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4/20: A Tribute to Celebrity Stoners!

4/20. Four-twenty. April 20th. Call it what you want, this is one great day to be high … on life here at THG. Or on marijuana, from sea to shining sea. Its origins are often debated, but what’s undisputed is that 4/20 has become a de facto holiday. Surely many a celebrity will be partaking on Saturday. Such as … Snoop Dogg . You knowz mofo be rollin’ up summa dat dank ass sticky-icky-icky and gettin’ fizaded off the bubonic chronic right muthaf–kin’ now. Honestly. Snoop’s almost as synonymous with weed as he is with early gangsta rap. Willie Nelson . On 4/30, Nelson will turn 80, or nearly the amount of times he lights up in a given week. Hey, at least he’s totally up front about it. Matthew McConaughey . Is that guy possibly ever not stoned? Seriously, we’re asking. Michael Phelps . After smoking the competition in the 2008 Olympics, the swimming god made waves for smoking out of a bong. His image took a hit. See what we did there?! Fortunately, he cleaned up … the 2012 Olympic competition. Chris Brown . Dude has a medicinal marijuana card, and enjoys partaking in the Netherlands, where it’s legal. Thank goodness for Instagram, right? Soulja Boy . See similar California marijuana dispensary Instagram shot. Rihanna . For the last time, you really need to get on Instagram! Jenelle Evans . The Teen Mom 2 train wreck contemplated doing prison time instead of agreeing to probation that mandated drug testing for a year. Think about that. Lindsay Lohan . Put off rehab just to go to Coachella. Think about that . Bill Clinton: I Never Inhaled Arnold Schwarzenegger Smoking a Joint Arnold Schwarzenegger . Please see above video. Enough said. Bill Clinton . By all accounts a successful U.S. President in terms of economic stewardship, William Jefferson Clinton was nevertheless a bad liar. “I didn’t inhale” may be an even worse lie than Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” line, if only because it was even less believable. Ryan Lochte : He cannot simply be that stupid … can he? Jeff Bridges . The Dude! Big Lebowski quotes . Case rested. Cheech & Chong . Wiki: “Comedy based on the hippie and free love era, and especially drug culture movements, most notably their love for cannabis.” Miley Cyrus Bong Video Bobbi Kristina Brown Bong Video Miley Cyrus . Whether or not she’s a real stoner has been hotly debated, but “Miley Cyrus bong video” was the top search term on THG for like a year. Bobbi Kristina Brown . A close second search term was “Bobbi Kristina Brown bong video.” Only unlike Miley’s, it didn’t surprise anyone. At al. Brooke Mueller . Prefers hard ass drugs, but pot still does the job. Chace Crawford . Underrated as celebrity stoners go, for sure. Woody Harrelson . Hippie loves the hemp. Need we go on? DMX . Guy kind of IS our celebrity mug shots page. Zach Galifianakis Smokes Weed on Bill Maher Seth Rogen & James Franco Smoke Weed at MTV Movie Awards Bill Maher and Zach Galifianakis . Blazing trails (and a lot more) on late-night TV. The entire cast of Pineapple Express . Classic weed films abound, but Judd Apatow’s utterly pointless tale of a modern day stoner crew wins here. Besides, our brain cells are too depleted by now to debate other film alternatives. Jennifer Lawrence . A relatively new stoner club addition. And maybe our fave. Did we miss your favorite(s)? Not rank them *high* (cough) enough? Submit your own nominations for celeb potheads in the comments! VOTE: Who’s your favorite celebrity stoner?   Snoop Dogg Miley Cyrus DMX Michael Phelps Chace Crawford Willie Nelson Brooke Mueller Jenelle Evans Soulja Boy Matthew McConaughey Bill Clinton Pineapple Express Cast Bobbi Kristina Brown Woody Harrelson View Poll »

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California Man Shoots Stripper, Then Kills Himself Inside Strip Club [VIDEO]

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A man walked into a Rialto, California strip club this week and shot an exotic dancer in the face before killing himself, reports KNBC.com. The…

