When the White House put out a call for town hall questions, it might not have been expecting this.

The more than 92,000 people who responded either have Cheech and Chong senses of humor or there is a deep concern in America — undetected by the media — about the decriminalization of marijuana, its possible use for medicinal purposes and its potential as a new source of tax revenue.

Read more at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20526.html

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) — Over the past two years, drug violence in Mexico has become a fixture of the daily news. Some of this violence pits drug cartels against one another; some involves confrontations between law enforcement and traffickers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/miron.legalization.drugs/index.html

So, medical marijuana use and the possibility of more legalization is big news in the US and there are sites now that can help you out in that regard, such as Weed Maps (http://www.weedmaps.com/ or http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/). The site offers a Google Maps mashup that pinpoints the locations of the closest medical marijuana dispensaries in a your vicinity. All the excitement has taken the site offline temporarily but it’s worth bookmarking, and you can follow what they’re up to on Twitter – http://twitter.com/weedmaps

I know, we have the ugliest default blog theme you can imagine, but one of our stonemasters is working on a new design (glare glare) when he isn’t in la la land… so hang in there. It’s all about the content anyway, right?

Dusto McNeato kicked off the trend of remaking “literal” versions of music videos, where the lyrics and subtitles essentially describe exactly whats happening on-screen, with hilarious results. You can check out Dusto’s site at http://www.dustfilms.com/literalvideos

YouTube user dascottjr is doing the same thing, and here’s his brilliant take of Penny Lane by The Beatles