CNN took a look at the “Silver Tour” — a initiative spearheaded by a man named Robert Platshorn with the aim of inspiring senior citizens to call for the legalization of medical marijuana.

In recent years, Joan Rivers has done a good job of reintroducing herself to a younger audience who probably only knows her as the mean woman on red carpets if at all. First there was the documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, which showed a surprisingly human and sympathetic side of the iconic comedienne. Then there was her amazing appearance on Louie this past summer. What else could cement her image as an older person cool enough for the kids to like? How about 10 minutes of her getting super high on TV?

Snoop Dogg — the undisputed voice of the people — has voiced his support for a GOP candidate. On Sunday, the rapper and actor posted an image of Ron Paul to Facebook, accompanied by the gentle suggestion to “Smoke Weed Everyday.” Snoop captioned the image with a simple “because I said so.”

As it becomes ever more clear that Mitt Romney will likely be the Republican presidential nominee, the former Massachusetts Governor’s opponents will continue to mine the interweb for rich deposits of oppo ore. On Monday night’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reintroduced America to Clayton Holton, an 80-lb medical marijuana patient who had an encounter with Romney in 2007 that would make a tauntaun reach for a sweater (translation for non-dorks: it was mighty chilly).

ABC’s This Week began the first in a series of big debates that will continue throughout the next year. Today’s topic was whether government is too big or not, with two advocates on each side arguing for each position, and naturally the conversation made its way to drug legalization. In quite a surreal moment, Barney Frank asked George Will his position on marijuana and if it should be legalized.

Fourth-tier GOP presidential candidate and one-time debate sensation Gary Johnson became the latest to level a “serial hypocrisy” attack at frontrunner Newt Gingrich over the weekend, telling MSNBC’s Alex Witt that in 1997, Gingrich “proposed the death penalty for marijuana — for possession of marijuana above a certain quantity of marijuana, and yet he is among 100 million americans who smoke marijuana.”

On his Wednesday night show, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly brought on Harborside Health Center executive director (/pot purveyor) Steve Deangelo and Andrew Deangelo to discuss — what else? — marijuana.

Conservative filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney made waves a few weeks ago when a video of him allegedly passing out bongs and drug paraphernalia to Occupy Wall Street protesters went viral on the Internet. This week, Maloney released the full-length video and spoke with Mediaite.com about the message he was trying to send in his short film.

Like many of the Occupy movements across the country, Occupy Boston has been nursing a delicate drug problem on the premises, and as more people get arrested for dealing and taking drugs in the tents, one local news station decided to visit the site and night and find out just how rampant the drug use is. With protesters claiming they are getting a bad reputation for a select few of “bad apples,” WHDH sent a reporter to find drugs, and it didn’t take long for coughing and laughing groups of people within tents to push the reporter away.

On CBS’s The Early Show Tuesday, economist and former Nixon advisor Ben Stein lashed out against the Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them doobie-smoking “bums.” “They’re a bunch of bums, as far as i’m concerned,” Stein observed. “If they had some specific ideas, if they had some specific proposals, if they were doing anything whatsoever besides sleeping in their tents and banging drums, I would say great, God bless them. I spent a large part of my life crusading against fraud on Wall Street — but to just bang a drum and light up a big doobie and go back into your tent, that does not do anything whatsoever to advance the cause of justice.”

Conservative filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney was filmed at Occupy Wall Street being confronted by protesters after allegedly passing out bongs and Che Guevara rolling papers.
Video blogger Joey Boots caught Maloney purportedly distributing the drug paraphernalia at the demonstration and interrogated him about what he was doing at the protest. “Do you have bongs and marijuana leaf pictures and stickers and Che Guevara?” Boots grilled Maloney. “Are you giving it out? Do you have it in that backpack?”

Everybody pass the Cheetos! A majority of Americans now support marijuana legalization — 50%, up from 46% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Stoners can celebrate that this percentage is an all-time record-high in the history of the poll. The poll was released following the news that California Medical Association has called on the federal government to legalize the drug.

One of the largest medical organizations in California has come out in favor of legalizing marijuana, marking it as the first major medical group in the United States to advocate for legalization.

