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iPhone App Helps Users Locate Marijuana

Say goodbye to afternoons spent driving around looking for marijuana. Well, medical marijuana, anyway. A new iPhone application might help to push pot further into the mainstream. Or at least make it a whole lot easier to find. Mashable reported that Apple recently approved the app 'Cannabis' (iTunes link), which costs $2.99 and is currently available for download. The app works the same as ...

Man Arrested for Selling Pot on Craigslist

If a drug reference is so well known that there's a Wikipedia entry about it, chances are the cops know it, too. Unfortunately, Marlborough, Massachusetts's Chistopher J. Gray did not check the popular reference site before advertising marijuana on Craigslist. According to the Patriot Ledger, the number "420" -- a popular term that references getting high -- is rumored to have been started in ...

Weedmaps Is Like Yelp, But For Weed

If you ever find yourself needing to re-up on your legal cannabis supply, there is a new Web site you might want to check out: Weedmaps is essentially a Yelp for cannabis seekers and dispensaries that provides specific locations and ratings of dispensaries nearest the user. It has been pointed out that Yelp already has a section devoted to this topic, but with Weedmaps floating ideas like ...

GPS-Equipped Turtle Stumbles on Marijuana Farm

Though not quite as bad as toting the GPS module around with you, one particular marijuana farmer had to be mighty embarrassed / wondering what he ever did to deserve such bad luck when a GPS-equipped turtle meandered into his crop. As the story goes, a close friend of the police -- a box turtle with no fear of Big Brother -- just happened upon a pot stash on US park property. Clearly, Mr. Isiah ...

Student Busted for Cell Phone Shots of His Pot Plants

If you needed any more proof that smoking pot turns your brain cells to dust, consider this morning's UPI story of an Italian university student who recently used his cell phone to snap a picture of himself standing proudly in front of his crop of marijuana plants. The student was so pleased with the photo that he made it his cell phone's wallpaper background, allowing him to show off his ...