Former Uruguay president Tabaré Vázquez is back. He won the run-off election on Nov. 30 by a 52% margin, succeeding Jose Mujica. The country's program to grow and sell marijuana will move ahead as planned.
Despite reports of its cancellation, High Times' 27th Annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam soldiered on. The Cup concluded last night with Tommy Chong inducting Marc Emery into the Counterculture Hall of Fame.
The Denver Post's Cannabist website is one of the big stories of the year in marijuana media, but sometimes they're off the mark, such as the latest article, "Vaping is the Dumbest Thing Ever."
Joe Rogan's latest stand-up special premiered on Comedy Central Friday night. Filmed at Denver Comedy Works, it's appropriately titled, "Rocky Mountain High."
HBO talk-show host Bill Maher continued to make marijuana news with the final episode of the fall season of "Real Time," which featured fellow Top CelebStoner Seth Rogen.
The long fight to end New York's discriminatory and abusive marijuana-arrest crusade is finally over. Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced a new decrim policy went into effect Nov. 19.
Thanksgiving week used to be reserved for the original High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Those early Cups set the stage for future events and included tributes to Bob Marley and Jack Herer.
The clueless Oxford Dictionary thinks vaping started with the invention of the e-cig in 2003. Fact is vaporization has been a common term in the marijuana world for the last two decades or more.
