‘I Want to go Home’: The Time Blink-182 Got Stupid High With Cypress Hill Before a Show

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Travis Barker says he and Tom DeLonge got extremely high with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show in 2004, turning the performance into what felt like an endless ordeal. Despite how uncomfortable they felt onstage, fans reportedly remember the concert as one of the band’s most electrifying. You might have heard through the grapevine that…

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Can Jamaica’s New Cannabis Permits Deliver for Legacy Growers?

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Jamaica created a new route into its regulated cannabis market, but a permit alone cannot guarantee that traditional farmers will share in the profits. The Cubans have cigars, and Jamaicans have ganja. So why have the traditional farmers behind Jamaica’s most celebrated crop struggled to find a place in its legal cannabis industry? In April…

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Colombia Wants to Spray Illicit Crops Again. The ’80s Offer a Warning 

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Colombia is once again looking to the skies to combat drugs. In his first speech as president, far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella announced that his government will resume spraying illicit crops—one of the most controversial tools in the country’s long war on drugs. “Coca cannot be combated with doctored statistics or manipulated maps,” the…

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The Steering Wheel: How Crop Steering Became Cultivation’s Loudest Conversation

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Growers used to react to their plants. Now they are learning to guide them. Crop steering is the framework behind that shift, and it is quietly changing how serious cultivators think about every irrigation, every feed, and every degree of climate. Something has changed in the way experienced growers talk about their gardens. A decade…

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Highdro’s New Video Turns a Vegas Pool Cleaning Into a Smoke Session

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The Las Vegas rapper’s new video starts with a guy showing up to clean a pool and ends somewhere else entirely. A pool maintenance worker pulls up to a job in the Las Vegas heat. Somebody in the backyard passes him something. He does not finish cleaning the pool. That’s the setup for “RAW SUMMER,”…

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King Gizzard Built Its Own Festival Instead of Touring. It Starts Friday.

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard headline all three nights of their own festival in the Colorado Rockies this weekend, with 24 acts, a fan-run bootlegger alley and almost nowhere left to camp. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will play six shows in North America this year. Three of them happen this weekend, in…

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What Happened to the Cannabis Goody Bag?

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Once a symbol of abundance, the cannabis goody bag has gotten leaner. Maybe what’s disappearing isn’t just free weed, but a culture of generosity. Three years ago on 4/20, I attempted something wildly ambitious: creating a beautiful cannabis goody bag for my first live event: “Women, Writing, Weed and Wine.” Not decent or okay or…

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Thailand Says Weed Is Medical-Only Now. I Bought Four Joints Without a Prescription.

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This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Sawadee krab!  I was in Thailand this week visiting my wife’s family and I had to satisfy some professional curiosity and see what was going on in the country’s cannabis market for myself. I’ve been coming to Thailand regularly for over a…

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Stoners Warned Us About Flock Cameras. Turns Out It Wasn’t Paranoia.

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By Javier Hasse and Camila Berriex Wisconsin police used a nationwide camera network to reconstruct one man’s trips to Michigan, then cited those trips in the case they built to search his car for weed. In one California town, the same company’s cameras got the plate wrong in 71% of the alerts they sent to…

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Hemp Just Got 29 More Days Before the Ban. The White House Has Already Promised There Won’t Be Another Delay.

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Congress voted last year to strip most hemp THC products of their federal legal status, starting November 12. On Saturday morning, the Senate pushed that date to December 11. Here is what the ban actually does, what the vote changed and why this extension is probably the last one. At 3:35 on Saturday morning, after…

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