My Father Smuggled Cannabis Through Colombia
After spending 32 years in prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense, Richard DeLisi returned to Colombia with his son Rick to retrace the places, stories, and decisions that shaped their family’s history. “Did you ever work from here?” Standing in Cinto Bay, surrounded by crystal-clear Caribbean water and jungle-covered mountains, I finally asked my father […]
Watch: In New York, You Can Smoke Weed in Front of a Police Station. The World Cup Just Brought the Whole Planet to Find Out.
Ethan Zohn was diagnosed with cancer in New York and found cannabis there before the state made it legal. He went back for the World Cup and found a city where the rest of the world is discovering you can just walk in and buy it. The World Cup brought the planet to New York. […]
The Return of Ali G: Crashed Wimbledon as ‘Official Ganja Dealer’, Almost Got Arrested
Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly been filming a new Ali G movie in secret. Could that explain why this character is suddenly reappearing everywhere, dressed like a pothead and trying to sell bags of weed at Wimbledon? Probably. From ‘Da Voice of Da Yoof’ To a Big Old Pothead Ali G Almost Got Arrested… For […]
You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes?
Berlin police are warning residents after receiving reports that suspected drug samples were being left in residential mailboxes, allegedly in an effort to attract new customers. While only a limited number of cases have been confirmed so far, the incidents highlight how the illegal drug market continues to adopt increasingly sophisticated marketing tactics. Berlin Drug […]
Five Years and $100,000 Later, New York Finally Let Me Sell Weed
After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and learned how legalization can still punish the people it was supposed to help. The process to get to this point has been, in a word, farcical. From shifting goalposts to […]
Poker, Soccer, and High Times Go All In
The summer’s biggest cultural stories are not just about winning. They are about pressure, passion, and the strange magic that happens when underground energy meets the main stage. Some summers arrive with a clean storyline. Others show up holding a stack of chips, a half-burned matchbook, and a striker built like a cheat code. This […]
Premo Brings Its Family-First Model to Dover
The independent, Black-owned New Jersey cannabis retailer is opening its second location with a focus on hospitality, community, and a retail experience built to feel less corporate and more personal. Premo is taking its next step in New Jersey cannabis with the opening of Premo Dover, the company’s second retail location and its first expansion […]
Inside Hypno Seeds’ High-THC Autos
For years, growers filed autoflowers under “easy but weak.” Hypno Seeds is one of the breeders rewriting that rule, applying the same rigorous selection to its autos as its photoperiod line, and posting potency numbers to prove it. Ask a grower about autoflowers a decade ago, and the verdict rarely changed: easy to grow, not […]
The Frank Gallagher Thesis Shaped Welfare For Decades. The Data Just Demolished It.
For decades, governments assumed poor people couldn’t be trusted with unconditional cash. A wave of new evidence says they were wrong. There is a documented phenomenon in the research literature: drug-related hospitalizations spike measurably in the first days of the month, when government disability and welfare checks land. Among SSI recipients with preexisting addictions, within-hospital […]
I Was a Teenage Vegetarian Until the Munchies Hit
“You smoke Marlboro Reds. You can do this too,” my friend Justin wheezed, passing me his glass pipe. I groped around in the dark under the bleachers until I found the lighter, then took a deep breath. At 17, I had finally decided I was ready to get high for the first time. My friends […]