How ‘420’ Became the Big Day for Weed Smokers Across America

    The little known origins of the 4-20 holiday This story originally ran on huffingtonpost.com and has been reprinted with permission by the author, Ryan Grim. He is the author of This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the…

One Million Police Hours

A new report documents the astronomical number of hours the New York Police Department has spent arresting and processing hundreds of thousands of low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests during Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure from 2002 to 2012. The report finds that NYPD used approximately one million hours of police officer time to make 440,000 marijuana possession…