Culture & Society
Cannabis in global culture, lifestyle, music, art, and its impact on social movements
[PRESS RELEASE] – TORONTO, Oct. 27, 2025 – Emerald Hour, the nonalcoholic cannabis cocktail brand from The Boston Beer Co., announced the launch of new cocktail-inspired THC gummies, infused with live rosin and solventless cannabis diamonds.Now available at dispensaries across Ontario and Alberta, each Emerald Hour gummy is 100% vegan and contains 5 milligrams of…
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April 18th, 1977. Hollywood, CA. There was something foul and electric in the air that Monday night at the Starwood. The kind of charge you only find when the floor’s slick with beer and the crowd reeks of leather, cigarettes, and bad choices. The volatile energy of a live wire hissing on a wet dance…
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The first thing I learned guest budtending in Brooklyn? Your feet hurt before your shift is halfway done. But the conversations make it worth it. I spent the day behind the counter at By Any Other Name (BAON) in Clinton Hill to experience budtending from the inside, where product knowledge matters, but people matter more.…
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“Trump’s repeated killings in the Caribbean are more performance art than military necessity.” By Jim Jones, former Idaho Attorney General via Idaho Capital Sun President Donald Trump has made a dramatic show of making America’s military blow up purported drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, hundreds of miles from American soil. So far, Trump…
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“Delay in enabling access can mean that patients who might have obtained relief from debilitating anxiety and depression will die in unrelieved suffering.” By Jack Gorsline, Filter A legal battle between the state of Oregon and a group of psilocybin facilitators has escalated, after the state sought for a second time to get their lawsuit thrown…
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Americans now consume much less alcohol than they did before, and there are several studies to back this up. According to Gallup polls, just 54% of American adults now admit to consuming alcohol, which is the lowest it’s ever been in Gallup’s history of 90 years. It’s clear that there is a growing…
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“There’s kind of a shock wave going through our community right now, with the speakers that were invited, most of whom were out-of-state.” By Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Representatives of South Dakota medical marijuana businesses said they were alarmed Wednesday after a state committee that oversees the industry spent much of an all-day meeting listening to…
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Michigan has “become, in a lot of ways, sort of a central location for illicit operations, because the penalties for illicit activity are so low here.” By Ben Solis, Michigan Advance Four marijuana-related bills were up for consideration before a House panel on Thursday, with one aiming to upend rules on the legal amount of…
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Entirely by chance, my father is buried just a few rows away from Levi Strauss, the man whose name is synonymous with denim and one of the most enduring clothing brands in American history. For decades, whenever I went to the cemetery just outside San Francisco, I’d quickly pause to say hello to Mr. Strauss.…
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Some stories don’t need dressing. They just land. G Herbo sits back, cracks a grin and lets it fly. A story you can picture. “Probably with Snoop,” he says when asked about his most memorable sesh. “I was like 18. I left a bunch of Swishers on the table, came back and Snoop was already…
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