Common knowledge tells us that smoking weed while trying to do anything “productive” is a fool’s errand – the two just don’t mix. And if you’re a lawyer, airline pilot, large crane operator or brain surgeon, that’s probably true. But for many of us, with far less intense jobs, marijuana can actually help you do your job better! Here are the 12 jobs where weed actually acts as a performance-enhancing drug.  (more…)

Yesterday, President Obama signed into law a anti-tobacco bill, which will make the distribution of flavored cigarettes illegal. The law is intended to limit tobacco products being “marketed to children”, but this could also signal the end to something any pot smoker holds dear: flavored blunts.

Now, the wording of the bill seems to specifically target “cigarettes,” not cigars or tobacco wraps. But it doesn’t take much to imagine a judge ruling that flavored cigars and tobacco wraps qualify just as much as cigarettes do. And if that happens, it will be a sad day in Pot Town. (more…)

This day and age, it seems like damn near everybody smokes pot. And with weed quickly coming into the mainstream in a big way, that number is only going to go up. So whether you’ve been smoking for years or are just getting into this awesome herb, here is a quick guide to the different types of pot smokers you’ll run into during your toking travels.  (more…)

Sex is awesome. Like, really awesome. But you know what’s even better? Stoned sex! And according to the lovely ladies of CollegeCandy.com, the high-hook-up is topping the list of many girls’ 420-to-do lists. Luckily for us all, they’ve laid out some tips for how to keep the 420 love-fest from becoming a sad lesson in why drugs are lame. Plus, for all you non-believers out there, a few reasons why smoking before jumping slowly shuffling into the sack can add a whole new layer of “hell yes” to your 4/20.

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April 20th, better known as 420, is a day of global jubilee, when good people from around the world celebrate, in a haze of glory, their drug of choice: marijuana. It’s a day to forget the troubles of life, sit back and smoke the biggest f’ing blunt you can get your grubby mitts on. But this day hasn’t always been just bong hits and munchies. Here are the top five historical events that really put a damper on the dopest day of the year. (more…)

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, weed was nothing much more than some funky grass that made you feel chill, silly and hungry. But today, the US government’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has announced that the average percentage of THC, the psychoactive ingredient, in the currently available marijuana has risen to 9.6-percent, up from 1983’s report of just under 4-percent.

The study was done by the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project (how do we join?), which tested 62,797 cannabis samples, 1,302 hashish samples, and 468 hash oil samples, confiscated by law enforcement. “The increases in marijuana potency are of concern since they increase the likelihood of acute toxicity, including mental impairment,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Increased mental impairment a concern? Well, our only concern is getting our hands on some of that bud.

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