Chris Stapleton took the coveted Country Album of the Year award at the Grammys on Feb. 15. He also won for Best Country Solo Performance and paid tribute to B.B. King. Stapleton's song "Might as Well Get Stoned" is on his prize-winning album, "Traveler."
Bill Maher's latest "New Rule" comes complete with a smoking demonstration. "I use medical marijuana because my third eye has glaucoma," he explains with a wink on "Real Time." "It's acting up right now. Maybe I should treat it."
Mr. Man himself, Tommy Chong, headlined a busy opening day at the International Cannabis Business Conference in San Francisco on Feb. 13 that also included Dr. Jocelyn Elders, and Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Dana Rohrabacher.
Legendary singer Harry Belafonte is feelin' the Bern. In a video statement, he says Sen. Sanders "represents opportunity, a moral imperative and a certain kind of truth that's not often evidenced in the course of politics."
Late-night pundit and ultra-liberal Bill Maher is tossing Hillary Clinton under the campaign bus and backing Bernie Sanders, who won the New Hampshire primary by a 21% margin.
It wasn't exactly the Stoner Bowl of two years ago when Seattle trounced Denver. But Super Bowl 50 featured the Broncos again, representing the Mile High city and state. In a defensive struggle, they defeated Carolina, 24-14.
LAPCG, Bud & Roses and Green Goddess are the first medical marijuana shops in the country to carry the new Marley Natural line of cannabis products. The strains in stock are Sensi Star, Platinum Girl Scout Cookies, Blue Mountain Fire and C-3P0.
Medical marijuana advocate and rock singer Melissa Etheridge took center stage at the Women Grow Leadership Summit in Denver, talking about how cannabis helped her combat breast cancer and when she first started smoking pot as a music student at Berklee in Boston.
Snoop Dogg will soon have some competition from Wiz Khalifa in Denver's booming legal weed market. Leafs by Snoop products are currently available at LivWell stores, and on 4/20 RiverRock's two shops will offer Khalifa Kush and other branded Wiz products.
One after another, former NFL players are calling on the league to allow marijuana as an alternative to numbing pharmaceuticals. In the last week, Jim McMahon, Ricky Williams and Kyle Turley have challenged the NFL's intransigence on the drug issue.
