The Deadspin staff has a few self-described stoners and a few notable herbs. And because the latter are equal to the former, we will now anonymously share our stories of the first time we got high. (It might be pretty obvious who’s who.) Please feel free to share your first memory of being stoned below.
On this holiest of holidays, 4/20, let’s revisit how pot-smoking was packaged for postwar America.
Here was the big question, the one underneath the pot-leaf name tags and the thousand-deep crowd of women shouting mantras in the opera house and the slight smell of weed in our parkas and Melissa Etheridge’s ombré sunglasses and the après-ski-hot girls with angled haircuts and the shy 55-year-olds furiously writing…
A trailer has been released for Time Traveling Bong, a three-part Comedy Central miniseries starring Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and the hardbodied Paul W. Downs, and it looks very dumb and fun.
Multiple outlets are reporting today that Kylie Jenner may have been high recently. The video that led them to such a wild theory was allegedly ripped from Jenner’s Snapchat and has since been posted on multiple fan Instagram accounts. In it, the 17-year-old says, “I’m high as fuck,” and takes a bite of some kind of…
Say goodbye to your lame-o neon bong, because smoking weed is no longer about getting high—it’s about how rich you look while you’re doing it! From Style.com:
If you smoke, you’ve probably already nailed down your favorite weed snacks and your favorite weed activities: members of Jezebel staff are partial to pairing elaborate cheese trays and pretzels dipped in peanut butter (sometimes jelly) with a little nail painting, cat brushing, sex having, or of course, a nice …
The Atlantic gives us some prime holiday content with a discussion of what a 20th-century Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen calls “supernormal stimuli”—fake and exaggerated versions of their natural equivalents, which some animals respond to more strongly than they do to the real thing. For example:
Do you like being around and/or ingesting marijuana? Do you like sex? Or maybe you prefer the company of Waka Flocka? Well, have I got some great job opportunities for you. Consider me your Mary Jane job board.
For weeks, incessant, confusing crafting has been the scourge of Miley Cyrus's Instagram feed. Turns out, it's all been warm up to a glorious final project: a 5-foot tall bong that Mme. Cyrus working toward all along.
Washington pot retailers are finally getting to open up shop after legalizing marijuana in 2012, and already, they're worried about running out of product. While Colorado's retail stores opened up in January, racking up around $114 million within the first four months, Washington's been facing some hurdles in getting…
Today is a very very special day. In a most spectacular convergence, everyone’s favorite candy-related New Testament holiday has fallen on April 20, which also happens to be everyone’s favorite weed-related holiday. The event has lovingly been dubbed ‘Weedster,’ and it’s basically Haley’s comet meets the Blood Moon.…
The University of Colorado at Boulder spent over a hundred grand this year to prevent a massive annual group pot party on their grounds for the second year in a row. School officials closed campus to anyone who wasn't a student, saying they wanted to preserve "the academic mission of the institution." This is almost…
We recognize the ridiculousness of 4/20 as a holiday, but that hasn't stopped us from fully embracing it. In fact, if you're going to celebrate, you should just go all out. Be stupid with it. Get fucked up. Wear some clear Lucite stripper heels with a pot leaf on them. Yes, they do exist.
In honor of Snoop Dogg's favorite holiday, we're pulling one from the vault: our useful — and timely! — guide on how to pass a drug test. (Not that you should do drugs. Drugs are bad.)
When discussing the phenomenon that is "Weed Day" last night, Jimmy Kimmel made a great point when he said that no big holiday is complete unless it has its own Peanuts special. So he had one made. Naturally Snoop makes an appearance as "The Great Pot Head."
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Today in Tweet Beat, celebs like Questlove, Bob Saget, and Taraji P. Henson celebrate 4/20; you can spend the holiday with Snoop; and Sherri Shepherd is blazing up something completely different.
Happy 420! In this very special episode of Pot Psychology, Rich and I go to The Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida. Mostly, we paid an entrance fee to spend money on crap in the souvenir shop.
• Last Sunday an art installation featuring 20 female performers inside a Plexiglas cube was set up outside St. Mark's Church. The piece is designed to raise awareness about women's issues in North Korea. •
