A gaggle of CelebStoners—Anthony Bourdain, Dave Chappelle, Zach Galifianakos, Bill Maher, Susan Sarandon, Sarah Silverman and Snoop Dogg – were nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, but only Chappelle won for hosting "Saturday Night Live." Other winners included the documentary "11th," W. Kamau Bell and Donald Glover.
High Times won their third NYMSL championship on Sept. 9 with a 4-3 extra-inning victory over arch-rival Wall Street Journal.
In August, a cannabis controversy erupted over Roger Stone's planned speech at the CWCBExpo scheduled for Sept. 13-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. On Sept. 6, the event announced that Stone had been removed from the speaker's lineup.
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 1967, four years before they formed Steely Dan. Their 1973 song, "My Old School," is about the day they were busted for marijuana at Bard.
It's only taken 16 years for the sequel to "Super Troopers" to be announced. The Broken Lizard guys will indeed return for another anarchic take on Vermont cops, come 4/20/18, of course.
Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum's "Disjointed," now available on Netflix, is the most mainstream pot-driven comedy series ever. Breast-cancer survivor and legalization supporter Kathy Bates plays dispensary owner Ruth Feldman like her life depends on it.
Guam has been in the news lately as a possible site for a North Korea attack. It's also where "If I Can't Have You" singer Yvonne Elliman and her husband Allen Alexander were arrested for drug possession on Aug. 16.
On the Aug. 18 episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," Penn Jillette proclaimed that he's "the only person who's never ever had a puff of marijuana who has been been on the cover of High Times magazine." Well, not quite.
