Who Killed the U.S. Cannabis Market? Blame Canadian Investment Bankers
How speculative finance and distorted incentives hollowed out American weed. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica in the spring of 2018, […]
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Jim Belushi on Weed, His Latest Movies and the Mess We’re in Right Now
Now 71, Chicago-born Jim Belushi is having a moment with roles in two current films – Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, […]
The Devil’s Lettuce Wears Prada: Stylist Patricia Field Is Bringing THC to Fashion Week
Cannabis has been moving through that underground-to-icon pipeline for decades. So when Patricia Field’s universe collides with a hemp-derived THC beverage on […]
Tegridy Ruined Randy
Tegridy Farms turned South Park’s most unpredictable character into a one-note caricature, mirroring how cannabis capitalism hollowed out something that once felt […]
The Power 100: The Black Leaders Who Built Cannabis, Not Just the Ones You Know
As the cannabis industry professionalizes, consolidates, and globalizes, a basic question still goes unanswered far too often:Who built this space, and who […]
You’re Not Supposed to Smoke Weed Here. So Why Did This Feel Normal?
I was told (correctly) that cannabis in the Dominican Republic is illegal. Minutes later, after a conversation that felt less like a […]
This 72-Year-Old Has Been to 24,000 Concerts. Weed Is How He Keeps Going.
As a metaphor for the passage of time, The Simpsons’ episode “Homerpalooza” (season 7, episode 24) portrays Homer in an exercise in […]
The Fight Over 7-OH Is Splitting the Kratom World
On July 29th, 2025, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. took the stage at a press conference in […]
Joy Is Still a Valid Reason to Smoke Weed
On pleasure, respectability, and the parts of cannabis culture worth protecting. The other night I got high with a few friends. Not […]
Meet Weedy Won K, the Viral Stoner Turning Bad Weed Ideas Into Comedy
A single stoner can stand in for all stoners. Within an environment centered around education, science, data, and health—that is, within a […]