Today, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration announced through the New York Times that it may stop making arrests for low-level marijuana possession, opting instead to issue tickets without detaining the suspect. This would feel like an important step toward reasonable weed policy if New York state hadn't already mandated it 37 years ago.

In Colorado, where weed is legal, class was temporarily disrupted for a group of lucky teens today after a student's gravity bong "released smoke in a classroom," the Denver Post reports. The haze placed Adams City High School on a modified lockdown that was quickly lifted. Friday rules!

Amid the slew of Republican victories in yesterday's midterm elections, another big winner emerged: weed! In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C., voters decided to legalize pot for recreational use, joining the Coloradans and Washingtonians who legalized in 2012. Here's how.

Your baby is dank. I mean, that little thing is chill as hell. Lying in its crib, playing with some stupid mobile, like Check this thing out. The dumb mobile is not that cool, baby, but you are. You're the dankest lil bb on the block. I know this. Your parents know it. But how do we prove it to the neighbors?

Ebola.com, once the hottest property of the web's greatest disease-domain merchant, just sold for about $200,000. The buyer: a Russian company called Weed Growth Fund.

This week, the Drug Policy Alliance published a report on the demographics and geography of pot possession arrests in de Blasio's New York, of which BuzzFeed has a detailed analysis. The results: Smoking weed is pretty much OK if you live in Bensonhurst, but not if you live in Bed Stuy.

If you live in North Carolina and you watch a lot of online TV, you might have seen the ads. "More weed, less war," exclaims a twentysomething dudebro in one of them, waving a pot leaf-emblazoned poster. "Vote Sean Haugh...Ohhhh Yeah." But Haugh, a Libertarian Senate candidate, has nothing to do with them.

It's well known that Vanita Gupta, whom Eric Holder recently named as acting head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, supports pot decriminalization. However, as conservative blogger Cully Stinson points out, she'd actually like to see all drugs decriminalized. Stinson would have you believe that's a bad thing.

As much as everyone would love to see a bunch of stoned little kids running around dressed like baby Groot, or whatever, it's probably a good thing that Colorado police are trying to make sure trick-or-treaters don't accidentally eat any weed candy this year.

When Sunday began, Bryan Duffy, a 29-year-old Chicago real estate agent, was just like you or I. By the end of the day, he was a hero.

At some point, the world's pot smokers lost touch with life's simpler pleasures: a nicely rolled spliff, or a toke from a bowl, or a one-hitter disguised as a cigarette. The impulse toward ever-more complex smoking implements has surely reached its apex with this, the "Mask of Moldauthein."

Robel Phillipos is accused of entering Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnev's dorm room and removing a backpack full of fireworks after Tsarnev was announced as a suspect, then lying about it to the FBI. His defense: he was too high to lie.

A tipster writes:

Everyone smokes weed. Everyone does drugs. And yet, somehow—in this great nation!—black people seem to be the only ones getting arrested for it.

Several times a week, someone logs onto Erowid and writes about getting high. They've just eaten some weed and experienced "extreme amplified worry," for instance, or downed an insane cocktail of hallucinogens and discovered that god loves fractals. It's probably the most comprehensive database of drug experiences out there, and right now, it could use some money.

Not much to this story, but it's Friday afternoon, so enjoy: Walter Earl Morrison, 20, allegedly stole a $160,000 diamond from a UPS cargo plane in Phoenix, Ariz., then traded it for a $20 bag of weed.

Imagine, if you will, a libertarian William Shatner whose musical tastes skew more Blunted on Reality than Bringing It All Back Home, and you've got something like Mike Dunafon, an independent candidate for governor in Colorado.

Pete Holmes, Seattle's city attorney, announced yesterday that his office would dismiss all public use of marijuana tickets issued through July of this year, the Associated Press reports. Nearly all of those tickets were issued by a single, weed-hating cop.

It looks like KTVA reporter Charlo Greene's on-air announcement that she'd be leaving her job was just the first part of a pro-weed media campaign. Greene, who revealed herself as owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club in the same segment, released her own video yesterday, explaining her motivation.

If you're going to leave your TV gig for a life toiling at marijuana legalization, do it with some panache. At the end of a segment on a cannabis club last night, Alaskan news reporter Charlo Greene revealed herself as the club's owner and availed herself of any journalistic conflict of interest with four words: "Fuck it, I quit."