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.
Now that pro-pot Phil Murphy has defeated Kim Gaudagno to become New Jersey's next Democratic governor, many think legalization is right around the corner for the Garden State.
The funkmaster himself, George Clinton, likes to vape cannabis. He was seen toking from a pen in Brooklyn on Nov. 1 while in the company of house music duo Soul Clap (Charlie Levine and Eli Goldstein).
"Obama Smoking Pot Again" blared the headline at the far-right website wnd.com on Oct. 31. Surprisingly, several marijuana sites poached quotes from the fake-news story, hence helping to promulgate it.
Snoop Dogg is a busy man these days on television. His Emmy-nominated show, "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner" is back for a second season on VH1 and his latest series, "Snoop Dogg Present The Joker's Wild," debuted on Oct. 24 on TBS..
There's a crisis in Alaska among the dog sledding community. Musher Dallas Seavey has been charged with giving his dogs the opioid Tramadol to help them finish the 1,000-mile Iditarod Race, from Anchorage to Nome, last March.
Kathy Bates, who plays dispensary owner Ruth Whitefeather Feldman on Netflix's "Disjointed," appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Oct. 6. She discussed getting stoned with Bill Maher, vape pens and the show's cannabis consultant, Dr. Dina 420.
Heidi Grossman-Lepp, wife of marijuana activist Eddy Lepp, was arrested on Oct. 3 by the Yuba County Sheriff's Office on charges of producing and cultivating marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale, and suspicion of conspiracy.
Two days after he did a fake-toke gesture while wearing a Legalize It t-shirt when throwing out the first pitch at the Pirates' final game of the 2017 baseball season, rapper Wiz Khalifa reminded people, "When you invite me you know that's what you're inviting. I stand for pot."
Hugh Hefner, who passed away on Sept. 27, was a major benefactor to various causes, including marijuana legalization. His Playboy Foundation provided hundreds of thousands of funding dollars to NORML in the '70s.
