Stuff Stoners Like takes activism seriously. Sure, we’re a bunch of stoners and we LOVE to smoke weed, but that doesn’t mean we’re ignorant. In fact, we’re students of history. And, we think in order to effectively fight the war … Continued
Today the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee approved a bill to legalize and tax marijuana! This marks the first time in US history that a state legislative body considered putting an end to marijuana prohibition! This morning lawmakers in Sacramento … Continued
SPOILER ALERT: It passed! Read the update here.For the first time in the history of the United States of America a state legislative body is actually considering ending marijuana prohibition! Today, the first step to legalizing marijuana is happening in … Continued
Today, the New Jersey Assembly approved a measure that would make the state the 14th in the nation to legalize marijuana for medical use! Governor Jon S. Corzine has said he would sign Bill A804 it into law before leaving … Continued
Back in October the city of Centennial shut down the CanaMart dispensary in Colorado. They used a strategy adopted and deployed by a number of governments in the 14 states that allow medical marijuana; since weed is NOT legal, according … Continued
The Feds already recognize marijuana’s medical use and has since the 70’s…so what’s the hold-up? Currently marijuana has the status of a Schedule 1 drug, the most tightly-restricted category of drugs, by the United States Congress or the United States … Continued
Your friends, your family, or the police…who would you phone up first if the mail came and in it…you we treated to a “hard and crinkly”, 2-foot-tall, blue teddy bear stuffed with WEED? Of course you’d smoke it all yourself … Continued
We’ve always maintained rolling papers with pick-up lines or pot-smokin’ tips printed on ’em would be much cooler to find in a fortune cookie than a useless fortune. But even cooler would be to find a pot farm inside a … Continued
Does smoking marijuana make sweet things taste even sweeter? Of course it does…are you fucking kidding us. But don’t take our word for it (or Weezy’s)…rather check out some of the research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy … Continued
Wow…this War on Drugs stuff is starting to get really serious! So serious, in fact, that Richmond California brought out the bong bomb eradication squad last night…and actually exploded a bong! That poor defenseless bong never stood a chance! Apparently, … Continued
We’ve been saying all along Showtime’s Weeds is the EPITOME of Stuff Stoners DON’T Like with their harmful portrayal of the “dangerous world of drug dealing” during our nation’s greatest fight to end the ignorance and all-out Reefer Madness surrounding … Continued
YES WE CANNABIS and YES WE DID! The folks at the The Tax & Regulate Cannabis 2010 here in Oaksterdam California have gathered the 650,000 signatures necessary to put the legalization of marijuana on the November 2010 ballot! This major victory … Continued
Not all of us want a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas! If you’re expecting Santa to leave a new bong under your Christmas tree this year…you might be disappointed. And, it won’t be Saint Nick’s fault but rather the … Continued
Yet more proof that smoking a little weed from time to time will prevent you from doing anything productive with your life, 2008 Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Tim Lincecum just won the coveted title for the second time in a … Continued
The American Medical Association has reversed its position on marijuana! Yep, the largest group of doctors in the USA (which really only amounts to about 17% of all practicing docs) now SUPPORTS investigation and clinical research on weed for medicinal … Continued
Twelve-year-old lookin’ 2008 & 2009 (click here for an update) National League Cy Young Award winning pitcher and SF Giants starter Tim Lincecum is a stoner. How do we know, you ask? Well, the day before Halloween he was busted … Continued
Breckenridge Colorado voted 72% to decriminalize up to a full ounce of weed for adults over 21.
Viva la marijuana
The Ogden Memo
YES WE CANNABIS! Today kicks off the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law’s 38th Annual Nation Conference in San Francisco. The event will be filled with folks from NORML over 500 policy activists, medical patients, cultivators, doctors, politicians, … Continued
Out of Rolling Papers?
