Roseanne Barr's proposed Santa Ana dispensary, Roseannne's Joint, has gone up in smoke. "It didn't work out for me and the investor," she now says, referring to CalCann Holdings' Aaron Herzberg.
It was a big night for "Atlanta" at the 2017 Golden Globes. The FX series won awards for Best Comedy TV Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Comedy (series creator Donald Glover). Keith Stanfield and Brian Tyree Henry play weed dealers on the show.
Forty-one years after a similar stunt took place, the famous HOLLYWOOD sign in Griffith Park was transformed into HOLLYWEED sometime during New Year's Eve. No one has yet taken credit for the prank.
By our count, 93 musicians or music industry figures passed away in 2016, up from 62 in 2015 (a 33% increase). They include: David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Leon Russell, Leonard Cohen, Merle Haggard, Phife Dawg, Bobby Vee, Billy Paul, Sharon Jones, Guy Clark, Mose Allison, Buckwheat Zydeco, Bernie Worrell and Dan Hicks.
There 20 celebrity drug arrests in 2016, up from 8 in 2015 (a 60% increase). Fifteen of them were college and professional football players, two were rappers (Twista, Montana Millz), another was NBA player Travis Outlaw and the others were "Chumlee" Russell from "Pawn Stars" and Madonna's son, Rocco Ritchie.
