What’s so bad about weed that we should continue to keep it illegal in this country? The DEA is glad you asked. We should keep weed illegal because it is illegal, they say.

Will legalizing weed increase the probability that people smoke weed? Yes. Duh. But it could still be a great idea, with the right taxe$$$.

Life is not all about sitting around “getting high” and daydreaming about saving the world and having hot sex at the same time. Life is about tax policy—that’s where the action is.

Chilly but civilized American neighbor Canada announced today that it plans to legalize weed by this time next year.

This is me as Bob Marley, via Snapchat’s new 4/20 filter, which blends your face with Bob Marley’s. It’s a particularly uncomfortable filter if, like me, you’re a white person. I don’t feel so good and I don’t think everything’s gonna be alright.

It’s official. David Bowie will never perform in Rochester again, in part because he is dead, but also because he never went back after he and Iggy Pop were arrested there for possession of marijuana in the 1970's.

“Pro-marijuana group ResponsibleOhio introduced its new mascot to supporters this week... Part Superman, part cannabis plant, ‘Buddie’ has a green marijuana bud for a head, sports six-pack abs and wears a cape. On his chest: The letter B over a cannabis leaf and the state of Ohio.”

Former Congressman Barney Frank visited the Gawker office last week to discuss Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, the documentary about his life that’s now running on Showtime (and on demand). In front of a crowd, Frank and I discussed his doc, the closet on Capitol Hill, and his own coming out (which happened way back in 1987).

South Dakota’s Santee Sioux tribe will fulfill a longstanding dream of highDEAS.com user JabiousForever and legions of stoners everywhere by opening the nation’s first marijuana resort by the end of the year.

“They packed the bowl of the pipe (the terminology of which I found on reddit), and showed me how to smoke it properly.” America’s least cool 23-year-old tries weed (slang for marijuana).

This past June, three Santa Ana police officers were suspended after a video surfaced of them joking about kicking a woman in a wheelchair “in the fucking nub” and eating (what appears to be) weed-infused edibles during a raid of a medical marijuana dispensary. And now, those same cops want to ban that video from ever becoming evidence—because they didn’t realize they were on camera.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie—a man who seems to sincerely believe he could become president—took a brief hiatus from Falstaffian misadventures on Tuesday to discuss drug enforcement under a fictional Christie administration, addressing the nation’s dope smokers and grass fiends directly.

On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that businesses have the right to terminate employees for using marijuana, even if they are off-duty at the time, upholding two lower court decisions, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A high school principal was arrested in Florida on Wednesday after police discovered her partially undressed in a car with a student and marijuana, The NY Daily News reports.

“Even as more states embrace legal marijuana, shops say they are being forced to pay crippling federal income taxes because of a decades-old law aimed at preventing drug dealers from claiming their smuggling costs and couriers as business expenses on their tax returns.” Taxman harshing your mellow? You’re not alone.

People who buy stocks in alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or (new!) marijuana companies are said to be investing in “vice”—traditionally a good way to earn premium returns in exchange for being a morally bad human. Who are these successful bastard investors?

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.”

On Monday, Vice published their interview with President Obama and—besides some B-roll of Shane Smith in his safari helmet—it was mostly the kind of thing you'd see on a traditional news network. One key difference, however, was the "number one question" suggested by Vice's audience: What does the President think about legalizing marijuana?

After you go to the trouble of labeling a container "not weed," there's almost no wrong way to use it. You could fill it with loose change, monkey teeth—even heroin! In fact, there's only one thing that doesn't belong in a "not weed" container, which is reportedly just what a Nebraska man had in his on Saturday.

The entire fate of Washington, DC's legalized marijuana program apparently rests on the statutory definition of one word: "enactment."