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I saw this on youtube a few months ago, but actually seeing it being broadcast on TV today really gave me hope that people are getting a little less dumb. At least now we have a commercial to counter all the propaganda type anti-marijuana ads we’re bombarded with.

The NORML Foundation launched this pro-marijuana ad campaign to create further political pressure on the federal government to recognize 1) the ever-increasing support of Americans who favor cannabis legalization, 2) the clear sea change of cannabis laws that’s been happening at the state level since Californians voted in favor of medicinal access to cannabis in 1996, and 3) to rally cannabis consumers and anti-prohibitionists on April 20, a date on the calendar that has organically become a national day to both publicly celebrate cannabis as well as protest 70 years of prohibition.

The featured ad is the winner of NORML’s recent user-generated-content contest that asks NORML supporters: ‘What would you say to President Obama about legalizing marijuana?’

[NORML Blog]

Side note: Hope you all also had (and still are having) a good (police free) 4/20. Anyone else take a blunt cruise while bumpin The Best Of The Daily Hit today? I’m off to light another one up and watch Celtics vs. Bulls game 2…peace out til tomorrow.

Jesse Serwer has a dope post up on his blog with an excerpt from an interview he did with Just-Ice in which he drops some knowledge on the history of blunts…and just because it wasn’t mentioned I feel the need to say, Dutch Masters all day.

“The reason why a cigar is called a blunt is very simple. If you’re old enough, you should remember El Productos. That is the original blunt. Besides a fronto leaf, cause a fronto leaf was always here. Truth is people just couldn’t get a hold of those unless you were Jamaican. So what you used to do is go to the store, get a tray bag of weed and an El Producto blunt. And you would unwrap them like a leaf and then you would put your weed in there and roll it back up. El Producto blunts, they went out of business in I think ‘85, ‘86. After the El Producto blunt, ’cause that was a strong ass cigar, a lot of people couldn’t take the pressure in they chest from the weed and the cigar. So El Producto created a new cigar called the Fino. That’s after the blunt. So that was a little lighter tasting. ‘Cause blunt actually means harsh. Now, a lot of people wasn’t skilled enough to unwrap the Fino and rewrap it over correctly, so they started smoking Phillies. With Phillies, all you had to do was split them open, put the weed in and roll it up. But a lot of people who smoked weed didn’t like Phillies, ’cause it burned too fast. Then we left the Phillies…Oh shit, my food’s burning, hold on…

[Just-Ice’s History of the Blunt]

Combat Jack has been droppin some classic stories about his years in the industry on his blog, all of em are a good read, like the time he smoked Pac’s weed:

All good things come to an end and the kids go back to school next week. Being that I’m headed outta town, as promised, here’s a throwback of my world famous, award winning blog series recapturing my Top 5 gulliest moments I experienced first hand in the music industry, shit you won’t hear about anywhere else on the whole effin planet but here!

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#1. The Time I Smoked A Blunt With Tupac…

Combat Jack Throwback: Tupac Shakur Stayed Having The BEST Weed!

(He also has a really good post up about the early careers of Dame Dash and Jay-Z)

As always, thanks to TSS.

So there’s been a lot of fuckery lately surrounding the above picture of Michael Phelps hitting a bong. I never really gave much thought to Phelps, other than “damn, dude is a beast when he swims, and is probably making bank off endorsements“. I had gained a little respect for him after finding out he had a somewhat decent taste in hip-hop and now I could add that he smokes weed, and uses a nice bong to that. However, soon after the picture surfaced and reached the news, Phelps apologized with a generic statement his publicist probably wrote for him, and lost some of my respect:

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TSS comes through with the second installment of Mythblazers. Episode 1 if you missed it.

It’s Mythbusters for weed…doesn’t get much better. Featuring Curren$y. Hit up TSS for the back story.