Was This Dank-Ass Weed Mascot Fired for Raising Safety Concerns?

A woman who recently lost her job dressing up as “Buddie,” a sentient bud of weed who has saucy eyebrows and the body of a humanoid superhero, says she was unfairly fired for raising concerns about on-the-job safety.
Don't Ever Call the Cops on Yourself, Even When You're High as Shit
I think my teddy bear knows I’m high. Do I stink? I think I stink. There’s something really foreboding about the shape of that telephone. I bet it was made in a bad factory. God, I’m a fraid. Maybe if I just put on Planet Earth, I’ll feel better. A fraid? Unless it’s the episode with the fish. Afraid. God, I’m so…
“They packed the bowl of the pipe (the terminology of which I found on reddit), and showed me how to smoke it properly.” America’s least cool 23-year-old tries weed (slang for marijuana). http://gawker.com/5931367/mariju…
Weed, Music of Shaggy Secret to Defeating ISIS, Says Shaggy
In a recent interview, “It Wasn’t Me” singer Shaggy offered a novel strategy for vanquishing ISIS, suggesting that marijuana and reggae music—specifically, that of dancehall artist Shaggy—was all it would take to defeat the terror organization.
Florida Principal Caught in Car With Weed, Student, Unbuttoned Shirt
A high school principal was arrested in Florida on Wednesday after police discovered her partially undressed in a car with a student and marijuana, The NY Daily News reports.
Rich Bastards Love Tobacco Stocks
People who buy stocks in alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or (new!) marijuana companies are said to be investing in “vice”—traditionally a good way to earn premium returns in exchange for being a morally bad human. Who are these successful bastard investors?
Man Allegedly Transporting Weed Candy Arrested After High Speed Chase
A Brooklyn man led New Jersey State Police on a 25-mile chase up the Garden State Parkway before crashing his car and being arrested, the New York Daily News reports. Police said that the driver had, amongst other things, 80 pounds of “marijuana candy” in his car.
"De Blasio Get on the Pot," Urges Weed Leaf Plane Banner Flying Over NYC
If you gazed skyward in New York City on this sunny 4/21, you may have glimpsed an airplane-borne banner over the Hudson River celebrating and poking fun at our mayor’s widely rumored cannabis habit. “De Blasio Get On The Pot,” it read. “We [weed leaf] NYPD.”
Cops: Nude Rampage, Attempted Baby Snatching Blamed on "Bad Weed"
After a Maryland man allegedly stripped naked, broke into a neighbor's apartment, punched a mother and tried to steal her child, the suspect's roommate attributed the episode to "bad weed" and suggested it was not his fault, WJLA reports.
Police Raid "Fuck It, I Quit" Reporter's Alaska Cannabis Club
Anchorage police served search warrants at the Alaska Cannabis Club on Friday, KTVA Alaska reports. The Alaska Cannabis Club is owned by Charlene Egbe, also known as Charlo Greene, also known as the "Fuck it, I quit" reporter.
Hopes & Fears has a fun look at possession of a gram of weed in places from New York City to Hong Kong, and the punishments that come with getting caught with that weed on you. Worth a read if you're thinking of buying drugs somewhere in the world.
Report: Seth Rogen Smoked So Much Weed His Office Had to Be Renovated
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony has to do some heavy-duty renovations to clear the air of the thick cloud of weed hanging over Seth Rogen's office. Not so, says Rogen, who, poor thing, believes his "shit smells good."
Police Find First Thing You'd Expect in Container Marked "Not Weed"
After you go to the trouble of labeling a container "not weed," there's almost no wrong way to use it. You could fill it with loose change, monkey teeth—even heroin! In fact, there's only one thing that doesn't belong in a "not weed" container, which is reportedly just what a Nebraska man had in his on Saturday.
Reporter Stoned on "Aggressive Filth" Feels Soul Leave Body During MRI
As part of a "ground-breaking scientific trial" for Channel 4, reporter Jon Snow took an enormous hit from a vaporizer filled with "skunk and hash" and volunteered for an MRI. It, uh, didn't go so well. "It felt as if my soul had been wrenched from my body," he said after abandoning the project midway.
A Roof Without Snow Means Reefer Will Grow
Police in the Netherlands raided an otherwise normal-looking house in the city of Haarlem last week when they surmised from the lack of snow on its roof that there was some suspicious activity going on within. The house was full of sweet, sticky reefer. Go figure.
The Bill de Blasio Marijuana Rumors are Coming from Cops
For the bulk of his tenure, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has been dogged by rumors that he and his wife consume marijuana with some frequency. Yesterday, at a press conference in Brooklyn, he told a Daily Caller reporter that “I haven’t smoked marijuana since I was at NYU” and denied he ever smoked weed at…
