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Smoking pot: Did Obama inhale?

While Bill Clinton notoriously "didn't inhale" at Oxford, Barack Obama inhaled. Frequently, happily and allegedly those who didn't inhale were assessed a penalty, according to a new biography.

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Study: Pot smokers twice as likely to have car accidents

A new study at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has provided evidence that drivers who smoke pot even hours before operating a motor vehicle are twice as likely to cause crashes as drivers not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

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Colorado voters may see marijuana initiative on November ballot

Denver - Proponents of a marijuana legalization initiative in Colorado submitted over 159,000 signatures last week to the Secretary of State’s office, far exceeding the 86,500 required for the measure’s approval to be placed on the November ballot.

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Random pot use has no adverse effects on lungs, new study shows

Birmingham - A new study has found infrequent use of marijuana does not appear to have a detrimental effect on the health of lungs, with a certain amount of lung health improving slightly, according to a new study.

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Photos: Joan Rivers Caught Smoking Pot

Joan Rivers is seen smoking weed on WE reality show.

Annual '4/20' pot event celebrated in Vancouver

Thousands of young people gathered outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Friday for the annual marijuana smoking event known as '4/20.'

Barack Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Choom Gang'

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale. In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Zeus wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would...

$500K Medical Pot Loan Up in Smoke

Sometimes even the best laid plans go up in smoke. And sometimes these plans end up costing a lot of money. That's what happened to Mark Haile and Michele Hammer, two Arizona businesspeople who in August, 2010, loaned $250,000 each to Today's Health Care II (THC) http://www.todayshealthcaremeds.com, a Colorado-based medical marijuana dispensary. The agreements specifically stated that THC was using the loan proceeds for "a retail medical marijuana sales and grow center," but neither Haile nor Hammer thought that would ever be a problem. Marijuana is legal in Arizona and Colorado (along with 14 other states and the District of Columbia http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881 ); patients simply need a physician's prescription and they are legally allowed to obtain pot for medicinal purposes.

Forget 'social care pot of gold'

There will be no "pot of gold" to answer the prayers of councils struggling to look after the elderly, according to social care chiefs.