With the government considering seriously implementing federal anti-marijuana laws, considering a ban on buying guns for those who consume, many have been raising concern about the potential for abuse and expansion to other drugs that may be legal and potentially more dangerous to mix with arms. The Red Eye panel weighed in on a potential ban on selling weapons to people who have medical marijuana licenses or are known to consume the drug. It was a topic that brought out rare ire from Bill Schulz against President Obama for the federal government proposing it.

Today on Fox News’ The Five, Dana Perino asked Greg Gutfeld why he thought a discussion of marijuana and online gambling was “the fun segment.” After a lengthy debt-ceiling, the question really wasn’t a toughy and the segment didn’t disappoint. Sure the central question of whether legalizing and taxing marijuana and gambling was mostly eschewed for subjective opinion stuff but it was still five minutes in which Gutfeld’s online porn habits were broached and Bob Beckel talked pot smokers…

Zach Galifianakis is method. In the middle of his Saturday Night Live monologue tonight, he announced the joke portion was over, then ripped off his clothes – revealing a Little Orphan Annie dress. Sure enough, he then kicked into a lip-synced version of “Tomorrow” (we hope it was lip-synced, anyway), of course flashing some underwear all the while.

The “Wal-mart of Weed” weGrow is opening a new store in California and Geraldo Rivera is on the case. Interviewing the president of the new enterprise, Rivera learned that the superstore will sell all types of products related to growing and using marijuana at home, but will not actually sell pot.

Ever want to do something fun and seemingly private, like grow a marijuana plant, but weren’t quite sure of the legality of your hobby? A Connecticut man in this precise situation did the ethical thing and inquired of his local authorities whether his marijuana was illegal– except the “local authorities” he contacted were 911, and he had the emergency officer on the phone for several minutes after answering the question “Is this an emergency?” with varying degrees of “not really.”

Montel Williams has made appearances in multiple states this week in support of legislation to legalize marijuana for medicinal usage. On Tuesday, he was brought to tears while speaking in his homestate of Maryland as he described the immense pain he’s felt every day for the past 10 years due to multiple sclerosis. Later, in Delarware, he told lawmakers that, the night before, he couldn’t even stand up in his hotel room.

Pat Robertson more commonly garners media attention for blaming various things he doesn’t like on things that have little or nothing to do with them (e.g. the Haitian earthquake on the nation’s supposed pact with Satan, or the September 11th attacks on the ACLU and “the gays”). Yet this week he’s making headlines for comments that sound a lot less Pat Robertson and a lot more Cheech and Chong. Apparently, Pat Robertson supports decriminalizing marijuana.

Over at Mother Jones they had a tough decision for their January/February issue. They had two big stories inside, one on the still slow-to-arrive relief in Haiti, the other on the marijuana business and the push for legalization. They liked both articles, but which one to put on the cover; the depression one or the fun one? In the end, they chose both (kind of) and have written an interesting article detailing why.

Bill Maher was in the Situation Room clarifying some of the moments that went viral from last Friday’s Real Time. Sure, he talked about that whole “Mohammed thing,” but, more importantly, he answered the question everyone was dying to know: No, it was not real pot that Zach Galifianakis was smoking. His proof? If it was real, he would have joined it.

Whoa. I’ve never seen a marijuana supporter this excited about anything, and I remember when Halo 3 was released. This campaign video from Vermont Senatorial candidate Cris Erickson, running for the Marijuana Party, is all sorts of incredible as Erickson gives an energetic performance depicting what a random phone call from the “California Ultra High Marijuana Company” might sound like. Jeez, if this is the Marijuana Party’s video, I’m truly afraid what the Cocaine Party is going to do to my laptop speakers.

Dude, do you want to see what it looks like when 134 tons of marijuana is destroyed? It’s not cool, bro, not cool.

The enormous bust earlier this week likely cost the Sinaloa drug cartel $200 million. So what do we get out of all this? Amazing pictures from the Los Angeles Times of the ceremonial burning of the weed.

Marijuana legalization has become a major election issue this year, and is on the ballot in South Dakota, Oregon, Arizona and, most notably, California.

CNN’s Don Lemon had on former U.S. surgeon general under Pres. Bill Clinton, Joycelyn Elders, and asked her a unique, very personal question: would you smoke weed if it was legal?