Hamilton Nolan · 08/10/16 03:20PM
420.
420.
It’s not completely outside of the realm of possibility that Limp Bizkit, a screaming band of white working man messiahs, would put on a show at a random gas station as a 4/20 gag. Unfortunately for thousands of confused internet users, though, Limp Bizkit will not be playing at the Sunoco Station in Dayton, Ohio this evening. Unless that’s what they want you to think.
Uruguay is set to pioneer the world’s first state owned and operated marijuana dispensaries, The Guardian reports. Starting in July, Uruguayans—who enjoy a socially liberal government—can now legally access up to forty grams of pot a month, at a cost of no more than $1 a gram. To do this, all the government requires is that users put their name and fingerprints in a government database.
Today, friendly Ben & Jerry’s enthusiast Bernie Sanders introduced the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act in the U.S. Senate—a bill that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana nationwide.
If you gazed skyward in New York City on this sunny 4/21, you may have glimpsed an airplane-borne banner over the Hudson River celebrating and poking fun at our mayor’s widely rumored cannabis habit. “De Blasio Get On The Pot,” it read. “We [weed leaf] NYPD.”
The Utah Division of Motor Vehicles has denied a Vietnam War veteran a license plate he requested with the number "69," signifying the year in which he was awarded the Purple Heart, the Spectrum reports. The number has sexual connotations.
Hopes & Fears has a fun look at possession of a gram of weed in places from New York City to Hong Kong, and the punishments that come with getting caught with that weed on you. Worth a read if you're thinking of buying drugs somewhere in the world.
Police in the Netherlands raided an otherwise normal-looking house in the city of Haarlem last week when they surmised from the lack of snow on its roof that there was some suspicious activity going on within. The house was full of sweet, sticky reefer. Go figure.
A 19-year-old Virginia woman was arrested on Sunday after calling police to report that she'd been held at gunpoint by a dealer from whom she was intending to buy drugs. After investigating her allegations, detectives discovered the woman gave money to the dealer but was given no weed in return.
Governor Margaret Wood Hassan of New Hampshire has declared a state of emergency after at least 41 reported overdoses of fake pot in the Manchester area. According to a statement issued by the governor, the "Bubblegum" flavor of "Smacked!", a synthetic cannabinoid has been linked to a spate of overdoses, and poses "a serious threat to public health, especially to young people."
Police say that two teenagers in the Philadelphia suburbs broke into an area home in July, and weren't satisfied with just the one crime. While lurking around a house that didn't belong to them, they decided to cook up some "drug brownies" for kicks.
The New York Times unveiled in the Sunday Review today the first editorial in a series emphatically encouraging the legalization of marijuana in America.
A nine-year-old girl in Barnesville, Minn. went to police after she began speculating that the weed her parents were allegedly smoking and selling was making her and her dogs sick. The girl reportedly walked directly into a police station to reveal the details.
The number one rule of getting free weed is that you keep the free weed, a lesson that Carla McFarland of Frederick, Md. was not privy to on Wednesday. When she ordered food from local fast food chain Sonic, and it arrived with a baggie filled with weed, McFarland complained to a manager and called the police.
Nineteen-year-old Jacob Lavoro was arrested last month after police officers reportedly found 1.5 pounds of brownies, a pound of marijuana, digital scales, $1,675 in cash, and dozens of baggies with marijuana and hash oil at his apartment. Authorities in the case are saying he could face from five years to life in prison, if he is found guilty.