"Smoking up to a joint per day doesn't seem to decrease lung function, according to a study published in Jan. 11 edition of Journal of the American Medical Association. In fact, occasional marijuana use was associated with slight increases in lung airflow rates and increases in lung volume, the study found." —Well, there you have it. If you're having slight respiratory problems—you find yourself getting winded easily, or you can't take a full deep breath—you might want to consider smoking some pot. It will also make you funkier.

Here is what 46 tons of pot being burned by the Mexican government looks like. This was in May, and they hired a marching band and everything. They'll be burning even more soon, as military police just completed the biggest pot bust in the country's history: 105 tons of the stuff, wrapped in 10,000 packages, in Tijuana. As the BBC reports: "The drugs, found in houses and vehicles, were wrapped in differently coloured packages that had markings and pictures on them, including the cartoon character Homer Simpson." Who has been declared a "true Catholic," according to L'Osservatore Romano.

"The Rusty Knot is the most stoner of all my places. It's kind of like the basement we all had when we grew up where we first smoked pot." -Manhattan restaurateur Ken Friedman describes his black-light-poster decorated west side spot in a way that does not make me want to eat there. I remember that basement. The pot was kept balled up in an old sock behind a radiator. There was a mother cat with a litter of new kittens in a box in the corner. And the featured entree was cold Beefaroni scooped straight out the can with green plastic army men figures. (Oh, hey: internet research [...]