Pot Puns in the News

News reports on marijuana legalization efforts can't help but make pot puns in headlines and copy.

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2010-10-24

Put This in Your Pipe: Calif. Pot Measure Loses Support [Wall Street Journal]
2010-08-31

Legalizing pot: A dopey idea [The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA]
2010-08-29

Psst…wrong pot. [Daily Inter Lake, Montana]
2010-08-24

Adotas: Get Your Pot Leafs Off Facebook, You Hippie Advertisers
2010-08-23

National Journal: “California Goes To Pot”

Behind a paywall, but this is one of the lede paragraphs to the DC publication’s cover story on marijuana:

But the biggest bird flip of all may be coming on an issue that is not usually though of as part of the anti-government, anti-tax mantra that agitates the conservative-leaning states’ rights crowd. The matter at hand is typically dearer to the stoner minds of the Grateful Dead “Truckin’” crowd: marijuana legalization — as in the blissful freedom to light up a bowl in one’s own home, purely for one’s own pleasure (crank up the stereo and pass the chips, giggle, giggle), and to grow small amounts of the weed on one’s own property, too. Says one dazed pot-head to another: Is this a great country, or what?

National Journal: “California Goes to Pot”
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Vancouver’s News1130: “Stirring the pot: News1130 special report starts today”
2010-05-10

AP: “Los Angeles prepared to smoke out pot dispensaries”
2010-04-20

Medical marijuana business is on fire

USA Today and CNBC use their hed and first quote for a mixed fire metaphor
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UCSC Officials Try To Snuff Out Smoke Out

KSBW Action News 8 gets ready for the Santa Cruz celebration
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Pot fans prepare for high times on 4/20

McClatchy Newspapers gets a triple play in two paragraphs and a headline.

National Journal: “California Goes To Pot”