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God Smiles on Stoners, Eases Drought in Kentucky
For those of you who remember hearing about how the drought affecting the Southeast United States was bad for marijuana production last summer-- or maybe you just, ahem, noticed-- there's been some fine developments for our very mellowed-out friends.
Many Phish fans are alleged to have smoked marijuana. Original image here.
Last summer's drought, which will still take a period of years to overcome, happened to hit hardest 6 of the 10 most prolific producers of marijuana.
With the release of this new projection, it looks like Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, and Arkansas are beginning to find their way out of the woods, with Georgia and North Carolina in a state of meteorological confusion. That map also represents especially "good" news for Kentucky. The projected recovery will be strongest in the part of the state that has annually seen the most seizures by the DEA. Also know that for what it's worth, if you're so obsessed over this situation that you have to have real time monitoring, the USGS offers it here.
By new Environmental Graffiti contributor Ben Ray. Ben is a freelance writer, check him out at What's Required
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Robert (not verified) says:
there have been some particularly angry comments regarding a certain band and any suggestion that its fans may or may not use certain illicit substances. I know for a fact the author was not intending to attack fans of the band or the band itself.



Mike Hunt (not verified) says:
This is lamest piece of journalism I've seen in a long time. Do they pay you for this, because this is a bad joke. Nevermind that the drought has resulted in low water levels across the southeast and wildlife and farmers are struggling; no, at least fans of a band that doesn't even exist anymore will have quality buds to smoke.

vaporizer (not verified) says:
Fans of pot smoke pot. Fans of Phish have good ears for music and may or may not smoke pot. I thought this was an open forum, yet many posts are being erased. Stereotyping is no good. Why don't you right an article about Nike. Then for some reason show a picture of a black man with the caption "Black people allegedly play basketball"? The article was about Nike, which I feel loosely relates to basketball. Was that the authors mindset or was he trying to get a few easy chuckles? Maybe he could clear this up.

Robert (not verified) says:
because of violent threats and immature attacks on our writers, we'll remove the picture. While intelligent people should be able to disagree without resorting to threats of violence or questioning someone's sexuality, apparently several people were not able to do this. The majority of phish fans are no doubt likeable and intelligent people, but the minority of fans who have left a string of vile comments (which we'll not dignify by posting on this website) have made yourselves look far worse than any picture possibly could. I'm sure the members of Phish would not be excited to be associated with people who suggest a writer should get AIDS for suggesting some of their fans might smoke pot either.

screw you (not verified) says:
screw you ass-ole....maybe you'll think twice about slandering/offending "the majority" of phishheads!
you might have thought it was funny..but the joke is on you and your blog that supports slander/censorship!
pick on fans of 'snoop dog' next time and see what happens, they don't use dirty words...they will just cap yo @ss fool.




vaporizer (not verified) says:
This site allowed itself to be bullied into taking down a picture and a caption that was not really bad to begin with. You should have showed some integrity, even if none was being shown in return, and stood by your original picture and caption. It did not take that long for you to remove and you have opened yourself up for future flames over miniscule items.



phishheads (not verified) says:
What does that make you? making fun of "angry hippies."
a cheap shot clearly backfired.
next time, put up a shot of your favorite boy band like n-sync or backstreet boys....basically any (fill in te blank) band that makes sh@#$ music and has fans that wont STAND UP FOR THEIR HEROES AND FELLOW FANS!!!
don't pick one of the most talented and respected bands in the history of rock...cause your gonna get schooled!


Robert (not verified) says:
vaporizer, you've made an excellent point and I'm embarrassed that we allowed rude comments to have any effect on our content. It was silly to back down. Readers offended by the image will continue to be offended that it was ever there, as evidenced by the barrage of negative comments. Back it goes.





