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The Crying Girl From The Blair Witch Project Wrote A Memoir About Growing Pot

Natalie Zutter — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:54:01 +0000

Ever wondered what happened to the girl from The Blair Witch Project who shoves her face up close to the screen and cries about how she’s so scared? Nah, us either. But the answer is still pretty unbelievable: It turns out that the former actress, Heather Donahue, spent the year of 2007 growing pot in Los Angeles.

Her new memoir GrowGirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot details her successful medical marijuana business and her fears of getting busted. Heather was profiled on Philly.com since she’s a local gal, and she gave some hilarious quotes.

Heather admitted to her own medical marijuana use, for PMS. When the interviewer asked if that meant she smoked it only once a month, she responded, “It’s a very flexible medicine.”
She seemed really bitter about not appearing in any high-profile things except for the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken: “I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all.” But not her blue ski cap from Blair Witch! “That’s the only thing I kept. I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay.”
She immediately took to cultivating pot because she “was an avid gardener.”

And for the record? Her stuff was high-grade.

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Who Is Writing Lady Gaga’s Songs?

Lilit Marcus — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:54:55 +0000

Although Lady Gaga is proud of being a pop star who actually writes her own material, lately she’s been giving credit to some other authors of her work.

Alexander McQueen

Gaga says that her friend, late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, is using her as a conduit to get his message across. “I think he planned the whole thing. Right after he died, I wrote Born This Way,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing. I didn’t even write the f**king song! He did!”

God

Gaga’s new single “Judas” was a present from the Big Guy himself. She told NME that “I feel like honestly that God sent me those lyrics and that melody. When you feel a message to give to the world and people are shooting arrows through it…there’s no way for something that pure to be wrong.”

Marijuana

Gaga has said that she often smokes pot when she’s working on songs. This might explain how that “disco stick” lyric came to be.

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Crushable Books: Weedopedia

Drew Grant — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:30:00 +0000

Confession: I am not the Weedopedia‘s intended audience. I have not been, and never will be, a proper stoner. The most paranoia I associate with marijuana is the fear that everyone I come in contact with (friends, family, the occasional senator or media mogul…) smokes more pot than I do, and is therefore irrecoverably more “cool” than me. The last time I got anything close like stoned I watched someone impersonate a robot, rearrange the living room furniture, and create a television show in their head where they got to tell other people to “Get their sh*t together.” I do not need more of that in my life, thanks.

On the other hand, Weedopedia, writted by one Will B. High, is a very informative and useful book that will help me pass as a cool kid the next time I go hang out under the bleachers during a football game.

Even though books written to mimic the effects of a website like Wikipedia are as dumb as a mid-2000s Kevin Smith film, Weedopedia was surprisingly up-to-date and clever with its references. I even learned some stuff! Like under “P” where I found ou about Project MKULTRA:

“an experiment conducted by the U.S. government from the early 1950s to at least the mid-1960s and the best use of taxpayer dollars in U.S. history. The project served as a way to study the effects of LSD, cocaine, marijuana, and other psychoactive drugs on human behavior. Usually the rugs were administered without the subject’s consent or knowledge…the project is especially important to know for the stoner, because if and when stoners invent time-travel technology, they should know to go back to 1953 in San Francisco and try to look as shady and forgettable as possible. Such behavior will likely result in getting picked up and given free LSD by the government.”

If this is the sort of insider-y smoke dreams that you guys like to talk about when high, this book has tons of similarly dense nuggets (LOL) of wisdom. If you are like me however, and read that entry only to get a panic attack at the concept of Big Brother administering your parents drugs, leading to an inexplicable urge to clean everything in your house and maybe touch the door handle on your bathroom five times exactly, then this book can still be useful as a way of both learning stoner culture and making sure your apartment is always especially shiny.

Weedopedia, you are a good book, and I am glad your publishers decided to send us three copies (they were high, I presume), so I can give them to a bunch of my friends and pass it off like I suddenly know a lot about chronic, kindbud, and the comic stylings Mitch Hedburg. Just do yourself a favor and rename this book “The Weed Dictionary,” because you’d have to be straight trippin’ not to realize that this book is not, in fact, an Internet website.

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Thanksgiving: The Pot-Smoker’s Holiday

Drew Grant — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:31:54 +0000

Thanksgiving is coming up in two weeks, which means for most of us it’s time to pack all our dirty laundry for mom to do, stock up on Valium, and head home to see the family. As you grow older though, something strange happens: Thanksgiving is no longer about listening to your parents fight with your grandma, or the last minute rush after the oven stops working and you need to put the turkey in the neighbor’s stove. No, Thanksgiving has been deemed the official holiday made possible by marijuana.

It makes perfect sense. Take the most stressful holiday – the one that involves the most cooking, the most amount of people over for a sit-down, potentially volatile meal – and add a little bit of weed to the mix? Well, suddenly the thought of eating 20 pounds of turkey and mashed potatoes seems awesome.

