In 2017, there was a total of 23 celebrity drug arrests, including Melissa Etheridge, Todd Rundgren, Aaron Carter, Yvonne Elliman, Chief Keef, Shock G, Cassidy, Young Thug, Zach Randolph, Artie Lange and Rose McGowan. There were 20 such arrests in 2016.
"T2 Trainspotting" tops our list of the year's best stoner flicks. Other faves include "Rough Night," "Mary Janes: Women of Weed," "Grow House," "Icaros: A Vision" and "The Legend of 420."
"Everyone will be all lit up like a Christmas tree," Louis Armstrong sings on this holiday classic. For jazz great Armstrong, being lit up meant smoking "muggles," his term for marijuana.
CelebStoners Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg like to exchange holiday gifts. The Dogfather gave Nelson this ugly sweater emblazoned with a giant green pot leaf and a popular stoner slogan.
Call them Cheech & Padilla. Stoner comic "Cheech" Marin and California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla have teamed up in a new TV spot about how to start a cannabis business in the Golden State. New legalization regs go into effect there on Jan. 1.
The International Cannabis Business Conference is heading to Hawaii. Kaua'i that is, on Dec. 1-3, at the Grand Hyatt. It's the destination conference of 2017.
It's taken Anthony Bourdain 15 years to finally smoke a joint on one of his travel foodie TV shows. Now that marijuana is legal in Washington State, he decided to sample some of the cannabis available in Seattle's regulated pot market on "Parts Unknown."
Nabbed at the U.S. border in North Dakota on Aug. 17 after her tour bus was pulled over and Customs agents found joints on board, Melissa Etheridge pled guilty nearly three months later to the charge of marijuana possession.
