Last year they enjoyed a resurgence via their collab with Californian stoners Sun Araw and M Geddes Gengras, but the band's reputation rightly rests on Heart Of The Congos, a 1977 album recorded with Lee Scratch Perryry when the producer was at the peak of his creativity.
Dispatches from the culture wars Down at the bottom The unhappy warrior Reprints Related items The presidency: Signed, sealed, deliveredNov 6th 2008Meanwhile stoners continued their slow, shuffling march to social acceptance.
FOR reasons as hazy as a cloud of Sour Diesel smoke, the number 420 is cherished by America's stoners.
Stoners in Denver and other cities braved freezing temperatures and two-hour queues to be part of this historic moment, for Colorado has become the first jurisdiction anywhere in the world to oversee a legal, regulated market for recreational marijuana (20 states plus Washington, DC, allow patients with doctors' recommendations to buy the stuff).
If all goes to plan, some of those pot shops will be serving stoners (who in Washington can already possess small recreational quantities of the drug) by early summer.
Yet stoners in Colorado and Washington will be able to do just that after those two states voted to legalise marijuana for recreational purposes, an electoral first not only for America but for the world.
Perhaps it will even push legalisation efforts past the intense moral objections of prohibitionists.But what about the shameless opportunism of privileged middle-class stoners (or rich ones, like Mr Maher) suddenly up in arms about the systemic racism of the American criminal-justice system?
As always, to make sure we really get the point that the finalists are talented, John and Gregg drooled over every dish like a pair of stoners eating a Happy Meal.
Both Hogg and Charles say they need to prioritise spending and must focus on the most serious offences rather than stoners with a few pot plants in their back garden.
Thus, after decades of unblushing support for the sanguinary fundamentalists of Saudi Arabia, this week it emerged that the scruples of Justice Secretary Michael Gove have forced his department to withdraw from a £5.9m contract to train prison officers in the kingdom of floggers, stoners and beheaders.
Writer-director Kevin Smith and his co-star (the utterly charmless Jason Mewes) play the New Jersey stoners who've progressed from minor characters to title heroes, which elevation is, like everything else, a cause for mockery: "They don't deserve their own movie", writes one Internet critic, and within 10 minutes I was in passionate agreement.
