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Loud Music Linked to Risky Behaviors

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:36:05 CDT

Just like your parents always feared, listening to loud music may actually be bad for you. A new study finds that teens and young adults who use ear buds to listen to music at the "risky" level of 89 dBA for at least an hour each day were nearly twice...

Calif. Dem: Elect Me and I'll Smoke Dope on Capitol Hill

Kevin Spak — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:37:00 CDT

Andy Caffrey is for the most part a pretty standard-issue progressive, but he's got one campaign promise that makes him stand out: He's vowing to smoke pot on the steps of Capitol Hill if he's elected. Caffrey, 54, is running for Congress in California and happens to have a prescription...

4 Tons of Marijuana Pulled From Ocean

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:23:05 CDT

What a find: After receiving a tip yesterday, Harbor Patrol agents in California pulled about 160 bales of marijuana from the ocean off the coast of Orange County. That's more than 7,263 pounds, and agents say the street value is $3.6 million, CBS 2 reports. The marijuana, which...

$100M Pot Farm Destroyed in LA Park Raid

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:34:14 CDT

A $100 million marijuana plantation was destroyed by a police raid in Topanga State Park in Los Angeles on Friday. The 34,000-plant operation deep in the park's back country is the largest busted by cops in the Santa Monica Mountains in seven years, reports the Los Angeles Times . No...

Pot Growers Head for the ... 'Burbs?

Rob Quinn — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:13:09 CDT

America's green, leafy suburbs are becoming home to an increasing number of people growing a green, leafy product. The housing crisis has caused an influx of marijuana growers from rural areas and commercial zones to the suburbs, the New York Times finds. The growers are snapping up spacious homes in...

9% of Teens Smoke Pot Hundreds of Times a Year

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:01:38 CDT

Teens' use of hard drugs like cocaine and meth has stabilized recently, but more are smoking marijuana—and more frequently. A new report finds that 9% teens smoked pot 20 or more times per month in 2011, up from 5% in 2008. "Parents are talking about cocaine and heroin, things...

Dutch Judge: Pot Tourism Ban Goes Live on Tuesday

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:40:05 CDT

Sorry, tourists, but it looks like the Netherlands is remaining firm on a ban that will prevent foreigners from buying pot in its famous cannabis cafes. A judge upheld the new law, due to go into effect in three southern provinces on May 1 and throughout the country by the...

School Tries to Squash 4/20 Bash With Stinky Fertilizer

Matt Cantor — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:59:05 CDT

Last year, 10,000 people showed up for a giant marijuana rally at the University of Colorado-Boulder—and school officials don't want it to happen again. They got a helping hand from a judge yesterday, who supported the university's plan to bar outsiders from its campus today—4/20, a hallowed...

Vending Machine as Pot Dealer? Yep, Not Legal

Rob Quinn — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:16:26 CDT

Can laws against drug dealing be sidestepped by making a machine the dealer? The answer is no, a group of drug law reform activists in New Zealand discovered this week. Police raided the group's Auckland headquarters and confiscated a vending machine that was selling one-gram bags of marijuana instead of...