Sha'Carri Richardson has been suspended for a month by the USADA for failing a drug test for THC. The track star was tested at the Olympic Trials in June. "I'm not encouraging anybody to do it," she says. "I'm not saying, Oh, don't do it."
Back in 2009, after a photo of Michael Phelps ripping a bong at a party in Columbia, SC went viral, he was suspended and lost endorsements. Phelps, who won 23 Olympic gold medals for swimming, never failed a drug test.
Jam-band photographer Michael Weintrob had a great idea in 2000: shoot musicians with instruments blocking their faces. Now, he's revealing his famous subjects in a new book. Here's one: former Bob Marley sideman Carlton "Family Man" Barrett.
July 1 is a big day for the residents of Connecticut and Virginia, where adult-use cannabis legalization goes into effect. It also went into effect in New Mexico on June 29. Nineteen states have now legalized it.
The most conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, says federal cannabis prohibition "may no longer be necessary or proper." Thirty years ago I predicted something like this would happen.
Talk about flipping the script. Evidence and Ocean Grown Extracts cannabis products are both being cultivated at a converted prison in California and sold at the state's regulated pot shops. A dollar from each sale goes to Last Prisoner Project.
"Different people have different reasons for purchasing celebrity brands," David A. Paleschuck tells CelebStoner. He's author of the new book "Branding Bud: The Commercialization of Cannabis."
The Marley family, in partnership with Silo Wellness, will start selling magic mushrooms in tincture form under the brand name Marley One in Jamaica later this year. Bob Marley would approve.
