A professor of philosophy and a professor of criminology, enacting Canadian human rights and medical marijuana legislation, were granted the right to smoke the green plant in specially ventilated rooms near their offices this week. According to a report by Reuters, both professors suffer from chronic medical conditions and their doctors say smoking pot can alleviate some of the physical symptoms of pain. Each professor was able to convince their academic employers that they must have the right to smoke on campus as opposed to their previous arrangements to make trips just off university grounds to partake.

The fire chief in West Sussex, England admits being embarrassed when a fire station in his district without a smoke alarm was engulfed in flames. The Arundel Fire Station in West Sussex, east of England, caught fire. The building and a fire engine was destroyed in the blaze which lasted for several hours.

Pop singer George Michael has openly admitted to taking drugs, saying smoking cannabis helps keep him "sane. " The singer recently revealed his drug-taking habits during a television talk show. In fact, Michael says he even lit up before his interview for the British show 'South Bank Show'. According to British newspaper The Daily Mirror, Michael told interviewer Melvyn Bragg: "This is the only drug I've ever thought worth taking but you have to wait.

Three wailing fire alarms failed to rouse a man from his slumber while his home burst into flames late Tuesday. Josh Coats, and Alabama native, slept through the initial spread of the fire, and was only jarred from his sleep by the piercing bark of his trusted best friend and pet, a 4-year-old English bulldog named Princess. "If Princess hadn't woke me up, I don't think I would have woken up," Coats said to reporters.

Dogs have been known as man's best friends for decades, and Jamie Hanson's 13-year-old dog, Jesse, has lived up to it. A specially trained golden retriever-German shepherd mix, Jesse, not only rescued her owner from fire but also tried to save the fellow pet, a cat, before dying of asphyxiation. Hanson, who had lost her leg in a car accident three years ago, was sitting in the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch and jumped onto a table, tipping a candle on it thereby lighting the artificial plants on fire.