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The Yankees might not have made it to the World Series this year, but cheer up New Yorkers, you are #1 at arresting black/hispanic people for smoking marijuana. See? It’s not all frowns.

Was that a little cold? I’m sorry. No I’m not.

It is truly sad to see Joe Torre go out like this, and even though Don Mattingly might end up getting the job and being a great coach, no one will replace Joe in the players eyes. It would be like Phil Jackson leaving the Lakers (again) or Bill Belichik leaving the Patriots. Just no good for everyone in general.

The law-heavy and litigious culture of America is definitely unique in this world. Slate’s Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor, has written an extremely thought-provoking examination of consistently broken laws.

This series explores the black spots in American law: areas in which our laws are routinely and regularly broken and where the law enforcement response is … nothing. These are the areas where, for one reason or another, we’ve decided to tolerate lawbreaking and let a law—duly enacted and still on the books—lay fallow or near dead.

The topics range from prescription drug abuse to copyright matters and isn’t for the light reader.

Obvious contrast between the new law (placed on the books in response to a specific cause) and the decaying law (slowly allowed to fade away without any fanfare) highlights how our founding fathers didn’t think of everything when piecing together our form of government.

I know we’re late, but the 7th Annual High Times Stony Awards were last week.

Here’s Tera Patrick talking about being a presenter.

Here’s the lowdown on all Stony winners and the attendee list.

While I’m on the topic of famous stoners, Marc & Jodie Emery just debuted their documentary on CBC Newsworld in Canada. The Prince of Pot is still taking on America and, as always, making sure the process is well documented.

I wish they’d stop documenting Amy Winehouse and her minor pot run-ins. I’m seeing a news article on this girl twice a week now, there has to be something more interesting to report on. Right?

Before you know it she’ll move to Manila and start getting taxi rides from this guy.

Don’t feel like traveling Winehouse style? No matter where you go, there will always be some worldwide marijuana information waiting.

Whether you want to smoke in Kazakhstan or Bernardsville, New Jersey the more information the better.

The major US cities have information on legality, smoking tolerance level, law enforcement, where to buy your pot and local area prices. Everything one would need to know when traveling into unfamiliar territory.

Fun Fact: North Americans are most likely to search the internet for pot.

I could have told them that.

Let’s hope that the author of the following blog isn’t being affected by the deadly San Diego fires.

In the meantime, he has written an honest, first-person experience of the San Diego medical marijuana system.

As I came to find out, San Diego county had previously shut down every medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego county saying they were influencing youth to take up dangerous drugs. In my area we have no readily available source for medical marijuana other than grow it ourselves (which is what I do) or go to a “dealer”. This needs to be brought to the publics attention as it is leaving many legitimately sick people such as me without the access to the medicine they need.

This illustrates the challenge that legitimate patients are having to get their medicine, and how even in big cities people are forced to go to the streets to get marijuana if they aren’t in a position to grow some. How this makes any of us safer is beyond me.

Luckily for all of us, the prohibition movement is nothing but a downhill battle. Mass incarceration just isn’t a sustainable solution.

In Canada, they are already turning the corner. A judge has just recently declared that “marijuana prohibition has no valid force or effect.” Read on to see the entire legal memorandums and why they might be important for a simple possession case to have an impact on a constitutional level.