Tag Archive for: Cannabis

Times have changed, but apparently nobody has informed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Medical marijuana is now legal in 29 states. Eight states and the District of Columbia allow recreational use, and 61 percent of Americans support legalization.

Yet, as the video above shows, Sessions’ views haven’t evolved. He’s still taking his pot policy straight from “Reefer Madness,” the classically awful 1936 “educational” film about marijuana addiction.

That film shows people who succumb to the dreaded wacky tobacky become…

Nothing can blow your high quite like realizing weed’s relationship to racism.

Black people and white people smoke weed at a similar rate, yet black people are criminalized more often. In the latest episode of MTV’s “Decoded,” appropriately released on 4/20, host and producer Franchesca Ramsey examines if legalizing weed can help fight discrimination.

Ramsey notes that the stigma behind people of color who smoke weed started a long time ago.

“Weed was originally made illegal in the ‘30s because America has historically been…

For some, marijuana can feel like a magical elixir, particularly when it comes to making art. Getting high can help alleviate stress and self-doubt, get the creative juices flowing and awaken budding artists to the the tactile excitement of making work, instead of worrying about the final product. 

This is the reasoning behind “Puff, Pass & Paint,” a “4/20 friendly art class” now offered in cities in Colorado, Oregon, Washington D.C., Nevada and California ― all of which have legalized cannabis. The weed wizard behind this…

The International Church of Cannabis will open its doors in Denver on April 20, a day marijuana enthusiasts everywhere have memorialized as a sort of “high” holy day.

The church is not your average house of worship, for obvious reasons. But the religion it preaches, members say, is no joke.

Members of the church are known as Elevationists. Their faith holds that “an individual’s spiritual journey, and search for meaning, is one of self-discovery that can be accelerated and deepened with ritual cannabis use,” according to the…