Marijuana brownies and other edibles may carry double the jail time and double the fines thanks to a vague new law aimed at drugs "marketed or packaged to appear similar to a candy product." The U.S. Senate: Harshing your buzz.

Police in California over the last three weeks have arrested 100 people and destroyed 432,000 marijuana plants worth $1.7 billion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Perhaps they should have put it toward the state's $19 billion budget deficit. [BBC]

Playboy's safe-for-work blog The Smoking Jacket has finally found its niche: lazy, amoral deadbeat dads. Headline from the site's first-ever Deadbeat Dad column: "How to Use Your Two-Year-Old Child As a Drug Mule." Sounds promising!

Oakland's massive legal marijuana farms have been officially approved. What's more American than farming?

As though yesterday's leaked military documents didn't paint a bleak enough picture of our Afghanistan adventure, meet the stoner cops of the Arghandab province—members of an Afghan police force receiving a $27 billion international investment.

Pot was recently spotted in Union Square Park. Now the sidewalks are being overrun with sweet, sticky green marijuana plants. Here's a bushy plant NYC the Blog discovered at 1st Street and 2nd Avenue:

Hearing a thud on his roof, a resident of Caddo Mills, Texas investigated and found a 100-lb. bag of marijuana had fallen from the sky. Turns out a low-flying airplane dropped four bags before being abandoned in a nearby field.

In a bid to reassert itself as the dominant force in American life, Capitalism today announced that it plans to immediately counteract the coolness of the legalization of medical marijuana by poisoning it with the awfulness of factory farming.

After indicating earlier this year that it would create a new category specifically for medical marijuana trademarks, the US Patent and Trademark Office has now reversed itself. Which is good, because, dude. You cannot trademark "Maui Wowie." Come on, dude.

Pot prices could drop as much as 80 percent in California if Proposition 19, the weed-legalization measure on this November's ballot, passes, according to researchers at Rand's Drug Policy Research Center. Plus, weed would be legal.

A Michigan man filed a wrongful-termination suit against Wal-Mart after he was fired for failing a drug test. He was legally smoking pot to alleviate pain from an inoperable brain tumor. Who do you think a jury will sympathize with?

Why did 42-year-old Darin Badami of Omaha, Nebraska, grow marijuana? "Adolph Hitler made me grow it," Mr. Badami told police. This is called the "Nuremberg Defense," and it didn't work for the Nazis. But good luck, Darin! [WOWT via BullfightsOnAcid]

Dutch scientists have released data from an important new study that finds smoking marijuana can make people crazy and paranoid. A Yale psychiatrist said after reading the report, "symptoms of schizophrenia actually get worse after using cannabis." Science. [LiveScience, Getty]

Today on Fox Business News, Sarah Palin endorsed deemphasizing marijuana law enforcement! Obviously this means she's a huge stoner, right?

Samsung says Lisette Lee, the Beverly Hills woman caught with 500 lbs. of marijuana on her Gulfstream jet, is lying about being an heiress to their fortune. Hollywood acquaintances say she's been calling herself one for years.

Lisette Lee arrived in Ohio from Beverly Hills on a chartered jet carrying $500,000 worth of marijuana. False eyelashes fluttering, she claimed to be an electronics heiress. But she used to use a different name and be an actress.

In Union Square, to be exact. Some seeds were either deliberately planted or tossed to the ground during joint-rolling and now this weed-looking plant has sprung up in the park. An editor at High Times thinks it's the real deal.

Two young businessmen have been arrested in Arizona for trying to trade an iPod touch and a quarter-ounce of marijuana for an iPad. On Craigslist. Complete with a photo of the iPod... and the weed.

Gossip Girl pretty boy Chace Crawford was arrested last night in Plano, Texas for misdemeanor marijuana possession at a place called Ringo's Pub. (Sadly, not a gay bar.) He had "one unlit joint," according to TMZ. Here's his crabby mugshot.

Cops in Corpus Christi, who are clearly very well-intentioned but maybe not the sharpest tools in the police shed, seized some 400 marijuana plants from a city park. Only, they were not marijuana, so much as, "horsemint."