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• Swedes Get High On Nutmeg, End Up In Hospital For Cake Overload...

  We want to thank the Freakonomics blog for informing us that we can actually get high on nutmeg... although the hospitalization part that happened to these Swedish magazine readers is not really part of our agenda this weekend... Read More... Posted Sep 05 2008, 10:20 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, drugs, marijuana, sweden, food, lsd, swedish, acid, hallucinations, poison, freakonomics

• Dame Helen Mirren As A Teen: Loved Coke, Date Rape Not So Much

  Now that Helen Mirren has been ordained (or whatever it is) as an Order(ly) of the British Empire and has met the Queen that made her super famous, she has really let herself go in interviews... Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 02:10 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: drugs, helen mirren, teenagers, oscars, marijuana, celebrities, date rape, lsd, teenage girls, actresses, queen, royalty

• Sloppy Seconds: Amy Winehouse's Spiked Drink

  What does it take for gal to file for divorce around here? After 52 years of marriage, the nitwit who married the guy who kept his sex slave daughter in a cage has left him. Tim Robbins will produce a Showtime pilot starring Josh Lucas. Damn, is Showtime the new HBO or what?  Anderson Cooper may have moved in with his significant other this week... Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 05:17 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: anderson cooper, marriage, divorce, drugs, amy winehouse, seth rogen, congress, jamie lynn spears, marijuana, starbucks, cnn, sex slaves, Pineapple Express, tim robbins

• A Test You Cannot Fail: "The What Drug Should I Do?" Quiz

  We learned a lot about ourselves (more than we ever wanted to know), thanks to The Legend Auto Group's (huh?) blog entry "The What Drug Should I Do?" Quiz... Read More... Posted Jul 17 2008, 12:58 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: drugs, surveys, marijuana, drug addiction, heroin, testing, lsd, pcp, mushrooms, acid

• While You Were Sleeping: The iPhone Crisis

  Nude and stoned protesters rolled through a small Maine town in a pimped-out truck, complete with a jacuzzi and topless men and women and a man wearing fairy wings and shouting through a megaphone: "We smoke pot. We like it a lot." Predictably, the name of the town is Norway.  Israel's Prime Minister believes he's close to entering into a peace agreement with Palestine. He added that it's a lot easier when you tell them it's a contract for The Amazing Race. Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris are returning to the small screen. The really small screen. Read More... Posted Jul 14 2008, 09:42 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: politics, MTV, Neil Patrick Harris, Joss Whedon, israel, marijuana, Palestine, iphone, maine, the amazing race, golden girls, the who, pearl jam

• Snoop Dogg is a Honky Tonk Angel

  It's no secret that Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson have been smoking it up together for some time now. And it's no secret that we'd really like to get in on that shit. Instead, we'll have to settle for listening to Snoop Dogg's first country single (featuring Nelson), "My Medicine."  Read More... Posted Jun 20 2008, 11:17 AM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: snoop dogg, nelly, tim mcgraw, marijuana, pot, country music, weed, rap, willie nellson, collaborations

• Police Shoot "Drug Dealer" 5 Times, Find No Drugs

  As Congress moves to debate Barney Frank's bill to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, a man in Little Rock, Arkansas is recovering from an incident in the ongoing War on Drugs that left him with five bullet wounds, charges for assault and dealing, barely able to walk, unable to work, and with a bad case of post-traumatic stress disorder. On top of that, all the facts in the case point to his complete innocence... Read More... Posted May 12 2008, 11:55 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: police, cops, drugs, cocaine, marijuana, assault, arrested, arkansas, raids, war on drugs

• Website of the Day: 101 Things Every Man Should Know

  We're not sure why these are specifically things a man should know... or if he really needs to learn them at all. (Must we learn how to smoke cigars, for example, if we think people who smoke cigars smell like a barf-filled A train at 4am?) Read More... Posted Apr 28 2008, 10:30 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: police, subway, women, men, marijuana, orgasms, romantic, boys don't cry, speedo, faking it

• Sloppy Seconds: Eva Mendes' New Underwear Modeling Gig

  An Australian man was gunned down in his driveway by a robot packing a .22 semi-automatic pistol. Don't worry, though, the robots aren't taking over the world just yet. The man built the robot and programmed it to kill him.  Hey kids, if you're going to smuggle pot across international borders, why not use soda cans or text books? You know, something the kids are into these days. We hear The Hills DVDs are all the rage. We once had a boyfriend get a shit-ton of pot through airport security tucked deep into a jar of Nutella. But cans of vegetables? Hominy at that? Industrial size cans of hominy?! If you haven't watched last night's LOST yet, then you probably don't want to click this link to find out which character is gay, gay, gay.  Read More... Posted Mar 21 2008, 05:46 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: gay, sloppy seconds, underwear, Lost, eva mendes, robots, the internets, marijuana, proposals, australia, rehab, pot, mexico, suicide, modeling, good morning america, twitter, marriage proposals

• I Hate MySelf For Loving You: Slut Machine

  We don't want to get all incestuous and start loving on other bloggers, but we can't hold it back any longer: we really love Slut Machine. Slut Machine, obviously her real name, is sort of the resident sex guru on Jezebel and has her own blog under the alias "Tracie Egan" called One D At A Time. But what caught our attention is her regular Thursday homemade feature: Pot Psychology. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2008, 03:51 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: hairy fetish, marijuana, jezebel, pot, slut machine, steve carrell

