Broken healthcare, cannabis prosecutions, and billion-dollar privatization schemes are pushing veterans toward alternatives the federal government still punishes them for using. Rico walked into the VA pharmacy in Tucson with a joint and a lighter and no camera, because he wasn’t there to perform. “I went to catch a case,” he told me. Flat. Like… Keep Reading
As legal cannabis drifts toward corporate sameness, Scarlet Reserve Room is holding onto something harder to manufacture: culture, authenticity, and the people who survived prohibition long before investors showed up. Legal weed has gotten very good at looking expensive. Walk into enough dispensaries today and they start blurring together: white walls, glowing menus, polished branding,… Keep Reading
Big liquor is against it, and even some cannabis advocates are cool toward hemp-based THC — but that’s not stopping growth. If you happen to stop by for a concert at the United Center in Chicago, you can now catch a marijuana-like buzz by purchasing a hemp-based drink with 5 milligrams of THC for about… Keep Reading
