Every November, thousands of faithful weed smokers flock to Amsterdam for the annual High Times Cannabis Cup. The Cup features entertainment, speakers, and of course, the Super Bowl of weed competitions (the overall winner this year was Liberty Haze). You can buy a ticket to become a judge and sample the best weed in the entire world. Even though this is the p… Click to read more

Previously, we’d shown you the Best & Worst Places to Smoke Pot, the Best Cities To Celebrate 4/20, and the 5 Highest Countries. One constant thread through those lists? The US of f***ing A! But, for some reason the U.S. isn’t very joint when it comes to marijuana. Go to one state and you can light up a spliff on the street hassle-free. Go to another, do the same and 5-0 will be on you like white on rice. If you’re trying to blaze up, you should at least know the states that won’t harsh your buzz. Check out the top 5 stoner-friendly states after the jump.

With medical marijuana becoming increasingly popular and easier to get, the illicit pot dealer is gradually going the way of the pager and the video store. But, still, it’ll be long time before he is totally irrelevant. After all, medical marijuana clinics aren’t open at four in the morning, and don’t cater to healthy people. As long as there has been pot, there have been skeevy dudes willing to sell it. Check out our list of the 6 types of pot dealers you’ll meet are after the jump!

You’ve probably seen those “Above The Influence” anti-drug commercials in which they show worst scenario outcomes to people smoking weed. Really depressing sh*t. They always make the person out to be an accidental murderer, or homeless, jobless, friendless. No prospects of anything positive on the horizon. Well, we have a list of the smartest, most successful people who ever admitted to smoking pot as a neat, tidy rebuttal. Suck it, ATI. See the full list after the jump!

Todays’ WTF news items feature a new line of soft drinks that will get you high, a line of padded underwear for guys so we can turn the tables on fake chicks, and a college that can’t be real. Read more weirdness after the jump!

The days of Reefer Madness are pretty far gone, but the American public is still vastly uninformed about marijuana, particularly concerning its myriad of amazing health benefits. Here are 10 (out of countless) health benefits that marijuana possesses. With that said, it’s simply baffling that medical marijuana is not legal in most of the country, and still there retains such a negative reputation.

We recently spoke with Ed “NJ Weedman” Forchion about brand names and strain variants of medicinal marijuana. Since Ed owns one such dispensary – The Liberty Bell Temple – he’s certainly seen a few interesting varieties of product offerings, and generously provided us with some info on the history and effects of our weird and wonderfully named list.

Even when marijuana becomes legal for medical use, such the case in Colorado, rumblings can boil over into full-on verbal warfare over exactly “how” the business of buds should be conducted.

They are growing something new in the Garden State. New Jersey recently became the 14th state in the nation to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. However, getting weed in Jersey is going to be very strictly regulated so your local dealer isn’t out of business just yet.

Simply looking at Websites isn’t going to make you a good activist of any sort. You have to get out there and fight, damnit! Start petitions, write your congressmen, become a lawyer. You know, do stuff! But in order to know where to begin, these nine sites will get you in-the-know and up-to-date with everything that’s happening in the movement to decriminalize and legalize marijuana.

For all of you terminally ill people out there who’ve been endlessly jealous of all the Californians that have been getting to smoke their pain away, your day in the haze may be coming soon. According to the Buffalo News, the New York legislature is poised to approve a medical marijuana bill in this session…

Seattle police chief, Gil Kerlikowske has been tapped for a job in the Obama administration, most likely as the administration’s new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, commonly known as the “Drug Czar.” But unlike past leaders in the “War on Drugs,” Kerlikowske is outspokenly lenient on the enforcement of marijuana possession laws – at least so far…