WeBeHigh.com Continues To Get, Uh, People High

Last month, NBC 10 “broke” the story of WeBeHigh.com, a website dedicated to the availability of marijuana in particular towns. NBC 10 didn’t name the site, but as many noticed, there’s this thing on the Internet called “Google” that allowed people to search terms they saw in NBC 10’s screenshots — or, uh, “Horsham Marijuana” — to find the site.

Philly EDGE, the dean of Philadelphia suburban alt-weeklies, explores the issue further this week, making sure to note that there is currently no entry on where to get weed in New Hope. They also interview the site’s founder, Nir Shafir of Tel Aviv, and Lt. Mike Cummings of the Doylestown Police Department:

Cummings equated the site to something like citysearch.com, where—below a site-sponsored restaurant review—anyone with a command of the English language can post their views. “[The evaluation of Doylestown] is just one guy’s opinion,” he said. “He doesn’t even give his name. It’s just sort of like, how do I even know that this guy knows what good weed is?”

That’s right. Who knows what “qualifications” Stoner420 has to post on his little messageboard! Then again, wouldn’t a self-proclaimed stoner have a pretty good idea what’s good and what’s not?

Marijuana-related infractions in Doylestown have only been decreasing in recent years, in part to an increase in the number of officers patrolling areas once popular for using and selling. “I’ve been told lately that Doylestown is dry,” Cummings said. “Kids here are telling me that they’re driving to Trenton or down to Camden now for their drugs. They aren’t getting them here, and they’re not even going down to Philly anymore, because of the watchdog cameras.”

Wait. Cameras? Are stopping drug sales in Philadelphia? Oh, Lt. Cummings, you card!

Of course, since the NBC 10 report, you can probably guess what happened:

WeBeHigh.com lists the date that each town’s evaluation is posted on the site, and Yardley, which was added on Sept. 17, was likely posted by someone who caught the segment on T.V.—which is ironic, said S.K., 18, of Yardley, “NBC’s story only helped the site’s popularity, if you think about it.”

Thank you, NBC 10. You’ve made the suburban stoners proud. Then again, the NBC 10 newscasts are undoubtedly 1000 times better while high, so maybe it’s some sort of guerilla marketing.

Bud-dy system [Philly EDGE]
Sept. 14: Zagat Marijuana Guide Gives Philly Low Ratings

Breaking: ‘Philly EDGE’ Continues ‘Get Drunk And Hook Up While Listening To Cover Bands, Suburbanites!’ Editorial Campaign

Photos and videos of girls kissing? Check.

An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle for a “Gottis and Hottis” party? Check.

An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle that includes the following description?

On this particular weekend, Meghan*, 22, from NE Philly, was the buzz of the house. She had just so happened to be at the House of Blues in Atlantic City for a Friday night show featuring actor John Corbett and his band. Most of you will remember Corbett as Sarah Jessica Parker’s flame Aidan from Sex and the City.

During the show, Meghan locked eyes with Corbett. As he exited the stage, he whispered in her ear “Wait for me.” [...]

Meghan met up with Corbett and the rest of the band in the Foundation Room inside the House of Blues at the Showboat Casino. She said the room was dark with a Buddha theme and was pretty empty because the band rented out the whole room. They stayed there until about 3:30 a.m. when they went to one of the bars in the casino.

As they shared a few cigarettes out on the balcony which overlooked the beach, Meghan said they also shared a little make-out session.

“The kiss was sloppy,” Meghan said. “He tasted like Patron (tequila) because he drank so much of it all night. Every time I turned around, he was ordering more Patron or shots of Red-Headed Sluts.”

The shot, she said, was a funny choice since he seemed to be a little sluttish himself.

“[Corbett] kept whispering in my ear ‘(Room) 1108, baby; you better be there tonight,’” Meghan said.

Check.

An article about getting all sluttied up and going down to Sea Isle that includes that description and also includes this description?

One of the girls, Sam*, 21, from Bucks County, couldn’t decide what to wear. She was going in and out of everyone’s rooms, trying everything on and hating it all. One of the problems was that her boobs were too big for most of the shirts she was trying on. She eventually realized that spilling out of her top was actually appropriate for the party we were heading to, so she settled on a black corset top with her significant cleavage popping out. She piled her auburn hair into a bouffant-like ’do, completing the trashy look in-line with the theme of the party.

Uh, check. And God bless the Internet, Philly EDGE and everything inbetween.

Snapshots from the shore [Philly EDGE]
Ki$$ for Ca$h [Philly EDGE]

Impulse: ‘You Have Going To Be Tan’

Currently on the website of suburban alt-weekly Impulse:

Impulse: Hating the Irish since 2006.

If you wanna be beautiful, you’ve gotta be tan [The Impulse]

Blogicized: Comcast Puts Hotels On Citizens Bank Park, Wachovia Center

• ‘XPN says we upload, you decide: Is that ubiquitous Chili Peppers song the same as that one-ubiquitous Tom Petty song? [WXPN Blog]

• Could you one day watch Phillies games on DirecTV? Ha. That’s a good one. [Civil Defense]

• Hey, Play, the newest suburban alt-weekly, has launched! And the mag’s top BYOB serves alcohol! [Foobooz]

Oh, Yes, There Is Another

Hot on the debut of The Impulse comes next week’s debut of Play, the suburban arts and entertainment weekly — we might just relent and call them suburban alt-weeklies, or SAWs — from Journal-Register:

Needless to say, this magazine’s launch party next Wednesday is at Grape Street.

But, uh, open bar, you say? And no cover? Hmm…

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