Scientists examining surveys of health and drug use have found that people who smoke pot regularly are less likely to be obese—a shocking rejection of a series of experiments I performed over the course of my junior year of college.

Marijuana is an odd drug! Sometimes when you're stoned you fall asleep in the middle of taking a bite of a cookie. And then sometimes you steal an ambulance from outside a house fire at 4 a.m. and drive across your neighbors' lawns.

Two towns in Massachusetts are trying to ban Lazy Cakes, a "relaxation brownie," because excesss amount of melatonin in the baked (hehe, get it?) good made some kids sick. This whole thing is really stupid.

This should satisfy your quota for 90s nostalgia for at least a week: TMZ dug up some old footage of Whoopi Goldberg's voice-over recording session for 1992's animated movie The Pagemaster (Yes—the animated movie starring Macaulay Culkin.)

18-year-old Indiana teen Andrew Conley confessed to strangling his 10-year-old brother. Prosecutors are blaming the crime on Conley's desire to be like the serial-killing main character on Showtime's Dexter. Why couldn't he have just been a stoner really into Weeds?

Jacob Isom—the rattail-coiffed hero who swiped a Koran from right-wing fanatics and ran—has a dream. "I want to be in High Times," he told me by telephone. Then he showed me a t-shirt screenprinted with his face.

A British judge sentenced washed-up singer George Michael to eight weeks in jail after he admitted to crashing his car while stoned in July. He should move to America. Here, celebrities get 37 seconds in jail for the same crime.

As though yesterday's leaked military documents didn't paint a bleak enough picture of our Afghanistan adventure, meet the stoner cops of the Arghandab province—members of an Afghan police force receiving a $27 billion international investment.

Pot was recently spotted in Union Square Park. Now the sidewalks are being overrun with sweet, sticky green marijuana plants. Here's a bushy plant NYC the Blog discovered at 1st Street and 2nd Avenue:

Today on Fox Business News, Sarah Palin endorsed deemphasizing marijuana law enforcement! Obviously this means she's a huge stoner, right?

"There has been an entire strata of restaurants created by chefs to feed other chefs. These are restaurants created specially for the tastes of the slightly stoned, slightly drunk chef after work." —Anthony Bourdain to the Times [image via]

A second video of ex-NYPD officer Patrick Pogan assaulting an innocent bicyclist Christopher Long makes Pogan's guilt clearer than ever. Which is good, because Christopher Long is perhaps not the *ideal* witness for this sort of trial.

It's April 20. Because the stoner lexicon refers to reefer as "420," the date's become synonymous with celebrating the high life. Instead of posting a list of stars who already smoke up, here are a bunch of people who should.

Boulder, Colorado. Home of the Rockies' dankest Sweet Tooth. Also: plenty of dry-throated, red-eyed, patchuli-stinkin', Domino's-craving zombies. Every Halloween, they get nekkid and run around with pumpkins on their heads. Except this year, when SWAT teams are called on them.

Barack Obama is telling the feds to stop, like, totally freaking out, man, and take it easy on medical marijuana.

Hey, New Yorkers - not neurotically self-conscious enough these days? Well, congratulations: you're next contestant on Bust Ass In Front Of The Google Street View Car.

After the media assault comes the inevitable counterspin: Kellogg flacks are saying it did not drop benighted Olympian merman Michael Phelps over a photo of his lips pressed to a bong. Even though it did.

Minnesota's famed "Lizard People" ballot, which brought hope and cheer to the deadened hearts of the state's recount-plagued voters, has been disqualified on the grounds of being too awesome.