It's a long while yet until America's college students will get to cast off the chains of winter and celebrate spring break in the usual debauched style. Still, it's never too early to start dreaming of warmer climes, prettier...
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...
A proposal to legalize marijuana statewide in California got a major shot of cash in January, just hours after officials cleared the effort to begin gathering voter signatures.
Tech billionaire Sean Parker, best known as the founder of Napster and...
All stoners come across the term "wake and bake" sooner or later in their smoking careers, usually sooner. It evokes various responses, from disgust ("doesn't that guy ever know when to give it a rest?") to admiration ("that guy...
It's a big problem in the world of legal marijuana. In states where the drug is allowed for any adult use, public consumption of any kind is banned. That means stoners may only use their cannabis on limited private...
It has become the modern-day bogeyman of marijuana reform: "Big Weed." This is the label attached to a perceived threat posed by large corporations that want a share of the legal cannabis market.
The worry is that these companies will...
Rick Steves is probably best known to most Americans by way of his travel series on PBS, but there's another side to the famed writer that most people don't know about: He loves marijuana.
Steves has talked extensively about his...
Drug warriors in the United States may be laughably bad at what they do, but their counterparts overseas can be equally ineffective. Witness an attempt by an Australian group to warn youngsters off marijuana.
The Stoner Sloth campaign is a...
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who genuinely love the holidays and the other 7 billion of us.
The reality is that no matter what we may say to our relatives, most of us would prefer...
Research into the benefits of medical marijuana is a relatively new phenomenon, mostly because almost every country in the world severely restricts what scientists can learn about the drug. But we have had hints of its medicinal qualities for...
