In the days of peak pot prohibition, ad campaigns were run that attempted to paint “stoners” as lazy losers who were constantly de-motivated after smoking weed. While the anti-pot campaign messaging has morphed over the decades since the 1920’s,...
Once upon a time movies featuring characters getting high were relegated to “novelty acts” like Cheech and Chong or were presented as cautionary tales, like the infamous Reefer Madness. As prohibition has started to melt away, so...
Cannabis is a world rife with provocative images. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, is going all-in on pointing out the hypocrisy of weed in a wacky world. His cannabis brand, Monogram, launched an ad campaign that pointedly highlights the discrepancy...
California was a pioneer in cannabis legalization, beginning with medical marijuana legalization way back in 1996. The state had a ballot initiative as far back as 1972. But as other states have begun their own legalization efforts, they’ve increasingly...
One of the arguments against legalization was that if you make weed legal, more kids will try it. Like so many misconceptions promulgated during the War on Drugs, this one is also a falsehood dripping with the fear of...
Drugs come in all varieties - hard, soft, potent, weak. They also carry many names, some official, some slang, and some downright obscure. But what are the best-known terms for marijuana, and where did they come from? Here's a...
There's a dilemma most serious stoners face at some point in life. You're on a first date, you're really hitting it off, and then you realize that after an hour of conversation, you still have no idea if your...
Suffering from migraines? While medical marijuana advocates have painted weed as a cure for just about everything, medical research is catching up to these claims and verifying quite a few of them. The issue of migraines has been hotly...
We can’t travel in time, which is particularly annoying when you consider how much cheaper weed used to be. What we can do, however, is wind back the clock on the big screen.
Few movie decades captured the rebellious spirit of cannabis as...
There’s a notion that if you want to be discrete, just don’t draw attention to yourself. We see this in movies when the hero dresses up as a repair person and infiltrates a secure location by looking as though...
