An off-color joke by a Missouri college professor on Facebook led to would-be comedian being busted for growing marijuana last week.
Matthew Rouch, a 57-year-old professor at Northwest Missouri State University, allegedly either sent a message to or posted on the wall of a friend that he looked forward to the start of a new year at the University, but that “by October I’ll be wanting to get up to the top of the bell tower with a high powered rifle – with a good scope, and probably a gatling [sic]gun as well.”

Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally at Denver’s Civic Center Park, has obtained a permit to stage what’s described in a press release as a “‘No on Proposition AA’ Campaign” to fight against a proposed state tax on recreational marijuana — one that could be as high as 30 percent.
And Lopez has announced that free joints will be given away to attendees who are 21 and over. Denver Westword has your coverage.

The thing with setting disfiguring booby traps around your outdoor illegal grow operations is that you’ve got to remember you’ve set them. Case and point: the nearly-headless Daniel Ricketts.
Police say Rickets was drunkenly zipping around a field in upstate New York on Saturday when he ran afoul of a length of piano wire he had strung up around the perimeter of a patch police say he was growing.

David Wayne Jordan allegedly wrapped marijuana around an arrow and shot it up to a second-story rec yard of the Whatcom County Jail in Bellingham, Washington earlier this week.
As far as smuggling marijuana into a jail goes, this method may take the badassery award. The person executing the maneuver, however, wasn’t quite up to the task. Which, obviously, is why we know his name.