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Oh (Sn)app: Weed Firm Pulled by Apple

Manitoba Games' popular app, Weed Firm, is no longer available for iPhones. "We will soon all be watching 'Teletubbies' instead of 'Breaking Bad,'" the pissed-off company predicts.

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Pro-Pot Poe Loses Bid for Philly Council Seat

Comedian/activist Nikki Allen Poe placed a distant third in Tuesday's election for an open City Council seat in Philadelphia. Running as the Libertarian Party candidate, he garnered 4,000 votes.

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Former Player: 'I Became a Junkie in the NFL'

More than 500 former NFL players have signed on to a class-action suit that charges the league with providing prescription medication rather than dealing with injuries. Many of the players were addicted to pain pills.

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O.penVAPE Revises Drug-Testing Policy

Computer impairment testing and therapy rather than drug testing is the focus of O.penVAPE's new Workplace Impairment Policy. The company's CRO Todd Mitchem calls it "a revolutionary approach."

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Behind the Green Curtain: Racial Disparities in Drug Reform

Dr. Carl Hart has charged marijuana-reform groups with being apathetic about "pot arrest racism" and points out that "their rank and file to their advisory boards consists almost exclusively of white, privileged and devoted marijuana smokers." He's right about the latter.

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Review: Dan Fogler in 'Don Peyote'

"Don Peyote" should really be called "Dan Peyote" because it's a about a crazed stoner played by Dan Fogler, the actor I first saw and fell in love with in "Balls of Fury."

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Bummer: Cheba Hut Closes in Iowa City

Known for subs named after marijuana strains, Cheba Hut is the stoner's answer to Subway and Quisnos. Now based in 14 cities, the sandwich chain just lost one of its famous franchises.

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