Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton: ‘America Made More Money Pretending to Stop Weed Than Selling It’
George Clinton, the visionary bandleader behind Parliament-Funkadelic and a pioneer of psychedelic funk, has spent six decades reshaping the boundaries of music, culture and consciousness. At 83, he entered an industry he’s long championed from the sidelines: cannabis. Clinton recently launched The Funk, a new cannabis brand created in partnership with Wiz Khalifa’s Khalifa Kush, […]
A 12-Year-Old Stoner in Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ America
The most challenging aspect of being a 12-year-old cannabis aficionado in the 1978 Midwest was finding someone to buy you weed. Luckily—or so I thought in the autumn of 1978–I had a guy, a friend of my delinquent blonde buddy from first grade. The two had been part of the circle at my inaugural smokeout. […]
How America Accidentally Legalized Lab Cannabis
…and still doesn’t know what to do about it In 2018, Congress slipped a decimal point into law and, without meaning to, opened the gates to a new cannabis economy. The Farm Bill’s definition of hemp (any cannabis plant with less than 0.3% delta-9 THC on a dry weight basis) was supposed to revive rope, […]