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56 Percent Of Americans Want Legal Marijuana

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.22.2012

Fifty-six percent of Americans think marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco, according to a nationwide Rasmussen poll of...

Hackers Anonymous Declare War on Marijuana Prohibition

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.21.2012

Joshua Glazer

After our exclusive Anonymous interview, other members of the hacker collective came forward to reveal more details surrounding their plan for legaliz...

Candidate Vows To Smoke A Joint On Capitol Hill

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.21.2012

Democratic congressional candidate Andy Caffrey has made a surprising campaign promise: If he wins his election this fall, he'll smoke a joint on the ...

Marijuana Legalization Camp Targets Moms

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.11.2012

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol on Friday launched a Mother's Day-themed TV ad in support of Amendment 64, a statewide ballot initiati...

Lucia Graves

1,600 Copies Of 'The Cornbread Mafia' Stolen From A Truck Lot In Illinois

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.10.2012

A semi-trailer containing the entire second printing of James Higdon's "The Cornbread Mafia" was stolen from a truck lot in Elgin, Ill., roughly 40 mi...

Pelosi Has 'Strong Concerns' Over Federal Crackdown On Medical Marijuana

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.03.2012

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday released a statement pushing back against the Obama administration's interference with...

The Funniest 420 Tweets Of The Day

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.20.2012

As many across the country celebrate 4/20 by calling out sick from work, fortifying the snack industry with unprecedented sales numbers and watching t...

Lucia Graves

How Legalizing Pot Could Reduce The Federal Deficit

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- The federal government could save as much $13.7 billion annually if it were to legalize marijuana, according to a paper by Harvard econo...

The Ultimate 420 Movie Mashup

Posted 04.20.2012

The magical combination of three numbers, "420," carries a lot of weight in cannabis culture, and has long since invaded pop culture as well, making i...

BLUNT OPPOSITION: School Tries To Squash 4/20 Bash With Stinky Fertilizer

Newser | Posted 04.20.2012

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 aga...

Why April 20 Is 'Weed Day'

Posted 04.20.2012

April 20 is embraced by pot smokers around the world as "weed day" each year. When did 420 begin, and where did the term come from? HuffPost's Rya...

WATCH: Do You Smoke Pot?

Posted 04.20.2012

April 20 -- or what the kids call 4/20 -- is the one day a year everyone gets together and celebrates their love of marijuana. Is it legal? No. But wi...

Ryan Grim

420: How 'Weed Day' Got Its Name

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.20.2012

This article was originally published on April 20, 2009, and has been reposted each year since. This year, it is updated to include the full identitie...

Lucia Graves

Obama Administration's War On Weed Rolls On

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.18.2012

WASHINGTON -- When federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, Richard Lee's downtown Oakland, Calif.-based trade school, earlier this month, it wasn...

Crowds Gather For Denver 420 Pot Rally

The Denver Post | Posted 06.20.2011

Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts are converging upon Denver's Civic Center Park for an event that has come to symbolize Colorado's burgeoning claim ...

What DOESN'T 420 Mean?

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold & Katla McGlynn | Posted 06.20.2011

What's so special about 4/20? It has long been debated as to why April 20, the unofficial holiday of the Marijuana enthusiast, has been celebrated. Wh...

Emily Swanson

Polls: Do People Want To Legalize Pot?

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 06.19.2011

Support for marijuana legalization is slowly rising, like the cloud of smoke you'll see above Ann Arbor's 4/20 rally Wednesday. Data compiled by th...

State Senator: 4/20 Smokers Were 'An Embarrassment,' Gov. Should Have Called National Guard

Posted 05.25.2011

During a screed against medical marijuana at Wednesday's Senate hearings, state senator Scott Renfroe called demonstrators who smoked pot in front of ...

Pot-Tel: Jazz Age Normandie Hotel May Roar Again As 'Pot-Tel'

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

The Hotel Normandie, a stoic brick building weighing down a corner of Normandie Avenue and 6th Street, opened in the Roaring '20s as an elegant reside...

Ryan Grim

420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became 'Weed Day'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.20.2012

This piece was first published last year on April 20. Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving member...

CELEBRITY STONERS: A Collection Of Hollywood's Highest Stars

buzzfeed.com | Posted 05.25.2011

In honor of 4-20, here's a collection of Hollywood's highest celebrities to inform and inspire you. Happy Pot Day! 1. James Franco and Seth ...

The 4/20 Quiz

Miles Klee | Posted 05.25.2011

Miles Klee

420 is the number of chemicals in: a) Marijuana b) Cigarettes c) Doritos Collisionsâ„¢

420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Norm Stamper

If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?

Ryan Grim

What 420 Means: The True Story Behind Stoners' Favorite Number

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.

4/20: National Pot Smokers Day

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Anthony Papa

April 20th is "National Pot Smoking Day," a counterculture holiday where people across the world celebrate the conspicuous consumption of marijuana.