It's 20 years since Ice Cube became a bona fide movie star with his comedic turn in Gary Gray's "Friday." To celebrate the stoner film's anniversary, screenings of the director's cut were held on Apr. 20 in 420 theaters across the nation.
After 19 shows online, the popular web series "High Maintenance" is going to premium cable. The stony show is about millennial New Yorkers who buy marijuana from the same delivery service messenger.
This year April 20 - the stoner national holiday - falls on a Monday. Most of the events listed here take place over the 4/20 weekend.
In a petition posted by Bill Maher at change.org, he says "It's high time we had a weed day… sign my petition and make 4/20 a national holiday."
For seven hours on 4/20 Eve, CNN is dedicating programming to pot, highlighted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta's "Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution" and the premiere of their stoner-reality series, "High Profits."
U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller punted the marijuana scheduling issue back to Congress with her decision today to not change the drug's designation in the Controlled Substances Act.
Nelly was rolling down I-40 in Tennessee when police pulled over his vehicle Saturday morning. After smelling marijuana, a search produced a small amount of weed and Ecstasy pills. Nelly and one other were arrested.
In his most pointed and expansive comments yet about marijuana legalization, Pres. Obama told a Jamaican audience yesterday that "the so-called War on Drugs has been so heavy in emphasizing incarceration that it has been counter-productive."
