'You don't have to do anything except watch it grow and get a couple of hippies to cut it and then put it in a bag.'
NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammy Award-winning comedy duo Cheech and Chong based their 42-year career on counterculture humor with a particular emphasis on marijuana use. But these days, Tommy Chong sees the recreational drug as something more than fodder for jokes about stoned hippies.
The 74-year-old comedian says he thinks legalizing marijuana on a federal level would offer numerous benefits, including a boost to the U.S. economy if it were taxed.
Recent data reveal that Washington is the least foul-mouthed state, followed by Massachusetts, Arizona, Texas and Virginia.
Sorry Ohioans, looks like you have some work to do when it comes to cursing and courtesy.
According to data released today by The Marchex Institute, a mobile and online advertising company, people in Ohio curse the most in the country and placed in the Top 5 “Least Courteous” category. Washingtonians are least likely to have potty mouth, but come up short on courtesy, reports KING5.com.

The canvas is the last of 6 in the artist's Onement series.
NEW YORK (AP) — A large 1953 painting by abstract expressionist artist Barnett Newman has sold for $43.8 million at a New York City auction, setting an auction record for his work.
Sotheby's said Tuesday the record price for "Onement VI" includes the buyer's premium.
The painting is the last of six in Newman's Onement series. They're characterized by what's called the zip, a distinctive stripe running down the center of the canvas. Four are in museum collections.
CO2 concentrations are higher than levels have been in millions of years.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has reached a new milestone. On May 9, the daily mean concentration of CO2 measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began 1958, scientists from NOAA reported.
The increase has not come as a surprise to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps CO2 Program, which independently confirmed the findings, but is cause for alarm nonetheless.
Join us for the ‘Here Comes the Sun’ Twitter chat. Our editors have sunshine, long weekends and outdoor fun on the mind.
Be sure to join MSN Living on Tuesday, May 21, for our first ever Twitter chat. As we gear up for warmer weather, our editors have sunshine, long weekends and outdoor fun on the mind. See what other summer-lifestyle lovers have to say and share insights of your own.

Suspect accused of gorging on steak and shrimp, and topping it off with cake and whipped cream.
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The manager of a ValuMarket says he found 57 empty whipped-cream cans in the garbage when he arrived Monday morning.
WAVE-TV in Louisville reported 30-year-old Trevor Runyon was charged after he was found in the ceiling of the store.
Lufthansa flight held on the ground in Denver for 3 hours.
DENVER (AP) — Passengers are upset after a Lufthansa flight leaving Denver for Frankfurt held passengers onboard for three hours without air conditioning.
Airport spokeswoman Laura Coale says paramedics were called about 90 minutes into the delay Sunday while the plane remained at the gate. No one suffered serious medical problems.
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Chris Hadfield gives a zero-gravity performance of a David Bowie song.
In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song "Space Oddity" while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
The video features shots of a floating guitar that would look like a Hollywood special effect anywhere else. It also shows arresting images of the space station orbiting over Earth.
