“California is racing to save iconic cannabis strains before legalization kills them.”
cannabis
Posted inEditor's Pick
The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent
“Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered a family.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler
“A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines.”
Posted inCuration
Weed Between the Lines: A Longreads Cannabis Collection
No matter how you choose to celebrate this year, take some time to revisit Longreads’ many 420-friendly original pieces and recommendations.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Feud Between a Weed Influencer and Scientist Over Puking Stoners
Regardless of certain recent viral tweets about “scromiting,” cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is a very real thing. But figuring out the root cause of the unfortunate condition gets a lot harder when a prominent CHS sufferer (and, yes, “weed influencer”) decides to waylay a burgeoning scientific study. Another banger from Amanda Chicago Lewis, queen of […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out
“Once stoned, the study participants find the 10-minute Cognivue test overwhelming, to say the least. ‘I kept questioning my sanity,’ one guy tells me. The clusters of vibrating dots confuse and frustrate almost everyone. ‘Are there dots? There are not dots,’ one person says. ‘All the dots, they turned into an amorphous borb,’ adds another. […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Visionary
“Friends call him the ‘consummate vibe curator,’ and with Rage & Release he has created space for a community to coalesce around a common interest in running and using cannabis not to party or to zone out, rather to be present and talk about things like physical and mental health.”
Posted inReading List
A New Leaf: A Post-Legalization Cannabis Reading List
Five stories demonstrating how the green rush nurtured the best and worst that U.S. capitalism had to offer.
Posted inNonfiction
Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List
The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.