5 Things: Dope Scopes for Pot-Sniffing Cops?

1. Theater Weekend: Some great live theater going on here this weekend, Closing weekend for Les Miserables and Shrek: The Musical, premiering tonight. Click the links for ticket information.

2. Fewer Teens Lighting Up; More Smoking Hookahs: That's the word from CDC which says, overall, tobacco use among middle and high school students last year — 6.7% and 23.3%, respectively — was about one percentage point lower than in 2011, mostly due to a decline in teens smoking cigarettes, according to CDC's analysis of the 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey. You can read more here.

3. Mechanic's Invention Aids in Difficult Births: A 59-year-old car mechanic from Argentina has invented a widely-endorsed new tool that promises to help women give birth more easily, the New York Times reported. The Odón Device, named after its creator, Jorge Odón, is meant to help women during obstructed labor – which occurs when a baby’s head is too large to fit through the birth canal or when a mother’s contractions stop mid-labor. The idea for Odón’s invention came to him after he watched a YouTube video on how to remove a cork that had fallen into a bottle of wine. Click here to read more.

4. Dope Scopes? Now that marijuana is legal in some US states, some police departments are enforcing "odor ordinances"   that carry fines of up to $2,000 for people found guilty of polluting the atmosphere with the smell of pot. Denver police are spending thousands of taxpayer dollars for "dope scopes" known formally as Nasal Rangers, that help them detect, "measure" and map marijuana smells. You can read more here.

5. World's 6 Most Irreplaceable Places: The ultimate A list from NatGeo. Clue: None of them are in the United States. Click here to see the list.