California Man Shoots Stripper, Then Kills Himself Inside Strip Club [VIDEO]

Race Matters: Justice Scalia Explains His “Civil Rights Law Is Racial Entitlement” Talk, Blames Clarence Thomas

…”what had happened was I had followed Clarence (Thomas) .” According to Business Insider: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made headlines when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement,” and now he’s revealing the rationale behind that inflammatory comment. The high court is currently reviewing Section 5 of the VRA, which requires states with histories of discrimination against minority voters (mostly in the South) to get permission from the federal government before changing their election laws. The law was passed in 1965 when Southern states used extreme measures to keep blacks away from the polls, including violence, poll taxes, and literacy tests. Speaking to university students Monday night, Scalia said Section 5 is a “racial entitlement” because the U.S. doesn’t take an equal interest in protecting white voters from racial discrimination, the Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin reports. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was meant to be a stopgap measure to respond to racial discrimination but became an “embedded” form of “racial preferment,” Scalia told students at the University of California Washington Center. Interesting…he also brings up his black justice buddy Clarence Thomas . Via Wall Street Journal: Justice Scalia long has resisted claims that the Constitution prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, and dissented from a 2003 decision striking down sodomy laws that criminalized gay sex. Other questions involved matters of particular interest to lawyers and inveterate court watchers. One student asked if it was true that Justice Clarence Thomas, after joining the court in 1991, was the one who led Justice Scalia to the right, rather than other way around. “Yes, it is true,” Justice Scalia said, suggesting that in the 1990s the news media unsuccessfully tried to pressure Justice Thomas to moderate his positions by painting him as a pawn of Justice Scalia. But behind the scenes, “what happened was I had followed Clarence.” Likewise, Justice Scalia added, media fascination with Justice Thomas’s habitual silence at oral argument was likely to harden his resolve to keep his peace. Justice Thomas is “a very stubborn man,” Justice Scalia said. Discuss…

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Rehtaeh Parsons Case: Anonymous Threatens to Leak Confession From Suspect

Anonymous claims to have a confession from a suspect who allegedly raped Rehtaeh Parsons, who was recently taken off life support after a suicide attempt. The hacktivist group threatened to reveal the identity of the teenaged suspect and three others accused of the 2011 gang rape of the Canadian teen. Anonymous was drawn to the case following outcry about Rehtaeh Parsons’ death , and called on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to make arrests. The group said in a statement: “A 17-year-old girl killed herself because the police failed to do their jobs and charge a single person for any of them.” “Why is Anonymous involved in this case? We are involved because the facts clearly illustrate that several crimes have been committed in Nova Scotia.” Her parents said she hanged herself last week, not only because she was sexually assaulted but because photos of the attack were shared by the alleged rapists. Classmates at her school tormented her afterward, drawing tragically similar parallels with the death of raped and bullied California teen Audrie Pott . According to Anonymous, one of Parsons’ alleged attackers: “Made several public statements admitting that he did have sex with [Rehtaeh] on the night in question” and that “she was throwing up during the act.” The confession the group claims to be in possession of includes the names of three other boys who allegedly “took turns having sex with [Rehtaeh].” Anonymous said it has already shared the information it pieced together, including screenshots of the alleged confession, with local law enforcement. With public pressure mounting, Nova Scotia’s Justice Minister Ross Landry announced on that his department would reopen the case , the CBC reported. Anonymous is a loosely connected collective of skillful hackers and Internet activists, but one that has left its mark on many a case in recent years. They famously drew attention to a video of Steubenville (Oh.) H.S. students joking about rape, and trolled the crap out of the Westboro Baptist Church.

