Culture

Bad Bunny, Weed, the Super Bowl and the Evolution of American Identity

Every year, the Super Bowl tries to show us what we think we look like. Flags, fireworks, familiar faces. But…

6 months ago

What If Barstool and Vice Hotboxed a Studio? Proper Smoke Network by First Smoke x Proper Doinks Has Arrived

For a long time, cannabis culture lived off the grid. Quiet. Misread. Filtered through people who never rolled it, grew…

6 months ago

Weed, Punk, and the Outlaw Who Accidentally Built Coachella

April 18th, 1977. Hollywood, CA. There was something foul and electric in the air that Monday night at the Starwood.…

6 months ago

Ganja & the Gold Rush: What Levi Strauss Can Teach Us About Craft and Cannabis

Entirely by chance, my father is buried just a few rows away from Levi Strauss, the man whose name is…

6 months ago

Unexpected Pleasures of Weed: The Strain That Turned My Husband Into a Clean Freak

Dan and I have been married for over 20 years, and we have always maintained a very simple domestic arrangement.…

6 months ago

Jews in Weed: Building Community, One Bagel at a Time

At any major cannabis event these days, there is a new kind of gathering that starts before the panels, before…

6 months ago

A Long Strange Trip: Yelawolf and Edward Crowe Bring Blotter Art to Life

Yelawolf and manager/business partner Edward Crowe fully embrace the fact that they took copious amounts of LSD growing up and…

6 months ago

Fear & Loathing at the VA Pharmacy

When I hit U.S. soil after playing soldier in Germany and tasting Baghdad’s dust in 2005, I came back with…

6 months ago

The Global Cannabis Renaissance: A Long Strange 18 Year Trip Across the World’s Green Frontiers

“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world…” Cannabis isn’t just a plant: it’s a…

6 months ago

From Misfit to Medical to Meme: My Cannabis Crisis of Identity

When I moved to Spain in 2002, I didn’t come for the easy attitude to cannabis, but it quickly became…

6 months ago