A video of a mother allegedly holding up a bong filled with marijuana, has gone viral, catching the attention the Centralia, Wash. Police Department last week who were granted a warrant to search the mother’s home after viewing the video. The cell phone video shows the mother, Rachelle L. Braaten, 24, holding a bong up ... read more »

Newborns may test positive for marijuana on screening tests if certain kinds of soaps are used on them after they are born. My Health News Daily reports that a study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that five popular kinds of baby soap – Johnson & Johnson’s Head-to-Toe Baby Wash, J&J Bedtime Bath, ... read more »

Catalina Clouser, 19, was arrested in Phoenix, AZ on Saturday after she drove away with her five-week-old son, still in his safety seat, on the roof of her vehicle. The baby was found unharmed after he fell off of the roof in the middle of an intersection. Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes released a written ... read more »

Young Americans may be enjoying their fast-living lifestyle a little too much. A new study conducted by British medical journal, The Lancet, says Americans ages 10-24 lead all high-income nations in pot-smoking and are not far behind in drinking alcohol. More alarming, the study claims the U.S. also has the highest mortality rate among the ... read more »

Lost Without U singer and celebrity dad, Robin Thicke, recently made the news, after being caught by the New York police department, smoking marijuana in his Cadillac Escalade. The multitalented father-of-one was charged with drug possession after being spotted kicked back in his car enjoying some green. Thicke was completely cooperative with the police and ... read more »

A Chicagoland mother is suing a tobacco store after her 19 year old son, Max Dobner, died in a car accident earlier this summer.  Max reportedly bought the mixture of herbs called IAroma Hypnotic which Max’s mother, Karen Dobner claims has synthetic marijuana in it. She further alleges that the teen smoked the mixture and ... read more »

A trio of teenagers in downstate Illinois are looking at a possible criminal record after police say they baked a batch of marijuana brownies and handed them out to unknowing victims. The O’Fallow Township High School students were attending summer band camp where the incident allegedly took place. Besides facing criminal charges, the school may ... read more »

When a two year old toddler girl was brought into a hospital outside of St. Petersburg, Florida on Wednesday, medical personnel found that she had extensive injuries that were indicative of horrendous child abuse. The baby had blistering on her tongue and cracked lips which are signs of severe dehydration and malnutrition. She also had ... read more »

Emergency physicians at a Corpus Christi hospital in Texas say they’ve seen a marked increase in patients (including three teenagers) who’ve overdosed on embalming fluid this past holiday weekend. People seeking are soaking marijuana joints in formaldehyde for the secondary effects and a bigger high. Dr. Bret Nicks, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Wake ... read more »

An elementary student, age 8, apparently thought her teacher could benefit from a little maxin’ and relaxin’. The well intentioned youngster reportedly gave her teacher some marijuana that she pulled out of her jacket pocket. The little girl told her teacher that it was her mom’s “weed”. The third grader tried to give the drug ... read more »

A Huntington Beach, California neighbor gave out gifts of confection to his neighbors but reportedly didn’t tell his neighbors the cookies were laced with marijuana. One household recipient of the psychedelic cookies had a pre-teen child, age 11, who consumed the cookies along with some of his friends. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ... read more »

Former suburban Chicago school principal Daniel Markofski has been sentenced to a year in prison and 18 months of supervision for sex acts with two teenagers. Markofski was charged in April, after police said they found him watching pornography with two teenage girls at a Super-8 Motel in Glendale, Wis. The girls, now ages 16 ... read more »

When we were teens we had a hard enough time finding weed to smoke, much less bake with. (Minor Topics does not endorse marijuana use, kids!) West Bloomfield School District officials have suspended a boy believed to be the baker of a batch of brownies laced with marijuana that cut short a Cedar Point trip ... read more »

File this one under “career suicide”. Daniel Markofsky, an elementary school principal in McHenry County, Illinois, was allegedly caught at a motel outside of Milwaukee with two sisters, ages 15 and 16. And he was accused of doing a bad, bad thing: Markofsky and the teens smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and watched pornography, according to ... read more »

The father of a toddler that was found naked wandering along a busy street has been charged with child neglect and — quelle surprise! — drug possession. What makes this story especially notable is that it’s the SECOND TIME IT’S HAPPENED THIS WEEK. Glen DeCocker, 26, of South Bend was booked Thursday on a felony ... read more »