The financial battle lines are being drawn in Florida around Amendment 2, which would legalize medical marijuana if passed by voters in November. So far, $5.5 million has been donated in favor and $4.2 million against.
Kevin Asch's followup to "Holy Rollers" portrays another New York subculture: Long Island trustafarians. Set in the 2000s, the movie's backdrop is the country's looming financial crisis.
Utah's Burning Man-style event, Element 11, was the setting for a bizarre death that occurred Saturday night. An attendee who ran into a huge bonfire did not survive.
During his successful Senate campaign, former Newark Mayor Cory Booker called for "a structured national conversation about decriminalizing marijuana." He's taking a wait-and-see approach to legalization.
A storm forced the evacuation of the Hudson Project music festival in Saugerties, New York on its final day. Over the weekend, 42 drugs arrests were made in and around Winston Farm, the site of Woodstock '94.
In announcing the delay of his country's marijuana program, Uruguay Pres. Jose Mujica stated, "If we want to do this sloppily, it is not hard to do that; that's what the United States is doing."
Auburn QB Nick Marshall was cited for marijuana possession in Georgia on July 11. Marshall led the Tigers to the BCS Championship Game against Florida State, which they lost.
Shortly after Mike Boyer jubilantly bought the first bag of legal recreational marijuana ever sold in Spokane, one of his employers demanded he take drug tests, which he could never pass.
