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Kids, Pot Is for Grown-Ups

Welp, the word is out and the jokes have been flying: If you smoke weed regularly as an adolescent, you’re going to be dumber later […]

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New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana Program is Expensive, Difficult to Navigate for Patients

New Jersey’s medical marijuana system is continuing its rocky path to fruition this week, with many current patients and advocates saying that the system is […]

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Should Grandma Smoke Pot?

I It sounds like a throwaway joke in an Adam Sandler movie—let’s get Nana high!—but Philly native Robert Platshorn is deadly serious about his mission: […]

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Since Facebook Is Purging Accounts, We Have a Few Suggestions

Looks like the Joker won’t be poking Princess Peach again any time soon: Facebook admins have finally gone after the social network’s most insidious sub-group: […]

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NJ’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Is Ready for Business

Yesterday marked the start of patient registration for New Jersey’s long-embattled medical marijuana program, arriving more than two and a half years after the state […]

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Olympian From Jersey Expelled for Testing Positive for Pot

Nick Delpopolo—a 23-year-old American judo fighter from Jersey—is the first Olympian to be expelled from the London Games for failing an IOC drug test. Delpopolo […]

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Governor Christie Set to Sign Bill to Send Non-Violent Offenders Rehab Instead of Jail

On Thursday morning, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is expected to sign a bill that will, eventually, sentence non-violent drug offenders in the Garden State […]

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Booze Replaces Pot as New Gateway Drug

For years, cannabis has been seen as the first stepping stone on the path to unbridled substance abuse, the story going that after marijuana got […]

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Blood Trail Leads Cops to $1 Million of Marijuana

Early Wednesday morning, Philadelphia Police responded to reports of masked men beating a man with baseball bats in the city’s Oxford Circle section. Police supposedly […]

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Talking to Your Kids About Pot Shouldn’t Be Difficult

We can officially count cannabis as another item on the long list of topics that parents find difficult to discuss with their children, at least […]

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Jon Stewart Calls Out Governor Christie While Stephen Colbert Deals With PA House Majority Leader Turzai

On Wednesday night, both of Comedy Central’s political funnymen took aim at local politicians as only they can. First, on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart […]

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NJ Assembly to Vote on Decriminalization of Marijuana

The New Jersey state Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would decriminalize possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana. Instead of […]

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How Much THC Does it Take to Make a DUI?

Last March, Max Drosi, 28, of Miami, blew a red light on 8th and Washington in the Italian Market, plowing his rented Chevy Impala into […]

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Obama’s Weed Wars: Stoner on Stoner Crime

We’ve known from the start that there’s a former stoner in the White House, we just didn’t know to what extent he had stoned. But […]

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Kid Calls Cops on Parents for Growing Pot

A boy in Doylestown Township called the police earlier this month to report that his parents were growing marijuana in their house. Police say they […]