Canada's answer to Dire Straits, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings are roots-rockers featuring Tom Wilson, Colin Linden and Stephen Fearing. "Stoned" appeared on their 2003 album, Bark, and now reappears as the lead track on Swinging the Chains of Love, which compiles 14 of the band's best songs.Inside: Listen to "Stoned" + watch the Bark EPK
After two hours of reports about heroin and methaphetamine, Lisa Ling goes inside the cannabis world for her hour-long look at Marijuana Nation(10 pm EST).Inside: Watch the trailer
Like millions of other stoners, I watched Cheech & Chong: Roasted on TBS. Having split up in the '80s after many years as the country's top pot comics and recently reunited for their Light Up America tour, Cheech & Chong were ripe to be roasted...
The Green House's Super Lemon Haze and Barney's Utopia Haze placed one-two at the 21st Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Perennial winners the Green House won the overall Cannabis Cup (plus two other second-place prizes) and Barney's took home four Cups and one second-place medal. Inside: Full list of Cannabis Cup winners
Tulare is California's top pot-growing county. Combining CAMP and DEA figures, CelebStoner has concluded that Tulare exceeded all other California counties in number of marijuana plants seized in 2008 by a wide margin. More than 1.2 million plants were eradicated in Tulare.
Let’s just say a plant has a
determined amount of what we call dank. I don’t think I need to define
this. It seems to me that a faded plant will produce less total mass,
therefore creating more dank per gram on the plant. Does this make any
sense? Have you ever grown a plant that was just sickly as hell, all
yellow and shit, but the bud from this plant tasted better than normal?
Researcher and author Dr. Ethan Russo has determined that plant materials dating back to 2500 BC found inside a Chinese tomb is marijuana. "This is unequivocally cannabis," claims Russo. "To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent." The tomb is located in China's Xingjiang province - home of the world's first marijuana plant. Inside: More cannabis history
Smarcus joins CelebStoner Blogs with a fresh blast of animated mayhem - his "3 Thug Mice." This episode finds a turkey holed up in an apartment as a SWAT tries to flush it out on Thanksgiving. Fellow critters Brik, Tic and Vic take in the action.
Ed Rosenthal's popular marijuana extravaganja, Wonders of Cannabis, will not be taking place in New York on Nov. 29 as scheduled. Just three days before the event (headlined by the Kottonmouth Kings), Damn Sam Productions announced on its website, "For reasons beyond our control, the event has to be canceled. This is at no fault to the venue or any of the performers. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone." Inside: Komments from the KMKs and Ed Rosenthal
The co-star of America's No. 1 movie Twilight, Kristen Stewart was photographed smoking a glass marijuana pipe in Los Angeles with her boyfriend/actor Michael Angarano (Sid in Lords of Dogtown) and their dog. Stewart plays Bella in the vampire flick, which took in $70 million in its first weekend. You may remember her turn as hippie chick Tracy in Sean Penn's Into the Wild.
Outdoor
marijuana plant eradication in California has leveled off after five
years of staggering increases. According to figures provided to
CelebStoner by CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting), 2,905,232
plants were seized this year - just 211 more than in 2007. However, a
CAMP spokesperson contends that"the main reasons that the
number of plants eradicated this year is low was due to the large fires
that wiped out all vegetation in the Humboldt/Mendocino area in early summer."
Inside: California's Top 40 Cultivation Counties + eradication totals since 1983
Subcool is one of the world's foremost marijuana breeders. He and his partner MzJill are famous for such strains as Space Queen, Jilly Bean and Dannyboy. His book Dank: The Quest for the Very Best Marijuanawas recently published by Quick American. In his first blog column for CelebStoner, Subcool remembers his friend Danny and explains the evolutiuon of the Dannyboy strain.
First came Cocoa Tea's reggae anthem "Barack Obama" during the Presidential campaign. Now Michael Franti and Spearhead have dedicated their own "Barack Obama" song to the President-elect. They break it out during the encore at shows, joined by Solillaquists of Sound. Inside: Watch the clips