Marijuana

The Legislative Push to Make Texas More Marijuana-Friendly is Officially Dead

Marijuana advocates were abuzz last month -- and by "abuzz" we mean excited, of course -- when a bill to reduce penalties for marijuana possession was passed out the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The bill had been watered down to apply only to people younger than 21, but the Texas ch ... More >>

The Feds Say a Dallas Clothing Store Was Actually a Front for Jet-setting Drug Dealer

There was just something that didn't add up about Debonaire Bros, the retail menswear business Kristian Fitz had registered with the Texas Secretary of State. For one, there didn't seem to be any clothes. Federal agents staked out the store's supposed address, a Red Bird home belonging to Fitz's par ... More >>

Dallas Weed Activists Plan St. Paddy's Day Protest after Being Excluded from Parade

This weekend's Greenville Ave -- ahem, Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade & Festival -- is supposed to be more "family friendly" than years past. It sounds ominous but, as we were assured in January, is more of a marketing thing than an effort to keep keep people from getting wildly, embarrassingly dr ... More >>

Sylvespa "Paw" Adams: Once Accused of Beating a Kid Over Drug Money, Now Popped for Running a Large Dallas Weed Operation

Agents of nearly a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies busted a large drug ring this week, arresting a dozen people and seizing 600 marijuana plants and 25 pounds of hydroponic weed. The sweep -- conducted by Dallas PD, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security and the IRS, ... More >>

The DEA Seized 269 Pounds of Leafy Greens En Route to a Dallas Produce House Last Week

Last Thursday, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency received a tip from someone in Brownsville, Texas: A Dallas-bound freight shipment described on shipping manifests as a collection of scales and metal plates actually seemed to contain something else entirely. The shipment was picked up that ... More >>

Pot Addiction Study Tracks the Brains of People Who Really Enjoy Weed, Maybe Too Much

If you're high right now, you may want to tune in. Try not to giggle. A University Texas at Dallas professor was awarded nearly $2 million dollars to study marijuana addiction for the next five years. We're talking pot, the addiction suffered in silence -- or in inappropriate laughter at anything th ... More >>

This Cinco de Mayo -- OK, Fine, Cinco de Mota -- NORML Takes its Cause to Dallas City Hall

With Cinco de Mayo fast approaching, the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, is scrambling to remind Americans that if you're going to undermine a holiday designed to celebrate a culture's heritage, you don't have to just do it by getting h ... More >>

Dallas Federal Grand Jury Indicts Sam Hurd, Co-Conspirator For Cocaine Distribution

​Seems like only three weeks ago Sam Hurd was just another former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who was on his road to journeyman status, which, in his case, ran through Soldier Field. Then it was revealed: Even before his acquisition by the Chicago Bears, the San Antonio native fancied him ... More >>

A 420 for 2012

Obama's War on Weed

In a strange about-face, the President tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

That's Just a NORML Squad Car

Via.​Just couldn't hold this till item till 4:20, so sorry. But I'd meant to mention last week that the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (or NORML) was staging its part of the World Wide Marijuana March on May 7 on the Dallas City Hall Plaza. ... More >>

iWatch You Growing Pot In An Empty House

​Back in October, the Dallas Police Department launched iWatch Dallas, its spin on LAPD's "virtual crime watch" intended to use citizen alerts to deter anything and everything from car burglaries to prostitution to terrorism. DPD says it's working as planned and that iWatch has "led to several imp ... More >>

A Party for Your Buds

Head of Pot Distribution "Conspiracy" That Included Ex-Cowboy Gets 24 Years in Prison

University of Notre DameBob Davie, then coach at Notre Dame, with a freshman Kurt Vollers back in '97 ​In April 2009, John Patrick Newton was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for growing, storing and selling marijuana out of an apartment on N. MacArthur Boulevard inIrving. Said t ... More >>

Once, He Ran West Dallas Drug Houses. For the Next 30 Years, He'll Be in State, Federal Prison.

Click to embiggen to see where some of the West Dallas Gator Boys' drug houses were​Back in August Sam told you all about Tyrone Weatherall, a leader of the West Side Gator Boys -- and an exotic animal collector -- who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distrib ... More >>

Dallas Gang Leader, Drug Dealer and Apparent Exotic Animal Lover Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

We're thinking the kiddos at Pinkston High School weren't having a tough time getting high last year. (The markers are streets where drug houses were located.)​Tyrone Weatherall, the 35-year-old leader of the "West Side Gator Boys," pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to possess wi ... More >>

Dallas-Born Encycloweedia—Exactly What It Sounds Like—Is Trying a New Way to Turn Pot into Dough

With Shifting Attitudes and a Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Movement, the Future Looks Rosy for Legalized Weed

Pot for Pain? Not in Dallas County, No Sir.

​Will the feds' new stance on medicinal marijuana have any impact on local users, even though, sadly, Texas isn't among the states that permit the practice? Craig Watkins's office says no way, no how. Local Libertarians, not surprisingly, are crossing their fingers. (As opposed to ...) "The federa ... More >>

Smokey dare: Maybe it's time to regulate marijuana like cigarettes

To Be Blunt, "Although It is Uncommon for People to Deliver Contraband in Coffins, It Certainly is Not Unheard Of."

Lt. Andy Harvey, who handles media relations for the Dallas Police Department, sends along this photo -- which, yup, is a casket full of marijuana. Seems like the perfect adios for the weed and week that was. He also sends along this description for those Friends of Unfair Park still around at this ... More >>

Mark Stepnoski, Lou Grant Looking to Smoke Out 9/11 Conspiracy

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Weed Killers

DEA agents see Mexican cartels behind huge pot farms here

High on Badu's Bow at the House of Blues

Redman

Red Gone Wild (Def Jam)

It's a Badu World

The rest of us just live in it

Into the Breach

We feel the need for weed

Don't Go Bust

A turncoat narc offers tips on how to move your weed

There Goes the Neighborhood

Toke This

Zoot Suit Riot

Get down with a pachuco at the LCC

Stoner Chic

The Herbal Life | Give me a break | Happily hydro | Why "Anonymous?"

The Other Farmers Market

Local marijuana growers cash inon well-heeled tokers' love of fine weed

Generation Rx

Adrift in a sea of psychotropic pharmacology, it's easy for a kid to drown.

Best Herb

Redentas Organic Gardening Center

Eagles of Death Metal

Peace Love Death Metal (Ant Acid Audio)

Good for Nothings

From the SMU vaults, a collection of bad movies with, ahem, good intentions

Steppin' Out

Former Cowboy Mark Stepnoski tackles a new role--leading the charge for marijuana reform

Best Pot

Jackson's

Off the Block

KLIF general manager wants airtime pulled from eBay

Think Mink

Michael Irvin recounts the infamous scissors incident and some other Cowboys tales

Inhale With Hale

Itinerant pro-pot candidate Steven Hale is down again, but not out

Radio Haze

Rick Day's plans for a pro-pot radio show evaporate

Joint Effort

"Aging hippies" team with the desperately ill and one lawmaker to fight for medical marijuana in Texas. Is that just a smoke screen?

Out Here

The Tomorrowpeople
Mazinga Phaser

Pot party

Reefer Madness contains some of Pegasus' best ensemble work in ages

Dopes

Half Baked sinks like a stoner

Zero tolerance

Voters dump the Wise County attorney for going easy on recreational pot users

Prosecutor under fire

Wise County Attorney draws challenge on pot, DWI policies