Then there’s the parental issue: I’m not sure if this happens in the majority of households, but I’m willing to bet if you did a study about kids that split an occasional spliff with mom and dad, you’d find that the majority of them started the tradition one Thanksgiving after graduating high school or college and coming home. It implies you are an adult who can finally see your parents as people too, not the strict enforcers who grounded you when they found out you drank vodka on prom night.

Don’t just listen to me, just look at movies like The Family Stone, Home for the Holidays, or most flashbacks in Six Feet Under, all of which feature adults partaking in a little peace-pipe smoking with their children. I’m not endorsing doing drugs under your parent’s roof, of course, but if you’re going to be smoking (or eating) weed anyway this holiday season, consider making it a family affair. Worst-case scenario: your parents freak out, you laugh it off as a joke, and you sit down for your awkward meal after toking by yourself. Best case? You’ve created a new family tradition, everyone gets the munchies, and you spend the entire dinner laughing and stuffing your faces. And isn’t that what Thanksgiving is all about?

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Crushable Quotable: Apparently that was real pot Zach Galifianakis Smoked on ‘Bill Maher’

Liana Maeby — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:30:52 +0000

There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about Zach Galifianakis’ Real Time with Bill Maher weed stunt. Bill himself claimed that the joint was filled with cloves and not real pot, but the other guest on the show that night, Republican strategist Margaret Hoover has a different story to tell. She claims Zach did, in fact, light up a real, live illegal-drug-laden joint:

“If you’ve been to a rock concert, you know that pot makes these big, billowy white clouds, and it didn’t do that. So I wasn’t sure if it was real or not. And nobody was sure if it was real or not… It was defnitely not cloves. I asked Zach afterwards, he said it was THC-free marijuana.”

“If you’ve ever been to a rock concert”? Seriously, lady, we’re supposed to believe that’s why you’re such an expert on the plume-angles of marijuana smoke? We’re calling it now: “I have been to a rock concert” is the new “I didn’t inhale.”

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Crush Links: Paris’ Pot

Drew Grant — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:41:57 +0000

• Paris Hilton can’t stop smoking pot. Luckily every time a foreign official catches her, she’s released back into the wild in under 24 hours. (RadarOnline)
• Adam Brody thinks Kristen Stewart should STFU about how hard it is to be a celebrity. We agree. (TheFrisky)
• Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz says The Social Network trailer emphasizes a lot of things that don’t matter.(Vulture)
• The biggest question of all: Why are Ellen Page‘s hands bright yellow? (DListed)
• Lindsay Lohan has hired one of O.J.’s lawyers, Robert Shapiro. (PopEater)
• And even that guy is saying that Lindsay is sick and needs to go to jail. Damn. (E! Online)
• Mel Gibson‘s next stop: Rehab? (Lainey Gossip)

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Video: Chace Crawford Goes In Front Of Texas Court

Drew Grant — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:43:47 +0000

He may have had one of the hottest mugshots ever, but Chace Crawford isn’t getting off scot free after cops found one joint in a car he was riding in with a friend in Texas. Today the Gossip Girl star goes in front of a judge to be officially charged with the misdemeanor. So you know what that means ladies? If you live in Texas, hop on down to the local courthouse (you guys have just one, right?) and get a glimpse of Nate Archibald getting his ass handed to him.

(Video via TMZ)

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Chace Crawford Arrested For Pot

Drew Grant — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:38:01 +0000

Well, he can always claim he was just doing some character study: Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl was arrested in Texas last night when a cop pulled him and a friend over and found one unlit joint in their car. Which – while pot is bad, kids – is pretty innocuous as far as young celebrity drug arrests go. Chace is already out on bail, but not before TMZ got their hands on his booking photo, which may be one of the hottest in history.

Sorry, this isn’t the mugshot.

(Photo via WENN)

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There’s a new Tom Cruise marijuana, just for all the hip cats

Wendy Boswell — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:30:31 +0000

Just what every crazy Scientologist needs: a brand of pot named after them. Apparently, there’s a new strain of medical marijuana named “Tom Cruise Purple” that makes you see things that aren’t actually, uh, THERE. If it’s named for Tommy Boy, shouldn’t it make you jump up and down on couches, marry robotic Amazons, star in Nazi movies, and make long speeches about L.Ron Hubbard?

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Mary Ann likes her Mary Jane!

Wendy Boswell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:31:36 +0000

Now I just giggled at this one. Seems as if Dawn Wells, who played the iconic Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, got caught with some pot in her car while driving home from a party! She’s on six months probation, and that’s about it, but her lawyer wants to make an ass of himself and said she was “just trying to find the heater” in her new car. The heater connected to her bong pipe, you mean? Oh, okay! You go, Mary Ann!

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