Today was kind of a rough news day here in Seattle. Even Jesus Obama let us down a little bit today by announcing he's going to expand Bush's faith based programs. Meanwhile, California's talking about letting everyone have pot, whereas our own local officials are limiting the access even sick people get to good weed in Washington. Before we pack it up and head home for the day, we figured we'd put it to you......

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled today that helping a pal move their pot plants is indeed illegal. To which we have to say: it took the Oregon State Supreme Court to decide that? Surely a lower court could have easily ruled on this decision, ending it with a "duh." At the center of the case is Thomas Fries, who argued he should be acquitted of a marijuana possession charges because he was simply helping......

While Seattle may have made marijuana possession its lowest legal priority, the latest figures from a statewide conference of sheriffs and police chiefs indicate the prosecution of marijuana in Washington State is anything but decreasing. In 2007, the state of Washington more than doubled its seizures of marijuana plants. 296,111 marijuana plants were seized in Washington alone last year. Legal or not, marijuana is one of Washington State's largest cash crops. The Evergreen State......

Either that or they have hired the stoners they are busting to come up with operation names. "Operation Green Reaper" is underway in the Seattle area— a series of no-knock raids on indoor marijuana grow operations. So far, fourteen people and two companies have been indicted for involvement in a large-scale grow operation. The two companies caught up in the raids were garden supply stores in Auburn and Tukwila. Photo Courtesy of the AP......

We here at Seattlest like to provide our readers with valuable advice when we think it’s necessary. Two blog posts we’ve seen today make us think it’s important to advise that you stay the hell away from Denver. First, according to the New York Times blog The Lede, in November, the city’s voters passed a law similar to Seattle’s that makes pot the city’s "lowest law-enforcement priority." Well, it seems that the cops in Denver......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......

Wednesday night Seattlest left the very interesting Pandora talk and headed over to ConWorks for the Redfin-sponsored Techcrunch party. The sixth such party, it was designed to bring together Seattle's individuals involved in evolving the web into its very buzzwordy Web 2.0 incarnation. While many of these "parties" are just boring schmoozefests, Seattlest held out hope that this one would be different. Luckily (for them and us) we weren't disappointed. Upon walking in the door,......