Must be 4:20 somewhere

Published 8:47 pm Friday, April 20, 2012

Would you like your martini baked or fried? A distillery in Wasilla, Alaska, which earlier produced a smoked-salmon flavored vodka, is now making a vodka infused with hemp seeds.

Young hipsters who have tried the new spirit say they enjoy the taste of the marijuana-derived vodka, but some complain they have difficulty keeping the olive lit.

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Why Austin and not Weed, Calif.? Willie Nelson, country music legend and originator of the tour bus pot search, unveiled a statue of himself in Austin, Texas, and introduced a new song, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” marking April 20 as an unofficial Marijuana Appreciation Day.

While we appreciate the sentiment of Willie’s song, we hope he doesn’t mind if we don’t inhale.

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Gladly, the cross-bowed bear: Ted Nugent, rock guitar superstar and dead animal enthusiast, signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors admitting he illegally took a black bear after exceeding his bag limit during a bow-hunting trip in Alaska two years ago.

Earlier, Nugent claimed he was justified in taking the second bear because it was his Second Amendment right to keep an unarmed bear.

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