Early this morning, Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl was arrested in Plano, Texas for the misdemeanor charge of possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. He had a single joint in his car.

A single joint? Don’t the cops have something better to do than pick on the MTV ‘celebrity’? Isn’t there some redneck driving with an open beer in the next car over? Come on now…

I’ve never heard of him before this, honestly, but I must say… He’s got a pretty mugshot.

Okay, so listen. I realize that I’ve been absent for a long time now. It’s all explained pretty well here, if you’re truly interested. I’m not going to apologize, cause it was beyond my control. But I do have something to make up for my absence!

I decided that Sweet Leaf Tribune is not interactive enough. You guys don’t leave comments often, which is fine, but I’m hoping this will give you a little incentive to be more talkative? I installed a Message Board, which I’ve named the Speak Easy, and a WebCam Chat, which I’ve named The Cyph

I encourage everyone to join the Speak Easy… It’s got everything! Marijuana and Cannabis Culture, Medical Marijuana and Cultivation, All of Your Interests, and All About You, and more.

The Cyph is a little different. It’s required that you have a webcam to enter, and you must get on cam when you enter. There are other rules to read over there too, but basically we just don’t want to let any creepy stalkers or narcs in our Cyph, right?

Besides that, I actually wanted to start writing a few personal posts in the mix, cause I’m still shocked when I get emails asking me what my point of view on all of this is. If you read the About page, you’ll see that I do, in fact, smoke weed. I live in NY where it is illegal to do so, but I do it because I believe in it, and I do it because it helps me tremendously. I’ll write a whole separate post about that, but I have a quick story for you instead for now…

About an hour and a half ago, my friend came through and was trying to wake me up. He’s not allowed in my house, so his options are: Phone vs. Throwing Stones at My Window. I unhooked the Wireless Adapter out of the Desktop [I just got a new, sexy laptop!], so the telephone didn’t work…

I guess The Annoyances nurse was downstairs on the porch watching him throw stones at my window. I didn’t hear the first 5, I guess, but the last one definitely shocked me. He said all he saw was my pillow go flying from downstairs, which is funny cause that’s the pillow I sleep with over my head… So he was actually seeing me jump out of bed.

I asked him what he wanted. He said he was here to bring me a headset and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first book of the series. I asked him if he intended on chilling for a while too. I rushed downstairs and he said he really only had ten minutes, but he wanted to smoke a couple bowls.

It was the first official Wake-N-Bake I’ve had in a looong time. When I came back upstairs and told The Annoyance I was home, I was stumbling over my words. I was concentrating so hard on not saying “fuck” that it was coming out every other word instead. It was awful. Her nurse was laughing at me, cause I’d stop and apologize and The Annoyance would still yell at me. She was finally like “No, let her be. She’s really trying.” I was like “I’m not ready to exist yet. I need to go back to my room.”

I’m feeling more alive now, thankfully. I think my Hubby just got here, too… So I’m gonna jet.

I’ve been thinking of ways to make this site more interactive, so I figured I’d start with a Question of the Day [as long as I can remember]. Todays question was “What are your favorite songs about weed?” I’ve gotten so many answers that I’m going to have to break this up into several different parts, so here goes part one…