Queer activists helped build legal cannabis from the ground up. The industry should remember that history before respectability politics leaves it with no real allies. Corporate Pride is retreating, even though the business case for supporting LGBTQ+ people has never been clearer. Queer consumers are loyal, vocal, culturally powerful, and connected to every taste-making industry… Keep Reading
Dana Beal helped build the cannabis legalization movement. He organized hundreds of smoke-ins, founded the Global Marijuana March, brought ibogaine to Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and appeared in a Hulu documentary that premiered today. He is also 79 years old, sitting in an Idaho prison, and being held longer than his sentence requires.… Keep Reading
Cannabis brands don’t usually build worlds. They build catalogs, menus, drops. Hypno Seeds has been moving in a different direction—treating cannabis less like a product and more like a system of ideas, visuals, and experiences. That direction takes a more literal form with Hypno World, an interactive extension of the brand that expands its identity… Keep Reading