Who knew that gardening was a duty of the New Jersey Police Department? Times sure have changed since 1794 when the first President of the United States of America, who by the way smoked weed to alleviate the pain from … Continued
Tuesday, drug agents from Marin County came to confiscate records of medical marijuana sales from growers to dispensaries in Berkeley and Oakland, but were DENIED! They came over with warrants served by the Marin County Major Crimes Task Force for … Continued
“There has been reporting that there are eight legitimate medical-marijuana dispensaries in San Diego County,” said SD District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, yesterday at a press conference in the wake of terrifying raids of cannabis dispensaries all over the city. “There … Continued
Thirty-one people including medical marijuana dispensary staff, volunteers, and patients have been arrested (so far) in terrifying military-style raids of dispensaries and private homes in San Diego County. A total of 14 dispensaries have been forced to close so far. … Continued
Over in weed-hatin’ NY a poor elderly woman faces misdemeanor charges of growing weed to treat her painful arthritis and glaucoma. Buzz-killin’ Captain Charles Danzi of the Evans police says Barbara Ober was charged after the police spotted a 7-foot-tall … Continued
Now that we have your attention, it’s true…Marie Myung-Ok Lee pushes marijuana on her 9-year-old son. She feeds the li’l guy weed-laced tea and cookies. Why, you ask? “Because he can’t figure out how to use a bong.” Marie Myung-Ok … Continued
Mark Emery has been fighting for OUR rights for over 30 years. Now he’s facing LIFE in prison! In 2005 the US DEA arrested Emery for selling seeds online. They’re victimizing him for his leadership!We not only support Emery because … Continued
Prohibitionists are now persecuting our religious leaders! Maybe we should just make a fucking form-letter type blog post so we can save time and just swap the names and locations of victimized dispensaries, medicine providers, and patients because dispensary busts … Continued
Listen, if you think the War on Drugs is just a war on people, you’re WRONG. The War on Drugs is also a war on pets! Even though President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have announced an end to … Continued
Smoking marijuana does not cause cancer. It actually protects against it. But, don’t take our word for it, however, check out this Cancer Prevention Research Journal which has a study demonstrating that chronic, long term use of cannabis actually reduces … Continued
As harvest time approaches, so does the end of summer and that means school is right around the corner. Not everyone hates school, especially those attending Oakland’s increasingly popular Oaksterdam University located in downtown Oakland’s Oaksterdam district. “Oaksterdam University is … Continued
Just how much money would the State of California rake in, oh from the sale of say $60 million worth of medical cannabis? Who knows since Santa Clara County pissed it all away and wasted tax dollars to fund the … Continued
The President of the United States of America is NOT your beer buddy, nor should he be. After bringing national attention to an event that happens all the time, to marijuana users, our President Obama invited Vice President Biden to … Continued
Multiple Sclerosis sufferer John Wilson of New Jersey is facing 20 years in prison for growing weed in his backyard. He’s accused of first-degree maintaining or operating a drug production facility, second-degree manufacturing and third-degree drug possession. And, to make … Continued
Get ready Californians…we’ll all soon be able to vote on the legalization of marijuana. Plans are in the works, says Oaksterdam University’s Richard Lee, to submit an initiative to the secretary of state to legalize the recreational use and taxation … Continued
We did it! Oakland residents voted Tuesday and overwhelmingly approved a first-of-its kind tax on medical marijuana! So far preliminary results show that Measure F passed with 80% of the vote, says the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Measure F … Continued
Today marks the close of mail-in voting for Oakland’s Measure F, a new ordinance that’ll impose a special tax on the sale of medical cannabis in the city’s four dispensaries. If given the green light the measure would make Oakland … Continued
Wondering just how much they’ll cash in if they were to make all sales of marijuana legal and impose a “sin tax” of $35 per ounce, the state of Rhode Island has created a “Special Senate Commission to Study the … Continued
Dude, there’s an app for everything. You want to find not only weed but a doctor to recommend it to ya? There’s an app for that. Or let’s say you need a weed-wise attorney or you’re feeling like getting up … Continued
Sotomayor…you don’t know…
That’s an estimated street value of $800 million
The City Council in Escondido California voted 4-0 to adopt an urgency ordinance that places a 45-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries effectively keeping medicine out of the hands of those who need it. To further stand in the way … Continued
New Hampshire Democratic Governor John Lynch just vetoed new legislation that would have made NH the 14th state to legalize marijuana. Apparently, Lynch has been bagging on the legislation for quite a while and even forced a rewrite, saying the … Continued
dispensaries over in Oakland have a radical idea…they’re offering to pay increased taxes!
Thanks to the Marijuana Policy Project
California’s budget woes could cut a third of the agents from the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement! Attorney General Jerry Brown estimates the cuts will lead to the layoffs of nearly a third of its 187 agents. The Bureau of Narcotics … Continued
