Deb Greene waited in line for hours to become Seattle's first legal recreational weed customer, buying OG Kush from Cannabis City when it opened July 8. Unlike her counterpart in Spokane, she didn't immediately go home and get totally ripped, but saved the bud for posterity.

In a groundbreaking study, Oxford University researchers found that pot can on occasion make you paranoid, in affirmation of the experiences of everyone who has ever smoked, talked to someone who smokes, or watched a movie about smoking.

Today, the White House issued a statement "strongly opposing" the passage of H.R. 5016, a House spending bill that, among other things, would block funding for Washington, D.C.'s recently passed weed decriminalization bill. Cannily, the memo attacks decriminalization opponents from the right.

Mike Boyer, the national treasure and inspiration to us all who lost his job after becoming Spokane, Wa.'s first legal weed buyer, is going back to work.

This year, Dr. Sue Sisley became the only researcher in the U.S. to win federal approval for medical marijuana research. Last week, she lost her job.

Imagine the kind of person who would camp outside a dispensary for 19 hours to become the first legal weed buyer in his city, and chances are you'll land not far from Mike Boyer. He's a portly man, smile on his face, and he's wearing a trippy tie-dye t-shirt he says he's been "rockin'…for about 12 years now." When he talks, he sounds like a mellowed-out Kenny Powers.

Several months ago, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced his plan to stop prosecuting small-time pot possession arrests, and this week, he'll begin to carry it out, effectively enacting a limited version of legalization in the borough.

Cannabis remains illegal in our nation's capital, despite House Republicans' best misguided efforts to the contrary. An initiative that's likely to appear on November's ballots in D.C., however, could change that.

Though the two states voted to legalize recreational cannabis at the same time in 2012, Washington has been much slower to get businesses off the ground than Colorado, which started selling weed in January. This week, the wait is finally over.

In a scenario ripped from some Republican nightmare vision of Obama's America, the city of Berkeley, California will soon require cannabis dispensaries to give away free weed to low-income medical marijuana patients.

Remember Gary Johnson? From 1995 to 2003, he served as the governor of New Mexico, but you may best recall him as the Pagan-courting Libertarian who ran for president in 2012. As of this week, he's also the CEO of a Nevada-based company called Cannabis Sativa, Inc.