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Audrie Pott Suicide: Three Boys Charged With Sexual Assault Following Teen’s Death

Three teen boys have been arrested and charged with sexual assaulting their classmate, Audrie Pott, while she was intoxicated and passed out at a house party. Pott, who attended Saratoga High School in California, committed suicide at age 15, hanging herself eight days after photos of the attack were posted online. The case bears eerie similarities to the sexual assault of the Steubenville rape case in Ohio last year. Two teenagers were found guilty in that incident. The tragic incident occurred nack in September 2012 when Audrie Pott went to a party at the home of a friend whose parents had gone out of town. She passed out and was allegedly attacked as she was unconscious. When photos of the alleged rape spread online, the traumatized student posted on her own Facebook page that it was the “worst day of her life.” Eight days later, she killed herself. “Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyber-bullying,” an attorney for Pott’s family, Robert Allard, told the San Jose Mercury News , adding that the family throughly investigated the matter. “There is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious.” The family, which has set up a charitable foundation for music and art scholarships, two of Audrie’s passions, is calling for a new law bearing their late daughter’s name. “Audrie’s Law would address some of the things that happened here,” Allard said. “There are two common elements here that are being repeated across the country – sexual assault by an adolescent and the cyber-bullying that follows.” A school resource officer tipped off authorities to the attack and the students involved. The teens, two 16 and one 15, were not arrested until seven months later. They were booked Thursday into a juvenile facility, charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count each, according to a police spokesman. The Pott family said they hope the teens will be charged as adults. “The wound is still very raw,” their attorney said of the Pott family. “They want to feel as if justice will be done after these kids were arrested, after acting as if nothing had happened. But at the same time it’s a reminder that Audrie is gone.” The case mirrors yet another in Nova Scotia where 15-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons committed suicide last Sunday after enduring a sexual assault in 2011. Parsons was allegedly a victim of sexual battery by four boys and later bullied after sharing cellphone photos of the attack with their classmates. Police cited a lack of evidence to charge the teens in the case.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Hates on Botox, Joan Rivers

Gwyneth Paltrow is not exactly the most-like celebrity. In fact, some might say, she is the LEAST liked in all of Hollywood . That’s what happens when you write a cookbook of gluten-free recipes that only the mega rich can afford. But in the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the actress opens up on a couple of things she dislikes: plastic surgery and Joan Rivers . Admitting that did she once undergo Botox, the blonde star tells the magazine: “I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I’m 50. I’ll try anything. Except I won’t do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!” Paltrow also says she’d love to relocate from England to California, even just for a short while. But she says it in the haughty way that has turned her into such an unlikable human being: “Just to have my kids be in the sun every day – picking avocados, going for a swim. Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school.”

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Gay NFL Players: Four to Come Out?

Kwame Harris , a former offensive lineman for the 49ers, confirmed last week that he is gay. But Brendon Ayanbadejo – a special teams standout released this month by the Baltimore Ravens – says we should expect a lot more movement on this front in the near future. “We’re in talks with a handful of players who are considering [coming out],” Ayanbadejo tells The Baltimore Sun . “There are up to four players being talked to right now and they’re trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together. It would make a major splash and take the pressure off one guy. It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.” Just a few days ago, a CBS Sports report also claimed an active player would reveal himself as a homosexual, something that is yet to happen in any American professional sport. All of this speculation comes as the gay marriage debate heats up amidst the California Supreme Court weighing the legality of Proposition 8.

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Tyga’s Hotel California Isn’t Like Its Cover ‘At All’

‘When you listen to the music it’s the total opposite,’ Tyga tells MTV News of what he considers the ‘classic and mellow’ album cover. By Rob Markman, with reporting by James Lacsina Tyga’s “Hotel California” cover art Photo: Universal

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Justin Bieber Battery Investigation: Neighbor Calls Him a ‘Punk’

The pop star’s California neighbor alleges that Bieber assaulted him during a shouting match. http://www.youtube.com/v/dLdjmflxF74?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Here is the original post: Justin Bieber Battery Investigation: Neighbor Calls Him a ‘Punk’

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Justin Bieber Believe Tour Poland, Łódź 25.03.13 Boyfriend (Fan on the stage)

Name of the girl who ran on the stage is Sandra. You can find her on Twitter @MissSandra1994. http://www.youtube.com/v/aHjIAHxOvqk?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata The rest is here: Justin Bieber Believe Tour Poland, Łódź 25.03.13 Boyfriend (Fan on the stage)

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