• Today In Drugs: Salvia is the New Loco Weed

  "Sally-D, Magic Mint and Diviner's Sage... whatever you call it, Salvia is all the rage!" Read More... Posted Mar 11 2008, 04:10 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: canada, marijuana, pot, drug addiction, second life, salvia, lsd, pcp

• Doug Benson's Super High Me Premieres at South-by-Southwest

  Reviews and the teaser for Super High Me, Marijuana Logues co-creator and High Times' Stoner of the Year 2006 Doug Benson's documentary have been making the rounds across the interweb this morning and it's looking like some funny shit. Jenna Wortham from Wired saw it this weekend at South-by-Southwest and dug it, and Morgan Spurlock "promised not to sue" but wished he'd seen the film. Being more boozehound than stoner, pot-inspired jokes don't come that naturally to us. So just check the teaser after the jump and try not to spill the bong water or whatever the fuck you burnouts do: Read More... Posted Mar 10 2008, 04:16 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: marijuana, documentaries, pot, doug benson

• I Hate Myself for Loving You: Michael McDonald

  Who am I kidding? That's a damned lie. Why does this category even exist? What kind-of self-loathing assholes would we be if we hated what we loved? I'm no longer ashamed to admit that I, Scanner Emily, love you, Michael McDonald. I want to shout it from the rooftops: I fucking love you! Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 08:49 AM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: marijuana, michael mcdonald, yacht rock, scanner emily fucking loves michael mcdonald, i hate myself for loving you, what a fool believes, gray hair

• Choose Your Own Adventure: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

  We didn't have time to draw up an Obama vs. Hillary "Choose Your Own Adventure" cover (it's Friday, it's cold, we're drunk, choose your own adventure excuse), so this classic Mellencamp one will have to suffice. As for the promised "Choose Your Own Adventure: 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary" edition, well, you'll see what we mean... Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 02:31 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: hillary clinton, drugs, Barack Obama, marijuana, elections, primary, willie nelson, politcs, john mellencamp

• Hot Teacher Busted For Hosting Sex & Drugs Party

  Hot Teacher Abbiejane Swogger of Harrison, PA, is the thirty-four-year-old ex-stripper who was busted after cops raided her student-filled hotel room. They found condoms, crack cocaine (woah, Pennsylvania is right up there with Jersey, yo!), Mary Jane reefers, and God knows what else. But it's her explanation for why she was up late in a hotel room with teenage boys that is the real standout. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 11:11 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: gay, porn, sex, condoms, marijuana, teacher student sex, Pennsylvania, education, Pittsburgh, crackck cocaine, hot teachers

• Video of the Day: "Pineapple Express" Trailer

  Yeah, it kind of looks like the best comedy of 1996. But dammit -- remember when we said that James Franco might turn into Nicolas Cage if he wasn't careful. This is the anti-that! Seth Rogen tends to dominate any scene he's in -- and dig Franco here! He's a riot! Attention, heterosexual men: your latest mancrush has arrived. PS: Dig the M.I.A. in the background! It's so genius -- the kids'll actually know what it is and the oldsters will be like "Is that The Clash?" (You know, like we did at first.) Bonus video if ya click through. Read More... Posted Feb 22 2008, 12:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: trailers, james franco, seth rogen, marijuana, pot, Pineapple Express, mancrushes, MIA

• The World's First Weed ATM

  We Scanner folk may have 24-hour food delivery and Babes in Toyland, but vending machine marijuana is enough for L.A. to usurp all of NYC's best traits. Unfortunately, you can't just fly out there and wait in line with a couple thousand-dollar bills at a RiteAid on Wilshire Boulevard. You're gonna get a doctor's note (forged), California residency (doctored), and a laundry list of items to pick up for my next eight birthday parties. Dude! They even have Grandaddy Purple, which is like taking LSD and going to a Right-to-Life Party rally-- your mind wants to explode, you vomit and cry with happiness, but you cannot move because Ted Haggard is rubbing your leg.  Drool here.  Posted Jan 28 2008, 04:16 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: New York City, marijuana, Los Angeles, ATM, medical marijuana, Babes in Toyland, pot

• New York State to Tax Marihuana; Bootlegging and Bolshevism to Follow Suit

  Say, New Yorkers, you better not be caught with any of those marihuana cigarettes that we hear so much about in the speakeasies. For one thing, they turn you into sex-crazed hopheads with loose morals and jitterbugs on the brain. For another, Albany wants to tax you for 'em. Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 04:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: marijuana, 30's talk see!, marihuana

• Celebrity Crime Round-Up: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De Mornay and Amy Winehouse

  Mischa Barton was arrested Thursday morning for maybe, possibly driving drunk and/or having marijuana on her person. [Yahoo!] Rebecaa De Mornay: in trouble yet again, still OK in our eyes. But only because of that subway sex scene in Risky Business. Not that we condone drunk driving (we don't) we'll just never get over that particular moment. Ever.  [Yahoo!] Oh, Amy Winehouse. She's been summoned to appear in a Norwegian court on charges of marijuana possession. Blah, blah. Drugs, beehive, drugs, blah, blah. [MTV News] Posted Dec 28 2007, 10:34 AM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: amy winehouse, celebrity arrests, crime, rebecca de mornay, marijuana, mischa barton, risky business