The Legends Who Built Cannabis Culture Are Finally Certified. It’s Called Oakland Legendary.
Oakland built the cannabis culture before there was a legal market. Now the city has a certification mark to prove it. The City of Oakland launched the nation’s first cannabis equity certification mark on April 20, giving consumers a way to identify businesses owned by operators who were most impacted by the War on Drugs […]
Politicians And Major Brands Celebrate Cannabis Culture On 4/20
Tom Angell is the editor of Marijuana Moment. A 25-year veteran in the cannabis and drug law reform movement, he covers the policy, politics, science and culture of marijuana, psychedelics and other substances. He previously reported for Forbes, Marijuana.com and MassRoots, and was given the Hunter S. Thompson Media Award by NORML and has […]
Cheech Marin Is Talking to Sandwiches in a Jimmy John’s Ad. Cannabis Culture Has Officially Gone Mainstream.
Jimmy John’s Dream Rotation campaign doesn’t wink at cannabis culture. It hires Cheech Marin, lets him argue with a sandwich and makes Kal Penn’s ideal 4/20 a gym session and a book. The wall is down. Cheech Marin is sitting, holding a sandwich. He looks at it the way a man looks at something he […]
This Cult Book Mixed Race, Weed and American Chaos Long Before the Culture Caught Up. Now It’s Back
First published by Random House in 2003, Ghetto Celebrity is not a standard memoir and never really tried to be. Donnell Alexander traces the book back to Tupac Shakur’s death, an LA Weekly story about his absent father, and a writing process shaped by weed, pop culture, race, Midwestern Black life and the kind of […]
Psychedelicatessen Blends Jewish Culture and Cannabis
Steve Marcus creates art at the intersection of cannabis culture and counterculture to take Jewish art to new heights. Jews have been a distinct tribal people for approximately 4,000 years. In that time, the Jewish people created a lot of music, visual art, and literature. Although I’ve never read much of the Bible, Google tells […]