Jamen Shively, who in a very different previous corporate life was a strategy manager for Microsoft, wants to create a legal marijuana brand. He eventually hopes his entirely legal product will become the Starbucks of funny-smelling cigarettes. Read More >>

In an attempt to illustrate the harmful effects of using crack cocaine, Talent, a Brazilian ad agency created a series of posters featuring images of addicts that are slowly eaten away and destroyed by Flour beetle larvae—or mealworms. Read More >>

Cocaine addictions, which carry a notoriously high relapse rate, may have finally met their match in the form of a simple, long lasting booster vaccine. Read More >>

In a display of blatant disregard for Nancy Reagan and her pleas to the contrary, Russia's bears, no longer able to resist the sweet temptation of jet fuel, have a drug problem. Read More >>

A Bristol van driver has been banned from driving for a year, after police observed him driving erratically through the city. But he wasn't drunk, he was instead seriously getting getting down to some drum and bass while behind the wheel. Read More >>

Have you ever had one of those days where you thought to yourself "Boy, I sure wish I didn't have this sexy yet expensive cocaine addiction"? Fortunately for you, there could be a new solution on the horizon, and all you have to do is fry your brain with lasers. Equally sexy. Read More >>

The modern smartphone, for all its utility as a way of capturing crimes in process, waddling babies, and public disasters, has one chilling effect on society: it's now dangerous to get insanely fucked up in public. And that's a damn shame. Read More >>

Are you the sort who looks at a treble espresso and laughs? Do you down caffeine tablets like breath mints? If so, you're probably the target market for Death Wish coffee, a 200 per cent stronger-than-normal-coffee Premium Free-Trade Ground Roast Heart Attack. Read More >>

Don't know what a bit of weed smells like? Crimestoppers has got you covered with its brand new scratch-and-sniff cards. Because everyone needs know what cannabis smells like, right? Read More >>

Border fences are really tall so it's not like you can just throw your packages of marijuana over them. No, you'd need something like a weed-apult or, better yet, a weed cannon to heave them over the wall. Read More >>

Clean-living outdoor adventurer hunk Ben Fogle claims he was the victim of a drink-spiking attack, with something akin to an unscheduled LSD trip triggering a psychotic fit and making him try to jump out of his home's windows. Read More >>

Drinking and driving is the worst. Texting and driving is pretty bad too. So what about getting high and driving? Apparently not that bad! Unless you're freaking stoned as hell. Then you'll fail so hard and maybe even lose a nose. Read More >>

An extremely enjoyable party was had by Calum Ward in Barnstaple bus station last November, when he was caught on CCTV setting fire to some peanuts, punching the peanuts, then appearing to try to have sex with a bus. And yes, there were some drugs in his pocket. Read More >>

A lot of people get very upset about doping in sport. They may well have a point — but maybe a little scientific perspective is required. Randal Monroe puts the issue well in the alt text of today's XKCD cartoon: Read More >>

Lance Armstrong -- the man, the legend, the cock. Tonight, he's going to start telling the truth for the first time in decades, when he bares his soul to Oprah. It's going to be emotional, depressing, and great fun so long as you play the tag-along drinking game. Here's how to watch it in the UK. Read More >>