How The NY Post Found a Boring Cannabis Study and Turned It Into a Scare Story
Once again, it’s debunking time. The New York Post headline — “Bombshell cannabis study reveals hidden risks of medical pot” — is a textbook example of how cannabis continues to be treated differently from almost every other therapeutic substance in mainstream media. The problem is not the study itself, but what this media outlet does […]
High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning?
For an article in the December, 1979 edition of High Times, late, great counterculture correspondent Glenn O’Brien examined the connections between Santa Claus and a specific kind of psychedelic mushroom known as the fly agaric, aka the toadstool that conquered the universe. In fact, the existence of Santa could be related to a shaman in […]