Science and spirituality join forces in Israel as they push for using various strains of cannabis as “personalized medicine.”

If you want to keep it shamanistically accurate, tis the season to eat some mushrooms.

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Huf Plantlife Socks ($12)

We’ll be doing the holiday countdown one business day at a time with presents under $100 to help make this season the most gifted one yet

Andrew Zuckerman, LA Confidential

Mat Collishaw makes crazy expensive glass art replicas of macgyvered plastic bottle bongs. Great name though.

The NYPL opens up the Timothy Leary archives

Legalize it, tax it, and then use that money to create a functional public healthcare system. This opinion article should have added in that idea.

via, gawker

One redditor’s effort to add some new seasonal charm to the end of the year.

via, @cmonstah

Market Watch

(note: legal pot is not brown)

The first states in the USA to legalize pot.

By Diplo

From the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters, directed by Edward S. Curtis

For the first time in recent memory, we agree with Pat Robertson.

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It’s really about the beer faucet and shank kit.

And then of course, How to Make a Pumpkin Bong (after the jump)

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The case of the JFK baggage handler who was given 3 life sentences for masterminding a global drug ring.

Nike cuts its ties with Lance Armstrong.

Rod Stewart and Elton John’s names for each other when they used party together in the early ’70s.

Rod also had this to say about Elton:

“I also had to be in awe of the fact that, whether it was drink or cocaine, he could see me right under the table every time.”

via, @donetodeath

The checkpoint in the Texas town that has busted Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Armie Hammer, and most recently Fiona Apple for bud.

A science lesson from AsapSCIENCE.

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