Inside the Soviet Union’s War on Drugs — And Why Its Logic Never Really Ended
“The scourge of all Soviet Russia is cocaine,” Tatiana Kuranina, a Russian noblewoman, wrote sometime after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. “Although Russia is reduced to a state of complete impoverishment and needs decisively everything – there is cocaine, and there is enough for everyone…” Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as…
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Fewer Drugs, More Screens: Spanish Teens Aren’t Quitting Risk — They’re Just Going Digital
The new ESTUDES 2025 report from the National Plan on Drugs has been released, based on a survey of over 35,000 students across Spain between February and June 2025. On one hand, the data show a decline in alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use among teenagers. However, certain problematic behaviors tied to gambling and digital environments…
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How to Kill the California Cannabis Industry
A Field Manual for the True Believer. An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad logic to its inevitable conclusion. Every year, the same parade of boardroom lifers, policy priests, donor-approved experts, and cannabis industry elites shuffle onto stages across California like it’s a loyalty program they can’t…
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Perimenopause, Meet Weed: A Symptom-by-Symptom Guide
Perimenopause isn’t just a chapter; it’s a plot twist with attitude. One minute you’re serene and hydrated, the next you’re channeling Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes, screaming “Towanda!” as your hormones emotionally T-bone a parked car. Hot flashes, mood swings, sleep battles, libido dips, anxiety spikes—it’s a full-body revolution every woman faces, yet almost…
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Cannabis Culture Can’t Afford to Keep Fighting Itself
Cannabis has never been a single experience. It was never one molecule, one effect, one intention, or one lane. It has always been plural—used for healing, ritual, relief, escape, communion, and survival, sometimes all at once. The plant made room for contradiction long before regulators tried to flatten it into categories that could fit on…
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Cannabis Kept Me Alive: Recovery in a State That Still Hunts Weed
I was fourteen when I first found cannabis. And High Times. The two didn’t just make me feel better—they saved me. Back then, I didn’t have words for what I was feeling: a restless, chaotic mind, a chest tight with panic I couldn’t name. Cannabis slowed everything down just enough for me to breathe, to…
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[Video] Corporate Weed Has a Problem. This Maine Field Might Be the Answer
A 15-minute film follows one season of sun-grown cannabis in Maine and a partnership built to survive outside the corporate model. In King’s Field, the story begins with a simple problem. King Bishop cannot grow enough cannabis to keep his shop stocked. The solution does not arrive through expansion capital or industrial infrastructure. It arrives…
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Who Killed the U.S. Cannabis Market? Blame Canadian Investment Bankers
How speculative finance and distorted incentives hollowed out American weed. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica in the spring of 2018, I sat on a hotel patio with the owners of two up-and-coming cannabis businesses: one a popular low-cost brand and the other a NorCal farming co-op. I had an all-cash offer from investors…
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Jim Belushi on Weed, His Latest Movies and the Mess We’re in Right Now
Now 71, Chicago-born Jim Belushi is having a moment with roles in two current films – Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, in which he plays counterculture legend Ken Kesey, and the pop musical, Song Sung Blue, co-starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman. Before Belushi moved to Oregon and launched his cannabis company Belushi’s Farm…
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The Devil’s Lettuce Wears Prada: Stylist Patricia Field Is Bringing THC to Fashion Week
Cannabis has been moving through that underground-to-icon pipeline for decades. So when Patricia Field’s universe collides with a hemp-derived THC beverage on the eve of New York Fashion Week, it doesn’t feel provocative. It feels right on time. This is, after all, the same creative force behind Sex and the City and The Devil Wears…
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