The league pulled marijuana off its banned list in the new players’ agreement. In the same document, it banned psilocybin, DMT and ibogaine for the first time. The WNBA just stopped treating weed like a problem. It picked a new one in the same breath. Under the long-form collective bargaining agreement, the league and the… Keep Reading
The Tempe festival put Atmosphere, De La Soul and Yelawolf on the same weekend as Stephen Marley, Steel Pulse and Rebelution. The crowd treated the crossover like the most natural thing in the world. Because, historically, it is. The Reggae Rise Up Arizona festival took place April 17 to 19 in Tempe, with Rebelution, Stephen… Keep Reading
Once a federal marijuana defendant facing a stacked sentence, Angelos now works the same levers that crushed him, arguing rescheduling could change who gets charged, how hard, and what happens next. When President Trump began seriously entertaining the idea of moving marijuana to Schedule III, Weldon Angelos was not watching from the sidelines. He was… Keep Reading
If corporations own the seeds of almost everything we eat, why hasn’t anyone managed to do the same thing to cannabis? Until now, cannabis has lived in a kind of legal and cultural side universe where the usual machinery of seed monopolies never fully clicked into place. That universe is ending. The changes converging around… Keep Reading