Vaporizer (not verified) says:
I am with Durtha. This is pure Entertainment. Phisheys get violent if you dis their band. Angry, angry hippies!! Shame on you!!! What would Trey say?
Trey would say " sorry I can't talk now, I am due in drug court in 15".
Hey Ron,
Are you one o those people who thinks that Trey is god and would allow his thoughts to shape yours? Oh man, Trey's not gone to like this, he's gone to be so garshdarn upset. I think he may have a few more pertinent issues at hand than to worry about a few people making a complete mockery of an article and throwing around some off-color comments causing the mod.,pub.,ed. to remove a picture and caption. Sheer entertainment. Have you thought of the chance that this was all just an inside joke started by a few that you just happened to witness!? Doh! Next time ask yourself what you think of a situation, not what someone you probably have never met thinks. Maybe you have heard BATR a few times so felt you could chime in on the thoughts of Trey. What about Mike, Page, and Jon? Aren't you curious as to what they might think? This site got punk'd.

db (not verified) says:
vaporizer, you’ve made an excellent point and I’m embarrassed that we allowed rude comments to have any effect on our content. It was silly to back down. Readers offended by the image will continue to be offended that it was ever there, as evidenced by the barrage of negative comments. Back it goes.
wow! and we thought you were not so much of a d-bag!

spacecoyote (not verified) says:
I don't believe that to mention Phish-fans and grass-smoking in the same article is offensive. What is completely baffling though is this: in the context of this story, what does Phish and their fans have to do with ANYTHING? What's the matter author, did you not think people would read your absurd (and sophmoric, seriously) article if you had used a pic of John Denver?

Ron Burgendy (not verified) says:
Aactually it is you that have been punked. It is hilarious to see how rediculously angry some idiots get. No I am not a big Phish fan but I have been to several shows (about 20) and I can appreciate that they are great misicians. And yes I am from Western KY and most of my family graduated from Western. It is absolutely assanine that people get so angry about a harmless article and go to the extent of threatening the authour and wishing things like AIDS upon him. And yes this whole thing is a big joke that aparently sucked you in too. My comment was an inside joke directed to a friend of mine that is a huge Phish fan that forwarded this atricle to me and posted a comment himself. And graduated from Western KY. Jesus... some people are total jackasses!!! Get over yourselves, relax a bit, and quit taking everything so literaly. Unbelievable!!
I am with Durtha. This is pure Entertainment. Phisheys get violent if you dis their band. Angry, angry hippies!! Shame on you!!! What would Trey say?Trey would say ” sorry I can’t talk now, I am due in drug court in 15?.
Hey Ron,Are you one o those people who thinks that Trey is god and would allow his thoughts to shape yours? Oh man, Trey’s not gone to like this, he’s gone to be so garshdarn upset. I think he may have a few more pertinent issues at hand than to worry about a few people making a complete mockery of an article and throwing around some off-color comments causing the mod.,pub.,ed. to remove a picture and caption. Sheer entertainment. Have you thought of the chance that this was all just an inside joke started by a few that you just happened to witness!? Doh! Next time ask yourself what you think of a situation, not what someone you probably have never met thinks. Maybe you have heard BATR a few times so felt you could chime in on the thoughts of Trey. What about Mike, Page, and Jon? Aren’t you curious as to what they might think? This site got punk’d.
I am with Durtha. This is pure Entertainment. Phisheys get violent if you dis their band. Angry, angry hippies!! Shame on you!!! What would Trey say?Trey would say ” sorry I can’t talk now, I am due in drug court in 15?.
Hey Ron,Are you one o those people who thinks that Trey is god and would allow his thoughts to shape yours? Oh man, Trey’s not gone to like this, he’s gone to be so garshdarn upset. I think he may have a few more pertinent issues at hand than to worry about a few people making a complete mockery of an article and throwing around some off-color comments causing the mod.,pub.,ed. to remove a picture and caption. Sheer entertainment. Have you thought of the chance that this was all just an inside joke started by a few that you just happened to witness!? Doh! Next time ask yourself what you think of a situation, not what someone you probably have never met thinks. Maybe you have heard BATR a few times so felt you could chime in on the thoughts of Trey. What about Mike, Page, and Jon? Aren’t you curious as to what they might think? This site got punk’d.












dong thomas (not verified) says:
what the f-ck does this article have to do with phish?
go to any concert of any band, and there will be people smoking pot. Why single out Phish? That is so f-cking lame.