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Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman Meth Around at Deitch Projects

Welfare Goes Up a Couple of Bucks

Good news, freeloaders -- your welfare checks are going up by as much as 38 dollars! The Times reports the monthly stipend for a family of four just went up from $375.70 to $413.70. It's the first such increase in nineteen years. Diabetic single recipient Georgeanna Hicks, 54, gets an extra $13 t ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne

--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>

Staten Islander Flees Meth Charges, Phones to Say: "California, Baby!"

Staten Island's David Fishbein is making a name for himself all over America. The 33-year-old Great Kills man and his companion, Melanie Peer, 37, of Toledo, Ohio [both pictured right] are being hunted by Mississippi police for running a meth lab in a hotel room in Ocean Springs. But the search wil ... More >>

Drug Czar Ends Drug War, But Casualties Continue to Mount

This has been a crap couple of days for the U.S. economy. As The Smart Asset details, California is selling off assets to avoid total collapse. Congress is watering down the credit card bill, removing the 15 percent cap on rates. Chrysler is closing hundreds of dealerships, and last month wholesale ... More >>

East Villager is Beaten in Tompkins Square, Dies

Bob Arihood of Neither More Nor Less suggests that the death of East Villager and Tompkins Square Park habitue Lesia Pupshaw this weekend may have been the result of beatings she suffered in and around the Park Friday night at the hands of "young Hispanic male park attackers." Witnesses have told hi ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Bill Considered in Albany

Sweet! Here it is 4.20, and PolitickerNY reports movement on a medical marijjuana bill for the state. The current bill would allow "certified patients" who, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, "are likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from the primary or adjunctive tr ... More >>

Happy 4/20! Like, Here's The Miss High Times Swimsuit Video

It's April 20, and if you're a stoner or know someone who is, you know this means that today is national pot smoking day. To mark the occasion, High Times magazine is hosting a "joint celebration" somewhere in the city tonight to crown Miss High Times 2009, an event that even the gin-and-tonic Ti ... More >>

Are You Nuts4Pot?

Photo by specialkrb @ Flickr This Google Map was supposedly created for school credit--Mr. Dimalo's class, to be precise. It features 10 honey roasted nuts vendors in New York who also sell pot. Actually, it's nine. One of them is a hot dog vendor. According to the GMap: "yo this guy sold hot dogs n ... More >>

More on Albany's Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

In a rare moment of cooperation in Albany, Governor Paterson and the state legislature effectively ended the harshest provisions of the much-criticized Rockefeller Drug Laws today. The agreement ends mandatory jail time for first-time and non-violent felony offenders, something that advocates have f ... More >>

Deal Reported on Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

Not long after a large rally outside Governor Paterson's Manhattan office urged the repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws, the Times reports that Paterson and leaders in the state legislature have made a deal to reform those laws. The plan is said to allow "first-time nonviolent offenders in all but t ... More >>

Smuggling Chocolate?

USA Today reports that a Canadian couple were recently arrested in the Toronto airport, and their baby taken from them as they were led away in handcuffs. Their crime: Trying to fly with a pound-and-a-half of chocolate. Rube customs agents tested it with one of their junior science kits an ... More >>

Bong Hits For Food Banks

Just like the old saying goes: One man's overly publicized bong hit is another man's boon.The San Francisco Food Bank, an organization that collects food donations and distributes them to hundreds of community food programs, recently received an amusing windfall: Two tons of Kellogg's Cornflakes and ... More >>

Drug Law Reform Bill Expected to Pass in Assembly

Hey, looks like the assembly is going to start that Rockefeller drug law reform we mentioned yesterday. The Times reports Sheldon Silver says "the stars are aligned" (translation: the votes are in the bag) for Bill A06085, which would restore judges' discretion in sentencing and allow minor drug off ... More >>

Fabolous Tied to 500 Pounds of Marijuana; Loso's Way Begins to Look Unlikely Indeed

The news that Fabolous's tour bus was stopped in Arkansas, where police discovered 500 pounds of marijuana, cannot be possibly be a good indication that the rapper will remain free and able to release/promote an album anytime soon. Fab was not on the bus, but the two weedcarriers who were appear t ... More >>

Brooklyn Neighbors to Compile List of Stoners for Cops

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

SNL Mocks Paterson As Bumbling Cokehead; Gov Raps Blind Jokes

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

More Late-Breaking Mr. Black News!

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Late Breaking Nightclub News

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Humboldt County

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

'Fuck Facebook' The T-Shirt!

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

'Blogger of the Week' Winner Number One!

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

You Can Be My 'Blogger of The Week'!

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Looks After Neighbor, Is Slain in L.I.C.

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Clip Job: The Mad Mongolian, and Mailer, Too!

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Listen Up, Lohan, Bale, and All You Other Celebs in Crisis

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

Same Story, Different Day: Mary-Kate Olsen and the Ongoing Heath Ledger Investigation, Angelina Jolie's Twins and Snooks's Return

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda

They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>

The NYPD 'Weeds' Out Blacks and Latinos

New study outlines racial disparity in NYC's staggering number of pot busts

Ray Kelly for Mayor? A Voters' Guide

In this proudly cosmopolitan city, the NYPD and its leader are far from color-blind

Olsen Twin's Drug Legacy Continues!

In this proudly cosmopolitan city, the NYPD and its leader are far from color-blind

High Times at the Sean Bell Trial (Plus Other April Fool's Madness)

In this proudly cosmopolitan city, the NYPD and its leader are far from color-blind

Reefer Madness Strikes Mid-Level Celebrities!

In this proudly cosmopolitan city, the NYPD and its leader are far from color-blind

Yippie Apocalypse in the East Village

A feud of staggeringly stupid proportions

Eliot Spitzer's Crack Tax

Wait, it's not what you think

The Rockefeller Drug Laws: 35 Years of Unjust, Biased Policy

Wait, it's not what you think

Drug Counselor at Rikers Gets Busted for . . . Dope

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Killer Mike

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Correction Official: No Indication Counselor Brought Drugs to Rikers

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Top Rikers Drug Counselor Busted for Selling Heroin and Cocaine

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

The Governator Says the Weed-Smoke is Not a Drug

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Method Man Says "Just Say No"

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Inside the Federal Wiretaps that Took Down a Cop

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Dong Hits for Jesus

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Pot Marchers to Gather in Wash. Sq. Again

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Things I Learned Watching ATL

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Irv Gotti Trial: 50 Cent Shooting To Be Admitted?

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Why Do You Think They Call Him Dope?

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

The Most Dangerous Lawyer in America

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'

Reputations at Stake

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'