton, when police say they went to his house...

Drug Traffickers Love Oregon's Lenient Medical Marijuana Laws

'Oregonian' investigation: It's an easy way to make a lot of money

(Newser) - Medical marijuana became legal in Oregon 14 years ago, and since then it's become a booming source of profits for illicit traffickers, reports the Oregonian . The newspaper's investigation found that the traffickers easily exploit the pot program thanks to "scant state oversight and Oregon's exceptionally generous...

Quitting Pot Can Cause Withdrawal, Too


 Quitting Pot 
 Can Cause 
 Withdrawal, Too 
study says
Sep 27, 2012 2:03 PM CDT

Quitting Pot Can Cause Withdrawal, Too

Study rejects notion drug isn't addictive

(Newser) - Heard that pot isn't addictive? Not so, says a new study: Quitting can lead to withdrawal symptoms "very similar to what people experience with tobacco," says one of the study's authors. "It makes you irritable. It makes you restless. It makes it hard to sleep....

Barney Frank: Pot Brownie 'Made Me Sleepy'

Frank calls decriminalizing marijuana a 'personal freedom' issue

(Newser) - While speaking out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana on CNN yesterday, Rep. Barney Frank admitting to having tried pot, although not smoking it. "I did have a brownie once," said Frank. "It made me sleepy." For most of the interview, Frank framed it as a "...

Sheriff's Rep to Fiona Apple: 'Shut Up and Sing'

Suggests that hash arrest made singer more famous

(Newser) - Fiona Apple's hash arrest just got dramatic: At a concert two days after she was busted, Apple called out four people involved in the arrest, Rolling Stone reports; TMZ speculates she was talking about police officers who allegedly mistreated her. Now a spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department...

Fiona Apple Jailed on Hashish Charges

Singer spends the night behind bars in Texas

(Newser) - Fiona Apple didn't learn Willie Nelson's lesson. The singer-songwriter had to spend the night in jail in Sierra Blanca, Texas, because an inspection of her tour bus yesterday turned up what police say was a "tiny amount of pot and hash," reports AP . The problem is...

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot


 Elderly Farmer 
 Accidentally 
 Grows Field 
 of Pot 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 9, 2012 9:01 AM CDT

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot

The culprit: Bird food with hemp seeds, he says

(Newser) - Want to keep the drug police off your property? Don't sow your land with birdseed. That's what a 74-year-old German farmer says he did—and the bird food contained hemp seeds, resulting in an accidental 10-foot-high cannabis crop, Der Spiegel reports. He explained that he wanted to grow...

&#39;Starsky&#39; to Fight Pot Arrest
 'Starsky' to Fight Pot Arrest 
Aug 31, 2012 6:07 PM CDT

'Starsky' to Fight Pot Arrest

Paul Michael Glaser says it was legally prescribed marijuana

(Newser) - The actor who played California cop David Starsky on TV's Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s plans to fight pot-possession charges in Ohio. Paul Michael Glaser got arrested at a hotel in Bowling Green when police answered a complaint about someone smoking marijuana near an elevator, reports the local...

Teens: Smoke Pot Now, See IQ Take Hit Later
Teens: Smoke Pot Now,
See IQ Take Hit Later
study says
Aug 27, 2012 3:26 PM CDT

Teens: Smoke Pot Now, See IQ Take Hit Later

Effect only apparent in those who used frequently before age 18

(Newser) - If you're going to smoke pot frequently, you might want to hold off until you're at least 18. A new study finds that teens who are regular marijuana users may end up with a long-term drop in their IQ—but the trend was only spotted in those who...

DEA Digs Up $1B Worth of Pot Plants

2 month operation results in death of 578K plants

(Newser) - Drought may be upon us, but the government is tearing up green crops all the same. The DEA and forest authorities have dug up more than 578,000 cannabis plants in the western US since July 1, as part of a two-month operation that saw 14 people arrested in California....

Busted: Huge Pot Farm in Old Rome Subway

Raid yields $3.7M worth of marijuana

(Newser) - Mussolini probably never saw this one coming. An old metro tunnel in Rome built on the fascist leader's orders during the 1930s was covertly operating as a cannabis farm, reports Reuters . Police, using that most ancient detective device—their noses—caught the scent of marijuana just outside its entrance....

Denver Snuffing Out Marijuana Billboards

Pot sign-spinners annoy city council

(Newser) - The medical marijuana market in Denver is a little too competitive for the city council's liking. The council has voted 13-0 to ban the psychedelic billboards, sidewalk sign-twirlers, windshield leaflets, and other methods of outdoor advertising used by the city's many marijuana dispensaries, reports the Denver Post . Radio,...

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